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Buffalo, New York, United States

Filling role of RTE for Mobile & Online Banking ART.

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

Alpharetta, Georgia, United States

Embedded Enterprise Agile Coach

Longmont, Colorado, United States

Role: PMO Lead, Enterprise Agile CoachUS, UK, India, Singapore, Europe• Establish Seagate Agile/Value PMO in January 2022.• Cross functional group with the charter to Identify, Capture and share Seagate Engineering and Project Management best practiceso Led a virtual team of ~ 5 people including SPCs and PMPs and collaborated with 8 other SPCS and PMPs across 3 Business units helping 100’s of Seagate employees.o Deep dived Requirements and Feature health to ensure prioritization, usability, and assessment across 21 program backlog priorities each Program Increment. o Launched RTE CoP and brought Agile Perspective into the Seagate PM CoPo Co-Founded Seagate wide process and tool improvement steering committee to ensure efficiency and sharing in parallel improvement efforts.o Established Lean Portfolio Management framework using Jira.o Implemented Systems Engineering Portfolio KANBAN for visualization using Jira Advanced Roadmapso Implemented Seagate Learning Management System to deploy Lean and Agile Training, workshops, and coaching across Seagate. Global footprint in the US, India, and Asia Pacific ~ 350 learners in 12 months in 7 different Agile classeso Directed efforts to identify Leading and Lagging measures to track Flow and Outcomes in product development workflows.o Executed Technology Development Process (TDP) mapping Project Management Methodologies to Agile product development processes across 6 parallel TDPs. $1M Budget• Technologies used: Jira, EazyBI, Advanced Roadmaps, Smartsheets, PI Planning App, MSOffice 365, Sharepoint, MS Teams, Zoom.

Longmont, Colorado, United States

Role: Release Train Engineer, Enterprise Agile Coach and Transformation LeadUS, India• Led a group of 5 SPCs on the Seagate Cloud Systems team to kick off and implement a Seagate Agile Transformation plan to bring together 24 teams across the US and India into an Agile Release Traino Except for the Value Stream mapping we did in Feb’20, the transformation was all done remotely using Webex Training Center, PI Planning Apps, and other remote collaboration tools.• Initiated the formation of the Agile Change Agents team collaborating closely with the Executive leadership to identify the initial set of 4 trusted agents. • Led a group of 4 SPCs on the Seagate Cloud Systems team to kick off and implement a Seagate Agile Transformation plan to bring together 24 teams across the US and India into an Agile Release Train. There 243 agilest in the transformation.o I Provided coaching and mentoring for 8 Product Managers in Agile ceremonies, cadences, and metrics. o I worked 1on1 with the 24 Agile team Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and team members on Agile principles and generating team level metrics.• I led the ART leadership in a DevOps transformation. Identified current state, future state, and growth initiative plan to get us to the future state. 21 growth initiatives identified.• In June ’20 we partnered with Agility Health to create a customized Agile Maturation Health Radar and Assessment. We built a Health Radar with 4 dimensions and 36 attributes. 15 Growth Initiatives identified.• Technologies used: Jira, EazyBI, Advanced Roadmaps, Smartsheets, PI Planning App, MSOffice 365, Sharepoint, MS Teams, Zoom.

Longmont, Co

Program Manager on Enterprise SSD core team. Working to integrate Lean-Agile processes on top of existing waterfall methodology. Coached the team through the efforts to execute the Agile Implementation Plan.Worked with 3 others SPCs to role out the Agile role based training for ~250 students across 2 sites in the US and 1 in India.Coached the ART leadership through planning to build the Agile teams and run 2 Program Increment planning events that launched four ARTs.Coaching the Agile Release Train. - Providing 1 on1 coaching for Release Train Engineers and guidance on deriving ART metrics - Coaching for Product Managers specifically on refining the feature backlog - Coaching Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Team members on ART ceremonies and cadencesGuiding the ART leadership on Agile metrics

Marlborough, Ma

• Our NVMe product transitioned from traditional waterfall NPI to SAFe AGILE. I worked as an AGILE Change Agent (ACA) to ensure successful Program Increment planning and standups of Agile Release Trains (ARTs). • As an ACA I helped bridge the Waterfall process to the Agile methodology. • I also filled the role of Scrum Master on one of the Product Owners teams responsible for end to end validation of the drive HW and FW.

