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United States

An evangelist and practitioner of agile and product practices in development and support of our Agile Community of Practice. Aiding leaders and teams through their agile and product transformation.Working with and configuring tools like Tasktop to help teams optimize, remove bottlenecks, and improve performance of their work flow.Developing solutions within Work Observability initiatives in support of team efforts and how they align to BestBuy investments. Developing and promoting best practices in building better visibility.Promoting of quarterly planning efforts with leaders and teams in building better visibility organizationally and stronger support of cross-team collaboration capabilities.Through observations, encouragement and invitational activities, promoting teams to be the best they can be.Outcome planning to team OKR development in support of team purpose and outcome tracking.Developed and delivered a team refection activity in helping teams to build focus and next steps on “Being Agile” over doing agile.Continuing to build on a wide variety of disciplines and expertise in building better experiences for teams and leaders as I work with in coaching and assisting through their challenges.

­ Best Buy, a leading multinational consumer electronics retailer. Agile Coach / Lead Scrum Master for two product teams.o Through exercising strong agile values and principals, coaching, team reflection and adoption, I was able to help the SHOP PDP teams to achieve and move to self-organization in supporting their ongoing efforts and move forward without the dedicated needs of a scrum master. Partner, participate and share within all agile coaching activities and share-outs at Best Buy and the Product Community of Practice. Build and position a number of innovative and interactive diagrams for leaders and teams in learning and understanding:o Leader and Team OKR development and laddering, team why / what / who presentations, intake workflow mapping, agile transformation road-mapping, collaborative support agreements to organizational mappings.Enhanced quarterly planning fair user experience through coordinating and assisting within a team effort of evangelists, OKR and logistics coaches in providing better clarity and growth for our teams. Pioneered entry into Platform, Infrastructure and Operations as an agile coach in helping to drive their early adoption of agile transformation.o Building a positive, confident environment and culture for teams and leaders, yet exercising readiness to change and pivot as needed in providing the best agile acumen for their journey.o Continuing to build on a wide variety of disciplines and expertise in building a better experience for the teams and leaders I work with in coaching and working through their challenges.

St. Louis Park, Mn

Realogy, a leading and integrated provider of residential real estate services in the U.S. for empowering independent sales agents to best serve today's consumers. Lead scrum master for two product teams:Social Conciergeo Help lead and instill agile best practices for our team around application development for the matching of best in class tech with social content writers, strategists and visionaries to amplify reach and widen our agent’s network with curated and branded content. A self-service platform that provides agents to place targeted social media ads in promoting their listings and business on social media platforms.Design Conciergeo Servant approach to building agile practices among a new team to focus on development efforts through interactive design and application in building a personal brand for our agents and in utilizing in-house talented advertisers, copywriters and designers.Other responsibilities include project funding acquisitions, financial management, budget tracking and reporting, plus team reporting metrics.­ Work closely with the Realogy agile transformation team and coaching efforts from team to team.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Lead Scrummaster for one of Target’s top 5 online initiatives. SPARK, an enterprise software solution for all Owned Brand raw material management and product development for both internal and external partner teams. SPARK will facilitate the collaborative development of detailed Owned Brand product information between Target and business partners. SPARK will be used for the creation, evaluation, and approval of products and their related components to be position as Target Owned brand.Portfolio scrummaster for assisting in the overall alignment of our product level initiatives to our portfolio objectives and key results. Build commonality and repeatable structure of our chartering / road-mapping and sizing efforts through-out the product teams. Tracking of OKR baselines and progress, OKR coaching and support, plus driving key artifacts to fruition in support of our objectives and key results. Assist with the adherence of priorities between the teams in developing action and resolution of any interdependencies. Partner with Product and Engineering Directors to support product planning and alignment activities. Partner with agile coaching practice group to drive continuous improvement and support common agile practices. Foster a healthy product culture of learning and continuous improvement. Ensure transparency into product area objectives and plans. Evaluate product team Health and identify opportunities for improvement.

