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East Moline, Il, Us

East Moline, Il, Us

• Championed revitalization of key Quality meetings for Dealer and Customer-facing Digital Products.• Developed and facilitated workshops to help Digital Product teams identify, rank, and remediate risks, especially in digital products leverage cloud technologies (AWS, Azure)• Partnered to create assessment to help Product teams identify opportunities for growth in Quality mindset and practices.• Improved speed of delivery for quality measures for organizational leaders through automation of metrics reporting and consolidated data views.

• Supervised and mentored global team of 13+ Scrum Masters; set expectations for performance and engaged in candid conversations regarding performance challenges as needed.• Drove adoption of Agile principles, practices, and methodologies through organization resulting in improved team and organization satisfaction (+90 NPS), delivery (+100% feature/deployment throughput), and quality (-25% escaped defects).• Led an Agile transformation as change agent and thought leader for global IT organization with responsibility for over 20 Scrum/Kanban Digital Product teams.• Designed and implemented structural organizational changes to improve customer support model.• Modeled the 12 Principles of the Agile Manifesto in mindset and practice.

Silvis, Illinois, United States

• Managed and mentored a global team of 13 software developers and system engineers in the development of software for next-gen John Deere Combine programs using C, C++, and Java programming languages.• Created and delivered class to re-baseline organizational Agile acumen as part of an “Agile Reboot” effort. The class was requested and delivered many times beyond its original, intended scope due to the positive impact of the material.• Championed organizational changes to critical Agile practices that improved software development outcomes; changes amplified early, actionable feedback loops with customers and stakeholders in the software development process.• Chaired and facilitated Scrum Master community of practice to promote Scrum Master upskilling across the organization.

Kohler, Wi

• Managed a global team of 15 IT analysts, architects, and business analysts with responsibility for operations, administration, Level 3 support, and adoption of mission-critical productivity and collaboration platforms including Office 365 and other platforms (Apache, Citrix, and Altiris).• Sponsored and executed enterprise-wide Office 365 tools adoption program to increase use of Office 365 productivity and collaboration tools while leveraging best-practice frameworks in organizational change management. Tool adoption increased 3X in 6 months.• Mentored team members in prioritization and decision-making techniques (WSJF, MoSCoW, Pugh Matrix, etc.) to juggle competing demands on time.• Increased offshore organizational capability with strategic vendors to ensure goals for incident support and application uptime were met or exceeded.• Acted as a trusted advisor for Executive IT leaders regarding Agile transformation initiatives.

Peoria, Illinois Area

• Chartered and coached multiple teams within the IT organization (including distributed teams) to leverage Agile/Lean principles and practices with an emphasis on Scrum and Kanban frameworks; on average, adjustments to team structure, culture, and processes increased team throughput by 33%, decreased cycle times by 56%, and increased development team engagement by 30%.• Taught nearly 20 Agile fundamentals classes to hundreds of individuals enterprise-wide, including specialized classes tailored for Corporate IT and Business executives.• Served as Scrum Master for two Product teams, facilitating common agile practices and ceremonies such as retrospectives, sprint reviews, daily scrums, backlog refinement, team working agreements, and value stream mapping techniques.• Increased IT engagement and collaboration with other Agile teams across the enterprise through partnership and knowledge sharing activities.

Peoria, Illinois Area

• Led a globally distributed team of 14 Software Developers and Analysts in the development, deployment, maintenance, and support of a suite of engineering design and productivity applications for an enterprise-wide customer base of more than 5,000 users; prioritized day to day work of development team as needed.• Managed and delivered software development projects on time and under budget using a variety of Project Management techniques and frameworks – both Waterfall (PMBOK/6 Sigma/Traditional) and Agile frameworks (Scrum/Kanban).• Product Owner for two major engineering applications, regularly leading steering committee and business stakeholders in project and backlog prioritization activities.• Created a shared vision for the products in alignment with broader strategic initiatives.• Collaborated with Resource, Program, and Project managers to ensure appropriate staffing for portfolio projects.

• Developed and delivered web and desktop digital products with a variety of programming languages and technologies: C/C++, Python, .NET (C#/ASP.NET), Java/JavaScript, ASP, SQL syntax, Relational databases (MSSQL, Oracle, DB2, Microsoft Access), and various SDLC (Software Development Life Cycle) processes.

Mba

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science, Summa Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Theology/Theological Studies