Robert Desmarais

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Senior Leader with a passion for leading professional services teams and assuring successful customer outcomes @ Cprime, Inc
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Portland, Connecticut, United States, United States
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About Robert Desmarais

Robert is an experienced and goal oriented executive with proven experience in leading professional services, delivery & execution, and enterprise transformation teams. Robert leverages his diverse technical background (engineering, architecture, data, delivery, Agile) as well as his consulting experience to identify opportunities for continuous improvement in order to assure the right solutions are being delivered at the right time to maximize overall value realization. Robert also has proven to be an extremely effective organizational leader and takes a tremendous amount of pride in the teams and groups he leads. Robert believes that steady focus on professional development and work life balance will assure employees remain highly satisfied in their career and growth potential and highly satisfied employees are the most effective in their roles. Robert uses his strengths in communication, negotiating, and conflict resolution to always minimize any work related conflict. He has extensive experience in building and developing highly functional teams from the ground up and is highly versed in recruiting, hiring and onboarding new team members. Robert has experience leading and managing organizations of all sizes.

Robert Desmarais's Current Company Details
Cprime, Inc

Cprime, Inc

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Senior Leader with a passion for leading professional services teams and assuring successful customer outcomes
Robert Desmarais Work Experience Details
  • Cprime, Inc
    Managing Director, Delivery - Enterprise Agility & Tooling
    Cprime, Inc Dec 2021 - Present
    San Mateo, California, Us
    Responsible for all business operations for for assigned territories including P&L management (~$27m), pre-sales support, and accountable for overall customer success and satisfaction.
  • The Hartford
    Enterprise Portfolio Coach - Agile Center Of Enablement
    The Hartford Oct 2019 - Dec 2021
    Hartford, Ct, Us
    Responsible for leading the Scaled Agile Transformation across our lines of businesses. Serves as the lead Portfolio coach working with business and IT executives to develop and implement their roadmap.- Successfully scaled Middle and Large Commercial business ($64m budget, 3 Value Streams, 40 teams) from team only based Scrum/Kanban teams to Portfolio SAFe including Portfolio design and implementation, value stream analysis and definition, release train design and all aspects of tying it all together with planning and execution. - Currently leading the Portfolio scaling and transformation consisting of a $58m, 5 Value Streams and 38 teams
  • Lincoln Financial Group
    Vp, Agile Engineering
    Lincoln Financial Group Jan 2019 - Oct 2019
    Radnor, Pa, Us
    Responsible for leading the Agile Transformation initiative and collaborating with IT and business partners across the organization to drive agile adoption at Lincoln while ensuring high quality work delivery.
  • Epam Systems
    Sr. Director, Agile Transformation Labs
    Epam Systems Sep 2018 - Jan 2019
    Newtown, Pa, Us
    Brought on board to help create a new Enterprise Agile Transformation offering to current and future EPAM customers. Working with other practice leads (i.e. DevOps) we created an initial offering and piloted with some existing customers and received very positive feedback.
  • Ca Technologies
    Sr. Director, Agile Practice Services
    Ca Technologies Jan 2016 - Sep 2018
    San Jose, California, Us
    Responsible for the Agile Services Consulting business for the Northeast, Southeast, Public Sector, and Canada territories and the corresponding P&L. This role is accountable for the revenue realization, forecasting and planning of an approximately $25m business and is the primary responsibility holder to assure customer success. The Senior Director leads a team of Managing Consultants and subject matter expert consultants who are accountable for successful enterprise wide agile adoption with customers ranging from 50 people to over 1000 people. The Senior Director is accountable to help during the sales cycle to land new deals as well as expand existing ones. Key Results: Lead, mentor and grow a team of 20 senior level thought leaders/consultants Working with sales, landed a new logo customer for ~$500k initial contract; built a trusted advisor relationship with them that has seen customer spend increase to ~$4m and growing which led to the successful launch of a modernization initiative that had been churning for months prior to engagement.  Created a subscription based Customer Support and Service model to assure our customers had the right level of support at an efficient cost. Leadership, Customer Relationship Management and Customer delivery has delivered YoY revenue growth for 3 consecutive years Worked with numerous clients coaching executives and senior leaders on the cultural components of a successful Agile Transformation including working with finance, HR, operations, business, and others for full value stream business agility
