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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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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