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Enterprise transformation through theory informed complexity and systems thinking practices.Today's organizations desperately require modernization, both in their technology as well as their management practices. The era of resource management and control is giving way to corporate resilience, sustainability, and motivated employees whose personal vision aligns with their organization.For corporate strategy, the means is far more important than our outdated reliance on predictability. Teaching organizations to keep pace through adaptation and sense and respond mechanisms are critical survival tools, and a necessity to remain relevant in today's economy.

iterationZERO recognizes that quality starts at the beginning of any project. When you consider how quality directly corelates to business value you recognize the importance of starting each endeavour on the right foot, with the right sponsorship, a motivated team of professionals, a great start-up architecture, and a backlog of inspiring ideas that represents our best guess of what users want at any point in time.iterationZERO was conceived from the frustrations most teams feel while trying to adopt Agile practices anywhere within the spectrum between small and large distributed teams. It also recognizes that Agile must operate within it's own principles, and be willing to redefine itself to continuously meet the unique needs of the team and the project. The acceptance criteria for this transformation is to test the changes against the core values and principles at all times. Great people build great software. Do not hesitate to contact me with your Agile adoption horror stories and struggles, because as a Development Execution Manager and Agile Leader for almost 2 decades, there is very little that i have not seen in practice. This experience allows me to enact pragmatic solutions that help your Agile teams immediately become more efficient and productive.*Helping organizations cross the Agile Transformation Barrier*Expert in introducing, mentoring and galvanizing Agile Management and Development practices for teams struggling to adopt them*Over 10 years of experience successfully building and leading Agile teams from small scrum teams to larger multi-national distributed teams

Blueprint is an enterprise agile requirements management software platform. The addition of Storyteller now provides seamless traceability between requirements and the tests that drive them through an organization’s Continuous Delivery pipeline.Led the R&D department of ~50 software professionals through a successful Agile transformation and dramatically improved productivity by 70% in the first year. *Architected and deployed Blueprint's Organizational Agile software development practices. Reduced legacy release cycle from twice yearly to as quickly as a few weeks if needed.*Successfully integrated fully cross-functional and autonomous feature teams that included Dev, DevOps, QA, UX, and Product Ownership.*Introduced Communities of Practice to foster knowledge capture and learning within core disciplines of software development. Practices such as code quality, devops, qa, test automation, and kanban, greatly increased the organization’s collective skills and assisted in promoting a culture of learning.*Introduced a career modeling and craftsmanship guide for all software professionals on the team. This career guide established key skills and behaviours expected from individuals and teams on the road towards mastery. The core competencies covered are Technical Domain Knowledge, Agile Maturity, and Professionalism.*Led the organization towards greater maturity in their Scrum practices, followed by an introduction of Lean principles and the application of Kanban to all execution teams.Introduced and matured core Agile Development Practices within the department.*In collaboration with DevOps (Reza Azar), achieved 100% automation for both the Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery pipelines in AWS within 8 months. *Helped to catalyze a strong culture of code craftsmanship, and achieved 90% test automation across a combination of unit, integration and end-to-end tests in the first year.

*Delivered to market a cutting edge Cloud backed (AWS) ecosystem of photo sharing cross-platform applications that finds pictures of you across all of your friends' online albums and devices (Mobile, Web, Facebook and PC). http://www.mefinderapp.com*Led an organization of ~20 software professionals through a successful Agile transformation and dramatically improved the team's productivity within the first 6 months of adoption. Successfully integrated a fully cross-functional approach that included DevOps, QA, and Product Ownership.*Introduced Agile Development Practices to the team, and together with DevOps (Martin Ryalen), achieved 100% automation for both the Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines within 3 months. *Nurtured a strong culture of code craftsmanship amongst a team of developers that had never been exposed to unit or integration testing. With the collaboration of Agile QA (Misha Rybalov) we achieved an average of 80%+ relevant code coverage across all projects within the first 6 months.*Introduced an Agile Career Pathing matrix - a framework for assessing the adoption of Agile Values & Principles across a team. This tool promotes a culture of learning and professionalism by giving everyone a personal set of goals to encourage individual growth and to help them align these to the goals of the team. The core competencies covered are Business Domain Knowledge, Technical Domain Knowledge, Agile Maturity, and Professionalism.*Architected and deployed Continuous Integration pipeline (Jenkins). DevOps did all the deployment magic with Puppet and boto.*Managed the provisioning and submission process of our mobile apps to iTunes Connect.*Researched various product APIs to help Product Owners understand how to modify or integrate new User Experiences within the apps.*Introduced and trained team how to employ Git source code management practices, and Branching rhythms (GitFlow) to facilitate team-wide collaboration.

