Matthew Philip Email & Phone Number

Austin, Tx, Us

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Saint Louis, Mo, Us

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

Working across the Print Software Platform organization, I help lead our Agile Coaching Office and business-agility transformation for value streams spanning software, firmware and hardware organizations, covering multiple geographies and technologies. • Coach, train and mentor product managers and technical leaders• Lead value-stream identification and mapping workshops• Lead the ways-of-working transformation for the home-printer business unit• Coach senior leaders across functional areas (software, firmware, hardware) in fostering psychological safety and strategic improvements in order to improve delivery predictability, reduce delivery time and increase customer satisfaction

New York, New York, Us

As a senior leader of the Agile Center of Excellence, I am accountable for the strategic direction of and responsible for effectiveness across enterprise-wide digital initiatives using agile and continuous-improvement methods.• Coach and mentor teams, executives, key team roles (e.g., product managers and owners, scrum masters) and stakeholders on agile principles, practices, and frameworks to foster an environment of collaboration, empowerment and innovation, enabling teams to deliver high-quality products and services more effectively• Assess current state: Assess existing processes, culture and practices to identify opportunities for agile transformation• Co-create transformation strategy: Develop and execute a comprehensive agile transformation strategy tailored to the organization's needs and objectives• Design and deliver training and workshops: Design and deliver in-person/hybrid/remote training sessions and workshops to educate leaders and teams on topics such as psychological safety, experiment mindset and intent-based leadership• Design team and organization: Guide teams in selecting and implementing appropriate agile frameworks and ensure alignment with the organization's needs• Co-create metrics: Co-create with teams and leadership success metrics (e.g., OKRs) to measure the success of new ways of working and product/service fitness-for-purpose for senior management and stakeholders• Support change management: Support organizational change by collaborating with leadership to promote agile values, principles and practices• Foster continuous improvement/kaizen: Foster a culture of continuous improvement by encouraging experimentation, learning and adapting through feedback and reflective-improvement loops• Partner with Product Management organization to build capability among product roles and coaches• Lead a team of coaches and the Pfizer Coach Chapter• Direct and establish curriculum and design for the Pfizer Coaching Academy

Redmond, Wa, Us

I led organizational-transformation engagements, primarily serving as program coach in scaled agile environments. • Implemented business-oriented success measurements and KPIs to guide clients toward value outcomes• Co-led “project-to-product” initiative to evolve 12,000-person IT division toward product-orientation• Co-created contextually-appropriate, lightweight and resilient structures to allow client organizations to scalably build competencies and coordinate larger-size delivery efforts• Served as guide/coach/mentor to client Release-Train Engineers (RTEs) in scaled environments• Trained through interactive workshops all levels of stakeholders, including delivery team, senior leaders and executives, on agile values, principles and practices• Created open-source self-paced learning pathways and competency models for agile team leads and coaches

St. Louis, Missouri, Us

I oversaw and supported all aspects of service delivery to clients and acted as servant leader for the organization's agile engineering leads (team leaders).• Collaborated with business development/account managers on pursuits to understand and translate customer needs into implementable business solutions expressed as proposals and statements of work• Ensured that appropriate staff were prepared, engagements were staffed for success, and delivery met operational, contractual, and outcome commitments• Managed financial forecasts and staff-utilization targets and thresholds• Developed and delivered methodology/delivery-model presentations to various levels of stakeholders and leaders• Guided monthly client service-delivery reviews to elicit, assess, and improve delivery fitness for purpose• Coached and mentored team leads in the context of a psychologically safe environment to enable their personal and career growth

Chicago, Il, Us

Playing roles of transformation lead, change agent and organization designer, I was a member of a group whose goals were to reduce delivery risk, increase team confidence and facilitate capability building in teams as organizations aligned toward value-driven portfolios.

Chicago, Il, Us

I served in a global leadership team whose goals were to increase the organization’s leaders’ ability to manage and strategically build capability across the organization.• Set organization-wide learning strategy to build capability at scale to meet business supply-and-demand• Stewarded the right people, metrics, business processes and tools to align employees’ career paths to the organization's business goals and tech strategy

This organization invited me to return in order to establish its agile coaching practice, which was aimed internally at equipping delivery teams and externally for clients seeking enablement of their own work. I enabled the effectiveness of agile teams throughout the organization and coached the coaches.• Designed and led successful and sustainable enablement engagement for one of the world's largest music distributors, integrating various delivery practices into a globally-distributed scaled agile program for their digital supply chain• Developed and administered agile team maturity assessments and implemented and directed subsequent coaching plans, including transformation strategies and road maps• Established organizational coaching philosophy and engagement framework and coach professional-development program• Partnered with senior leadership and operations to strategically direct organizational coaching capability• Facilitated and mentored others in launching and facilitating continuous-learning opportunities, such as Lean Coffee meetings and Open-Space events• Hired and mentored coaches throughout the organization• Led onsite client-transformation engagements, which included assessments, training/workshops and in-person and remote coaching• Prepared role transitioners and new hires through role-specific learning programs (Scrum Masters, Product Owners, PMO, QA)• Created lightweight project-launch guidelines and support materials to allow other coaches to scalably support new engagements

During the first part of my role as director of coaching, I enabled professional development of the organization's employees by facilitating cross-functional leadership and partnership.• Established communities of practice ("guilds") and trained leaders ("stewards") in order to scalably build organizational capability and improve employee experience and provide growth opportunities, resulting in better engagement and retention• Restructured performance-review process to better align with organizational culture and improve organizational performance• Co-created individual professional-development plans• Co-developed “learning teams” to quickly onboard new hires and upskill existing hires, enabling faster time-to-productivity

Chicago, Il, Us

Moving into professional services, I played various roles (Agile Coach, Learning and Development Architect, Quality Advocate) to enable our consultants (supporting new offices and new hires) as well as clients around the world through bespoke training, coaching and delivery engagements.• Designed and led engagement for the first-ever implementation of ThoughtWorks University for a client (Samsung), one of the first dedicated agile-at-scale trainings in South Korea

Chicago, Il, Us

Responsible for helping teams learn to implement Agile in practice through training and coaching in best practices and world-class tools... Provide thought leadership and help craft content harvesting the best bits of what is happening throughout the business and in the world beyond it... Help teams implement Agile and Lean in the context of software engineering, including but not limited to the core Extreme Programming (XP) practices of Test-Driven Design (TDD), Refactoring, and Continuous Integration.* Coach, ThoughtWorks University (2012)

Chicago, Il, Us

I initially joined ThoughtWorks Studios, the organization's product division, to design and facilitate training for their agile-lifecycle management products (Mingle, Twist, Go). Responding to customer/market demand, this quickly expanded into a global agile-practices training and coaching group, and I was promoted to Workshops Product Manager and expanded the portfolio of offerings.

Agile Coach, QA Lead and Tester