Agile coach/consultant for several scrum teams across the Fitness & Wellbeing line of products as well as mentor and coach for other scrum masters in the organization.

• Scrum Master for two scrum teams• Facilitate all scrum ceremonies including: Daily Scrum, Sprint Review and Demo, Sprint Planning, Sprint Retrospective and Backlog Grooming meetings• Coach and mentor team members on Agile/Scrum processes• Collect and chart sprint metrics, including sprint burndown and burnup charts, to ensure teams performance remains consistent with expectations• Work closely with multiple Product Owners per team to ensure the Product Backlogs are current and properly prioritized• Help teams to balance normal sprint work along with their production support responsibilities• Work with senior leaders to ensure the organizations agile vision stays true to the core agile principles

• Facilitate Daily Scrum, Release Planning, Sprint Planning, Backlog Grooming, and Sprint Retrospective meetings• Coach team members on Agile processes• Maintain task board and produced daily burndown and burnup charts to monitor and communicate team progress.• Work closely with Product Owners to maintain and grooming the product backlog.• Successfully balance team’s diverse commitments and responsibilities to project and support work• Maintain traditional Project Manager responsibilities such as creating and maintaining staffing profiles, and ensuring projects run within budget

• Maintained software development lead responsibilities while acting as Scrum Master for two pilot teams• Successfully guided 4 development teams through transition from Waterfall to Agile process• Transitioned 2 scrum teams to Kanban• Facilitating all scrum ceremonies including Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning and Sprint Retrospectives

• Managed all software development activities for the core payroll application• Coordinated all software releases• Participated in several process improvement activities

Managed several test data management activities including:• Engagement with off-shore 3rd party vendor to develop a test data management strategy• Engagement with 3rd party software vendor for a Proof-of-Concept of their Test Data Management and Data Privacy software

Managed the software development activities for all Digital Cinema software maintenance releases and supported the global Service and Support Group on complex field issues.• Managed software development activities of the development team in China• Worked with customers to define requirements for key new features• Created the beta test plan document to be used for all Digital Cinema software releases• Wrote beta test plans for 2 major software releases• Created a field issue escalation process to more efficiently involve the development team, resulting in higher quality products and reduced development costs• Contributed 24 articles to the Service Knowledge Base repository to assist Service in resolving field related issues

Following the initial release of the digital cinema preshow system, maintained development responsibilities for future software releases while directing the Service group support activities in the field. • Reviewed daily problem reports from Service level 1 and 2 support to ensure reported issues were being handled appropriately• Trained Service level 3 support on how to proactively look for issues and how to upgrade software in the field • Created a root cause analysis process to help Service understand and address all reported field issues, effectively improving inefficiency and reducing support costs • Managed OpenSource software bill of materials for each software release• Defined and wrote the software for the automated software upgrade feature• Wrote the requirements for incorporating the SEC (simple event correlator) into the product • Managed the software activity for interfacing to various POS (point of sale) systems

Managed the commercialization process and provided software technical leadership for an OEM digital preshow projector and a lower cost version of the digital cinema preshow system.• Created milestone schedules and defined team member expectations• Facilitated weekly meetings and gate presentations• Created technical requirements and functional specifications• Managed the software development activities

Software technical lead for the 2nd phase of a laser film recorder project• Collaborated with multi-functional team on new product features• Defined software requirements and developed all source code for each software release • Wrote installation documentation and release notes• Worked with Service to resolve complex field issues

• Developed software for the 1st phase of a laser film recorder• Defined new features/enhancements and coordinated the software development activities for an existing document printing system• Developed a scan-store-print application for Harvard University that created custom documents/books from electronic image files• Participated in several software development process improvement efforts, as defined by the Capability Maturity Model (CMM)• Participated in process improvement activities including shortening the SQA test cycle phase and defining a corrective action process after shipping approval

• Administrative supervisor for 8 software engineers• Wrote performance appraisals and assisted in creating career development plans

• Developed software for a system that creating custom text books• Developed software to customize an existing electronic printing and publishing system• Developed software and provided technical software leadership for a new computer-like home device• Developed user interface software for a high volume photographic printer