Perry Riggs Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Working with the Responsible AI Governance Working Group on establishing the policies, processes and capabilities by which we govern the adoption of AI within Edward Jones.

St. Louis, Mo, Us

Accountable for driving the adoption of lean portfolio management (LPM) within the firm PMO. Developed training, adoption approach, epic governance processes, system of meetings and value metrics. Leading the transition from waterfall to LPM.• Leading the adoption of Lean Portfolio Management for the Firm PMO across 20+ portfolios and $800M in spend• Trained the Firm PMO staff on LPM practices and led the transition to lean practices for evaluating and sequencing work.• Led design of 2023 planning process adopting Epic Hypothesis Statements and Lean Business Case to validate strategic alignment.• Led utilization of Weighted Shortest Job First (2023) sequencing methodology for 190+ candidate epics in 2023 planning. • Introducing rolling wave planning to replace annual planning process

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Accountable for delivery excellence through the application of ideas and practices from Lean, Agile, SAFe, and Organizational Change Management. • Established metrics for efficiency, planning effectiveness, and performance.• Functioned as Release Train Engineer for Two ARTS consisting of thirteen teams and 150 people.• Utilization improved 22%, Velocity 10%, and predictability 19% in first PI.• Trained leadership on SAFe practices resulting in better alignment on portfolio priorities and a 50% improvement in accepted plans in second PI planning event.• Transformed portfolio management by increasing transparency on performance, team dependencies, and business priorities.

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, De

Accountable for Agile transformation methodology utilized with DB product teams for improving Value and Flow across their end to end value streams. Agile coach on multiple transformation engagements. Trainer for internal courses across East Coast of United States.• Developed frameworks for most common Agile transformation use cases, Waterfall to Agile, Agile Good to Great, Zero to Agile (New program initiation), and developed collateral to support lean sig sigma Value Stream Mapping events. • Developed internal client engagement process for prioritizing, tracking and measuring the impact of Agile adoption.• Developed Agile Community of Practice for Cary Tech Center. Utilized Agile techniques to define Vision and Goals across membership.

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, De

Accountable for portfolio of Big Data engineering projects across Global Technology Operations. Responsibilities include vision, strategy, engineering, operations, internal client engagement, program management and delivery of services. As Product Owner I:• Developed the Big Data Engineering team, organization design, operating model, vision, strategy, product engineering methodology• Delivered a PaaS for Hadoop. €20M budget, 28 resources, 1,100 servers, 30PB storage• Delivered a 50% cost reduction for Hadoop compared to bespoke implementations• Developed processes for Product Evaluation/Selection, Platform Engineering, Feature Prioritization, Client Onboarding, Cluster Capacity Management, and Cost Modeling

Frankfurt Am Main, Hessen, De

Accountable for the adoption of Agile practices for multiple project teams in the data domain, a center of excellence for data engineering. • Scrum master for multiple project teams building Data warehouses, Operational Data Stores, and Enterprise Data Vault.• Led scrum ceremonies, standup, backlog refinement, sprint review, retrospectives. Led visioning and release planning with team leads.• Mentored project managers converting to Scrum.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Program manager over multiple projects with RBC transformation program. Wires, e-Statements, Remote Deposit Capture, Stood up wire operations for new online RBC bank after acquisition by PNC.Managed several small IT projects with PNC after acquisition.

IT Transformation Program Manager. Developing and maturing the fundamental capabilities to support the transition to a more agile organization. Leading 8 integrated work streams that impact all aspects and processes within IT. Combines Lean Six sigma, design thinking with large scale program management.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Established Data Governance Council and developed logical data model for Red Hat business transformation for lead to renew value chain.

Raleigh, Nc, Us

Responsible for developing PMO, developing processes and governance for IT.

Armonk, New York, Ny, Us

Responsible for Intranet site that delivered sales collateral to SWG sales force, also included pre sales technical support knowledge base

Ms, Computer Science

Bs, Computer Science

Ba, English Literature