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Los Angeles, CA, US

Bethesda, MD, US

• Reduced Defects by 70% and increased engineering throughput by 50% through introducing, implementing and training in Agility, SAFe, and AI-tool assistants for client-facing platform development.
• Worked as part of an Agile Release Train to partner with other internal stakeholders and technical engineering teams to deliver significant AI enhancements throughout Marriot Bonvoy to include MS Co-Pilot, MS Intune.
• Increased Domain coverage to include all 6 continents in which Marriott or her subsidiaries reside, ensuring an error-free and frictionless client booking experience as the Scrum Master/Program Manager of Marriott’s.
• Led multiple fully globally disperse, fully-remote scrum teams in a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) environment overseeing global connectivity for Marriott.
• Managed team continuous improvement backlog and tech debt backlogs, working with the team to prioritize technical debt and improvement items, ensure their allotment of time inside of sprints, and aggressively pursued.
• Built and led the DevOps program, focusing on Continuous Delivery to AWS, Azure and Google Cloud using several different deployment patterns and pipelines incorporating Infrastructure As Code (IAC), Compliance as Code.

New York, NY, US

• Led multiple Salesforce.com software engineering teams in new product development over a variety of salesforce cloud-hosted applications in the Financial Services and Credit Card Industry.
• Increase team throughput 64% in terms of value delivered and reduced defects caught in production by 60% for Cloud Development Programs.
• Led Multiplate Cloud-Based Development teams in continuous improvement, identifying and implementing continuous improvement processes resulting in both immediate and long-term impacts.
• Managed and integrated Salesforce Sales Cloud, Marketing Cloud and Service Cloud for AMEX partner onboarding departments.
• Reduced client partner onboarding time from months to weeks.
• Coached the team to implement the Continuous Integration (CI) pipeline and Continuous Deployment delivery (CD) pipeline, allowing for immediate and rapid deployment of “Done” increments of software.

US

• Reduced defects by 70% in project teams, reduced time to market by 45%, increase development throughput by 50%
• Led the rebuild of the AAA Emergency Roadside Assistance platform, the travel platform, and auto/home/life insurance platforms.
• Coached Project Teams on Agile adoption, including how to Realize Revenue Earlier, Limit the Risk of Investment, and Adapt to the Marketplace quickly
• Brought in to spearhead an Agile Built-in-Quality practices across the enterprise, focusing first in DevOps and Continuous Integration Pipeline.
• Trained multiple Scrum Teams in Scrum including Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Development Teams.
• Coached and trained the team on XP best practices including Test-Driven Development (TDD), Acceptance Test-Driven Development (ATDD) and Behavior Driven Development (BDD).

Madison, WI, US

• Increased specific team throughputs by up to 2500%, Reduced Project Costs by up to 75%, Reduced times to market by up to 80%, realized revenue up to 80% earlier on initiatives throughout the Business-to-Business (B2B).
• Implemented scaling techniques to fit the vision and objective of the product line, including Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban and SAFe.
• Implemented the SAFe framework across over 400 developers in over 30 teams, creating several release trains, implemented Product Increment Planning (PI Planning), and training the RTE (Release Train Engineer) in their.
• Coached the Enterprise on its Agile Transformation across various business units include IT, Software, Finance, Marketing and HR.
• Including how to Realize Revenue Earlier, Limit the Risk of Investment, and Adapt to the Marketplace quickly
• Trained dozens of Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Development Teams, Program and Portfolio Managers.

Burbank, California, US

• Reduced defects by 85%, Reduced time-to-market by 90%, Increase production delivered value by 200%+
• Led and coached teams that brought multiple products to market including an API library for EIDR Registry.
• Led and coached teams that worked on the Disney ABC revenue recognition, accounting and finance for Disney content distribution.
• Recruited to drive Agile transformation in software development department.
• Coach and mentored the Scrum teams for Web Applications, and Integrations for the Disney ABC Home Entertainment Television Group.
• Led teams to increased effectiveness and velocity through the adaptation and customization of agile principles to their in-flight and on-deck projects.

Los Angeles, California, US

• Reduced time to market by 96%, enabled a 300% increase in business traffic and new subscriptions, reduced defects by 90%
• Recruited to implement Scrum framework across all functional departments and manage the E-Commerce, Applications Development and ERP Scrum Teams.
• Worked with API's, Ruby/RoR, and Java

• Reduced time-to-market by 75%, reduced defects by 80%, Delivered over 5Billion in measurable value through integration and merger with H&R block
• Recruited to drive Agile transformation in software development department. Led the Scrum teams for Web Applications, SharePoint, and Salesforce.
• Managed the H&R block merger and acquisition project, integrating existing customers and consolidating across all business lines, grew assets under management by $5Billion and enrolled 370,000 clients.
• Led teams that brought 2 products to market and dozens of internal projects in SharePoint and salesforce.
• Utilized API's,.NET, and Java

Manhattan Beach, CA, US

• Recruited to drive Agile Transformation and Scrum framework implementation.
• Implemented, coached and mentored 5 scrum teams including product owners, scrum masters and stakeholders.
• Successfully brought 3 products to market in a fully SaaS/AWS environment.
• Worked with API's and Java

Carlsbad, California, US

• Recruited to implement and drive Scrum framework across multiple scrum teams.
• Brought 2 software applications to market.
• Implemented Enviance ERP, Dynamic ERP and NetSuite ERP.
• Worked with API's and.NET

New York, NY, US

Falls Church, VA, US

Introduced Scrum methodology and an Agile framework at AMSEC, a Northrop Grumman shipbuilding division.Led the project team in the development of the Special Warfare Automated Logistics Information System, a custom-designed asset tracking system for Special Warfare Units.Integrated with SAP.

Washington, DC, US

Mba, Finance, General

Bachelor’S Degree, Information Technology Project Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer And Information Sciences And Support Services