Jeffrey Davidson Email & Phone Number

Arlington, Texas, United States

Serving a great company as they deepen the partnership between IT, business partners, and end customers.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

http://leadinggreatteams.com/Leading Great Teams focuses on building high-performance organizations of professionals and knowledge workers. Working with executives, managers, and teams, I provide interactive training, proven facilitation, and challenging/supportive coaching to move teams from stuck to smooth. Engaged with GMFinancial, providing direct.

As a speaker, my goal is to be engaging and entertaining. I love sharing my enthusiasm with others before, during, and after the event. If you are looking to give your audience the chance to leave uplifted and enabled, please don't hesitate to reach out. A list of recent presentations follows:Agile Alliance* Feedback Jujitsu, Agile2018* Hunting for.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

• I provide training, consulting, and coaching for organizations seeking to radically expand and improve their ability to deliver high-quality, valuable software. Selected examples:
• Providing primary training and coaching expertise to integrate software teams of corporate acquisitions.
• Coaching management, contributing teams, and individuals in a division of Fortune 50 corporation leading to a 500% improvement in project velocity with agile and SAFe®.
• Guided business process discovery initiative as part of $400MM program. Introduced portfolio management techniques with business leaders.
• Facilitating leadership discussions for structuring a new Strategic PMO within a Fortune 100 corporation.
• Training and coaching both software development and data analytics teams at Harvard University and other clients.

• Serving as a specialist-leader for business analysts, I mentored and developed the talents of internal- and client-staff. Represented the North American practice globally and regionally with leadership and other.
• Project rescue for Energy Industry client in the midst of a 3-year, data intensive project to build a pipeline management system. Introduced Behavior Driven Development (BDD) for ~200% improvement in velocity.
• Coach for Fortune 200 Insurance client on greenfield, client-facing website displaying policyholder information in a pilot agile project.
• Lead analyst for Fortune 200 Airline client website resulting from an airline merger. Introduced BDD for automated functional testing.

Responsible for gathering high-level requirements for rearchitecting processing and data layers of primary platform, resulting in a single, scalable application for use by staff and customers world-wide. Assisted in growth of Business Analyst team through coaching, template development, and sharing best practices.via Ensynch

I was brought in to introduce a consultant-class level of requirements & testing, growing team from 21 staff over 4 years. Introduced scrum to facilitate speed (~100% increase in velocity), understanding, and focus for business partners and project teams. Introduced development operations (DevOps) to reduce risk and accelerate value delivery (~80%.

Developing use cases, detailed software requirements, traceability, project documentation, test cases, and user documentation.Instituting the procedures necessary to ensure business goals are captured and communicated before a project is started, along with the tools necessary to ensure the results delivered meet the business objectives. Training and.

Creating niche businesses to meet the needs of local communities.PARTY BLOCKS: Company specializing in providing engaging and entertaining activities for children.LONE STAR GAMES: Retail outlet at Galleria ~ Dallas and Stonebriar Centre ~ Frisco, providing casino quality poker chips gaming supplies for the home player.

Planned and directed strategic and tactical aspects of this sales company ($7-10M annual sales), focused on selling furniture and home accessories to qualified retail outlets of Bassett Furniture and Flexsteel. Established an outside sales organization with national footprint. Introduced an integrated accounting and CRM package, allowing multiple.

This series of start-up companies encompassed a manufacturer of window treatments, and import/export company, and a company selling the window treatments directly to the consumer via direct marketing catalog.

Responsible for accounting, administration, facility maintenance, inventory control, and purchasing at the Chicago International Teleport (CIT). The teleport is a satellite uplink facility and was then responsible distribution of television and radio signals along with a majority of the paging industry.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Alpha Phi Omega, Purdue Student Government

Education record

Activities and Societies: Honors Society, Student Government