Responsible for defining and enabling the enterprise, operational, and cultural components for Market Intelligence. Helped with top-down and bottom-up approaches to define, affect, and report on measurable, positive, sustainable change. • Partner with CTO and CPO to create strategies to improve their overall effective product and technology operations. Including organizational design, operating model and operational excellence.• Work to shape a customer first culture in all aspects of technology.• Partner with portfolio management organizations to implement and improve organization prioritization processes for programs like innovation, digital and strategy.• Transformed Program Management Offices into Agile Program Management offices.• Partner with business stakeholder to build and develop relationships with product and technology stakeholders, drive engagement with business leaders and executives on client strategic programs.• Lead continuous improvement initiatives for programs inside and outside of technology to help build effective teams using agile.• Work with clients to implement strategies for team/program and enterprise metrics frameworks.• Created/Governed the Technology OKR’s and KPIs• Aligned Corporate Security request and Data Center exit with business strategy

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Created and lead the business agility consulting service at Vaco and Mary Thorn Consulting. The goal of the practice was to enable values to our customers in a sooner, safer, and happier way.Responsible for defining and enabling the enterprise, operational, and cultural components for our clients. Helped with top-down and bottom-up approaches to define, affect, and report on measurable, positive, sustainable change. • Partner/consult with clients like S&P Platts and Ratings to create strategies to improve their overall effective technology operations. Including organizational design, culture shaping, facilitating role definition clarity and training, mentoring and coaching leadership on behaviors changes necessary to improve employee engagement, and what it is to be an agile leader.• Partner with portfolio management organizations to implement and improve organization prioritization processes for programs like innovation, digital and strategy.• Transform Program Management Offices into Agile Program Management offices.• Partner with business stakeholder to build and develop relationships with product and technology stakeholders, drive engagement with business leaders and executives on client strategic programs.• Lead continuous improvement initiatives for programs inside and outside of technology to help build effective teams using agile.• Work with clients to implement strategies for team/program and enterprise metrics frameworks.• Created/trained/implemented programs for coaching leaders, team and culture shaping

Work in a Scaled Agile Framework(SAFE) environment with 6 agile release trains and approximately 60 scrum and 30 Kanban teams.• Accountable to build and maintain the agile-at-scale competency utilizing the Scaled Agile Framework(SAFE).• Accountable for the company’s software delivery methodology and processes• Close collaboration with delivery teams and organizations to support alignment of current processes to actual in-the-field delivery definitions and processes• Lead large scale change initiatives to adopt a best-in-class delivery methodology• Assess adoption processes, including compliance metrics and reporting• Ongoing collaboration with enterprise knowledge and learning resources to evolve effective training on the software development processes, methodologies, artifacts and tools• Direct oversight of agile delivery team members (Release Train Engineers and Scrum Masters)

Worked in a mixed Agile and transitioning from waterfall organization where I lead a group of 100 functional and automation engineers chartered with testing the Ipreo products. These applications are developed in .Net with a heavy emphasis on transactional data stored in SQL Server.• Develop and deploy Agile testing best practices, standards, and processes throughout the organization • Implement a leading edge Agile automation framework in Specflow(C# equivalent of Cucumber). • Created a complete set of agile-centric Te procedures and metrics, while integrating them with organization-wide metrics.• Ensured we “build the right product” – releases must meet the product requirements defined by product owners via behavior driven development(BDD).• Empowered each Test Manager to work to the best of his/her ability and support professional evolution and development• Assisted Test Managers in managing their day-to-day workload and removing impediments to productivity• Took ownership of issues, and collaborate with other teams as necessary, to drive them to a resolution and provide an appropriate level of communication in the process

Work in a matrix Agile organization where I lead a group of 17 functional and automation QA Engineers chartered with testing the ChannelAdvisor SaaS Platform across 8 Scrum and 2 Kanban teams. These applications are developed in C# with a heavy emphasis on transactional data stored in SQL Server. Key accomplishments include:• Develop and deploy Agile QA and testing best practices, standards, and processes throughout the organization • Implement a leading edge Agile automation framework in Specflow(C# equivalent of Cucumber). • Created a complete set of agile-centric QA procedures and metrics, while integrating them with organization-wide metrics.• Ensure we “build the right product” – releases must meet the product requirements defined by product owners via behavior driven development(BDD).• Ensure we “build the product right” – releases must meet required quality, performance and scalability levels• Encourage each QA engineer to work to the best of his/her ability and support professional evolution and development• Assist QA engineers in managing their day-to-day workload and removing impediments to productivity• Take ownership of issues, and collaborate with other teams as necessary, to drive them to a resolution and provide an appropriate level of communication in the process• Work with the senior technical resources in the organization to provide leadership and ensure adherence to company technical direction

Work in a matrixed organization where I hire and lead a group of 12 functional, automation, and performance QA test engineers chartered with testing Deutsche Bank Risk application. These applications are developed in C# and Java with a heavy emphasis on data. Currently we are building and testing an Operational Data Store built on Oracle Exadata platform. Key accomplishments include:• Lead the team who have implemented several leading edge agile automation framework leveraging Selenium, PHPUnit, Cucumber, Specflow and DbFit. Stabilized and increased automated test coverage on 8 different products in 1st year.• Moved the team from more traditional testing focus to true agile testing practices – fully integrated with up to six Scrum teams using context driven and risked based testing philosophy.• Created a complete set of agile-centric QA procedures and metrics, while integrating them with organization-wide metrics.• Defined and planned multiple product software releases via continuous integration.• Agile coaching the Scrum process for Risk Domain.• Trained and Implemented BDD within 2 Scrum teams.

