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Mountain View, Ca, Us

Denver, Colorado, Us

Furthering the ProKanban.org curriculum by designing new classes and improving existing courses.Helping the Trainer community grow by building support infrastructure and help improve teaching materials.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Lead a team of 50 engineers and 6 managers.Organized the department to allow for efficient feature delivery while maintaining flexibility in responding to changing priorities.Helped teams, including leadership team, implement kanban as the work management process.Unified the backlog for all of the technology organization to ensure that teams always work on the company's highest priorities.Effected the shift from quarterly to continuous planning.Educated managers and team leads in using flow metrics to help teams become more efficient and predictable.Promoted pairing, mobbing and other agile development practices amongst teams.Helped teams surface issues impacting delivery early and often using a portfolio kanban board.Enabled internal and external customers to have full transparency on current status of their requests.Used probabilistic forecasting techniques to help define the capacity of teams to commit to work.Created management structures that allowed for redundancies and promoted work life balance for employees.

Weston, Fl, Us

Lead a team of Agile Coaches that worked across multiple departments.Mentored and coached the coaches performing agile coaching with teams.Coached teams in product development, services, delivery and operations.Assisted teams with the roll out of DevOps practices.Helped bridge the gap in Agile processes between two merging organizations (Ultimate and Kronos).Expanded classes to merged organization by offering online classes for employees in Canada, Belarus, India and France.Gave teams ability to run What-If Scenarios to see how new priorities, feature size changes, upcoming team changes will impact the roadmap.Helped the organization identify areas of concern where Agile Coaches should embed.

Weston, Fl, Us

Scaled implementation of Agile concepts across 86 teams.Embedded with teams for extended periods (2-4 months) to help fine tune daily operations and improve the processes of planning and execution.Developed continuous forecasting tools which updated probabilistic forecasts for feature completion dates every 30 minutes based on latest data.Developed new classes and training materials to help teams learn Work Item Sizing, Planning and Running Stable Systems.Developed tools and dashboards that used the team's data to perform analysis and highlight problems and helped with identification of solutions to problems.Coached leaders and teams on how to read, interpret, analyze data to proactively identify potential issues. Also suggested methods to remediate and avoid issues.

Weston, Fl, Us

Managed two teams comprised of 50 people delivering compliance and payroll critical software.Helped the team and the individuals both continue to develop to their highest potential. Used one on one and group coaching to assist individuals find areas of improvement and discover opportunities for growth. Developed short and long term plans for employees in order to help them reach their goals.

Weston, Fl, Us

Kick started a new team to work on the company's critical next generation product initiatives. Utilized Lean/Kanban, Scrum and Agile principles to get the team operating at optimal and sustainable pace of development. Emphasize flow and work in progress limits to reduce cycle times for the stories being worked on by the team. Implemented best practices including test first development, pair programming, continuous integration, high unit and integration test coverage, code, test and requirements reviews, evolutionary design among others to develop a high performing team creating a high quality product. Defined team milestones while working closely with product owners to make sure the team was adhering to the overall product vision and was able to deliver at a sustainable pace. Resolved any impediments facing any member of the team that was slowing down the progress of the team.

Weston, Fl, Us

Encouraged and fostered an atmosphere of continuous improvement on the team. Followed Lean/Kanban, Scrum and Agile principles to identify blockages and improvement opportunities for the team. Implemented and continuously evolved Kanban board and other aides to help the team members visualize their work. Promoted best practices like code reviews, test case reviews, work in progress limits, code coverage via unit tests and team collaboration. Provided real-time assessments of progress and capabilities to management. Helped individuals define and achieve personal goals and objectives by providing them the mentoring, help and platform to do so. Collaborated with product owners to determine deliverable functionality based on team's estimates and throughput.

Weston, Fl, Us

Worked on maintaining and improving company's legacy application written in Delphi with a SQL server back-end. Followed object oriented concepts while developing new modules for the application. Wrote and optimize SQL stored procedures, table value functions and views.Was involved in designing and implementing the new version of the main HR/Payroll application on the .net platform in C#, .net, Javascript and SQL. Apart from writing code for new functionality, helped the business analysts refine requirements and write unit, integration and system tests to ensure quality and to help implement test cases created by the quality assurance members of the team.

Weston, Fl, Us

Defined sprints and their contents along with the team. Removed any obstacles impeding the progress of the team. Encouraged best practices including unit tests, high automated test coverage and cross-functional collaboration on the team. Worked with product owners to prioritize and define functionality that could be finished by the team based on team velocity.

Masters Of Science In Analytics

Master'S Degree, Computer Science

Bachelor Of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science