Enterprise Agile Coach
Current• Promoted to positions of increasing authority and responsibility because of strong leadership skills, teamwork, customer service, and overall performance. • Serve as the Scrum Master for one of our delivery teams – coaching the team on Agile principles and facilitating the Scrum meetings (Daily Standup, Sprint Retrospective, Sprint Planning).• Facilitates weekly coaching sessions with the the application development management team to help them understand Agile ways to assist the delivery teams.• Provide individual, one-on-one coaching for three senior executives, two managers, and 16 developers/analysts/quality assurance employees. • Participated in weekly managerial standups with other departments as they began adapting Kanban practices.• Played a key role in the successful adaption of Agile practices into the workflow. • Assisted in the development of a program to implement Enterprise level Agile project management in the organization (currently has formal Project Management).• Selected Information Technology Employee of the Year 2010.• Play a key role on the IT strategic leadership team skillfully providing departmental structure, focus and alignment to support the vision and mission of the company.• Effectively lead a team of professionals responsible for application development and web design to increase organizational efficiency. • Supervised the applications team in all functional activities, including hiring, transferring, promoting, rewarding, directing, disciplining and coaching to ensure all staffing needs were exceeded.• Nominated for and accepted into a leadership training program intended for employees who had the potential to fill positions in upper management.• Collaborated with the Marketing department to effectively create several award-winning websites.• Created, updated and maintained ColdFusion applications for various external and internal credit union websites.