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Dallas, Tx, Us

Irving, Texas, Us

Serve as people manager for a team of Scrum Masters who are operating on teams that practice Scrum, Extreme Programming (XP), Kanban and Hybrid mixes of various agile methods. Participate in and lead mass process improvement initiatives to help increase departmental agility and health. - Network with the management team of over 30 peers to utilize feedback loops to ensure coaching/feedback for each Scrum Master is based on real-time needs. - Ensure the Agile Enablement Community of Practice maintains a positive perception from all entities we support. - Achieve higher levels of maturity and delivery of business value via improved planning and execution capability and alignment by coaching and mentoring Scrum Masters. - Grow and develop people to build a strong team, encouraging them to grow their skill sets and progress in their careers. - Elevate agile mentality by serving as an inspiring leader and mentor in the Agile Community of Practice and creating opportunities for the team to share knowledge. - Cultivate an environment of visibility, continuous improvement, and empowerment.

Dallas, Texas, Us

Lead 2 delivery teams (one Scrum, one Kanban) in leveraging Agile principles and practices to delight customers and deliver value. Facilitate and coach on Daily Scrum, Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Sprint Retrospective, Refinement, Daily Stand-up, Replenishment, Service Delivery Review, and Program Increment (PI) Planning as needed. Analyze and communicate metrics for transparency, inspection, and adaption for continuous improvement.Steward the Enterprise Agile Roadmap in service to the Organization, collaborating with other Scrum Masters to identify opportunities for improvement and implement change across organizational levels to improve Agile delivery.Serve as Front Line Leader to 3 Scrum Master, providing mentorship, Agile coaching, escalation management, HR performance management, and career development.• Led Delivery teams that a 10% improvement on Agility Health Lite (Agile Maturation) self-assessment results in the first year• Leadership, customers, and team members note improved collaboration, cohesion, transparency, and value delivery • Shepherded Enterprise Agile Roadmap efforts that yielded improvements at scale, including cross-team dependency management, Agile metrics transparency, and PI planning and tracking.• Partnered with Scaled Agile Program Manager and Agile Coach to define the Agile Department job titles, career competency continuum, and 2021 performance goals

Dallas, Texas, Us

Scrum Master within Data Management department. Delivered initial Agile, Scrum, and Kanban training to department with minimal Agile background. Coached the department on applying and improving Agile, Scrum, and Kanban practices. Implemented, facilitated, and coached teams Scrum Events, Kanban Cadences, and Scaled Agile processes for the department. Advised Directors and VP on department-wide changes to facilitate Agile transformation.• Lead transformation of Data Management department from individual resources shared across departments and teams to 6 well-formed Agile delivery teams in partnership with Technology, Agile, and Product leadership as the department grew from 24 people to 60+• Designed and promulgated Kanban metrics standards to improve Kanban inspection & adaption across the organization, including Throughput, Cycle Time, Lead Time, and WIP metrics• Improved collaboration, transparency, performance, quality, and self-organization across the department

Irving, Tx, Us

Led Products and Rates team, which develops and maintains systems to manage products, product pricing, customer bill calculations, and regulatory compliance for a $1B/yr energy retailer. Facilitated daily Stand-ups, Product Backlog refinement, Sprint planning, Sprint reviews, Release planning, and Retrospectives. • Successfully led 3 cross-team, top Executive-priority Product launches completed September 2018• Championed multiple company-wide process improvement initiatives, including Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) standardization and enhancements in TFS/Azure DevOps

