50% strategic Lean Portfolio Management, 50% Agile Product Delivery per SAFePRODUCT: Product Owner for Recovery. “Skysolver” tech app created by GE Aviation for Southwest Crew Scheduling team. Application is used to manage the reallocation of Attendants) & Pilots crews due to disruptions within 72-0 hours of schedule. EPICS/PROJECTS: Hierarchies: GUI redesign. Replace existing “basic” hierarchies with specific problem-based hierarchies using analytical hierarchy process design. Objective to have faster processing and higher commit because proposed solutions are more accurate. [#AHP, #AIprocessAutomation, #AIcognitiveInsight]Prod Maint: Design & dev of product backlog per enterprise dependencies & PO request Cloud Migration: Move on prem solution to GE cloud. Prepare Lean Business Case, work with Vendor, Cyber security & legal to reconfigure existing SOW terms related to existing contracts & pricing. [#CloudMigration, #Cyber-security]RESPONSIBILITIES: • Guide epics through the Portfolio Kanban system from identification through implementation, collaborating closely with stakeholders and SME [#PortfolioKanban, #LeanPortfolioManagement]• Creation of the Epic Hypothesis statement, confirm Epic is aligned with strategic theme(s), presents the Epic to LPM to gain agreement that it warrants being pulled into analysis or removes idea from the Portfolio Kanban, WSJF prioritization.• Design Lean Business Case including definition of the MVP additional potential features and cost estimates, Presents the epic to LPM for a go/no-go decision [#LeanBusinessCase]• Coordinates the MVPs development with the ARTs, Reports results of MVP to LPM to make a pivot, preserve or step decision, create a roadmap for the epic’s development across ARTs, responsibilities for stewardship and reporting, decide when the epic is no longer an LPM concern [#MVP, #AgileReleaseTrain, #PortfolioRoadmap]

PRODUCT: “Single View of Finance” The Data Science division of IT created a series of BI dashboards specifically for senior finance team. Provides multi-level (corp, region, store; day, week, month) view of key components of the operations (inventory, salaries, sales, dept) per secured level (manager to CFO).PROJECT: Build UI & backend logic for Single View of Finance application Technical objective: Gather & synthesize data from disparate sources and provide a cohesive unified format in a flexible BI design and support existing product. Enforce guardrails defined by Business related to financial thresholds and alerting. [#Azure, #RBAC, #DataScience, #MachineLearning, #ArtificalIntelligence, #BusinessIntelligence, #ETL, #CI/CD] Business objective: Provide business with evidence to support insights regarding spend/cost/budget related to inventory & salaries. Identify bottlenecks, areas outside guardrails, areas to improve, system vulnerabilities, theft & failure risks. Documentation for SOX audits & compliance. [#SOXcompliance, #InventoryReporting, #SalaryReporting, #FinanceReporting]RESPONSIBILITIES: • Own delivery of $15M end-to-end analytic solution for financial reports that forecast/reconcile billions of dollars • Identify opportunities where advanced analytics, AI and ML can solve specific business objectives by offering meaningful insights created from existing data configured specific for end user’s questions and problems. • Build partnerships and trust by working closely across business and technical teams. Become the bridge between.• Gather/create documentation supporting quality controls for SOX compliance.• Provide project level support to cross-functional teams and Project Leads to ensure milestones and goals are achieved in accordance with the established platform design.• Coordinates project timing and approvals needed for CI/CD release process and dates.

• Work closely with Product Manager to define and monitor product features according to product roadmap, strategy and vision.• Actively plan and prioritize the product feature backlog according to business value and clearly define priorities for the product team.• Work closely with the delivery team to ensure stories in the upcoming sprint are fully understood and stories in future sprints are well groomed & estimated.• Lead the planning of product releases and sets expectations for delivery of new features with stakeholders.• Write detailed user stories and define acceptance criteria at a pace to ensure the product team always has an adequate number of prepared stories to work on.• Define the sprint goals in coordination with the product team and drive the team to deliver promised value.• Actively participate during Agile ceremonies to provide immediate answers and direction to the product team based on domain expertise.• Facilitate sprint planning and backlog refinement by collaborating with the Scrum Master.• Create a sense of common goal for the team based on the product vision. Regularly engages with the product team to guide priorities, refine features, define functional requirements, and help address blockers impacting successful team completion of sprint goals.• Work in collaboration with stakeholders to understand their expectations and help the team understand how to set up for successful user acceptance testing with stakeholders.

Certified SAFe® Program ConsultantImplementing the Scaled Agile Framework® for Lean EnterprisesA Certified SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC) is a Lean-Agile change agent who works with Lean-Agile leadership to set the SAFe vision for the organization, show others the way, and remove impediments to change. An SPC brings organizational credibility to SAFe implementation; has the expertise to make fast, intelligent decisions; and helps implement specific process changes in the enterprise. Often, an SPC trains others in Lean-Agile ways of thinking and operating, applying a new style of leadership that truly teaches, empowers, and engages individuals and teams to reach their highest potential.

