Joining up with a great team and excited about our prospects - together we bring a broad and unique set of experience, skills, and training certifications to support a variety of enterprise agile needs.

- Work with clients in various industries, coaching them on lean thinking and agility. Primary focus on building and developing program and team levels- Provide consulting and training on building and implementing SAFe® Program and Portfolio- Coach management, Product Owners, ScrumMasters, and Scrum teams on business value focus

- Training and coaching business unit as part of an agile transformation

- Worked with CFO organization to identify and align delivery teams with finance value streams- Coached leadership in enablement of business agility- Led development of agility metrics dashboards

Coached agile transformation across the organization. Supported and advised growth and development of lean/agile center of excellence supporting transformation. Coached executives and program leadership in startup and training of multiple strategic programs in record time. Help guide construction of and contribution to internal agile knowledgebase.

Trained and coached start-up, multi-team cloud migration program in the adoption of Scrum/XP and agile scaling practices. Advised and assisted with integration and alignment with external cloud migration contractor. Co-developed Kanban curriculum and advised and assisted with configuration, training, and use of Confluence and Jira boards and dashboards.

Helped organization launch first formal Agile transformation effort. Worked across all levels of the organization to introduce agile concepts and principles: trained and coached multiple teams, while introducing executive leadership to Agile and how to support and enable the transformation. Also provided guidance on changes to portfolio management.

Served as Agile coach and trainer for multiple teams in Omni-channel and Logistics software development, leading up to and during implementation of SAFe and execution of first Agile Release Train (ART). Started and supported communities of practice; created and delivered training in multiple topics associated with agile software delivery.

- Oversee and provide leadership for PMO, Technical Advisor for utilization of Agile methodology when required, and management of 100-150 projects annually with over $3M investment.- Drive daily decision-making, risk management, and problem solving; monitor and facilitate all communication channels, deployment processes and SDLC reporting; develop project charter, budget, SDLC documentation, success criteria and conduct regular presentations to key stakeholders and senior management.Key Achievements:- Established framework for multi-million dollar re-architecture project for web services implementing agile framework and principles with oversight of forecasting and reporting processes.- Re-aligned roles and responsibilities to multiple teams to define and scale the introduction of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) principles.- Leadership for staffing, coaching, and development of key talent for the backbone of three highly effective and successful onshore and offshore Agile teams that served as Core Teams for customer transformation initiative.- Coached other Scrum Masters and facilitated the Sprint planning, demonstration, and retrospective meetings.- Re-designed PMO processes and workflows for a value-based approach utilizing Lean principles.- Led the introduction of Agile and Lean practices into the PMO with re-engineering of the project intake and oversight process.- Program Leader providing regular presentations and updates to senior leadership on each project’s progress, velocity and release status.- Leadership for staffing, coaching, and development of key talent for the backbone of three highly effective and successful onshore and offshore Agile teams that served as Core Teams for customer transformation initiative.

Co-Founder, Operations Manager and PMO Leader for internal and external projects with leadership of multiple projects as Scrum Master; developed strategic solutions to meet business goals utilizing Agile methodologies whenever possible.Key Achievements:- Leader and Mentor for coaching of technical team in use of agile methods and practices for definition, costing, scheduling, and performance components of projects.- Selected and implemented project management and time tracking tools to provide support for Scrum and Agile delivery approach.- Managed internal and external customers; cash flow and accounting for business and individual projects.- Key Contributor in building the delivery and processes of Lean and Agile principles from the ground up.

Provided leadership for portfolio of $2-3M annual client engagements and PMs with responsibility for oversight of troubled projects valued between $1-2M.Key Achievements:- Client Adviser and Consultant for strategic performance management methodologies, process assessments, technology application to business, and system implementation.- Successfully maintained existing revenue spend and upsold additional products and services to enhance customer loyalty and satisfaction.

Led Software Application Services business in North Central U.S.

Managed large projects, multi-project programs, and proposal teams

Major account sales