Sam Mcclanahan Email & Phone Number

Columbus, Oh, Us

Houston, Texas, United States

In Solution Ownership at Slalom Build, a Principal leads large teams from Discovery through Transition or smaller programs of two to three pods. Principals become involved in recruiting for Solution Ownership and actively contribute best practices back to their capability and Slalom.A Principal works closely with clients, local markets, and other capabilities. Principals possess the level of domain expertise needed to solve complex problems. Principals lead larger and more challenging engagements, including multiple workstreams and mixed client/Slalom teams. As the first step into Build leadership, Principals manage direct reports and participate in related Build operations.

Houston, Texas, United States

Providing strong agile leadership early in the product development lifecycle is proven to be fundamentally important to a delivery team’s success, directly impacting productivity and effectiveness in a positive way. At Slalom Build, while every team member holds responsibility for Scrum and Product Engineering Methodology (PEM) knowledge, having specially trained Solution Ownership professionals greatly improves the team’s ability to deliver a quality product. Slalom Build Solution Owners are lead-from-the-front technology and agile delivery experts who partner with clients to translate requirements into actionable user stories and lead cross-capability PEM development teams to shepherd those stories into working products on time and on budget.

Houston, Texas, United States

Co-founded the Agile Learning Academy by partnering with five other Agile Coaches to produce ICAgile accredited course content and achieve instructor authorization for the Agility in the Enterprise (ICP-ENT) and Coaching Agile Transitions (ICP-CAT) certifications.In our courses we guide our students through; developing their understanding of systems and complexity theory, learning how to measure business performance from an agile perspective, building an agile framework for enterprise scaling that will best fit their organization, creating awareness of organizational design and structure, understanding leadership development, and engaging their leadership in the right conversations about organizational culture. Our students learn how their organizations can increase speed of execution, better respond and adapt to customer needs, increase productivity, as well as engage and empower employees.

Houston, Texas Area

Agile Coach and Product Manager for Reprivata: Led the Agile Adoption for Reprivata's Engineering department to deliver the first MVP client release of the Community of Trust (CoT) ecosystem to Rimstorm as the core of their GovCon Enclave product.Agile Coach for Beyond Finance: Leveraged my Agile experience to orchestrate a foundation of Scrum and Kanban excellence during Beyond Finance's rapid IT Department growth from a single Scrum team to ten Kanban and Scrum agile teams. Guided Beyond Finance's new Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Service Delivery Managers, Service Request Managers, and Team Members in the art of enabling creativity and fostering productivity among agile development teams using Scrum and Kanban.

Houston, Texas Area

Servant Leader: As one of the driving forces behind the NRG Scrum Master Center of Excellence I was able to leverage my experience in Agile to provide mentoring and insight to new Scrum Masters and Scrum teams and foster Scrum excellence for the whole organization.Enterprise Agile Advocate: Partnered with executive leadership and empowered three newly formed teams to adopt Scrum for their effort to create a new electronic disclosure document delivery functionality that produced savings of $2.3 million per year and streamlined average call time by 75 seconds.DevOps Champion: Organized and hosted NRG's first All Day DevOps mini-conference to promote the benefits of DevOps and help identify and quantify the business benefits that come from the greater agility DevOps delivers.

Round-Rock, Tx

Product Development & Rapid Prototyping Expert: Embedded myself in the cutting-edge of the Maker Movement and gained a deep understanding of the entrepreneurial options available in digital modeling and fabrication, while also building skills with the business models available for modern product development as well as a wide range of manufacturing tools and techniques.

Knoxville, Tennessee Area

Data Center Migration Experienced: Orchestrated a $2.6 million effort to modernize and migrate 664 servers spread across 9 business units over the course of 49 go-live events with a team of 62 people while remaining under-budget, on-schedule, and not impacting production environment availability to achieve $1.2 million/year in cost savings.Agile Scrum/Kanban PMO Founder: Led the growth of the Document Solutions real estate chain of title processing business unit from a 5-member production support focused development team, into a Kanban methodology help-desk and a Scrum methodology development department with 24 members across three teams, while increasing profitability by 12% and $6 million/year.Configuration Management Process Expert: Led the Tempo business unit Configuration Management team and established the processes for formal change control, as well as the processes for prioritization, resource balancing, and scheduling of load testing.