Jeff is a Professional Scrum Trainer with Scrum.org. He is one of ~70 PSTs in the United States and is accredited to teach the Professional Scrum Master (PSM) course for candidates wishing to achieve a PSM credential.

Coach clients to optimize their Agile practices and effectively embrace the Agile principles.Teach training courses on a variety of Agile topics, including Scrum Fundamentals, Product Owner, ScrumMaster and other courses customized based on client needs.

Member of 4-person coaching team leading organizational change to show that medical device product development is done better with Agile. Coached Scrum teams in St. Paul and Haifa, Israel. Also coached the Global ScrumMaster team in the scaled Agile framework.-Training: Conducted Scrum Fundamentals course for 25 Abbott employees.-Coaching: Provided team-level coaching for 3 Scrum teams in St. Paul. Served as the coaching liaison to the teams in Israel to ensure common implementation… Show more Member of 4-person coaching team leading organizational change to show that medical device product development is done better with Agile. Coached Scrum teams in St. Paul and Haifa, Israel. Also coached the Global ScrumMaster team in the scaled Agile framework.-Training: Conducted Scrum Fundamentals course for 25 Abbott employees.-Coaching: Provided team-level coaching for 3 Scrum teams in St. Paul. Served as the coaching liaison to the teams in Israel to ensure common implementation of the Scrum framework and the Scaled Agile solution. Coached Chief ScrumMaster to effectively lead global SM group. Show less

Led projects for bestbuy.com, coordinating schedules, managing risks and communicating progress. Complex projects involved up to 15 internal systems with different project teams and development methodologies.-Program Management: Used Scaled Agile principles to lead a 10+ team implementation to simplify order and installation of car products for customers, the first time a program of this size and business impact was owned and led by the Digital Services organization. Represented Digital… Show more Led projects for bestbuy.com, coordinating schedules, managing risks and communicating progress. Complex projects involved up to 15 internal systems with different project teams and development methodologies.-Program Management: Used Scaled Agile principles to lead a 10+ team implementation to simplify order and installation of car products for customers, the first time a program of this size and business impact was owned and led by the Digital Services organization. Represented Digital teams on multiple business-driven initiatives. Show less

Implemented Scrum methodology and managed initiative to implement new digitial commerce platform. Introduced and led Scrum practices for distributed development team of 25+ resources in US, Switzerland, India and the Netherlands.-Project Management: Tracked financials and documented according to EPMO standards. Documented project activities in accordance with Medtronic’s regulated system documentation standards.-Program Management: Worked with Medtronic IT leadership to develop… Show more Implemented Scrum methodology and managed initiative to implement new digitial commerce platform. Introduced and led Scrum practices for distributed development team of 25+ resources in US, Switzerland, India and the Netherlands.-Project Management: Tracked financials and documented according to EPMO standards. Documented project activities in accordance with Medtronic’s regulated system documentation standards.-Program Management: Worked with Medtronic IT leadership to develop migration plans to add customers to portal and sunset existing applications. Worked with business teams to develop and execute migration plans.-Coaching: Trained IT and business stakeholders on Scrum practice. Refined practices based on continuous learning and improvement principles. Show less

Led muti-year web service re-platform and migration effort with $4-6M annual budget. Responsible for planning work and tracking financials for 30+ person team involving multiple vendors both onshore and offshore. Accountable for quality and success of monthly production deployments. -Web Service Replatforming: Managed schedule, finances and progress on re-platforming 50+ SOAP services into 100+ atomic and composite REST services to align with Best Buy’s customer and loyalty… Show more Led muti-year web service re-platform and migration effort with $4-6M annual budget. Responsible for planning work and tracking financials for 30+ person team involving multiple vendors both onshore and offshore. Accountable for quality and success of monthly production deployments. -Web Service Replatforming: Managed schedule, finances and progress on re-platforming 50+ SOAP services into 100+ atomic and composite REST services to align with Best Buy’s customer and loyalty strategy-Migrations: Worked with 25 external application teams to coordinate schedule and funding to modify their applications to adapt to the new Customer data model. -Team Optimization: Created and implemented plans to re-organize teams to best adapt to evolving business needs. Key contributor to implementation of Agile/Scrum methodology. Show less

Led multiple web development projects concurrently. Project management activities included coordinating activities of cross-organizational teams, stakeholder management and project financial tracking. Agile practices included leading backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospective meetings. -Implemented web applications: Managed implementation of 13 distinct web development applications across the business spectrum, some of which had multiple releases. Worked on 4-6… Show more Led multiple web development projects concurrently. Project management activities included coordinating activities of cross-organizational teams, stakeholder management and project financial tracking. Agile practices included leading backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint reviews and retrospective meetings. -Implemented web applications: Managed implementation of 13 distinct web development applications across the business spectrum, some of which had multiple releases. Worked on 4-6 projects concurrently in addition to completing estimates and proposals for new projects. The Quality Management System Portal project was one of five Medtronic projects to win a Fiscal Year 2013 CEO Award.-Advised on Agile practices: Collaborated with Agile team management on best practices and process improvements. Advised on implementing VersionOne Agile project management tool to work with required enterprise tools & processes. Show less

Performed variety of roles as required to fill Target's Business Intelligence strategy. -BI Stability: Led project to transform BI release and maintenance processes in response to significant stability issues, one of only 5 IT projects to win a 2011 Target CEO Award. Managed team of Deloitte consultants, implemented operational metric standards and presented final report to project sponsors.-TGT$100 Program: Coordinated development and testing of BI interface changes with offshore… Show more Performed variety of roles as required to fill Target's Business Intelligence strategy. -BI Stability: Led project to transform BI release and maintenance processes in response to significant stability issues, one of only 5 IT projects to win a 2011 Target CEO Award. Managed team of Deloitte consultants, implemented operational metric standards and presented final report to project sponsors.-TGT$100 Program: Coordinated development and testing of BI interface changes with offshore development and testing teams. Advised business on UAT planning and coordinated UAT progress and issues. Show less

Managed software delivery teams and held additional key leadership roles. Managed multiple projects and programs in Business Intelligence, integrations and custom desktop applications.-Inpatient Care Management Program: Program manager responsible for 5 releases over one year of high profile application that manages patient care. Partnered with business counterpart to create and implement functionality roadmap. Managed overlapping release activities of 30+ project team members… Show more Managed software delivery teams and held additional key leadership roles. Managed multiple projects and programs in Business Intelligence, integrations and custom desktop applications.-Inpatient Care Management Program: Program manager responsible for 5 releases over one year of high profile application that manages patient care. Partnered with business counterpart to create and implement functionality roadmap. Managed overlapping release activities of 30+ project team members. -Integrations: Managed multiple projects involving interfaces to and from the CareOne application. Collaborated with project teams from across the organization to design, implement and test using varied methodologies and technologies.-Reporting: Managed team of 20 resources developing clinical operational reports. Partnered with business counterpart to prioritize production support needs vs. new report development. Represented IT reporting organization to senior leadership. Show less