John Cook Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

At Flexxbotics we are helping to optimize manufacturing cobots. We have discovered that manufacturers are leaving valuable robot capacity on the table. Our products are proven to reduce robot setup time, increase utilization and ultimately get the most competitive payback period for automation investment.

Greater Boston Area

Hickory Harbor LLC is a private consulting firm: specializing in leveraging experience in Agile Methodologies, Dev Ops and Object-Oriented Software Engineering.Coaching companies both at the team and organization level as they seek to move from traditional project management and waterfall constructs to a desired agile practice:• Coaching Scrum Masters and Product Owners to ignite and inspire agile teams.• Evolving organizations from functionally siloed orientation to cross-functional teams.• Working with management to establish an agile vision of the future that supports teams.• Establishing an emphasis on value-oriented backlogs from the customer’s perspective.• Refining backlogs to unlock user value early and often by breaking waterfall orientation.• Foster a mindset of value-oriented releases rather than project milestones.• Collecting feedback from users to help shape the vision and influence backlogs.• Using metrics and artifacts which vastly improve visibility and transparency.• Improving performance and communications using scaling techniques, where appropriate.• Fostering servant-leadership to better support empowered teams.• Frequently inspecting and adapting: greatly improving performance in project and process domains.• Rewarding good team behaviors correctly.• Using tools from Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean 6 Sigma, SAFe and Scrum@Scale.

Westborough Ma

Several levels of Agile Coaching in HPE (Hewlett Packard Enterprise) SimpliVity HCI (Hyper-Converged Infrastructure) product engineering: individuals, teams, tribes and leadership team. Much of the work in all of these levels involved converting the organization from functional teams to tribes of cross-fictional teams.Engaged those curious about achieving better outcomes through high-quality, interactive experiential learning: challenging their beliefs and leading them to experiment with more effective practices.

Greater New York City Area

Scrum/Agile Coach for Johnson & Johnson IT Application Services (ITAS) working on multiple projects in the following divisions: Supply Chain, Medical Devices and IT Application Services.Most of these programs have involved getting teams new to agile up and running while working with and advising the Software Engineering Excellence team on overall improvements to agility across the family of companies. While there have been ample opportunities to coach Scrum Masters, Product Owners and development teams, most of the work has involved educating the business, the product management organization and executives on how they can best support their agile teams by removing organizational impediments that hinder the transition from traditional SDLC/Waterfall to Scrum/Agile.With technologies such as Business Intelligence, Data Grids, Data Lakes, ERP, CRM, etc. these programs are very complex, so I have been helping programs understand how to coordinate better as they Scale their individual agile practices. Therefore, much of my time is spent on scaling Scrum both at the program level and across the organization.

R&D Center In Framingham, Ma

Significantly improved communications between developers and stakeholder: • Consistent and regular rituals (refinement, planning and review) • Continuous improvement via effective and regular team retrospectives • Highly transparent artifacts (visual backlogs, burn-down/up charts) • INVEST style story writing • Ushered in a more consistent agile practice by acting as a Product Owner for a division wide Scrum Master chapterMade significant improvements to the division's agility via improvement katas: • Methods for white box product testing • Better product platforming techniques • Practices and principles governing team interactions • Internet based product updates • Hot-house event for improving agility of the marketing of products

R&D Center Framingham Ma

Company-wide cost savings and efficiency improvements as a founding member of IT Advanced Development group: • Support two-year product development cycle for WiFi music products by prototyping the backend Cloud Service • Support Home Entertainment Division’s Advanced Development group by prototyping a backend Cloud Service for determining user playlist affinities. • Key driver (Scrum Master, Trainer and Coach) of division agile adoption: • Scrum Master or Coach of 20+ teams • Founding member of the Agile Coaching Guild at Bose • Created a living lab for ScrumParticipated in Multiple Lean Six-Sigma style improvement katas: • SAP Transition to Scrum Kaizen Blitz • Infrastructure and Operations Transition to Scrum Kaizen Blitz • Tools for new Scrum Teams • Scrum Friendly Tiered Management • Architected Java based Product Lifecycle Management modules. • Administered 14 Unix Servers for internal HA SaaS cluster.

Raised 7M in venture funding at a very difficult time as a member of a secure network appliance startup. Technical Lead for a team of engineers developing products using eXtreme Programming (XP) techniques.Architected solid-state Linux Appliance: • Implemented custom Linux distribution for embedded systems. • Invented start-of-the-art algorithms for remapping private IP addresses. • Modified router and firewall algorithms to establish reverse VPN tunnels.Architected network management proxy • Allowing multiple remote networks to be monitored from a central NOC. • Console for allowing 3rd parties to negotiate levels of engagement with parties of limited mutual trust.

Marlboro Ma

Mobile communications products for public safety and businesses.

Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States

- Embedded software development- Network management protocols

Sunrise, Florida

Worked with many interesting customers: Bell Labs, NASA (Goddard Flight Center, Kennedy Space Center), Jet Propulsion Laboratory), and Aberdeen Proving Ground.Intense introduction to network protocols and Univac mainframes.

Bachelors, Computer Science

Concentration in Electrical Engineering and Artificial Intelligence (Part 2/2 of Software Engineering degree program)

Bachelor'S, Pre-Engineering (Math, Physics, And Chemistry)

Pre-engineering: mostly Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry. (Part 1/2 of Software Engineering degree program)