Michele Hochheiser Email & Phone Number

Munich, De

Transformation Leader and Coach providing guidance to business partners and project teams. Delivering a continuous flow of value by aligning the strategy to the vision and embracing a business agility mindset. Oversight of 16 Agile teams supporting 15,000+ users with 97% customer satisfaction and project managers of 3 large scale traditional, successful global initiatives.Promotes the Agile mindset and acts as an effective change agent for Agile teams to improve the effectiveness of development and business efforts by facilitating improved Agile adoption and maturity across the enterprise.Works to help transform an entire portfolio by observing, evaluating, and implementing changes to solve organizational and cultural impediments.Develops strategies to enable the agile transformation of a program or a portfolio while implementing best practices.Coach and mentor teams, Scrum Masters as needed, in lean-Agile mindset and practices empowering the teams to deliver business value early and often.On an organizational level, promotes an Agile mindset, and supports Agile chapter in Agile adoption and implementations.Practices servant leadership focusing on the needs of the team and those they serve, with the goal of achieving results in line with the organizations values, principles, and business objectives.Acts as mentor, teacher, trainer or coach to teams, Product Owners and Scrum Masters helping to develop an Agile mindset, and business value.Helps teams manage and optimize the flow of value across multiple teams using various Agile frameworks, tools, and information radiators.Collaborates with other Coaches on developing, aligning and maintaining team standards, performance metrics, tools, and best practices, including working agreements, definition of done, and definition of ready.Participates and promotes a Community of Practice; shares knowledge and experience with Agile Chapter through presentations, discussions, and activities.

Owner of Agile Skills Academy. My passion is bringing out the best in individuals an helping them succeed in their professional journey. As a Certified Team Coach and Path To Educator, I provide several Scrum Alliance certifications to individuals via coaching and validation. Book an individual or corporate program at www.AgileSkillsAcademy.com. Corporate discounts for groups of at least 10 are available.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Hands on mentor/coach charged with transformation, governance, strategic vision, stakeholder engagement, and product delivery. • Facilitates Agile Release Train (ART) at the program increment level for IT applications containing 150+ master features• Acts as chapter lead & improves velocity 23% by coaching teams on SAFe, Kanban, & Scrum during an Agile transformation• Partners with IT leadership, product owner, & business leadership encouraging continuous improvement & collaborationServes as Senior Portfolio Manager responsible for delivering compliance and software-based projects. Maintains responsibility for coordinating technology efforts, strategic direction, and process improvement initiatives across 2 BUs and 3 verticals. •Directed strategies and evaluates auto business line consumer program resulting in $8M projected 3-year revenue•Established community of practitioners to ensure knowledge exchange and standardize practice for 150 employees•Engaged with domestic and international verticals to ensure consistent design and deployment of key tokenization efforts•Modernized data center team utilizing the Agile framework, resulting in 34% faster customer delivery times•Led global rewrite of software to capture and tokenize new Mastercard MII, resulting in protection of $11M annually•Collaborated with security engineers utilizing Lean practices to successfully increase overall productivity by 17%

Toronto, Ontario, Ca

Provided leadership as Portfolio Director managing 21-member cross-functional division responsible for full lifecycle development. Spearheaded IT programs with $33M annual budget supporting multiple high-profile projects spanning over several fiscal years. Coordinated between diverse business partners to oversee data integrity, design, planning, and implementation of enterprise-wide system solutions. Led portfolio to highest tollgate success rate as well as achieving the lowest defect escape rate.

Germantown, Tn, Us

Served as Project Manager overseeing real estate budget for more than 22M square feet. Provided budgeting, forecasting, and analysis of financial results for divisions with high level of complexity from conceptualization through implementation. Identified and remediated process gaps in operations with process managers. Maintained responsibility for developing metrics and KPIs for process measurements. Established relationships and coordinated with multilevel stakeholders, including external stakeholders.

Provided leadership as Business Analyst responsible for gathering business and functional requirements and collaborating with project teams on rule and design definition. Tested new applications & performed BI reporting. Worked with product management team to define product vision. Collaborated with marketing and operations to ensure revenue and customer satisfaction goals were achieved. Represented requirements utilizing alternative views, including analysis models, prototypes, and use case analysis.

Master, Management Information Systems

Bachelor Of Business Administration, Management Information Systems

Bachelor Of Business Administration, Management