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Valley Forge, PA, US

Denver, Colorado, US

Remote First, US

• Direct, mentor, and supervise 35 Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters to support multi-year transformations, constructed transformation plans, and oversaw enterprise-wide efforts comprising 100 teams.
• Direct, mentor, and supervise 6 Developers to develop tools to internally support the R&D organization.
• Own and continuously improve Agile and iterative Waterfall SDLC to reduce expenses, boost quality, and significantly increase efficiency.
• Advise organization on capitalizing on frameworks such as SAFe, DAD, LeSS, Scrum at Scale, Kanban, Scrum, Lean, and XP.
• Create instructional materials and deliver training via workshops on topics such as story writing, product vision, road maps, release planning, TDD, BDD, refactoring, and Agile frameworks.
• Manage multiple change program across the enterprise

Newtown Square, PA, US

Malvern, Pennsylvania, US

• Build and manage a team of 15 Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters to support Clients Agile Transformations.
• Develop Transformation plans for transitioning for Waterfall to Agile.
• Lead Enterprise Agile Transformation of top finical institutes working with 110 Teams.
• Coached and Implemented Dev OPS principals.
• Coached and Implemented test automation for front end and backend systems.
• Assess talent of all Agile roles for hiring or internal candidates during transformation.

Richmond, Virginia, US

• Build and manage a team of 7 Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters to support Clients Agile Transformations.
• Develop Transformation plans for transitioning for Waterfall to Agile.
• Lead Enterprise Agile Transformation of top Life Sciences company working with 18 Teams.
• Worked with the Business stakeholders to create story maps of the entire SAP Process, Hybris capabilities, and the integration point between ECC, CRM, and Hybris
• Lead 15 Agile teams in an SAP environment to deliver fully integrated SAP/Hybris/CRM E-Commerce Platform
• Delivered the entire integrated solution in 7 months instead of the three years it took for the previous application to be built using traditional waterfall methods.

Malvern, Pennsylvania, US

• Build and manage a team of 10 Agile Coaches and Scrum Masters to support Clients Agile Transformations.
• Develop Transformation plans for transitioning for Waterfall to Agile.
• Lead Enterprise Agile Transformation of top finical institutes working with 63 Teams.
• Coached and Implemented Dev OPS principals.
• Coached and Implemented test automation for front end and backend systems.
• Assesse talent of all Agile roles for hiring or internal candidates during transformation.

New York, NY, US

• Scrum Master – 1 to 3 globally located Teams to produce software for a global client servicing solution.
• Conducted Scrum Ceremonies.
• Produced metrics to provide team health using, burn up and down Charts, cumulative flow diagrams, throughput, and Cycle /lead time metrics depending on the framework being used.
• Worked to identify the appropriate teams for compliance, risk and regulatory to insure compliance.
• Helped establish Code Craftsman Practice Simple design, TTD, Clean Coding, Refactoring, Test automation, Continuous Integration/Delivery.
• Implement BDD testing using Cucumber and Selenium to automate unit testing

New York, NY, US

• Participated in the role out of Agile as part of the transformation team as a Scrum Master and providing training team members managed the Agile community of practice.
• Conducted Scrum Ceremonies.
• Implemented Kanban for incident management.
• Started and managed the Agile community of practice.
• Delivered builds according the slotted Sprints.
• Implemented BDD testing using Cucumber and Selenium to automate unit testing

New York, NY, US

• Participated in the implementation of Agile as part of the transformation team. As a product owner and Scrum Master.
• Conducted Scrum Ceremonies.
• Implemented Kanban for incident management.
• Started and managed the Agile community of practice.
• Automated and applied lean principle to streamline business processes.
• Worked on a large project teams to aid in the writing of technical requirements /Stories for an internally developed customers servicing platform including: database structures, user interfaces, and overall flow of.

New York, NY, US

• Coordinated the creation of a.net web based application for the management of audits, tracking, file repository and pertinent report generation.
• Managed the technical requirements, timelines, business needs, testing, documentation and the vendor interactions to ensure that both vendors’ final functionality matched.
• Worked with Retirement Planning Services to document their current process, and then proposed a new process and tool utilizing a combination of SharePoint, InfoPath and SQL to manage document creation, workflows and.
• Designed and created a travel management tool for the Financial Education group, centralizing employee information, the final product will save $100,000 per year.
• Worked as a part of a team in conjunction with IS/IT to gather requirements and design sessions as a subject matter expert for the Marketing Services cost management tool that support the automation of cost management.
• Developed a proof of concept to automate the creation of a standardized matrix from any excel based input, it generates various reports such as campaign costs, supplier requirements and uploads to multiple databases.

New York, NY, US

• Materials/Print Associate
• Responsible for the coordination and execution of direct mail campaigns.
• Managed supplier relations and solicited price quotes to produce and print campaigns in the most cost effective manner.
• Created a statement to report the metrics of cost back to the company.
• Compiled and documented departmental training materials and wrote curriculum for incoming new hires