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New York, Ny, Us

Lake Forest, Illinois, Us

- Designed and prepared communications for senior leaders (Director-level to CTO/CPO).- Collaborated with Directors and Senior Directors to plan and facilitate leadership team workshops and annual planning sessions.- Initiated and led a team for a top five placement in the annual hackathon.- Collaborating with the Directors responsible for resiliency and IT operations to improve the incident management process.- Collaborating with Product VPs to transition to a product operating model, including design of operating rhythm and “standard work” for Product.- Collaborating with Senior Directors and Directors across multiple departments (~450 - 500 engineers) to improve Product / Engineering interactions and identify high-leverage opportunities for improvement in the path-to-production.- Identified user-facing release failure rate as a way to focus improvement efforts. Within 1 quarter, this led to a 25% improvement in release failure rate as well as reducing failures first detected by customers to 0.

- 1:1 coaching and mentoring for Agile / Lean leaders, practitioners, coaches, and consultants - XP / Agile / Lean consulting engagements- Group facilitation- Leadership team development- Organisation design and change strategy

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

Coached teams and product areas in advertising R&D (supporting a 1B € ads business) to improve operating rhythm and collaborative product delivery.- Participated as an OKR subject matter expert in a working group to establish company-wide guidance- Collaborated with cross-functional leadership teams (Tech, Product, Design, Insights) and Operations to re-stabilize the advertising platform product area (~30-50 people) after multiple org changes- Collaborated with other coaches to create guidance for delivery effectiveness across all of advertising R&D (~200 people)- Partnered with Principal Engineer to set up the mission-wide technical architecture steering group (forum for ~15-20 Staff+ Engineers and Senior Engineering Managers)

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

Coached teams and product areas in advertising and marketing R&D to scale up and establish operating rhythm and collaborative product delivery.- Facilitated the split and rebuild of a new Tribe (grew to ~60 people) around messaging and marketing technology that processed billions of messages per year. Collaborated with Squads, cross-functional- Squad leadership teams (Engineering Managers, Product Managers, Designers, Data Scientists), and the cross-functional Tribe leadership team- Facilitated the rebuild of leadership teams multiple times given ongoing growth and changes. Coached Tech, Product, Design, and Insights leaders- Started the Leadership and Agile track (over 100 attendees) for the internal Spotify Engineering Conference

Stockholm, Stockholm County, Se

Facilitated the hyper-growth of Spotify Advertising R&D from several teams (~3) to multiple Tribes and Missions (~200 people).

Chicago, Il, Us

Custom application development, Agile / Lean / Kanban consulting, assessments, transformation support, and training across multiple industries (banking, insurance, real estate, utilities, telecommunications) in both product development and operations.- Delivery engagements (both as a participant and as delivery lead) (mostly in Java) included production support, build automation, configuration management strategy and implementation, enterprise application development with complex business logic and rich clients (see the Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture book), and web application development both public-facing (e.g., Internet banking) and internal tools- Consulting engagements included rapid assessments (10 days), facilitating and teaching project/program kickoffs (aka Agile Inception), training, and digital/Agile transformation

Calgary, Alberta, Ca

Assisted students in C++ and other software engineering labs (~50 - 100 students)

Developed, documented, and executed test cases for a digital communication system (voice and data) installed on various military vehicle platforms used across the Canadian Army.