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Providing a comprehensive set of workshops, trainings, coaching, and presentations, all designed to advance your company's performance toward greater business agility.- Established expertise in conducting and facilitating organizational audits, team audits, strategic planning, strategic retrospectives, as well as trainings and coaching for leadership, organizational improvement, teams, and targeted roles and domains. Expertise includes product innovation, organization design, team excellence, servant leadership, lean metrics, OKRs, prioritization methods, technical practices, mindfulness, and continuous improvement culture.- Working with Business Agility Consulting Group as a Business Agility Strategist- Working with LeadingAgile as a Transformation Coach- Provided product discovery workshops, Agile practice training and coaching, change management coaching, strategic planning, and OKR training for Financial Service Company- Provided leadership, product, and team coaching and training for Media and Entertainment division of large software company- Providing strategic planning, scaled Agile (SAFe) coaching and training, and continuous improvement consulting for S&P 100 software company

Tempe, Arizona, Us

Driving continuous improvement and transformation across the delivery organization; US and India.- Developed and led training courses and hands-on workshops in many facets of end-to-end agility, including Scrum, Kanban, Lean Startup, CI/CD, technical practices, catalytic leadership and empowerment, story mapping, design and analysis tools, and scaling methods. Targeted audiences included all levels of leadership, product management, ScrumMasters, Product Owners, engineers, and program managers.- Initiated a comprehensive set of metrics to measure the right things for use in continuous improvement; including team metrics, program metrics (burnups, cycle time, automation), initiative metrics (flow velocity), relative business value, and organizational trend metrics (feature power and value delivery)- Initiated a movement to highly cross functional teams to facilitate rapid delivery of complex initiatives- Initiated and facilitated communities of practices and activated teams of change agents- Provide coaching and guidance at all management and team levels- Led multiple senior leadership workshops and offsites, including strategic planning, agile architecture, and continuous improvement- Manage all ScrumMasters in North America, as well as many program managers

Redmond, Wa, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Providing leadership, business, lean, and agile coaching, training, and transformation for client's organizations.- Provided agile, scrum, kanban, and lean training for 15+ IT teams as a large financial services company. Key training areas included scrum and kanban practices, tools, testing and automation, estimation, lightweight processes, emergent design, project management integration, and scaling for large programs.- Facilitated many leadership workshops to help management teams develop organizational improvement strategies, catalytic leadership skills, and identify and solve key challenges.- Coached 15-20 teams through various phases of agility, including visioning, release planning, story mapping, project kickoffs, large retrospectives, crowdsourcing of innovative solutions, and basic agile practices.- Trained several new teams in lean/agile values, principles, and practices for a large athletic clothing manufacturer.

Boston, Ma, Us

Managed multiple programs for high profile clients, including website developments, ad campaigns, iPhone applications, and strategic multi-channel eCommerce engagements.Agile coach and trainer; helped pioneer Agile practices within company.

Boston, Ma, Us

Drove multiple website development programs with Agile methodologies, coordinating efforts across several departments, including search, news & insights, enterprise database, business, design, data mining, and news feed aggregation. Pioneered efforts to improve relevancy, search engine optimization (SEO), innovative algorithms, interactive features, and performance optimization for dynamic web sites.

Providing Agile Project Management, Scrum Mastering, and Coaching and Transformation for client's IT organizations

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Managed the development of the company’s first e-Billing/Statement/Payment product for the Telco market – Product was based on J2EE using Struts/Tiles, JSP, Java on an Oracle and Weblogic platform. Successfully delivered a quality product to several leading telcos worldwide. Manage periodic releases and patches to the product.Also managed the Self Service and Commerce product for the edocs Telco Suite.

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Built customer engineering organization, including professional services, training, documentation, and customer support. Managed a group of professionals in US and Europe. Established project life cycle infrastructure and wrote templates for deployment activities. Defined training packages and 24x7 customer service program.Project management for several interoperability tests, trials, and deployments in 2.5G & 3G for CDMA, GPRS, and UMTS. European and domestic operators and partners.RFI/RFP responses, sales calls, executive sponsor of first European customer.

As Co-founder, established direction of company and definition of products. Managed growth from zero to 1 million listening hrs/mo. over 15 mo. period, serving Barnes&Noble, iWon, CDNow, NBCi, others.Responsible for all service content, including 250,000 musical tracks, over 400 programmed stations, over 800 news/sports/weather clips. Managed a group of 10 people. Built one of the industry’s most comprehensive music databases in less than 3 months.Responsible for creation, site development, content, programming, advertising, promotion of a network of genre-specific web sites. Sites traffic growth exceeded 40%/month. Responsible for production of encoded tracks, station IDs, sweepers, audio ad integration into affiliate tuners.Developed first encoding system, designed several O&O sites, and developed several tools, including promotional tool to auto-generate hundreds of search pages.

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