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Greater Chicago Area

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Greater Chicago Area

Georgetown, Texas

Schaumburg, Il

• Launched 18 Agile Release Trains and 14 Value Streams over 24 months, covering half of the R&D operations for the $5.7B company.• Delivered SAFe 4.0 training to 1000+ leaders across seven global design centers.• Coordinated best practice sharing across network of 25 internal SAFe Program Consultants (SPC4s).

Schaumburg, Il

• Created and executed roadmap for company's $5M/year annual software development life-cycle (SDLC) tools budget. Drove a 3-year modernization of the legacy SDLC environment.• Led global (US, Poland, China) team of 21 engineers responsible for the administration, configuration, and evolution of the software development tools and methods for the Systems and Products group ($3.7B business with 3000+ software and systems engineers). Team accomplishments:• Piloted, configured, and deployed a new development ecosystem centered around JIRA, Bitbucket, and Git.• Built custom integrations (using Mulesoft) between JIRA and each of the following: VersionOne, ClearQuest, and a legacy engineering metrics platform.

Schaumburg, Il

• Designed and deployed corporate metrics for agile software development• Led common agile practice definition and global deployment efforts across 1000+ engineers for the Government business unit• Created and taught several internal courses including: "Software Architecture Design for Six Sigma" and "Controlling and Improving Flow" for the Lean Product Development series.• Evaluated, piloted, configured, and deployed VersionOne for agile project management to 1500 users.

Schaumburg, Il

• Applied statistical process control to agile project management, then designed and piloted new standard metrics for agile project management, using predictive modeling, resulting in $25K savings.• Deployed an improved front-end estimation process based on functional sizing (Mk2 function points)• Defined a scaled agile framework for system-level agile development that was successfully piloted in the A6.9 release on the Vortex 2C feature team, then deployed to over half the programs in the Government business unit.• Defined a software development common process for the Government business unit, supporting the successful efforts to achieve SEI CMM Level 5 certification in 2005.• Wrote influential internal blog on agile practices, estimation, and software development

Schaumburg, Il

• Led team in creation of an object-oriented (OO) redesign and C++ implementation of the resource allocation component for the Zone Controller, which provides distributed call processing for the wide-area private trunked radio networks.• Created architecture and led team in the C++ implementation of a distributed Home Location Register (HLR) that added state-wide roaming capabilities to wide-area private trunked radio networks.• Introduced Scrum, XP, and Design Patterns into the department.

Bs, Electrical Engineering

Master’S Of Engineering, Computer Engineering