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Worcester, MA, US

Boston, MA, US

Mt Prospect, IL, US

6 Month contract to evolve DFS software delivery capabilities with teams across the US and India - Coaching leadership team on evolving to a Product Organization - Firming up Agile development practices in Engineering - Creating Product Management team and coaching on their new roles. - Introduced Product Roadmapping & Lean Portfolio Management to improve.

Charlestown, Massachusetts, US

• RightHand Robotics is a small startup developing warehouse robots for automated fulfillment centers. I worked across the organization to improve engineering requirements and predictability as well as adopt an Agile.
• Developed new Engineering Philosophy with the Head of Engineering.
• Worked with Product Management to improve collaboration with Engineering.
• Lead design thinking workshops for innovative new offerings.
• Coaching leadership team on delivering small increments of product.
• Scrum Master for Platform & Automation teams.

Houston, Texas, US

• Product Owner and lead Agile Coach for the transformation of a 60 team engineering organization.Optimize full value stream and coach organization toward outcome-oriented thinking. Improve employees’ communication.
• Boosted engineering delivery predictability – say/do ratio – from 40 percent to 110 percent.
• Partnered with engineering VP to coach leadership team, doubling velocity in two months.
• Created successful, in-depth podcast and blog series on Agility and advanced product owner training, fielding questions and assisting Romanian and Brazilian teams for implementation/application.

Palo Alto, California, US

• Initiated Agile practice for cyber security startup. Organized and coached 300 team members in Big Room Planning. Trained Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and engineering leadership. Improved collaboration and enhanced.
• Training and coaching focused on Agile and Growth mindsets, understanding how motivation works and that humanizing work combined with discipline, quality and the right process bring the best outcomes.
• Measuring progress of teams based on health, psychological safety and predictability metrics.
• Coaching & Training Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Engineering Leadership.
• Facilitated design thinking workshops to improve collaboration and create better outcomes.
• Created learning communities and facilitated Open Space meetings.

Houston, Texas, US

• I guided the transformation of a data storage startup. Mentored leadership, teams, and Scrum masters in Agile as a mindset. Advanced collaboration between engineering and product management. Coached HR department on.
• Provided expert leadership evolving the Engineering department’s ability to deliver software from 24 months to 3 months consistently
• Developed Value Stream Maps to identify areas the team could measure and improve
• Agile mindset training & mentoring for Leadership, Teams and Scrum Masters
• Facilitated collaboration between the Engineering & Product Management Organizations through Vision to Backlog via design thinking workshops.
• Scrum Master for Platform & Hypervisor Integration teams

Framingham, MA, US

• Primarily working as an Enterprise Agile Coach who likes to get his hands dirty and stay involved with the teams. I managed a small team of internal Agile consultants working in Staples and its subsidiaries.
• Planning and execution of large-scale Agile transformation for Staples and their Quill subsidiary.
• Manager of a team of Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches.
• Focused on enabling Agility through an inside-out approach: Culture – Structure – Process
• Evolving training materials to be more focused and modular
• Training teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners & Leaders

Framingham, Massachusetts, US

Coaching teams on high profile home entertainment products while working with leadership to enable broader Agile adoption at Bose.

Framingham, MA, US

Creating a sustainable & scalable Lean-Agile framework for Staples. This is realized through an Ecosystem utilizing a lean portfolio release cadence, environment engineering, Scrum & Kanban.Coaching Teams, Scrum Masters, Product owners and Management. Developing and conducting instructional courses designed specifically for Staples needs.

Working towards Enterprise adoption of Agile methodologies at CIDC providing Strategic guidance, Coaching and Training.

Project Manager and Technical Lead for many mission critical projects including:- Evangelized and piloted Scrum development techniques at PNC Global Investment Servicing. This pilot was a huge success, outperforming all other development projects in terms of Cost, Quality, Delivery Dates and User acceptance for at least 5 years.- 13 Month project to merge.