Web Development Manager (November, 2012 - August 2013)*Reinvigorated adoption of Agile Development and Project Management best practices across the Kobo web team.*Facilitated a culture of code craftsmanship, quality, and professionalism to quickly transform the culture within the team, and the inter-relationships between teams.*Architected and deployed the Agile Management software tools across the entire Engineering department (distributed across multiple geo locations).*Successfully delivered a highly scalable and responsive User Web Store Experience across multiple client platforms for all Kobo customers.HTML5 Team Lead (June, 2012 - November, 2012)*Led distributed team of ~20 development and qa professionals on a cross-platform HTML5 Kobo Reader project targeting all browsers and the Windows 8 launch.*Successfully introduced and matured Agile Practices of Iterative and Test Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Functional Test Automation, and Scrum Management.*Facilitated and workshopped sessions on Principles of Agile Development, guiding the team towards the definition of Code Craftsmanship.

*Team Building. Built a new client development team, and guided them towards self empowerment, scrum/agile maturity, and delivery focus. I'm extremely proud of this team and the success they have been able to achieve on their own.*Scrum Adoption. Introduced mobile client development team to Scrum principles and rhythms, and guided them towards greater process maturity and team productivity.*Agile Adoption. Introduced and galvanized Agile development best practices into the client team culture. *Delivery. Successfully delivered feature enhancements on existing client platforms (BlackBerry and Android) for award winning mobile applications.*New Development. Successfully launched a new cross platform architecture that will greatly enhance reusability and maintainability across all major mobile platforms.

* Led teams that built the next generation Logitech products out of the newly formed Digital Home Group. These products generated over 100 million dollars in profits over the last 2 years of market presence.* Developed a World Class development team. I promoted, developed, and supported enterprise Agile development practices, which had a direct and measurable impact to quality, increase in developer productivity and higher team velocities.* Introduced a robust test automation framework to provide necessary and critical coverage of business rules. This investment in automation was largely responsible for minimizing future development costs.* Carefully incubated careers by empowering each team member with a strong sense of pride in their craftsmanship and encouraging them to continually challenge their own goals and expectations. Each team member has achieved great personal success and has formed the technical leadership of the company.* Introduced and Evangelized successful Agile and Scrum best practices in DHG. Logitech used this success as a template to distribute and replicate throughout the entire organization.* Created a model for Enterprise scale distributed development within the Scrum methodology. This was achieved by promoting fully cross-functional teams that autonomously developed products under a disciplined program of technology and process governance.* Successfully Integrated the QA role within the Agile development process through governance practices, automation, and the definition of done.

* Interviewed and trained a team of highly skilled and motivated game software developers on a large J2EE/C++ replatforming project.* Managed an extended team of 25 project professionals throughout all stages of the game development lifecycle, and carefully managed their career development through proactive management, reviews, and daily mentoring* Implemented and Trained AGILE methodology and best practices to the project team.* Coordinated with 3rd party solution providers to establish, monitor and track the 1.5 year long project ($17M budget). At its peak the project carried 150 individuals.* Architected and implemented the corporate build management framework. This framework facilitated nightly, custom and continuous integration builds.* Purchased and engineered the process for the project management tool, and aligned it closely to the AGILE iterative methodology and its practices.

* Managed a team of 15 development, QA and database professionals throughout all stages of the development lifecycle.* Built and enforced all development, QA and release management best practices and processes utilizing the MSF for AGILE framework.* Deployed an architecture-first approach to building software, achieving a high level of code reusability and supportability through code generation techniques.* Managed offshore performance testing team to create a comprehensive load, scalability, and endurance test plan.

* Introduced SDLC best practices and quickly achieved market recognition for highly stable and reliable software.* Built a strong team culture around the timely delivery of quality software.* Architected, developed, and delivered industry leading Lease Administration desktop application.* Implemented effective database and source code version control processes.* Negotiated successful release management process with Professional Services organization.* Project managed all phases of the SDLC on all development, maintenance, and R&D projects.* Successfully applied for and acquired government funds from the Science Research and Experimental Development (SR&D) program.* Prepared and monitored development department’s budgets.

* Designed and Developed the database schema, and a real-time XML importer (VB 6.0) that dynamically updated the content delivery for Partner promotional material.* Designed and developed a real-time traffic data importer (VB 6.0) which allowed users to pick appropriate routes with updated and accurate traffic information.* Supervised a team of 5 individuals throughout all project phases using the Rational Unified Process methodology.* Influenced project team to select the DNA (Distributed internet Architecture) n-tier architectural pattern for all development.* Designed and implemented templates to facilitate reusable and modular ASP development.* Designed and built site mapping functionality and interfaces into middle-tier components (VBScript interfaces to MTS mapping components).* Designed and implemented the error handling and logging architectures for all middle tier and database services (IIS, MTS, and SQL Server).

* Developed instrumentation strategy for gathering and analyzing performance, capacity and load balancing statistics across middle tier components (COM, COMTI, ASP) on IIS and MTS servers.* Designed, built and tested Technology Architectural services such as state management, error handling, security, network, presentation services and IIS/MTS configuration.* Designed and built a proof of concept application for executive sponsorship presentations using emerging Microsoft technologies (ASP/IIS, COM/MTS). Managed a team of 2 developers.