Founder and Chief Executive Officer of The Private Sector Group, LLC., a northern Virginia based service-disabled veteran-owned (SDVOSB) small business digital transformation consulting firm servicing both commercial and federal clientele on a wide range of needs from enterprise transformation, AI-driven transformation, leadership & training, PMO support, to software engineering/DevOps practices, data science, enterprise application life-cycle management, solutions architecture, risk management, and financial operations and requirements analysis.

blink.cloud, LLC. is a cybersecurity firm based in the Washington, D.C. area. Our first patent published in April, 2017, and can be referenced here: https://patents.google.com/patent/US9635027B1/en - a test demonstrator of the technology is available at https://blink.cloud

As an Agile product manager and release train engineer, I worked with the United States Patent and Trademark office on software systems supporting and improving their internal search capabilities and assisted their organization with the adoption and use of agile product management practices and scaled agile concepts.

o Joined coaching staff @ USPTO’s Agile Center of Excellence to support and promote USPTO’s Agile 2.0 Transformation.o Engaged with multiple large scale teams and release trains across business portfolios to course correct and ensure development, business, and management teams have excellent Agile consulting and support, including training, workshops, assessments and facilitation. o Developed coaching and training plans for teams as well as defined assessment metrics to analyze teams growing maturity over timeo Identified key areas of focus for training, job aids, workshops, and enterprise guidance. o Facilitated reviews, retrospectives, estimation and grooming sessions, on-the-spot training, etc., as well as all day training events and workshops focused on fundamental Agile concepts. o Worked with ScrumMasters and project leads to set realizable and achievable goals in maturing their information technology processes over their period of performance. o Facilitated discussions between large scale projects and organizations focused on testing and automation to improve communication and working agreements in an environment with multiple vendors and competing priorities. o Worked with senior leadership including branch chiefs and directors to drive enterprise wide changes in how architectural direction, governance and compliance are performed.  Facilitated a working group of agency professionals and authored a paper for how architecture at USPTO could work in a scaled agile environment. Received positive feedback and drafted an implementation plan outlining the specific steps needed to rollout the concept to the larger enterprise over the next two years. o Assisted in the development and review of Agile policy - driving transformation efforts across the agency. o Lead and facilitated the ScrumMaster’s Community of Practice – a community of Agile practitioners from across the enterprise focused on collaboration, knowledge sharing, and discussion.

o Positioned within the IV&V Delivery Assurance team for USCIS. o Oversaw 12 applications used within the agency, both internally and public-facing.o Analyzed system designs and collaborated with teams on future direction.o Evaluated automated testing libraries, offered consultation to teams on managing and consolidating reporting methods, and provided feedback on DevOps CI/CD pipelines. o Consulted with clients on future policy regarding DevOps capable systems.o Monitored process maturity and facilitated retrospectives, planning sessions, and sprint reviews. Coached individual team members on ceremonies, emphasizing a ‘left seat, right seat’ approach to learning by example. o Interfaced with project leadership, stakeholders, and ScrumMaster’s to improve performance, communication, and transparency.o Conducted internal training for the IV&V team on software development tools such as JIRA (Application Lifecycle Mgmt), Jenkins (Continuous Integration), and Gitlab (Source Control).o Conducted certification specific training for the PMI-ACP Certification via a boot camp I designed and facilitated in March 2015. This included developing the curriculum and supporting materials, and administering the course. o Served as co-instructor for agency sponsored training, open to all of DHS, once a month which focused on the core components of Agile and Scrum and was a PMI accredited course.

o Assembled and organized an Agile software development team for the nationally recognized ENERGY STAR certification program.o Worked with the team through 60 three week sprints and 12 releases. o Conducted frequent meetings with clients to engage them in Agile methodologies and the Scrum process. Coached stakeholders on handling Agile software development projects. o Planned, designed, and executed the integration of the QualifiedProduct Exchange (QPX) solution, a system that automates thereception of qualified products data world-wide in an expansive data warehouse for business intelligence and program execution purposes. o Delivered software functionality and enhancements on an iterative basis and demonstrated the ability to set achievable goals for a cross-functional, multi-national, distributed team across multiple different time zones.o Designed a system that saved capital and resources by utilizingmethods to preserve and reuse legacy system resources and hardware which enabled the preservation of legacy data integration into QPX.o Lead the integration effort for ENERGY STAR’s Product Finder applications, using cutting edge technologies and design patterns using our public API and predictive properties of artificial intelligence to produce and deploy roughly 40 different tools in six months.

Auditor for supply-chain management firm. Compared and reviewed financial invoices and summaries for manufacturing clients.

Served in Operation Iraqi Freedom II from February 2004 - February 2005• Awarded the Army Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Army Service Ribbon, Overseas Service Ribbon (2), Army Achievement Medal (3), and an Army Commendation Medal.• Graduated with Honors - #2 in Signal Support Systems Specialist (25U) School out of Fort Gordon, Ga, 2003.