Kelly Currier Alvarado Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, California, Us

Responsible for evolving and scaling how we work; Managing a team of Technical Program Managers and ScrumLeads running our most strategic programs across the company. Focused on instilling agile and lean principles into our daily operations.

San Francisco, California, Us

Lead the Agile center of excellence that fuels the continuous and predictable delivery of Salesforce's products and services organization with ~2000 development teams. Manage the complexity of planning and delivering across a huge portfolio of product lines, tech stacks, complex dependencies and array of release cycles. Managing a team of ~50 global employees responsible for leading large-scale transformations across business units. My team includes Agile Coaches, technical coaches focused on leveraging engineering best practices to increase predictability, product velocity and quality practices, as well as an engineering team focused on building apps to increase efficiency and connection across the org. Leader in the Technology organization's (~15,000 people) cultural shift to DevOps and a service ownership model including strategy, alignment, engaging the hearts and minds of employees, providing learning journeys and enablement activities.

San Francisco, California, Us

Manage the Agile delivery methodology program, including a team of 27 Agile Coaches, that support Salesforce's Technology & Products organization, an enterprise with over 700 agile teams.My team is responsible for: - maintaining a lean organization that scales as we grow; - coaching teams and individuals on healthy software and infrastructure practices; - training the organization in agile methodologies (lean, kanban, scrum), - role specific training (product owner, scrummaster, functional manager); - individual and team based coaching; - evangelizing the "why" behind everything we do; - acquisition integration; organizational change agents.- advise customers on how to accelerate their organizations by leveraging agile values/practicesHighlight of accomplishments:- Built Salesforce-specific SM certification process, more rigorous than industry standard with over 800 SMs certified to date. - Run Agile Survey 2 x year, across entire organization. Automated for scale and efficiency. Get results into hands of leaders within days of survey closing. Strategically use data, themes, trends in agile survey to launch get-well programs- Agile Onboarding provided to 500-600 new hires every quarter. 1-day intro to agile, our culture, processes sets them up to quickly integrate w/ their teams. -Built Agile onboarding and transformation process for acquisitions and specific locations, rolling out to 100's of teams

San Francisco, California, Us

- Proven success transforming teams into highly efficient and collaborative groups with a focus on delivery and strong belief in agile principles and benefits.- Skilled at facilitating reflective conversations that generate insight, learning, and continuous improvement. Ability to ask appropriate and challenging questions to promote engagement and participation of the group. - Change management expert with a focus on ensuring not only the operational aspects are effectively managed, but the hearts and minds and buy-in are at the forefront of any change. - Program Manager for Chatter, involving between 16 and 31 scrum teams within R&D. Responsible for managing the coordinated efforts of roadmap planning, quarterly release planning, technical dependency management and driving teams toward business objectives and product delivery.- Lead integration efforts for two acquired companies. - Provide program transparency and visibility to key stakeholders through clear communication and reporting.- Managed the product launch of Chatter.com at the 2011 Super Bowl half-time show. With only a few months from inception to event date, it required fast-paced and highly efficient coordination across many divisions throughout company, new infrastructure, capacity plans for millions of visitors and flawless execution.- Agile proficient. Scrum certified. Extensive experience with the role of ScrumMaster with continuous focus on process improvement, innovation and team empowerment.

San Francisco, California, Us

San Jose, Ca, Us

• Lead complex projects involving cross-functional and cross regional teams including business partners, Information Architecture, Design, Engineers, Quality Assurance.• Simultaneously manage multiple projects focused on web site strategy, design enhancements, and improved customer experience.• Manage team of operational employees responsible for driving the successful and timely delivery of day-to-day, revenue-generating initiatives in the North American e-commerce store.• Managed post acquisition project to integrate the various ecommerce sites into one single platform and user interface.• Managed large-scale feature enhancement projects for online store.

San Jose, Ca, Us

San Francisco, Ca, Us

•Managed two complete re-designs of corporate web site. •Managed e-marketing initiatives including corporate web site and e-mail marketing.•Experience with multiple email services including Digital Impact and MarketFirst. •Designed, executed, launched prospect and client e-mail campaigns in HTML, rich text and plain text formats. Included personalization, segmentation, dynamic content, unique urls.•Analyzed web site usage statistics on a quarterly basis and presented results to executive members with future recommendations.•Maintained and continually enhanced aggressive web strategy. •Developed promotional banner ads in Photoshop for industry related web sites. •Designed and developed satellite sites for online marketing campaigns. •Created user input forms using JavaScript for form validation. •Managed and trained junior web designers.

Bachelor'S Degree, Information Systems & Marketing Double Major

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