Marlborough, Ma

I was responsible for Product Life Cycle Management. This included management of the introduction of new products from development conception through customer qualification and EOL management.I was responsible to ensure we adhered to the allotted Budget by closely monitoring the team spend rate on drive hardware and ensuring Development drive hardware builds were minimized and tracked component recovery post qualification. I managed a drive usage against a budget of ~$3MI was responsible to facilitate continuous process improvement with the team via regular Lessons Learned reviews and ensured they were part of the future program pre- mortems.I worked with the Core Team lead to facilitate crisis management methodology, execute and track program slip recovery.

Marlborough, Massachusetts, United States

MRD & PRD approval, change management, product tradeoffs decisionsDrive IDB phase gate reviews (except Phase 0), phase gate reviews, FW releasesResource management within swim-lanesCustomer issue management and prioritizationProvides weekly program statusFacilitates weekly engineering reviews with functional managers for all programsReview progress against committed product requirements, adherence to schedules and resources; expose and resolve variancesCoordinate, synchronize and manage overall project schedules and monitor resource requirements (i.e., develop and manage integrated project plan)Facilitate collection of data required to make risk decisionsEnsure timely resolution of Product Line Core Team,PLCT, action itemsDrive timely resolution of customer escalationsCoordinate preparation and presentation for PLCT meetings, including agenda items and documenting meeting minutesMaintain PLCT communication portals with timely and accurate information (e.g., Sprocket, SharePoint, Allegro, etc.)Manage the product lifecycle process and ensure complianceCoordinate Phase Reviews and initiate interim Phase Reviews as requiredEnsure phase checklist complianceProvide enterprise-wide product development status information at weekly meetingPublish monthly metrics on actual performance to commitments through scorecards

Tennile, Ga

In this role I was the lead of a global virtual team. I act through cross functional relationships with IBM brands (System X, Power, Entry Midrange Storage, and DS8000) to leverage work and minimize the effort to deliver common drives. My collaboration with Procurement, Commercial, Development, and Manufacturing groups was essential to ensure the earliest time to market with highest quality for our Storage Brand drive programs. A significant part of this role was working with our drive venders, Seagate, HGST, Toshiba, Intel, Micron, Sandisk and Western Digital, as well as our OEM partners, Celestica, Xyratex, LSI and Netapp.I took the Development Core Team Lead role at the end of 2011 in the midst of the Thailand floods that impacted 2.5” and 3.5” drive vender supply. I was able to hit the ground running and engage teams in Israel, Hursley, Tucson, and Guadalajara to expedite drive certifications for alternate source venders to enable the commercial team and procurement to bridge the supply gap.Since then, I have built strong relationships with our teams worldwide and have demonstrated my ability to work with divisions outside of development to create and execute the HDD/SSD Integration strategy for IBM Storage brand.

Rtp, Nc

I interfaced between IBM Storage development engineering and our OEM partner LSI to build our HDD and SSD roadmaps for the Entry and midrange DASD Storage Products. I was responsible for the end to end requirements to integrate the HDDs and SSDs as planned - Classical Testing, Integration test, Compliance Test, Emissions etc. Additional I interlocked with Marketing, Sales and Procurements on time to market requirements, cost reduction, and schedule. This roll gave me skill sets in working with teams external to IBM and closing IBM specific requirements while balancing them against the OEM vender's internal roadmap of deliverables for other customers.

Tucson, Az

I work with test engineering at IBM from April 2001 to December 2006. I have a strong technical back ground in quality assurance built off my experience as the Test Architect for IBM Tape Storage and Drive Integration engineer for IBM Disk storage from 2001 to 2012.As a test architect I was brought in on customer calls to work through configuration issues and help build recreate test stands for debug. These customer interactions gave me insight to how narrow our test efforts actual were and prompted me to spend time at the Tucson Customer Briefing center to bring customer perspective back to our test labs and enable customer like testing with our Independent Software vender products for managing storage in addition to our in house developed product stress suites.

Pearl Harbor, Hi

I owe the leadership skills I have to day to my time in the US Navy.I left as a Petty Officer 2nd class and through the 10 years in the Navy I learned how to be a follower and leader on a team.Either as a member of the Combat Information Center and supporting the mission goals or as a member of the fire control party beating fires on cargo ships I learned situational awareness and how to contribute to a highly functional team to achieve the mission objectives.