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Washington, DC, US

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Coach and consultant in support of Eliassen's Agile consulting practices. Deliver results for operational excellence and process improvement.
• Hands on enterprise and team coach for several key clients in Hardware and BioPharma vertical markets
• Delivery support and servant leader for Eliassen consultants embedded with clients
• Strategic organizational leadership for solutions design and business development

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Worked with customers to sell, architect and implement scaled Scrum solutions. Developed strategy, leveraged advanced theory, managed engagements, and delivered executive coaching. Consulted with executives on pain.
• Developed Scrum solutions for global companies in Beverage, Oil & Gas, Mining, Aviation, and Biotech verticals, in areas both within and outside of IT or software.
• Created leadership engagement strategies to enhance success, “Know when you’re Ready”, “Start with the end in Mind”, “Breakthrough the Wall of Resistance”, and the “Accelerator Program”.
• Co-delivered directly with Jeff Sutherland, the inventor of Scrum.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Worked with customers to sell, architect and implement scaled Agile solutions, leveraging advanced theory and the company's Cloud platform. Consulted with customers on pain points, vision, change, and success patterns..
• Implemented scaled Agile solutions for Fortune 50, 200, 500, and 1000 customers; and for other smaller customers.
• Grew largest customer 4 times, and signed several large, household-name, new customers.
• Exceeded performance targets for FY2014 and FY2015. Awarded President’s Club in 2014.
• Developed Agile Platform Decision Matrix. | Created platform usage best practices. | Organized learning groups.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Created an App to crowd sourcing political fact checking to “take the misinformation out of politics”. Leveraged Lean Startup to explore market fit and Agile for product development.
• Accountable for all aspects of company direction, from strategy, customer research, product vision, partnering, etc.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Led teams with Agile to enhance several information management systems for this foreign-aid organization distributing $40 Billion annually. Developed ideas, features and improvements for Products. Scrum Master for.
• Accountable for all aspects of Product delivery, including roadmap, release plan, technical delivery, etc.
• Coached team members in Agile techniques, tailoring to work within existing processes.
• Product Owner for company’s Cloud product, identifying market needs for Product team.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Built and led a team of 22 people with Agile to update existing software for the Cloud and reengineer the business process. System allows senior officials to manage over $3 Billion in contracting dollars and create.
• Accountable for technical delivery of Product, from architecture, design, development, infrastructure, release, etc.
• Coached team members in Agile techniques, while creating, tailoring and improving processes.
• Increased quality and productivity, by reducing bugs 50% and standardizing on automated tools.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Led a team of 70 people using Agile to enhance EDGAR, an extremely high profile, public facing Cloud application. System allows publicly traded corporations on NYSE and NASDAQ to submit filings online, a critical part.
• Accountable for all aspects of Product delivery, from customer research, roadmap, release plan, technical delivery, etc.
• Coached team members in Agile techniques, tailoring to work within existing processes.
• Awarded as “Star of the Month” for successful deployment of the program’s largest release ever, December 2010.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Engagement Manager from 11/2007 – 4/2010: Built and directed a client-facing team of 7 people using Agile techniques. Helped internal customers migrate and host enterprise COTS and custom applications in a private.
• Ensured the satisfaction of 20 concurrent, internal business unit customers, touching each one every week.
• Awarded as a “Critical Contributor” for an extremely high profile customer’s successful launch, March 2010.
• Awarded as “What's Working” for having the data center’s highest team satisfaction rating, March 2009.Deputy Program Manager from 5/2007 – 5/2008: Managed company’s IT services contracts, comprising 45 employees and.
• Directed delivery of services, from architecture, project management, engineering, networking, help desk, etc.
• Acting Engagement Manager from 11/2007 - 5/2008 stabilizing project during inception.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Built and led a team of 5 people to deliver a custom application, reengineering the business process for regulating the $22 Billion Indian gaming industry. System allowed mobile workforce to manage highly sensitive.
• Accountable for Product delivery, from customer research, roadmap, release plan, technical delivery, etc.
• Client facing role for new business development by supporting VP of Services during customer engagements.
• Acting Lead Developer from 11/2006 to 4/2007 stabilizing project during staff turnover.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

• Recruited and hired as 1st employee to establish IT operations for this health insurance start-up brokerage firm. Implemented enterprise-wide projects. Company grew to 35 users, becoming the regional market leader with.
• Managed implementation and growth of a scalable data and telecommunications network infrastructure.
• Increased employee productivity 66% by delivering a first-of-its-kind, custom enrollment application product.
• Client facing role for business development by supporting VP of Sales during customer engagements.

San Francisco Bay Area

Specially recruited to help guide a mission-critical, behind-schedule HR application to release, facilitating successful, on-time release. Product was for internal global deployment, allowing management teams to do workforce realignment. Reduced on-page code 80% and bugs 25% by creating internationalized, object-oriented code libraries.

San Francisco Bay Area

Led cross-functional product development teams with early Agile techniques. Developed Products for HR and banking verticals. Developed wireless and web-based Products for leading global banks. Led technical integration of 3rd party COTS applications for CRM, procurement, payroll, credit and business intelligence.

Providence, Rhode Island Area

Designed and developed data warehouse software for business intelligence. System allows management to analyze extensive corporate sales and call-center database without any knowledge of the complex data model.

Bachelor'S Degree, Management Science And Information Systems

Activities and Societies: Men's Club Volleyball Team: 1993 - 1997; Men's Varsity Track Team: 1993 - 1994Cum Laude Minors: Computer.

Industrial Management

Activities and Societies: Phi Kappa Theta, Men's Varsity Track Team, Men's Club Volleyball Team