  • Rally Software
    Senior Principal, Transformation Consultant
    Rally Software Apr 2015 - Dec 2015
    Boulder, Co, Us
    (Rally Software was acquired by CA Technologies in December of 2015) Work with client's leadership team to provide expert recommendations, roadmaps, tactics, and tactical leadership to ensure clients adopt agile values and practices and drive change throughout their organizations. Engage with clients at a deep level to build the capabilities, systems, and processes needed to deliver exceptional results and to ensure that those results are sustained.Key Results: Worked with a media company to establish an approximately 200 person Agile Release train and led them through from Value Stream Mapping and Program/Team formation to multiple successful PI events resulting in a significant increase in business value realized and productivity Worked with a medical device/equipment organization to transform an entire business unit of approximately 600 people (business, IT, legal, operations, etc.). Formed 6 Agile Release trains containing approximately 50 scrum teams and lead them through 2 PI planning sessions with all people together in one location resulting in the creation of a short, mid-range, and long term roadmap for multiple products in order to satisfy customer needs.
  • Optum
    Director, Enterprise Agile Delivery Practice
    Optum Aug 2013 - Apr 2015
    Us
    Responsible for the leading the implementation of the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and Scrum for programs and projects across the enterprise. This includes strategic direction around how SAFe fits within a large, complex organization as well as how it interacts with legacy waterfall based initiatives. Accountable for maturing the organization's understand (from Executives to Team Members) of Lean/Agile models and how transforming our delivery and adopting technical practices such as DevOPS and Test Driven Development can increase quality, decrease cycle time and improve speed to market. Led a centralized organization of over 80 Agile Professionals (Agile Program Managers, Scrum Masters, Senior Scrum Masters, and Agile Delivery Directors) who support delivery of critical initiatives across the enterprise.
  • Optum
    Lead Agile Coach/Scrum Master Development Manager
    Optum Nov 2011 - Aug 2013
    Us
    Responsible for leading the Agile Transformation and adoption for a large application development group/portfolio. Worked with leaders and teams to educate them on Agile/Scrum and coached them on how to adopt it in order to successfully deliver with high quality.Worked with team to create and implement and Agile Assessment process to determine the teams/applications/projects that would benefit most from an Agile tranformation as well as those that were the best fit.Created a centralized Scrum Master training program/curriculum to continuously build out our internal Scrum Master competencies. Contributed to the definition of our internal Agile best practices (including Scaled Agile)
  • Travelers
    Information Systems Manager/Scrum Master
    Travelers Nov 2009 - Nov 2011
    New York, Ny, Us
    Responsible for managing technical development and delivery of projects and programs leveraging Agile methodologiesServed as a Scrum Master for multiple projects/programsProvided management and guidance to the teams on methodology and technical practicesImplemented Kanban for break/fix and small enhancement work that lead to a shorter turn around time for implementation.
  • Travelers
    Solutions Architect
    Travelers Oct 2006 - Nov 2009
    New York, Ny, Us
  • Aetna
    Web Systems Engineer
    Aetna Aug 2005 - Oct 2006
    Hartford, Connecticut, Us
  • Aetna
    Java Development Lead
    Aetna Jun 2003 - Aug 2005
    Hartford, Connecticut, Us
  • Lucent Technologies
    Systems & Network Administrator
    Lucent Technologies Jun 2000 - Jun 2002
    Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Robert Desmarais Skills

Agile Methodologies Scrum Software Development Sdlc It Management Business Process Agile Project Management Process Improvement It Strategy Change Management Enterprise Architecture Application Architecture Business Intelligence Software Development Life Cycle Solution Architecture Soa Infrastructure Virtualization Cross Functional Team Leadership Technical Architecture Certified Scrum Master Csm Kanban Project Delivery Six Sigma Agile Quality Assurance Team Building Information Architecture Object Oriented Design Data Management Business Process Improvement Service Oriented Architecture Application Development Yellow Belt Vmware Infrastructure Infrastructure Projects Websphere Application Server Application Servers Java Rally Websphere Vmware High Availability Analytics Vendor Management Consultative Selling Enterprise Software Management Consultative Services Project Management Program Management Leadership Organizational Leadership Integration

Robert Desmarais Education Details

  • Quinnipiac University - School Of Business
    Quinnipiac University - School Of Business
    Computer Information Systems
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute
    Management Information Systems

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