Bloomington, Mn

Role of Scrum Master in an Agile environment for two distinct teams focusing on home mortgage based solutions for Stonegate Mortgage. Team one is focused on back-end infrastructure and platforms in managing service calls to vendors for support of their loan origination system. Team two is focused on innovative and responsive web based applications for both internal and external clients.Deliver consistent project success, achieve process improvements, as well as execute and support a diversified array of customer-oriented network applications based projects. Portray leadership, analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills, combined with ability to instill common vision and motivation, leading teams to successfully overcome complex challenges. o Setup and configuration of Sharepoint 2013 on an IaaS based solution within Azure.o Ongoing team TFS programming, configuration, customization, support and administration.o Team reporting, staffing, and configurationso Manage Azure subscription, setup and management requirements for teams. o Team security, setup and configuration.

Woodbury, Mn

Plan, direct, and coordinate technology based initiatives and programs relative to driving student enrollments, graduation and job placement. Solid adeptness in spotting technology needs; formulating solutions; and implementing systematic methods to advance corporate functioning, achieve interventions, and adapt to new technologies. Deliver consistent project success, achieve process improvements, as well as execute and support a diversified array of customer-oriented network applications based projects. Portray leadership, analytical, interpersonal, and communication skills, combined with ability to instill common vision and motivation, leading teams to successfully overcome complex challenges. Possess strong knowledge and background in education industry and services; armed with exceptional organizational talent, capable of formulating and implementing learning and career development plans.

Plymouth, Mn

Pioneer a line of business and Agile performance team for the marketing and positioning of Benchmark Learning’s organizational assessment solutions into a new stand-alone entity. Innovatively design own line of business, supporting infrastructure and platforms, migration of tools and services, P&L, and staffing. Continuously redefine and improve applications into cloud based platforms to efficiently identify the client’s skillsets, utilize the full potential of personnel, and determine the means for bridging their skill gaps.Capitalized on industry expertise in directing the Development, Sales, and Marketing teams within a new entity in positioning the company’s application in the industry as a B2B software as a service solution. o (www.TheSMARTTools.com) - Developed a cloud based corporate landing site for the launch of company product and services.o (www.SMARTCSA.com) - Led the creative design and implementation of a cloud based global organizational skills inventory and employee management application; thus, allowing other organizations and partners to use and brand the site for their own clients and staffing through centralized hosting.

Edina, Mn

Spearheaded efforts in conceptualizing and instituting practice to assist clients and students with technology justification and organizational readiness initiatives. Devised key applications and process in order for organization level individual to assess their skillsets; maximized the use of these skills and recognized the means for bridging their skill gaps through learn plans and targeted training. Regarded as key contributor and project lead in formulating and executing global organizational skills management and career planning solutions. o (http://smart.BenchmarkLearning.com) SMART, a browser based organizational application that provides a simple means for identifying skills and building developmental plans for an organization. (http://cb.BenchmarkLearning.com) CareerBooster, a browser based application that provides easy and convenient way to build individualized career profiles and paths based on varying skills, technologies, and certifications the student wishes to pursue. o (www.CareerGenius.com) – Led and architected the project completion of Career Genius, an innovative browser based application for individuals to explore different positions within the industry. This application evaluates individual’s skills and competencies as well as formulates career and education plans based on their interest and preferred direction

St. Louis Park, Mn

- Ensured effective execution of organizational solutions by identifying and establishing overall practice within a premier consulting services company. - Focused on the long range goals in establishing a solid culture and practice; guaranteed company’s resources were directed on sustainable profitability through effective utilization of their skills and interests as well as execution of team initiatives. - Recommended strategies that base themselves to organizational mission statement for growth, motivation, and synergy within business efforts.

Plymouth, Mn

- Displayed strong technical acumen in completing project and implementing a brokerage management system. - Managed the automation of a teleprocessing data center through customized coding visual based systems for replacement of text based entry. - Contributed to the design and installation of a LAN/WAN networking infrastructure through Windows NT domain architecture, Cisco, SQL database server, Disaster Recovery Solution, SNA connectivity, faxing, messaging server, and workflow / imaging system in support to more than 1500 users from 8 different departments and locations.

Bachelor Of Science, Computer Science

Aviation Powerplant And Airframe, Aeronautics

Aviation Powerplant And Airframe

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