PRODUCT: “SpeedShip” Greenfield project building logistics application & pricing engine from scratch. Logistics engine is web based application provided to customers allowing them in shop vendors & pricing for moving cargo from point to point. (Think Travelocity but for Trucking) PROJECT: Delivery System Architecture: [#Infrastructure, #UserDesign #DataDesign, #BusinessArchitecture, #Hardware, #Software, #WebLogic, #DataMigration]Front Office: (Customer) Define Customer & Company Roles that allow for multi users & parent/child corp setup for security, shopping cart, payment processing, customer admin tools, user authentication [#RBAC, #ShoppingCart, #PaymentProcessing, #CorporateStructure]Back Office: (Vendor) Define vendor profiles, establish connection to get real time updates for product offering, cost of good, terms, payment processing. plug in to Finance for AR/AP [#Balance Sheet, #Income Statements]Rules Engine: merger of corp rules, corp contracts, exclusions, DOT, Weather, Zips, Mail, plug in to Legal, plug in to Salesforce (territories, sales teams) plug in to Finance for Commission [#BusinessRules, #Salesforce.com, #Commission, #ContractManagement] Pricing Engine: Design pricing engine for a product that does not have a static product catalog. Implement AI cognitive insight to build a predictive pricing engine to maximize purchase ratio & corp profit margin. Create user profiles per customer, per industry, per market, per variable. Would consider buying history, business variable (purch freq, avg dollar spent, weather/calendar/freight, business) Vendor variable (pricing history, terms, exclusions) [#PredictivePricing, #CPQ, #AIprocessAutomation, #AIcognitiveInsight, #AIcustomerSpecificPricing]

Big Data Scrum Master, August 2017 to present, Consultant with Method360• Responsible for planning, leading, organizing, and motivating multiple Global (US, EU, AU) project teams to achieve a high level of performance focused on delivering ETL framework enhancements, data quality enhancements and general design, coding and release/build activities. Strategic Thinking and Tactical Execution• Strong technical background and an understanding of Big Data, Cloud development, Infrastructure, Data Warehouse, Network and Security• Story creation in JIRA for ingesting and presenting high-volume, high-velocity and high-variety data for its transformation into value via BI layer• Fast paced agile environment ETL backend, closely interacting with business Using MicroStrategy front end, Oracle, Teradata, Informatica, Hadoop, • Set up process to Rapidly architect, design, prototype, and implement architectures to tackle the Big Data and Data Science needs for a variety of external clients• Provide clear direction, encourage professional development, and motivate the team with making appropriate commitments through story selection and task definition. Strong Servant-Leadership Identity• Comfortable working with ambiguity and evolving priorities. Flexible, yet firm in approach to managing the project

PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT SCRUM MASTER, June 2015 to June 2016, Consultant with Innovative Systems Group• Provide Management & Sponsor with visibility to the prioritized backlog, schedule, budget, resource allocation, day to day running, associated tasks, progress reports and monitoring of allocated resources via Jira and homegrown KPI• Responsible for identifying business issues, data challenges, opportunities for improvement and solving for them using analysis to make strategic or tactical recommendations. (LEAN) • 10 month project with 4 related scrum teams using SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework) to deliver 1 phased MVP for claim submission using Appian BPM tool. Backlog with 120 User Stories, estimated around 2000 points. • Average Team of 1 PO, 1 BA, 3 QA, 6 devs with 6 hr daily burn, 5 SME’s, 1 PM (required for budget), RTE, Tech Arch, Data Arch & 1 internal liaison. At busiest running 2 teams & prepping for next team. • MVP developed in Appian that pulled data from Data Lake with 3 transformations. SaaS, Iaas, PaaS, HTML5, Hadoop, CSS3 SASS, JavaScript. Release to desktop in first phase for beta testing and then to Cloud in phase 2. • 2 week sprints including all ceremonies: daily standups, QA, UAT, regression, retrospective and continual backlog grooming, planning poker, 15 User Stories completed per iteration. RTE advocated “development cycle” as 5 sprints to release about every 2.5 months. 1 sprint on-site grooming, 3 sprints dev, final sprint as release.

ONLINE RETAIL SCRUM MASTER April 2014 to February 2015, Consultant with IntegriTalent• Work as a consultant to define client’s objectives and timeline. Manage existing schedule and development.• Work with Architects, Development to provide estimates feature by feature, resources needed as well as dependencies. • 12 month project of 4 parallel development teams tasked to deliver 4 responsive (mobile, tablet, PC) MVP’s. Global deployment to new country every 2 months. US, Canada, Korea, Japan, EMEA • Back Office backlog contains 12 Epics, 55 Features, 175 User Stories and over 2200 tasks• 3 week sprints including all ceremonies: elaboration, tasking, daily standups, QA, UAT, regression, retrospective and continual backlog grooming, planning poker, 30-40 User Stories completed per iteration.