Sandy Kobayashi, Spc, Icp-Acc Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles County, California, United States

Greater Los Angeles Area

Provided leadership and coaching to 10-13 Scrum Teams (100 – 150 engineers; 5 time zones) as the Release Train Engineer (RTE) for an Agile Release Train (ART), enabling delivery of AT&T TV, an Android TV based streaming service and box, for a 2/2020 national launch.• Drove the teams towards delivering business value on a two-week sprint cadence while continuously improving quality and taking ownership for monitoring key performance metrics.• Facilitated the transition from a waterfall to an Agile/Lean/SAFe® based delivery model, which included built-in quality (unit testing, CI/CD quality gates, and automated feature testing).• Provided weekly communications to stakeholders on status against plan, issues and risks.• Facilitated alignment between the agile based teams and external stakeholders across the value chain from product planning to manufacturing and the supply chain.

El Segundo, Ca

Provided leadership to 14 features teams (150+ engineers; 5 time zones) to deliver the HS17, a Set-Top Box (STB) based on a new architecture.• Facilitated on-time delivery of all key 2016 milestones, including 13 out of 14 features; brought in the original schedule by 3 months.• Drove changes to the software development process that resulted in earlier identification of critical issues and higher quality, reducing the time required for integration.• Reinvigorated the project by finalizing the plan and budget that had been stalled for a year.

El Segundo, Ca

Managed a staff of 11 engineers focused on promoting new software development practices to improve release quality and consistency across the Set-Top Box (STB) development organization.• Drove participation of key Subject Matter Experts at design reviews, enabling better guidance and architectural course corrections early on.• Facilitated roll-out of a more robust code review process for new features and a subset of defects, resulting in identification of design and maintainability issues.• Worked with Corporate Security to address high priority Set-Top Box security vulnerabilities.

El Segundo, Ca

• Deployed Genie Set-Top Box (STB) releases to Alpha (weekly) and National (quarterly), as well as “hot fix” releases, working with engineering stakeholders to balance customer needs, apply software “best practices” and minimize risk.• Reduced customer call contact rate by 2% for first month customers and up to 1.3% across all Genie customers through effective STB release qualification and by addressing top field issues.• Initiated release post-mortems to identify opportunities to improve release quality.

El Segundo, Ca

As part of Initiation & Planning, delivered Level of Effort (LOE) project estimates by collaborating with System Engineers and Engineering teams, engaged product sponsors and non-engineering stakeholders, obtained capital funding for project execution, and transitioned projects to EPMO Execution.• Negotiated with engineering teams to reduce project costs and bring in the schedule whenever possible• Contributed to process and tool optimization to eliminate blockers and improve team efficiency• Provided coaching to Project Manager peers on both the Initiation & Planning and Execution teams.

El Segundo, Ca

Managed a staff of 30 engineers across 4 teams in the development, maintenance and customer support of transaction-based software and custom solutions for production printer products.• Delivered a new distributed, scalable architecture for high performance (2180 images per minute) Continuous-Feed transaction printing, while facilitating the teams' adoption of Scrum / Lean / Agile development practices.• Consistently met the 93% response time targets for addressing customer software defects. • Directed transition of select transaction and custom subsystems to HCL, an Indian outsourcing firm.

El Segundo, Ca

Managed El Segundo site of 100+ employees for HCL Technologies, Inc., an Indian outsourcing firm. Facilitated transitioned of Xerox employees to HCL and on-shoring of Indian engineers.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Science

Master Of Science - Ms, Computer Science