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-- Coaching and consulting for enterprise wide Agile Transformation efforts in the US Federal Government and Commercial space.-- Portfolio level Agile Transformation for Strategic Initiatives at Fannie Mae .-- Enterprise Business Agility coaching and Agile Enablement of the SAP/Hybris eCommerce team at Signet.-- Enterprise Agility coaching and Agile Enablement of the Cloud Platform team at NTT Innovation Institute Inc.-- Strategy coaching to kick start the enterprise wide Agile Transformation of the digital team at Sherwin Williams.-- Agile Transformation coach for one of the largest software development projects at the Department of Homeland Security.-- Enterprise transformation for an entire division at Caterpillar.-- Innovative coaching approaches to achieve alignment across the enterprise and with stakeholders.-- Deep immersion at the team level to mentor/coach all team members in Agile principles and practices.

-- Program Lead of H+K Studio, a cross-functional team of Creative Designers, Software Developers and Project Managers.-- Led the transition of H+K Studio to a high performing Agile team in a 6-8 month timeframe, starting with an Assessment followed up with mentoring and long term coaching.-- Leveraged Agile/Lean principles to launch a Crisis Training tool (Flight School) in 3 months which realized 7 figure revenues in the first year.-- Designed and implemented a Distributed Offshore Agile development model to decrease costs by an average of 40%.

-- Strategic consulting and coaching to transform IT organizations in Retail and Healthcare sectors to an Agile process.-- Led the Agile Transformation assessment for a multinational Self Service Solutions provider that resulted in an extended coaching engagement.-- Led the development and initial delivery of the Agile Maturity Assessment offering which was subsequently packaged into all coaching engagements.-- PM Coach and Delivery Manager for the largest co-sourced delivery team in the Americas region that developed a cost optimization tool for a Fortune 500 company.-- Program Management of a complex multi-vendor environment to deliver a market-first (integrated desktop/cloud/mobile) product for an Information Management Solution provider.-- Led the delivery team that developed the Voter identification and canvassing API for a major political party in the United States.-- Managed the Project Inception to re-architecture the flagship international tax services software for a Big4 firm with distributed development teams in the United States, China and India.-- Led the successful delivery of Healthcare IT projects for a Fortune 500 client using a distributed agile delivery model with multi-functional teams based in the United States, Romania and India.-- Support for the sales team to successfully close business pursuits in the North East region by crafting consulting and delivery offerings that focuses on improving efficiency in the software delivery process.-- Delivered structured training including development of training materials and coaching of lateral hires.

-- Institutionalized an Agile development process, which decreased response time to client requests.-- Leveraged client relationships to consolidate the scope, estimate and schedule of Frequency/Cell Planning tools and Network Budgeting tool.-- Analysis and documentation of requirements for multiple software products in the Optimi X platform.-- Created and implemented the communication plans to socialize the status of project deliverables.-- Facilitated the 24x7 Support team and training sessions for new release rollouts for more than 100 users at a time.-- Developed and implemented an escalation and support process to resolve customer issues.-- Created content for user manuals, knowledge base articles and documentation for training classes.-- Increased usability by integrating the Frequency/Cell Planning tools directly with the client master database.-- Led the development of a seamless user experience by negotiating the integration efforts with 3rd party vendors.

-- Managed the development team of the Radio Frequency prediction and planning tool through Release planning, Requirements reviews, Estimation and Risk Assessment.-- Introduced and facilitated the adoption of technologies that streamlined the design and development process.-- Analyzed and implemented an efficient and effective software development process that reduced major productivity bottlenecks and shortcomings.-- Led the development of an Application Programming Interface to integrate 3rd party propagation models into the Radio Frequency planning tool.-- Upgraded the Radio Frequency planning tool to utilize Oracle8i/9i as the backend database.-- Significantly improved application performance by optimizing data access methods.

-- Managed the development team of the Radio Frequency prediction and planning tool through Release planning, Requirements reviews, Estimation and Risk Assessment.-- Introduced and facilitated the adoption of technologies that streamlined the design and development process.-- Analyzed and implemented an efficient and effective software development process that reduced major productivity bottlenecks and shortcomings.-- Led the development of an Application Programming Interface to integrate 3rd party propagation models into the Radio Frequency planning tool.-- Upgraded the Radio Frequency planning tool to utilize Oracle8i/9i as the backend database.-- Significantly improved application performance by optimizing data access methods.

-- Redesigned the user interface of ALINA using Windows 95 common controls. This made it easier to edit and administer the OCANEQ announcements.-- Optimized data mining methods to improve performance of the OCANEQ administration tool.-- Analyzed, specified, and implemented the multi-threaded communication driver to upload announcements to the OCANEQ Service PC (OPC).-- Designed and implemented the online Help framework for the support tools of the EWSD switch.