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As an agile leader and scrum master, I actively promoted agile methodologies and the maturation of squad-level agile capabilities, resulting in improved team engagement and collaboration, increased transparency of work product and issues, shorter feedback loops, reduced waste, improved quality, and altogether faster and more predictable delivery of increased value to stakeholders and customers. Initiated internal and external partnerships in order to provide training, coaching and better support for organizational agility.As a software development manager, I managed and developed the software development team at corporate HQ in Boston. Oversaw their training, professional development, and performance evaluation. Spearheaded the development of a technical recruiting strategy and software engineering internship program in Boston.Coordinated and managed the ongoing development of Aquent's propriety and mission-critical CRM system. Provided timely delivery of new product features and functions including design, development, and quality assurance for production release. Managed risks and helped resolve blockages to keep the work moving forward. Collaborated with release management and test automation for smooth delivery of features. Drove the development of best practices to improve quality and efficiency.

Coordinate across the 15+ scaled agile programs and 50+ global scrum teams behind Pearson MyLab and Pearson Mastering -- the world's leading collections of online homework, tutorial, and assessment products -- to ensure reliable delivery of end-to-end customer solutions in alignment with global product investment strategy. Drive forward the principles and practices of the scaled agile framework (SAFe) to increase quality and productivity, and decrease time to market.

Facilitate product portfolio and strategic investment planning for the Higher Ed product technology organization, strategic gap identification, and cross-program coordination

- Led 30+ member team spanning four continents to design and develop the first generation of Adidas' innovative miCoach system. miCoach provide real-time, personalized coaching for runners and other athletes using smartphone and GPS technology as well as bluetooth heart rate and stride-tracking sensors- Program manager of the official campaign web site of a leading major-party candidate for United States President in 2008 (name withheld!)

Led the redesign of NewEnglandMoves.com, the popular home search site for the New England division of the U.S.'s largest residential real estate brokerage, Coldwell Banker/NRT. Facilitated stakeholder requirement sessions to gather business and customer requirements and translated them into UX and technical requirements. Developed wireframes, use cases and test cases. Worked closely with technical team to ensure successful delivery

- Clinical Informatics R&D efforts included electronic medical records, drug to drug interactions checker, tablets in clinic settings, speech recognition, AI and natural language processing- Spearheaded a Software Development Life Cycle redesign effort for Partners HealthCare corporate clinical systems, which resulted in successful, broad adoption of IBM-Rational's Unified process. Benefits included increased software delivery team speed and efficiency, reduced quality control issues, and improved employee morale

- Java, J2EE, Servlets for opensource web-based PIM / calendar that synced with Palm's first ever wireless device. - Member of Anyday startup acquired by Palm

ASP, JavaScript, Java, Servlets,SQLOriginal member of internet consulting startup Spinners (the first startup by the founders of Wayfair), which was later acquired by iXL, and subsequently Sapient