Michael Wallace Email & Phone Number

Columbus, OH, US

Columbus, Ohio Area

Assisting in the agile transformation at various organizations. Helping development teams and their leaders become more agile thru coaching and training.

Columbus, Ohio Area

I am one of only 350 Scrum trainers in the world that have passed strict qualifications to teach 10 different Scrum courses at Scrum.org. This organization was established by the co-creator of the Scrum framework. As a trainer, I help students understand Scrum and how they can use the framework and values to improve their teams and organizations.

Columbus, Ohio, United States

I am one of approximately 70 trainers in the world licensed by ProKanban.org to teach the official Applying Profession Kanban curriculum. As a trainer, I help students understand how Kanban can help improve their workflow and provide value quicker to their customers.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Led a team of Agile Coaches supporting over 35 teams in the US and India. Created and delivered team and leadership workshops both domestically and internationally.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Member of the Cardinal Agile Advisory Services (AAS) team, helping our clients learn how to adopt and integrate Agile methods into their delivery systems.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

Promoted to lead a team of approximately 75 software developers supporting various areas of the bank in the Nashville Business Solutions Center. Provide leadership and support for our software development process and well as coaching of the ScrumMasters for the individual Scrum teams.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

ScrumMaster for two Java development teams as well as Scrum Coach for two additional teams located in both Nashville and New Jersey. As ScrumMaster I worked with the teams to help them become more effective and self-managed, increasing their velocity as we learned to work better as distributed teams. Provided group and individual training on Scrum and.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

Scrum Master/business analyst with the FacilitiGroup division of HCA, working to enhance existing applications and to develop leading edge web and mobile applications for managing HCA-owned facilities.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• I led a team of business analysts, project managers and developers supporting the clinical and coding applications for Cigna-HealthSpring.
• Modified the processing of HMRs to improve quality and reduce cycle time by 25%.
• Managed all aspects of the application development lifecycle, including systems analysis, design, development, deployment, maintenance, and enhancements.
• Approved proposed project plans and application designs to ensure projects are aligned with standards and IT strategy.
• Determined user requirements, lead application design, plan projects, establish priorities and monitor progress.
• Ensured projects are completed within time and budgetary commitments, and integrated with other related projects or system releases.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

• Managed a team of twenty software developers supporting the enrollment and eligibility applications for TennCare. TennCare is the State of Tennessee's Medicaid program that provides health care for 1.2 million.
• Introduced Agile (Kanban) practices to successfully deliver high-value projects with extremely tight deadlines.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

Worked as a liaison among stakeholders in order to elicit, analyze, communicate and validate requirements for changes to business processes, policies and information systems. Organized project planning in order to achieve project goals within scope, time, and budget. Ensured that teams followed standard development and documentation processes. Mentored.

Chattanooga, Tennessee Area

• Responsible for managing and developing the software services practice, focused on SharePoint and.NET. Accountable for project delivery, customer relations, and business plan and budget for the practice. Brought.
• Brought several out-of-control projects to a successful conclusion.
• Implemented Agile (Scrum) development practices.
• Developed web strategy and managed the development of the website for a member services organization that serves the utility industry.
• Designed and managed the development of a SharePoint-based application for managing legal contracts for a large hospital system.
• Managed the development of a data management process for a hospital billing organization.

• Responsible for managing and developing the application development practice of one of the top business intelligence and software development consulting firms in central Ohio. Responsible for project delivery, customer.
• Improved business processes at strategic accounts by implementing business intelligence technologies.
• Successfully merged two separate software development teams.
• Managed several application development projects to a successful conclusion.
• Created a new business intelligence practice centered on delivering Microsoft-based solutions to augment the existing BusinessObjects practice.
• Developed and implemented marketing strategies for expanding reach into existing accounts as well as developing new customer opportunities.

Columbus, Ohio Area

Taught several different IT and business evening courses, most recently the MBA Capstone class at the Columbus campuses.

• Responsible for managing and developing the application development practice of one of the top training and consulting firms in central Ohio. Practice specialized in Internet, client/server and.NET applications.
• Managed several application development projects to a successful conclusion.
• Initiated and facilitated the selling of the training and application development practices to allow the organization to focus on providing network support services.
• Led the design and development of an audiometric services application.
• As Partner provided oversight and direction to the Sales, Marketing and Operations managers

• Responsible for managing and developing the application development practice of the oldest and preeminent training firm in central Ohio. Practice specializes in Internet, client/server and.NET applications development..
• Developed statewide information systems policies for the state of Ohio.
• Managed the development of a web-based application for state agencies IT plan updates.

• Responsible for managing a division of a $20M Columbus-based computer consulting company. Division specialized in Internet, client/server and wearable applications development. Responsible for product development.
• Developed processes for project tracking and accounting, scope and issues management, resource planning and forecasting, time tracking, budget management and status reporting to clients at various levels. Helped create.
• Provided oversight and direction to the practice leads within the division.
• Created a development team that in two years moved from a Level 1 to a Level 3 organization as defined by the Software Engineering Institute Capability Maturity Model for Software Development.
• Saved a regional financial services firm over $100K per year by improving management of outsourced technology processes.
• Managed the development of several custom software applications for various clients.

• Founded organization that grew into 2 separate businesses with a dozen employees. Managed the financial aspects of the company, as well as performing technical, marketing and sales functions. Merged operations with ICC.
• Developed numerous shop floor applications for a large truck manufacturer for collecting data, operating robots and testing applications.
• Designed and developed a member and product tracking system for a major organic crop certification organization.
• Identified for the City of Delaware opportunities for improvement in the IT department.
• Worked with a local non-profit agency to reorganize their IT department.
• Provided strategy and project management leadership to a leading provider of learning management software.

Masters, Business Administration

Cohort 1 of the Executive MBA program

Bs, Management Science

Graduated magna cum laude.

Ab, Computer Programming