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Clearwater, Florida, United States

Clearwater, Fl, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Coached leadership and organization on mindset, culture, structure, and practices toward continuously adapting the organization to deliver effective, timely, and impactful business outcomes.• Developed and delivered foundational leadership and transformation for agility across the business unit, deepening the understanding of agility for 70+ leaders.• Collaborated with the organization to structure several software products and teams to minimize dependencies/tradeoffs and maximize flow.• Led the co-creation of the vision, strategy, and approach for transforming a business unit of 300 people into a product-focused, customer-centric business agility organization.

Waltham, Massachusetts, Us

Coached leadership and organization on lean and agile principles, culture, and practices from a services platform to a product-focused organization to improve business agility, financial outcomes, and quality of life. Reported to CEO.• Trained and coached teams and leadership on agile and lean principles and practices, resulting in more understanding of focus, tradeoffs, limiting work in progress, and increased business agility, resulting in a significant increase in revenue from new sales.• Coached the organization to shift from a services-focused approach to a product-focused orientation, including key concepts of agility in product management, development, and delivery.• Coached the organization to better understand product management investments across multiple dimensions, including product differentiation, time to market, customer and organization value, viability, and feasibility. • Led the design and implementation of continuous delivery leveraging agile processes, feature management, automated testing, and automated deployments, resulting in improved flow, consistency, transparency, and decision-making.

Tallahassee, Fl, Us

Coached executive leadership, management, and individual contributors across the enterprise on agile mindset, culture, principles, and practices, resulting in widespread adoption and culture shift.• Led and mentored a team of highly effective Agile Coaches to support the organization, teams, leadership, and Scrum Masters in adopting agile culture, mindset, and practices.• Led, organized, and mentored a team of volunteers, including executive leadership, from across the organization, including HR, technology, vendor management, and more, to guide the agile transformation.• Led co-creating and adopting an outcome-based transformation approach with senior and executive leadership engagement, including HR, technology, and more.• Developed, led, and facilitated large-scale (150+) and team workshops to better understand and improve the organization across organizational boundaries.• Developed and led training sessions for dozens of teams and organizational groups, such as HR, on lean and agile principles and practices, including SAFe, Scrum, Kanban, and more.• Supported the SAFe implementation as an agile coach, mentor, co-facilitator, and servant, helping the organization succeed with organizational and ART design and events such as PI Planning, Inspect & Adapt.

New York, Ny, Us

Defined new capabilities in developing and rolling out effective software development practices throughout the enterprise, coaching executives, leadership, and teams on agility and lean processes. • Led the development of practices, standards, and methodology to support technical and Business Agility• Introduced and led the design, adoption, and increased understanding and usage of Agile, Scrum, and Kanban concepts and essential engineering practices such as continuous delivery and integration across the firm.• Designed and facilitated training and workshops for numerous teams and groups.• Guided and mentored team members and senior leadership on technology, process, agile methodology, and design concepts to improve the quality of deliverables and communication.• Coached and guided teams and leadership on Agile and Lean leadership, mindset, process, and tools. • Led projects using effective agile approaches to ensure stakeholders had visibility into the process, progress, and outcomes.• Built the case for and cultivated a new team of Agile Coaches and DevOps Engineers to support the journey to agility.

London, Uk, Gb

Initiated, organized, and led multiple initiatives to improve delivery capabilities, employee satisfaction, and organizational effectiveness on and offshore.• Led multiple complex custom software and system development projects with teams of developers, business analysts, and testers as an architect, technical lead, and Scrum Master, resulting in high customer satisfaction and repeat business.• Key leader in the introduction, development, and rollout of Agile and Scrum as a framework for the organization to deliver with their clients.

Waltham, Massachusetts, Us

Guided team of 6-12 people in successful architecture and direction of application development to meet corporate business needs. Reported to CEO. • Introduced, led, designed, and implemented lean and Agile development processes emphasizing quality to improve feedback loop and business value delivery, transitioning from processes that resulted in frequent challenges to high-quality delivered software with near zero emergencies.• Led re-architecture of the primary business product, improved stability, and maintainability, with cost savings and significant business value increase for sales, marketing, implementation, and services.