Agile coaching for a top-notch defense contractor. Collaborating with a team of coaches and business leaders to achieve a significant company wide transformation including agile hardware, system engineering, model-based engineering and scaling agile. Working at the team and team of teams level to develop highly complex safety critical systems with agile at scale paradigm.

Providing educational and coaching resource for agile leaders.

Providing consulting, coaching and training to transform a government biotechnical information organization from an ad-hoc structure to an agile team-of-teams with value streams guided by product owners and solutions delivered by multiple scrum teams focused on customer needs. • Assisting leadership in migrating to a product-based organization with unified product backlog and customer-centric focus for agile development and content delivery. • Conduct agile assessments for multiple programs and several delivery teams within a large division.• Creation of agile transformation roadmap including milestones and measures.• Facilitate team chartering for leadership to establish alignment in vision and process for program leadership• Facilitate multiple team chartering events for delivery teams to both train and create norms for staff new to agile principles and Scrum practices.• Creation of technical training materials for delivery teams including Python coding, creation of Django applications, GIT usage, unit testing, automated testing, multi-tier architecture, DevOps tooling, and DevOps practices.• Assist in architecting multi-tier software systems and Continuous Delivery/Continuous Deployment infrastructure• Daily one-on-one coaching for program leadership, product owners, technical leads, ScrumMasters, and developers.• Coaching and mentoring program leaders in system thinking, data-driven decision making and agile principles.• Establishing metrics, utilizing data and retrospectives to change behaviors

Strategic role with executive and departmental sponsorship. Responsible for adoption and institutionalization of agile development practices for two business units and the successful execution of cloud-based software development projects.Lead numerous teams in creating geospatial, weather and agriculture information systems for both government and commercial clients. The skilled teams at Radiant Solutions create geospatial mapping and GEOINT solutions as well as provide excellent big data applications for diverse groups of customers from farmers to commodity traders.Business Outcomes: • Delivery of flagship weather analytics application to a beta customer within 2 months of joining• Delivery of greenfield cloud-native geospatial web application to an external customer using bi-weekly deployments to ensure a tight feedback loop ($3mil/8mo + ongoing maintenance & support contract).• Coordination and execution of 24/7/365 support using a DevOps model where the development team codes, deploys and supports internal and external customers directly• Lead several AWS and two Google Cloud Platform (GCP) projects that enhanced the organizations cloud computing capabilities, which included Radiant Solutions first AWS and first GCP initiatives in this business area.• Through analysis and re-engineering, reduced AWS costs for entire product portfolio by 40% in 2017 and an additional 20% in 2018Culture Outcomes• Adoption of Agile Project Management Office within one business unit• Development of Product Owners company-wide through training and coaching• Evolution from suspicion and misalignment to high trust between business and development • Focus on building pipelines for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD)• Fearless deployment to production on demand or at regularly scheduled intervals• Increased visibility and transparency of the software team’s activities• Consistent retrospectives and measurements that enable continuous improvement

As part of the defense and public safety embedded systems development organization, I managed ~40 embedded software developers, provided software architecture guidance for multiple software defined radio platforms and enhanced productivity through process and tooling evolution such as Agile/SCRUM and Continuous Integration.Specific duties and projects include: • Managed department capital and expense budgets, including overhead and contractors.• Initiated, experimented and institutionalized Agile Facilitation throughout the department to improve planning activities and increase productivity for all project teams.• Led Agile SCRUM team that delivered embedded software/firmware solutions every 3 weeks while creating an innovative 2 channel handheld Software Defined Radio (SDR)• Staffed multiple concurrent projects while considering technical skill, availability, team culture and requisite cross-functional roles including team leads and developers.• Hired quality engineers; effectively trained staff; supported professional development, and gave productive performance feedback for direct reports• Formulated metrics, established monitoring which improving processes and infrastructure (e.g. reducing build time, increasing automated testing, institutionalizing continuous integration, meeting the governance requirements of ISO and CMMI-3).

Led day-to-day activities for multiple agile/scrum project teams delivering solutions for Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JTRS) Software Communications Architecture (SCA) compliant Software Defined Radios (SDR) which were complex systems >500K SLOC and including Human Machine Interface (HMI), Waveform, and Digital Signal Processing (DSP). Oversight included architecture, design, coding, budget, and schedule for 4-8 engineers.• Developed mobile ad-hoc wireless networking solution for narrowband waveforms which required BSP and device drivers updates to support of over-the-air IP endpoints. CORBA/C/C++/VxWorks.• Deployed enterprise-wide build acceleration solution that reduced build time from 4 hrs to 15 min.• Delivered enterprise continuous integration solution to automate build, test and metrics gathering. Electric Cloud Accelerator/Electric Cloud Commander/C++/Perl/Bash/DOS.

Oversaw the software architecture of media gateway development base on 3GPP and ITU standards. Primarily embedded development on high bandwidth platform with an emphasis on performance and capacity.• Provided technical leadership for Voice Services Processor (VSP) for 3rd Generation Wireless Voice Gateway (aka UMTS Wireless Gateway first introduced in Vodafone Spain 2001). The VSP card contained >50 x 6-core DSP chips, a half-dozen embedded PowerPC processors, numerous ASICs and FPGAs. C/C++/VxWorks• Created software solutions to meet call capacity, throughput, reliability, overload management, resource management, debugging and recovery infrastructure, DSP messaging infrastructure and OAM interface for controlling voice quality features in the network. C/C++/VxWorks

Managed the integration of a new high capacity media gateway hardware device than included 3 embedded processors and 10's of DSP for vocoding.• Led a team that made the first voice call on a new hardware platform that contained 3 CPUs and 64 DSPs and was targeted for 3 wireless business units with diverse requirements. • Delivered software to external business units. Integrated software and hardware from four different Nortel Networks sites distributed across three different countries. • Software and System Design Management for 2.5G and 3G wireless telecom protocols. Specialized in Capacity and Traffic monitoring and solutions with the goal of deploying the system with 99.999% availability while at the same time running at the maximum advertised capacity.

Provided technical leadership in development wireless media gateway software as well as test tools infrastructure.• Developed layer 2 ATM protocol for UMTS mobile telephony solutions in C/C++/VxWorks; Integrated layer 2 with UMTS higher-level protocols between Core Network and Radio Access• Network to support mobile call processing, hand-off, etc. C/C++/VxWorks/Perl/Unix Shell/• Lived 5 months Paris, France deploying and debugging the Media Gateway component of Nortel’s UMTS system for the first demonstrations of UMTS technology in Europe.

Developed and deployed test tools framework in C++ and Java for Nortel’s wireline and wireless DMS switches (e.g. DMS 100, DMS 250, GSM, CDMA).• Designed, developed and deployed test tools framework in C++ and Java for Nortel’s wireline and wireless switches.• 8-month assignment in Maidenhead, England deploying, training and leading a test tool team.