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Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Purchase, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

In my capacity as an Agile Coach, I played a central role in driving transformative initiatives within Wealth Management. This involved overseeing the initiation of new fleets, consisting of scaled teams of teams, and multiple squads as contributing teams. As part of this initiative, I delivered comprehensive training sessions for Product Owners and Scrum Masters. I conducted workshops focused on story writing and Behavior Driven Development (BDD), establishing guidelines that allowed us to gauge team progress using Lean Agile metrics, ensuring predictability, quality, and optimized workflow. Additionally, I provided strategic guidance to product leadership, emphasizing the measurement of success through outcomes using agreed-upon Organizational Objectives and Key Results (OKR), and fostering a holistic understanding to align the efforts of all contributors beyond individual team outputs.In another capacity, I served as a coach for a chatbot development squad, concentrating on the creation of a platform and models for Natural Language Processing (NLP). This innovative team leveraged the capabilities of AI and Machine Learning (ML) to deliver predictive responses in a conversational mode. My collaboration extended seamlessly to an off-site ontology update team, ensuring accurate hierarchies in the data, thereby enabling the models to operate in a supervised manner with optimal efficiency. This collaborative effort contributed significantly to the success of the chatbot development squad.

Moline, Il, Us

Provided daily coaching for two Scrum teams during the offsite startup whole team dojo, guiding them through a immersive phase of transition and growth. Conducted workshops to solidify Scrum concepts and introduced advanced Lean mindset techniques. Delivered intentional coaching for teams and provided role-based support for Scrum Masters and Product Owners.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

In my role as an Agile Coach, I played a central role in steering the Scrum Master responsibilities for a high-profile redesign and re-implementation of a flagship website, orchestrating its transformation into a dynamic e-commerce platform geared for rapid adaptation and future growth. Additionally, I oversaw the Scrum Master responsibilities for the strategic implementation of a Store Inventory Management system, meticulously planning for its rollout across 900 stores.Furthermore, I led transformation efforts for two DevOps program teams, facilitating their shift towards Agile delivery practices to bolster efficiency and collaboration. Providing mentorship, I ensured a seamless transition for Technical Project Managers into their new roles as Scrum Masters, fostering a smooth adaptation to Agile methodologies.Implementing effective organizational change management strategies, I seamlessly integrated shared services of security and infrastructure into the Scrum team cadence. Actively participating in a comprehensive corporate training program, I contributed to the organization's adaptability to Agile practices. I advocated for and championed the adoption of test automation practices and the use of CI/CD pipelines, effectively streamlining development processes.Navigating tight timelines and a startup culture, I played a pivotal role in contributing to the evolution of newly formed teams into high-performing units. Additionally, I played a key role in Jira configuration, customization, and administration, optimizing project management processes and enhancing overall team productivity.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, In

Served as the Initial Implementation Team Agile Lead for a greenfield regulatory compliance program. Spearheaded a program-level proof of concept transition plan and played a key role in transforming DevOps program teams.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Mentored team members to embrace the Agile mindset, created training materials, and provided strategic guidance for an enterprise transformation.

New York City, Ny, Us

Agile Coaching across the Advance Technology portfolio for projects in transition, currently the Forecast Program, and Scrum Master responsibilities for the Linear Forecast project across all cable and broadcast properties.Created standards for project management processes for newly formed data analytics group. Selection and configuration of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) software for portfolio management. Prepared materials and ran training sessions for developers and managers comparing traditional techniques in project management with Agile showing the benefits of transition.

Noida, Uttar Pradesh, In

Senior Technology Manager engaged in both Consulting Practice and Client program and project management activities. Client projects have included companies such as Pfizer Pharmaceutical, American Family Insurance, and Ann Inc Retailers.

New York, New York, Us

Program manager for 2 Business Intelligence application groups at Pfizer. Senior Technology Manager for HCLA Integrated Services Division (managed services).

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

Project Manager for several initiatives as part of a corporate restructuring program focused on realizing value from consolidating local Business Unit IT services, and transitioning to a Global Services organization. Organized Charter kickoff presentation meetings and facilitated workshops bringing together leads from the Business IT, Global services IT, Finance, HR, Compliance, and the Vendor Management Organization in order to determine current demand, resources, and build out of the consolidated Global Services organization.

Paris, Fr

Directed onshore/offshore development teams for on time delivery for two full lifecycle implementations.Successfully negotiated vendor contract for sofware and support services.Global design and gap analysis to determine workload and time estimates for development object deliverables. Provided performance metrics for consolidated view of cross team deliverables to senior management during regular PMO meetings.

Heerlen, Limburg, Nl

Implemented planning and status requirements as well as development standards and code design reviews to ensure quality and improve turnaround time for user requests.Maintained project plans, reviewed and assigned work assignments to developers.Design and functional specifications for Product Lot Recall system.Hands on technical development of SD and FI user exits and IDOCS required for support Web Based Customer Order Entry system and B2B Invoice. Custom fields and processing were required for IDOC fields and optional segments on the Material Master, Product Catalog, and Customer Master as well as transactional Sales data. Configuration of Partner Profile to perform output type specific logic and final destination of Webmethods.

Blackfriars, London, Gb

Project Manager on Sarbanes Oxley remediation for all North American Sap servers providing compliance for a 15 billion dollar corporate enterprise. Coordinated effort to ensure that we met our 2004 audit remediation point objectives. Championed process and participated in technical design effort to migrate from custom point-to-point interfaces to ALE/IDOC standard. Developed standards for interfaces to completely replace ftp and sftp with ALE for R3 to R3 and IBM Websphere File Connect from and to external sources. This process improvement provided a much more reliable data flow and file status reporting.

Independent SAP ERP consulting for high profile and Fortune 100 companies including Coach Leather, West-Ward Pharmaceutical, Phoenix Marketing (Express Scripts Company), BMW, VNU Media, ABC/Walt Disney, Lucent, Centre Solutions (Zurich Centre Group), Pearson (Simon and Schuster) and Warner Lambert (Pfizer).

Mscs, Computer Science/Management Engineering:

Bs, Major: Psychology Minor: Business Economics