Led a group of 16 functional, automation, and performance QA test engineers chartered with testing iContact’s SaaS eMail Marketing application. The team was composed of full-time, contract, and near-shore employees. The application leveraged the LAMP stack. Key accomplishments include:• Implemented a leading edge agile automation framework leveraging Selenium, PHPUnit, and Cucumber. Achieved 60% automated coverage, from 0% start within one year.• Established TDD standards for development teams, where were included in overall development done-ness criteria definitions.• Moved the team from more traditional testing focus to true agile testing practices – fully integrated with up to eight Scrum teams using the context driven testing philosophy.• Created a complete set of agile-centric QA procedures and metrics, while integrating them with organization-wide metrics.• Deployed near-shore testing function; including heavy open source test automation focus.• Defined and planned multiple product software releases via continuous integration.• Led the transition from SCRUM to Kanban.

Started the QA department for XS. Lead 7 functional and automation test engineers charged with testing the XS application. The team was composed of full-time, contract, and offshore team members. The application leveraged the .Net stack. Key accomplishments include:• Played the roll of Agile Coach for three months while championing and implementing the XS Agile process across five SCRUM teams. • Established a complete set of agile-centric QA procedures and metrics, while integrating them with organization-wide metrics.• Implemented QA automation strategy using Windows Workflow in VB.net and Selenium. • Initiated unit testing for the development organization. • Led continuous integration using automated builds developed in Microsoft Visual Studio.• Researched and implemented QA testing tool Microsoft Test Professional, as well as QA metrics for each release.

Promoted from within to manage and lead an 6 person QA team responsible for three Peopleclick production lines. The products are for a Human Resource internet application developed in Java, Web Methods, .Net, PHP, SQL Server, and Business Objects: • Participated in product specification and design. • Developed comprehensive test strategies, specific test plans, and schedules.• Produced and reported project status summaries and quality metrics to executive teams. • Ensured product quality for all aspects of the product including end-user functionality, runtime reliability, and scalability.• Other responsibilities included general management, supervision, leadership, and recruitment of software testing personnel. • Managed onshore and offshore resources. • Defined and implemented automation strategies using QTP. • Worked with product management to help define product roadmap.• Responsibility for defining and planning multiple product software releases. • Showed ownership in continuously improving the existing quality assurance processes. • Worked cross functionally with engineering, 3rd party vendors, client services and training teams to facilitate quality assurance processes are adhered to.• Piloted the first SCRUM Agile project within Peopleclick. • Certified SCRUM MASTER as of Dec 5th.

Started the QA department for an Internet e-commerce application for physician practices developed in ASP, Coldfusion, Oracle and Postgress. Implemented and created the quality assurance process and procedures, including: test strategies, specific test plans, schedules, defects, and verification reports. Also, developed the software release and implementation procedures. Participated in product specification and design. Responsibilities also included project managing Medfusion’s largest development client and MedFusion, Inc.

Manage and lead the software quality assurance department for a leading home health care technology company that delivers web-based and mobile applications for agency management, clinical, financial and knowledge-based services. Participated in product specification and design. Developed comprehensive test strategies, specific test plans, and schedules. Produced and tracked defect and verification reports. Ensured product quality for all aspects of the product including end-user functionality, runtime reliability, scalability, and performance. Other responsibilities included general management, supervision, leadership, and recruitment of software testing personnel. Had responsibility for the software release, and improving the existing release and quality assurance processes.

Responsibilities included developing and writing detailed test plans and scenarios, executing tests, tracking/reporting status for a VB/ Informix base electronic medical record systems software package. Worked with product developers to understand and execute integrated test plans/cases scenarios. Promoted to technical lead. Responsibilities included integration testing with other Medic products, integration testing with different environments including Windows terminal server, Windows 2000, NT, 98 and 95. Worked with Win Runner and Test Director to help automate the quality assurance process.

Developed employment database using Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 and Netscape Navigator 4.5. Worked with end-users to develop and execute test plans, to assess the system and business functionality of an intranet/Java database. Participated as an analyst, programmer, and tester in multiple year 2000 projects for the state government. Served as a test lead and baseline tester with major involvement in standardizing analysis, remediation, and testing procedures for CMM Level 3 Certification. Successfully completed Keane’s Accelerated Software Development Program.