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Ran the "build" portion of a landscape design-build company. Handled projects from final design signoff through to project close. Acted as liaison between clients, the design team, and subcontractor installers. Responsible for scheduling and sequencing, change management, procurement, contractor and vendor relations, jobsite management, client communications planning, and job cost analysis. Actively managed and controlled project timeline, budget, and scope baselines.

Helping companies understand how to create value, align objectives, eliminate waste, and manage risk, change, time and cost in environments of extreme uncertainty and limited resources. • Provide knowledge and skills to facilitate Lean and Agile transformations through workshops and team training. • Mentor and coach teams, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Product Managers and Executives on Agile values and principles, leading them to be autonomous, transparent, and accountable. • Promote continuous improvement in processes, practices and artifacts.

Led the Human Transcription services and Legal Transcription product team.

Building the next-generation product development and manufacturing platform, connecting entrepreneurs, designers, engineer, and factories across the globe. Gembah is democratizing manufacturing, allowing anyone to bring their new product ideas from concept to market.

- Interim project lead on Loan IQ 7.5.1x upgrade and Alternative Reference Rates (ARR) module implementation at Wells Fargo from project kickoff through build and test phases. All project team members worked remotely across multiple continents due to COVID restrictions.- Developed a multi-wave project plan and managed defects, issues, and risk registers. Developed and maintained task and issue boards to keep project team coordinated and aligned to project milestones.- Managed defect triage and resolution, performance testing, SIT, and UAT activities between Lending Practice SMEs, Finastra GD Support resources, and Wells Fargo BAs, QAs, and technical leads. - Maintained green RAG status and successfully handed off to Finastra’s FTE project manager.

Led the successful turnaround of an $80M software integration program (CME to Loan IQ via Finastra's FusionBanking Lending syndicated loan product) to deliver the FarmView Credit suite of products, comprising 6 core applications, 24 ancillary applications and web services, and data management. • The suite leveraged Azure service bus and pub-sub REST API architectures. Key activities included data mapping and data conversion, SQL scripting and database configuration, writing test cases for end to end QA and UAT, troubleshooting, and managing regulatory compliance and data governance issues.• Performed work item analysis to baseline flow rate and throughput. Reengineered configuration and process flows, improving development and QA cycle times by >75%. • Improved coordination and pace through development of a master release schedule for promotion package creation and pipeline deployments across all applications and integrated environments.• Through workshops and 1-on-1 sessions, taught POs, PMs, and Scrum Masters how to turn disorganized lists of work items and poorly written user stories into functional, prioritized product backlogs. • Developed an enterprise release plan to successfully deploy FarmView Credit v1.0 to production.

Senior Executive in charge of project delivery for Roadmap's global enterprise clients. In 2018, Cnverg acquired Roadmap, a SaaS company that develops portfolio and project management software. • Led the Professional Services division, managing implementations and providing custom software development, application integrations, and consulting services.• Led a globally distributed team in a matrixed Scrum environment, monitored velocity and pace, and facilitated traditional Scrum rituals (Sprint Planning, Standups, Reviews, and Retrospectives).• Worked extensively with product owners to prioritize product backlogs; offered expertise in addressing blockers and conflict resolution; and performed peer-to-peer coaching, training, and mentoring to improve process competencies.• Led disposition plan for 10+ application platforms and infrastructure services, reducing operating expenses by 22%• Led data migration and consolidation of multiple front and back office systems, incl. CRM, BI & analytics, HCM, accounting and payroll, service desk, CMS, and marketing automation.

Assumed product management duties from departing CPO. • Led a dev team distributed across 3 continents through multiple software releases of our core product. • Developed business analysis, business case, market needs analysis, product roadmaps and go-to-market strategies, competitive analysis, value propositions, and competitive positioning.• Developed financial models and forecasts, executive budgets, business and value proposition modelling, and sales and marketing analysis (marketing and sales channel effectiveness, A/B testing, price modeling, documentation, product mix management, progress and status reports, etc). • Led custom software development and app integration projects for global agency and PMO clients. • Headed professional services division, providing custom software development, applications integrations, and consulting services• Responsible for stakeholder relations and communications, risk management and contingency planning, controlling project baselines, and coordinating the activities of cross-functional teams by facilitating issue resolution, collaboration and clear and open communication.

Led continuous improvement efforts to drive product quality and organizational excellence.• Led a formal, organizational change-management initiative to implement core Agile and Lean principles for the purpose of establishing a culture of continuous improvement, transparency, responsibility and autonomy. Starting with a common vision, introduced visual management best practices, a product development framework (first Kanban and then Scrum), and established the initial set of core metrics and KPIs for monitoring processes and measuring success. • Implemented a formal continuous improvement process utilizing DMAIC and root cause analysis methodologies, streamlining product development and reducing time to close support tickets.

Led IT projects, engineering, and product ideation at technology firm developing interactive software systems and touch-based interfaces. • Developed and sold technology solutions to Global 500 clients in the areas of business intelligence, retail POS, ecommerce, and networked virtual environments.• Led enterprise sales operations, achieving 100+% CAGR and 60% YOY sales increases 4 years in a row• Partnered with CTO and Systems Architect to develop customized software and systems integration solutions. • Defined technical specifications, negotiated contracts, and managed vendor relationships with overseas OEMs and SIs for the manufacture of component parts and assemblies.

Led multiple construction and process re-engineering projects. Responsible for facility design, workflow design, preliminary architectural drawings, equipment selection, procurement, and installation.• Led $10M capital improvement project to construct a 51,000 sq ft refrigerated warehouse and distribution facility. Developed project schedule and budget, developed risk management plan, and managed stakeholder engagement.

Led packaging and distribution operations for national fresh mushroom grower. Brought in to lead a process reengineering initiative that touched all aspects of operations and logistics.

Directed manufacturing and marketing operations for regional commercial coffee roasting and distribution company. Oversaw production operations at the Miramar, CA and Vista, CA roasting and packaging facilities.