Currently serving as the Chief Strategy & Transformation Officer at Cornerstone Agility Inc. - Parker's focus is on providing clients with best in class transformation coaching, training and support to his clients. He is currently ranked in the top 1% of public course trainers for Scaled Agile Inc. in the world and loves to bring fun and excitement to any learning environment to help participants and organizations take theory and put into practice what they have learned. Additionally, he has created numerous learning & development focused workshops to help build the needed competencies for people to be successful in their roles.Highly sought after for his unique approach to learning & development, he also serves as a speaker on numerous topics related to Agile & Executive Coaching, Training, Change Management and Transformation needs of organizations.My areas of concentration and experience include:* Process Improvement* Leadership* Organizational Effectiveness & Design* Culture Development & Employee Experience* Leadership & Executive Coaching* Mission, Vision & Values Alignment* Establishing Objectives & Key Results* Enterprise Agile Journeys - this is about more than Software Development!* Waterfall to Agile transition strategies* Agile Tools: Rally, VersionOne, JIRA Agile, TFS, Azure DevOps (ADO)* Agile & Lean Frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, XP, LeSS, FDD, TDD, SAFe* Team Building & Servant Leadership* Gap analysis, process optimization, remediation plans* International partnerships* Staff and technical training* Public speaking & client interfacing

Currently serving as the Chief Learning Officer at Cornerstone Agility Inc. - Parker's focus is on providing clients with best in class transformation coaching, training and support to his clients. He is currently ranked in the top 1% of public course trainers for Scaled Agile Inc. in the world and loves to bring fun and excitement to any learning environment to help participants and organizations take theory and put into practice what they have learned. Additionally, he has created numerous learning & development focused workshops to help build the needed competencies for people to be successful in their roles.Highly sought after for his unique approach to learning & development, he also serves as a speaker on numerous topics related to Agile & Executive Coaching, Training, Change Management and Transformation needs of organizations.My areas of concentration and experience include:* Process Improvement* Leadership* Organizational Effectiveness & Design* Culture Development & Employee Experience* Leadership & Executive Coaching* Mission, Vision & Values Alignment* Establishing Objectives & Key Results* Enterprise Agile Journeys - this is about more than Software Development!* Waterfall to Agile transition strategies* Agile Tools: Rally, VersionOne, JIRA Agile, TFS, Azure DevOps (ADO)* Agile & Lean Frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, XP, LeSS, FDD, TDD, SAFe* Team Building & Servant Leadership* Gap analysis, process optimization, remediation plans* International partnerships* Staff and technical training* Public speaking & client interfacing

With a focus on organization & operational excellence, my objective is in taking your practice beyond theory to design a blueprint for your success. My promise to you is to maintain integrity through accuracy, honesty and trustworthiness with the objective in supporting your transformation while meeting you where you're at on your journey.My coaching approach is simple and transparent. I believe we are all served best with setting clear strategic themes supported by measurable Objectives with key results. I then want to focus on executing to a clear understanding that clear inputs support fact based outputs that we can then deliver value to tangible outcomes to the organization and customer.At Cornerstone Agility Inc. – we know that not every transformation is created and executed the same. We come to you to help your organization work to solve some of the biggest problems standing in your way to delivering value to your customer. Through a targeted partnership with you, your success becomes our success. Our passion is for people and our commitment is to quality delivered value. Our consultants are frequently recognized and regarded as being at the top of the industry.My areas of concentration and experience include:* Process Improvement* Leadership* Organizational Effectiveness & Design* Culture Development & Employee Experience* Leadership & Executive Coaching* Mission, Vision & Values Alignment* Enterprise Agile Journeys - this is about more than Software Development!* Waterfall to Agile transition strategies* Agile Tools: Rally, VersionOne, JIRA Agile, TFS, Azure DevOps (ADO)* Agile & Lean Frameworks: Scrum, Kanban, XP, LeSS, FDD, TDD, SAFe* Team Building & Servant Leadership* Gap analysis, process optimization, remediation plans* International partnerships* Staff and technical training* Public speaking & client interfacing

Independently works and demonstrates expert knowledge of agile principles, practices and frameworks, and exhibits appropriate acumen for coaching area of focus (business/technical).• Coaches teams (portfolio/program/team) in agile methodologies – Scrum/Kanban/SAFe• Coach key agile roles to “become agile” & embrace the agile mindset – Product Owner, Scrum Master, Team & various other Leadership roles• Coach, train & influence lean agile leaders/Executives• Understand & promotes team and partner collaboration to drive corporate strategy• Observe, articulate & radiate local and system level themes to inform and develop coaching backlog for respective areas of focus• Coach to Agile health assessments & KPIs and influence understanding and implementation of new KPIs• Design, promote, and foster an agile culture through coaching activities including encouragement of internal communities of practice and external community groups.• Mentorship of all agile roles & aptitudes

