Keith Leonard Email & Phone Number

Litchfield Park, Az, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Technology Senior Agile Scrum Master March 2021 – February 2024Mentored, trained and supported two Technology software teams on the migration journey from Waterfall to Agile using the Scrum and Kanban principles. Results provided significant improvement in getting the business’s software functionality updated quickly along with the technology team modernizing the application code in numerous areas. • For 2+ years helped mature the teams through executing the daily/weekly 5 scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective & Product Backlog Refinement) to identify challenges, successes and areas needing improvement.• Utilized JIRA and Tableau software tools to provide team with data metrics to show areas of challenges, successes and to help the team dynamically plan, track and manage the workflow through the Agile sprints and Kanban daily/weekly meetings.• Facilitated team meetings to guide them in launching cross-functionality training to each other so that the entire team can code and deliver different technical coding assignments in support of each other.

San Francisco, California, Us

Led and mentored globally dispersed technology software teams that successfully migrated 90+ applications to Wells Fargo’s Java-based Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF) and the Microsoft-based Azure Cloud for the 5 Lines of Business:• Wealth Management, Community Banking, Consumer Lending, Technology Operations Group, Audit-Finance• Conducted over 86 application manager meetings & surveys to prepare them for the Cloud project kickoffs resulting in completed project planning topics:o Business Case / Project Scope / Project Budget ($12 Million) / Size and Complexity of Individual Applications / Applications’ Target Kickoff / Team Resources Assigned / Resources Data (Role, Type (Employee or Contractor), Labor Costs, Work Duration and Resource Sourcing / Risk & Issue Management • Facilitated Consumer Lending Business with 85+ applications’ technical discovery calls to optimize their Cloud migration approach which resulted in needing only 16 migration events instead of 85 individual migrations and simplified the post-migration support model.• Trained and mentored Cloud Migration’s execution principles to application owners, business analysts, new project managers assigned to the project, and others assigned to the Program to optimize their application onboarding time and effectiveness in delivering applications to the cloud. Provided frequent and consistent status communications to Executives, Program Managers, Sponsors, and Cloud Enablement stakeholders. • Optimized delivery included utilizing Agile & Iterative principles as teams transitioned from Waterfall principles.• Consistently ensured teams conducted functionality and security analysis, built quality designs, executed optimized builds, tested effectively (system integration, user acceptance test), planned their releases and approved the results.

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Summary: In the Program Manager role, led team in planning, kickoff and delivery of ASP-based suite of 11 retirement services products for a major new client resulting in client sales of $20M in retirement recordkeeping products and services in 1 quarter. Built new PMO execution model for both the client and the SunGard team, led team in work effort estimating (hours and dollars), planned releases strategy and delivered multiple releases.

Hanover, Md, Us

Summary: In Senior IT Project Manager role, responsible for planning and execution of 9 projects over a 2+ years period. Projects’ budgets varied from $100K to $4.5M with global cross-functional teams sized from 10 to 50 members.Selected Accomplishments: • Defined & executed plan to onboard new TIAA-CREF client (NY State Agencies) with 4000 locations to participate in new retirement plan product. • Delivered a standard solution model to share data (i.e. participant, plan and fund level) and onboarded 3 clients to utilize the outbound data. • Defined and launched project to offer non-annuity products, including the ability to record-keep and administer proprietary and non-proprietary mutual funds, collective investment trust (CIT), exchange traded fund (ETF), as well as TIAA stable value and self-directed brokerage accounts. • Developed TIAA-CREF Life Insurance’s System Integration (SI) strategy to automate the division’s entire Sales to Issue business process across all systems. Identified, organized, and planned 10 sub-projects.

Clermont-Ferrand, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Fr

Summary: As IT Program consultant, responsible for developing new and comprehensive IT Governance model to position TCI to adjust to and manage substantial growth in the TCI IT Portfolio.

Boston, Ma, Us

Summary: As GE Program Manager – Business Solution (Manufacturing), developed and executed program portfolios of projects budgeted at $2.4M that automated engineering review processes, new enterprise reporting infrastructure and capabilities, built new web-based reporting and global reporting deployment strategy.