Provides agile software product development consulting, coaching, and tool support at the project, program/portfolio, and organizational levels. Mentors ScrumMasters, Product Owners, and Development Team members on agile software development principles and practices, scrum processes, team building, and facilitation. Partners with development teams, observing activities/scrum events to understand team dynamics and situational behavior; inspect project artifacts and review key metrics; assess project processes and practices against a custom designed framework; assist project teams with determining appropriate incremental changes for continuous improvement of performance and responsiveness. Provides recommendations, suggestions, and technical direction related to tools and processes. Collaborates with programs and projects to define and expand quality initiatives and reinforce secure code development. Promotes cross-project sharing of key success practices that lead to the timely development and delivery of reliable and relevant software products. Coaches development teams, executives, and stakeholders on the importance of having aligned expectations. Working knowledge of many tools including VersionOne, JIRA, Rally, Redmine, SonarQube, and SharePoint to name a few.

As Manager of the Cyber Systems Group, managed several profitable contracts, conducted business development activities, supported the submission of winning proposals, worked recruiting events, interviewed prospective candidates, and hired employees.Provided process improvement consulting and coordination services to organizations in support of an Enterprise Process Improvement activity. Assisted with the creation and roll out of systems and software engineering processes during the design and development of complex systems. Guided implementation of and adherence to the Capability Maturity Model integrated (CMMi) best practices. Assisted with the development of action plans and the formation of technical working groups to address process areas deficiencies and to instill best practices at the project level and above. Recommended change management strategies, advised alternative approaches, and conducted feasibility studies. Participated in several enterprise level Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) relating to enterprise-level policy review and update, system engineering management plan reviews, and process asset library (PAL) development. Managed and provided technical leadership to a Web and Communication team.

Modernized Operations & Maintenance (O&M) support services in a 24/7 Operations environment for an Enterprise Management effort. Ensured compliance with policies and regulations. Provided technical direction and program management across multiple engineering projects, including work allocation, scheduling, and training. Conducted business development activities to include proposal writing.

Used systems engineering practices to protect an enterprise baseline, develop integration strategies, and influence future architecture and system development. Led a cross-site, multi-organizational team to establish an architecture for a remote monitoring and maintenance capability. Coordinated with product development teams throughout the system development life cycle to ensure requirements were properly gathered, analyzed, prioritized, and tracked; Ensured system interfaces were appropriately defined and documented; Oversaw quality assurance acceptance testing to ensure capabilities met functional and non-functional requirements. Increased workflow efficiency using business process improvement practices to re-engineer existing processes. Performed cost and risk analysis on planned and proposed activities. Developed tools and procedures to standardize and streamline system interaction.

As a Software Engineering Team Lead responsible for maintaining two complex data processing systems and several smaller systems, trained and mentored team members in lifecycle support activities. Provided technical support in the form of routine system maintenance, system upgrades and enhancements, and system defect evaluation and resolution. Used a working knowledge of operating systems, network protocols, and hardware devices to construct creative engineering solutions to solve or workaround system defects.

Performed full life cycle management support for multiple software engineering projects. Deigned and developed an object-oriented, client-server system using PowerBuilder integrated development environment, relational database management system (RDBMS) and standard query language (SQL).

Provided system administration and database support for a Real-time Corps Battle Simulation System. VAX/VMS, RDB, SQL

Honorably discharged veteran with experience as a Traffic Analyst, Watch Officer, Cryptanalyst, and Collection Manager.