• Provide project management disciplines for managing schedules, milestones and interactionwith stakeholders.• Scope and prioritize activities based on business and customer impact.• Foster efficient communication.• Manage workflow through utilization of automated systems such as Jira and Confluence.• Promote a climate of continuous improvement.• Assist in tasks to support compliance with contracts to include SOWs and Contract DataRequirements Lists (CDRLs).• Generate program briefs.• Lead and manage multi-disciplinary professional teams. • Responsible for project kick-offs and lifecycle support.• Provide overall documentation for processes.

• Lead multiple organizational change management initiatives: - Design and draft strategic overview demonstrating organizational need for change. - Design agendas and facilitate brainstorming sessions and deliver gap analysis of roles and responsibilities for newly established branches. - Design and facilitated targeted sessions with branch chiefs to map phases from current state (inputs, outputs, roles, and responsibilities) to future state. - Deliver future state draft Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for the subdivision resulting in alignment in organizational vision and goals. - Develop end-to-end change management implementation plan that provides leadership a phased approach with clear timelines, milestones, and roadmap that demonstrates path from current to future state. - Introduced “1-3-Many” pilot plan with iterative experimentation to develop process improvement that can be operationalized with continuous improvement built in. - Drafted subdivision re-alignment memo for Agency director outlining operational function-based needs. - Tailor leadership/team offsites that provide alignment and lead to entirely new operational approaches, including regional-led approach with headquarters to advance operational effectiveness.• Establish strong, collaborative relationships with executives, decision-makers, and stakeholders at all levels generating trust as advisor for change management journey. • Proactively manage tasks that support larger workstreams via creation of Kanban board resulting in visualization of the work and progress.

• Initiated formation of Business Development Team to create public/private business development program.• Develop communications that demonstrate company value propositions to agencies and primes.• Grow federal work attending conferences, networking events, and making recommendations in current projects. • Make recommendations to grow our work and presence in agencies.

• Served as Scrum Master across multiple teams with focus on dependencies and risk ultimately leading the program to reach Final Operating Capability (FOC) within contractual timeline.• Educated cross-functional teams on agile processes and facilitated backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily standups, product demos, and retrospectives resulting in team cohesion and accountability.• Designed agenda and facilitated federal program retrospectives for continuous improvement and ad hoc problem-solving sessions that provided clarity and action items to address issues.• Served as trusted advisor for improvements including process and workflow improvements for definition of ready, definition of done, and developer and QA roles that reduced meetings and increased velocity to get work to “done.”• Co-designed pair programming pilot resulting in program adoption that reduced critical dependencies and increased onboarding speed and skill development for new and junior team members.• Facilitated team conflict resolution sessions and trained team members on effective ways to give feedback.• Tracked team metrics and KPIs such as velocity, cycle time, and defect density across program working with agile teams to provide root cause analysis, understand themes, and actively address issues. • Utilized DevSecOps tools such as Jira, Confluence, GitLab, BitBucket, Jenkins, Harness.

Brand Ready Media helps technology companies, consulting firms, and government contractors reach their business objectives with video strategies. These include branding, promotional, HR, training, recruiting and culture videos, which hit the mark for branding, promotion, and recruiting.• Facilitated strategic planning resulting in clear OKRs to reach business goals, priorities, outcomes, and milestones.• Conducted research and analysis for new markets, products, and services and provided win strategies.• Coached leaders/team on business agility principles developing team cohesion and alignment on day-to-day roles, responsibilities, and processes.• Analyzed and developed KPIs for sales activities and coached sales team to drive performance.• Utilized agile methodologies including daily standups and retrospectives resulting in streamlined operational performance and continuous improvement mindset.• Coordinated development and implementation of communications/marketing campaigns to support capture efforts.

The Clearing is a management consulting firm that works with a large number of repeat clients including most federal departments and agencies, several prominent private companies, and well-known non-profits and trade associations. • Served as an agile subject matter expert (Agile SME) in IT change management for a federal client.• Facilitated requirements gathering and user story creation with PMO.• Provided agile software delivery training to provide clear understanding of agile roles and responsibilities.• Advised team on project work and products using agile and change management methodologies and frameworks.• Designed and managed the production of high-quality client deliverables for large scale agile development and change management strategy efforts.

Possip is a parent and school engagement platform that gives schools real-time feedback via weekly SMS and email surveys from parents, teachers, and students:• Facilitated daily standups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, product demos, and retrospectives with distributed, cross-functional team resulting in team cohesion, accountability, and commitment. • Provided training to client and team about agile processes and methodologies.• Assisted the client/Product Owner in backlog refinement, prioritization, and user story creation to address emerging business needs. • Collaborated with client to establish a prioritized roadmap for long-term release planning.• Promoted communication, engagement and collaboration to increase team performance.• Provided client daily and weekly progress and milestone reports to demonstrate progress. • Updated ZenHub tool in GitHub to manage workflow and issues.

MJD Marketing, Inc. pioneers innovative products that have revolutionized the aesthetic marketing industry, featuring first of its kind products with before and after photographs, coordinated videos, CMS websites and doctor locator sites.• Served as liaison between business and technical teams to develop requirements, roadmaps, and milestones for multiple web-based platforms in hybrid agile environment. • Performed requirements research and analysis leading to recommendations that lead to page one organic Google search results. • Took ownership and applied critical thinking to manage risks and dependencies to deliver multiple, concurrent projects on time, on budget, and within scope using Microsoft Project. • Performed high-level of customer service to medical clientele that resulted in client trust and satisfaction.

Casting Director: Home Depot, The Guitar Center, Bon-Ton, American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA). Scriptwriter: American Nurses Association, Long Fence and Home, My Pest Pros, the Flexible Packaging Association.

Award-winning artist. Collectors include Amazon’s corporate office in Herndon, Virginia. Public works: Bethesda Metro Station, commissioned by Eagle Bank. http://www.kristysimmonsart.com/

Select Productions: Roundhouse Theater, Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival, The Drama League Theater, Source Theatre Festival, The Comedy Spot. Select Director Credits: Kennedy Center Page to Stage Festival, National Museum for Women in the Arts, Spooky Action Theater; Capitol Fringe Festival.

Co-founded Spooky Action Theater's New Works in Action program for playwrights in the DMV region. • Manage submissions and staff of readers• Manage New Works Directors• Review script submissions • Coordinate readings and workshops• Lead talkback sessions

Instruction and assistance to young actors with Down Syndrome for a production company called Wings.