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Herndon, Va

Established a product delivery team comprised of Product Owners, UX team, and Scrum Masters serving 8 scrum teams and supporting over 25 distinct product offerings.Created a portfolio management process that has significantly increased product deliveries year over year and improved the relationships between Sales, Marketing, Product Management, and Development.Built one of the strongest, most unified, and critical teams in the company. This team is spread across 5 locations in 3 countries on 3 continents!Provided Agile Coaching and practices, including integrated tools support in Aha, Jira, and Zendesk.

Arlington, Va

Ashburn, Va

Directed a team of 20 employees and 7 contractors, supporting 4 scrum teams and 2 kanban teams.Coached daily stand-ups, bi-weekly sprint reviews, retrospectives, planning sessions, backlog grooming, and other ceremonies as needed.Established an Agile leadership team, with Scrum Masters, Architects, and Product Owners contributing as a team to drive the agile transformation of the organization.Worked with a process improvement team to adjust SDLC processes across IT in order to introduce Agile concepts and to establish better understanding and support for teams using Agile methodologies. Performed outreach with business stakeholders, introducing them to the scrum process and managing their expectations as they worked with Agile teams.Initiated an Agile reporting practice, piloting it with key business stakeholders.Established Scrum of Scrums to provide cross-team coordination.Drove portfolio management adjustments and budgeting process improvements to integrate with Agile planning and development approaches.Led effort to select and implement an Agile management tool (VersionOne). Prepared and delivered training with multiple groups within the organization to introduce the customizations.Helped teams establish an architecture community of practice and an initial continuous delivery mechanism using Microsoft TFS.Coached Agile teams every day on how to be a team, do the right thing, and have fun, too.

Mclean, Va

Coached a geographically distributed team doing product development, maintenance, sales support, and research/prototyping for Mobile advertising platform and on-device applications.Guided the team using a scrum process to produce over 18 different product releases over 6 months, including new handset releases, new OS releases, maintenance releases, demo support releases, feature releases, and a major release of a new architecture.Ran daily stand-ups, facilitated planning, analyzed progress, ran retrospectives, provided agile metrics/analysis across the company, and promoted transparency and understanding of development team activities. Helped to establish “done” criteria and drive acceptance from business stakeholders.Acted as Agile mentor for the business and development teams, including the QA team. Established product team and championed direct stakeholder involvement with the developers and architect.

Managed agile development team to bring legacy product acquired from SOALogix to market as an SAP product within 6 months of acquisition.As product owner, prepared requirements with input from customers and other business stakeholders, maintained prioritized backlog for scrum team, participated in scrum meetings, provided coordination with other teams and with upper management.Led customer engagement initiative that resulted in 100% of legacy customers licensing the new product.

Introduced Agile process to the development organization using Kanban boards.Led and managed all aspects of the product engineering and custom development organizations including development, quality and test functions achieving monthly feature releases.Managed large-scale customized implementations of the product for large enterprise accounts such as Reliant Energy, Chevron, Dow Chemical, Honeywell, and BC Hydro resulting in 100% reference-able customer base.Primary writer and oral presenter for winning proposals against major competitors.

Led feature development for the CTC software for several Cisco optical edge hardware products. Role included establishing coding standards for code reviews of the “model” layer code, leading small teams of developers in adding CTC support of two completely new chassis, and maintaining the primary state machine code that establishes communication with the hardware. Java, C, Unix.

Developed products for NASA’s Earth Observing System.

Database Lead for National Missile Defense Simulation Project.

Development lead for Ada-SQL Bindings products marketed and sold by Sybase.

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Physics

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