Responsible for coaching and mentoring agile execution, Scrum Masters, Agile Product Owners and executives to leverage agile principles, practices and frameworks in order to deliver high value business capabilities. Subject matter expert on scaling agile development, including the use of scaling frameworks such as Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), LeSS, SPS and others. I embody and embrace servant leadership and display behaviors that come with the key mindset shifts associated with being Agile. • Deliver hands-on coaching to individual teams in all aspects of Scrum and Kanban - daily routines, self-organization, collaboration, iterative development, managing flow, limiting work in progress (wip), etc.• Train & mentor other Agile Coaches.• Coaches Agile Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Agile Teams and Executive Sponsors.• Assist in the creation and delivery of Agile training for both business and IT teams.• Advance best practices for scaling Agile frameworks.• Develop and maintain stakeholder relationships supporting agile product development.• Remain informed about industry trends and best practices concerning Agile methods & frameworks.• Identify opportunities for relentless & continuous operational and team improvements.

• Serve as the Project Services Facilitator for FEL (Front End Loading) Meetings.• Business Case Consulting & Collaboration with Project & Portfolio Managers.• Enablement of Agile/Scrum Framework for project delivery by identifying and creating project suitability guides, business plan templates, coaching and mentoring to project teams for the successful delivery of projects.• Primary lead for all formal IT Leadership Team Project Nominations.• IT Functional Group Primary SAP Security Coordinator.• Serve as the Group SharePoint Administrator.• Collection and reporting on all identified project metrics.• Developing templates, scorecards and trending charts for management reporting of project metrics• Analyzing metric results and identifying areas for continuous improvement • Identifying, documenting and facilitating adoption of industry best practices applied during the project lifecycle • Facilitating the development of strategies, ideas and managing implementation plans for improvements within the Project Services Center of Excellence (CoE) • Assisting in development and delivery of training classes offered by Project Services.• Advising project managers in various aspects of the project lifecycle to meet defined requirements in accordance with best practice processes / frameworks.• Design, develop and administer the Project Management Career Path Program for internal ConocoPhillips employees within Information Technology. This includes identifying PM competencies, current & needed training programs and reporting while serving as an Advisor to those participants in the program.

• Operations Optimization focused on Back office business functionality & process improvement• Organizational Transformation activities to support the Agile mindset and delivery of key business commitments to increase better understanding, transparency and prioritization.• Act as the top-level contributor/specialist in resolving problems.• Manage internal and external resource project assignments.• Coordinate estimation and tracking of development projects and ensure projects are completed on time.• Provide detailed cost/benefit analysis and up-to-date risk factors, as well as operational exposure measures.• Conduct interviews with business users to analyze current operational procedures, identify problems, and document current business process definitions.• Write detailed descriptions of business needs/requirements, program functions, and steps required to develop or modify computer programs.• Identify and recommend areas of process improvements by analyzing industry standards and applying best practices.• Develop gap analysis and recommendations of defined business processes.• Provide detailed workforce analysis as it relates to task-time completion.

• Process completion of pricing control updates and customer portfolio communication for various market channels throughout the organization.• Responsible for improvement procedures to upstream processes for customer contract fulfillment in back office operations.• Management and updating of company document correspondence and uploading to various company systems.

Served as a strategic partner with various departments and operations to engage, teambuild, and recognize the employee's that work for Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group. Major components of this role focused on rebranding strategies for employee recognition & inclusion programs while identifying needed changes for long lasting impact through the employee based Cultural Ambassador program.

Serving as the Voice of the Customer in a strategic role to design, build and deploy technology focused solutions to enhance employee and customer experiences. Over the course of my career at Dollar Thrifty Automotive Group, a Hertz company - my experience spanned the following operational areas of support and influence:• Franchise Field Management & Operations• Corporate field operations & location management• Human Resources coordination, training & development• Executive Operations Administration• IT rental systems development and management• System design, development and implementation strategies• IT System testing and verificationIn this position, I continued to support our field operations while working to manage system development and redesign projects such as:• Introduction of a self service rental system using KIOSK technology.• System redesign, development & implementation of a next generation rental application; ROC (Rent Our Cars)• Introduction and process redesign of our user acceptance testing program – successfully reducing additional cost to the company for such testing.• Upgrade of our fleet maintenance system to Sequel.• Management of current legacy rental systems.• Project Management, Best Practices.• Corporate Operations following Lean Six Sigma Best Practices.• Operations Administration and Management• Project Management and IT Systems Administrator

Responsible for daily Operations for DTAG at Cincinnati/N. Kentucky Int'l Airport. Human Resources and Operations Administration were key area's under my control while managing a staff of 35-45 direct reports.

Public Relations Consultant: Concurrent to other employement from 2002 to 2006, services included: public & media relations, issue advocacy and management, event planning and management, strategic planning, political campaign strategy and management, & campaign and non-profit fundraising.