Mclean, Va, Us

Provided program management and senior leadership for administrative, capability and matrixed IT teams delivering client projects. Managed overall performance, contracts, staffing, subcontracts, cost and risk for multiple simultaneous projects.Select Projects:• Agile Program Manager, ARMY CLIENT SYSTEMS DELIVERY: Supervised overall performance, financial management, and contract and subcontract management for a $12 million per year program with 20+ projects. Led a distributed team of 60+, including four subcontract companies providing systems delivery, data management and visualization, data science and systems administration in support of environmental science, geospatial, regulatory, infrastructure and budget analysis initiatives for multiple civil works systems and sub-organizations. Employed Agile Scrum, Kanban, and Program Management processes and piloted migration to Amazon Web Services (AWS). Oversaw delivery of products and services meeting or exceeding scope, schedule, quality, and budget expectations, leading to high customer satisfaction and follow-on contract work.• People Manager, Booz Allen Army Digital Solutions (DS) Team: Managed six direct reports 45 staff. Drove critical staff engagement and development activities, communicated firm and team strategy and news, oversaw staff career development, work assignments, performance management and salary. Facilitated 4 promotions, low attrition, and high billability for team members.• Recruiting Lead, Booz Allen Army DS Team: Led recruiting efforts for the 300+ person team. Led every aspect of recruiting process - strategy, planning, requisitions, recruiting event planning, enlisting and coaching interviewers, interviewing, obtaining offer approvals, closing candidates, processing clearances, on-boarding and placing new hires, and reporting on metrics. Successfully hired 49 candidates in the first year while implementing sustainable, repeatable framework for ongoing hiring and recruiting processes.

Mclean, Va, Us

Managed IT project and subcontract teams on multiple projects overseeing requirements identification, performance, schedules, costs, risks, issues and statuses. Select Projects: • Deputy Program Manager, ARMY CLIENT O&M SUPPORT: Oversaw cost, schedule, and risk for the project on three Task Orders totaling $3.9 million. • Scrum Master/Project Manager, DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (DHS) CLIENT WEB DEVELOPMENT: Executed software development, security and hosting for two public-facing websites. Instituted Agile Scrum methodologies to navigate shifting client leadership and priorities.-- Managed successful upgrade to SharePoint 2010-- Delivered over 100 change requests in eight months via 2-week Sprints and monthly releases-- Led User Experience (UX) refresh which led to a 32% increase in site usage.• Project Manager, ARMY CLIENT SYSTEMS DELIVERY & IT INFRASTRUCTURE SUPPORT: Led team delivering custom software development, IT operations, continuity of operations planning (COOP), IT disaster recovery (DR) planning, cyber security, case management support, records management and business process re-engineering, for organization with 160 end users processing approximately 20,000 cases annually. -- Decreased average case processing time by 74.6% and increased volume of cases processed by 49.4%.-- Selected as a Laureate for the 2010 Computerworld Honors Program. -- Delivered three major functional releases of the case management system and a major architecture and technical refresh release to update technologies to .NET 4.0, MVC Framework, NHibernate, and SQL Server 2008.-- Managed seamless migration of production servers from client facility to an Army Data Center.• Senior Systems Analyst, ARMY CLIENT REQUIREMENTS PROJECT: Wrote system requirements recommendations white paper for the Army Mapper Geographic Information System (GIS), defining a roadmap to reduce maintenance costs, enhance usability and improve system performance.

Mclean, Va, Us

Served as systems analyst eliciting, documenting and managing requirements and developing and executing test plans.Select Projects:• Senior Systems Analyst, ARMY CLIENT WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT: Captured, analyzed, documented and managed system requirements for the Strategic Engagement Manager (SEM) web application for ARCIC-F. Authored and maintained a System Requirements Specification (SRS) deliverable, developed and maintained a Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) through successful deployment.• Systems Analyst, ARMY CLIENT WEB APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT: Served as Requirements and Test Analyst, managing system requirements and testing for the Army Recruiting Compensation Advantage (ARCA) system, a web-application which enables Army recruiters to demonstrate data visualization of compensation and benefits comparisons between the Army and the civilian career paths during the Army recruiting process.

Montreal, Quebec, Ca

Formerly American Management SystemsSupported Requirements Analysis, COTS Integration, System Testing, User Acceptance Testing, Gap Analysis, Operations and Maintenance (O&M) and User Training efforts supporting Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Acquisition Commercial Off the Shelf (COTS) solutions for various Federal agency clients.

Master Of Science - Ms, Information Systems Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business Administration