Stuart Ward Email & Phone Number

Maplewood, Nj, Us

Jersey City, New Jersey, Us

Coached more than 40 teams. Developed original content for, and trained 500* people on Agile Fundamentals, Scrum and Kanban, Story Splitting, and Story Estimated. Taught SAFe for Teams and SAFe for Executives (5.0), Trained and coached teams in the use of JIRA.

* Coached four teams: the first responsible for integrating SAP’s Business Continuity and Planning Module, the second and third for Continuous Improvement in Manufacturing, and the fourth for building Qlikview dashboards for the Commercial Analytics and Business Intelligence organization.* Provided training to team members and employees across the organization in Agile Fundamentals, Scrum, and Kanban.* Observed day to day activities, including standups, backlog refinement sessions, roadmap and release planning, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and Sprint Retrospectives.* Emphasis on the Agile mindset, specifically: collaboration/teamwork, seeing the big picture and taking ownership for achieving it, hitting the sweet spot in terms of documentation, story mapping for understanding and capturing value streams, goals, backlogs, and working agreements with friends of the team.* Coached Scrum Masters on application of the Scrum and Kanban, servant-leadership, effective facilitation, administration of VersionOne for managing backlogs, tracking sprint progress, and creating effective information radiators.* Coached Product Owners on the importance of working hand-in-hand with the business, defining clear charters, proper story creation, facilitating story mapping workshops, and roadmap and release planning.

New York, Ny, Us

* Coached four teams in the Consumer & Commercial Banking: Digital Security Development Organization: two that make up RBAAD: (Risk-Based Authentication, Authorization and Decisioning, and two responsible for Distributed Authorization (LDAP).* Provided training in the Agile mindset, principles, and values, and Scrum and Kanban frameworks.* All teams achieved JPMC Level 1 Agile certification (two of only 20 percent of the 20+ teams that took the assessment).* Provided training on the Agile mindset, values, and principles, Scrum and Kanban.* Trained Scrum Masters in the use of Jira and Confluence for managing backlogs, sprints, and creating information radiators.* Demonstrated effective story mapping workshops; backlog refinement sessions, daily scrums, release planning, and sprint planning, reviews, and retrospectives.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

* Three-month contract to train the team, Scrum Master-in-training, and management in the Agile and Scrum framework for a $3m+ Enterprise Facilities Management Hub Project to consolidate facilities data for business planning, using Informatica and Qlik.* Conducted training classes for the team, management, and customers in the Agile mindset/values/principles and the Scrum framework.* Trained Scrum Master, first by modeling, then by coaching, in the facilitation of Daily Scrums, Backlog Refinement sessions, Sprint Reviews, Sprint Retrospectives, and configuring JIRA to create and track epics, stories, tasks, impediments, burndowns, velocity, and defect dashboards.* Trained Product Owners and BA’s in the deconstruction of requirements into epics, components, and stories that provided thinly sliced increments of end user value that could be completed in a single sprint. * Ensured framework and processes met all of JnJ’s compliance and SDLC requirements.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

Requested by CEO to train and transform the Dev organization to an Agile Scrum shop. Also provided technical sales support to the Sales organization in company’s cyber security products.

Houston, Texas, Us

* Restructured the TAM organization based on Kanban and a modified Scrum framework tailored for technical account management—Improved productivity by 25% in first quarter based help desk metrics.* Coached the Technical Account Managers in Agile principles—Increased specialization, customer-focus, efficiency, and improved moral by empowering teams, establishing and upholding accountability, and facilitating communication to meet the needs of each unique situation. * Provided technical account management for major accounts, activities for which include: onboarding, training, resolution of technical issues, and aligning customers’ strategic business needs with Fortify-on-Demand’s products and services. * Helped customers maximize their use of, and return on investment from, Fortify-on-Demand; and ensure customer satisfaction, resulting in renewal of contracts and purchasing of additional services (upselling).

Hartford, Ct, Us

* Coached the PMO, Executive Management, and team members in Agile/Scrum and Kanban fundamentals and advanced concepts using a combination of proprietary training materials, games, homework/quizzes, and hands-on individual and team coaching.* Release Manager for multiple major and minor releases of T360, Tymetrix’s flagship enterprise legal management web application, activities for which included: * Used scalable Agile/Scrum to coordinate multiple feature development and infrastructure projects from POC and development through release to Production. * Managed/led communications, Scrum of Scrums, deployments, and post-deployment retrospectives/lessons learned sessions.* ScrumMaster for four web development projects, activities for which included: * Creating and maintaining sprint backlogs, taskboards, storyboards, burndown/burnup charts. * Leading daily scrums, backlog grooming sessions, sprint planning sessions, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives. * Increasing productivity by removing impediments, facilitating collaboration, and blocking noise and distractions from affecting the team. * Tracking and managing budgets and resources.* Trained teams in Agile/Scrum fundamentals using Agile games.

Bristol, Ct, Us

Defined scalable Scrum framework for the Advertising Sales Replacement Program.Trained/coached team members, management, and other stakeholders in the implementation of the scalable Scrum framework.Led the Scrum of Scrums and release planning sessions.Managed scope and schedule to budget of $3.4m for Ad/Sales Replacement ProgramActed as ScrumMaster for two of four Scrum teams, activities for which included leading daily scrums, sprint planning sessions, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives, backlog grooming, and JAD sessions.Managed scope and schedule to budget using velocity-based and scenario forecasting, resulting in full scale revision of target dates to be realistic and achievable, improving morale of teams. Increased productivity by removing impediments, facilitating collaboration, and blocking noise and distractions from affecting the team.Created and managed sprint backlogs, taskboards, storyboards, burndown/burnup charts (using Serena Agile) and communicating status to upper management and stakeholders.

South Windsor, Ct, Us

* ScrumMaster for a total of seven products/projects.* Scheduled and ran daily scrums, sprint planning meetings, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives.* Created and maintained sprint backlogs and burndown charts.* Achieved maximum efficiency by removing impediments and acting as a buffer between team and product owner to intercept noise and distractions.* Maximized productivity and job satisfaction by empowering team members, fostering collaboration, and cultivating win-win thinking.* Developed curriculum for and taught company-wide courses on Agile/Scrum, PMBOK, the business-within-a-business paradigm, and business writing.* Completed Certified ScrumMaster training taught by Jeff Sutherland, co-founder of Scrum.* Managed five month initiative to improve consistency, reliability, transparency, and customer focus of IT department, seven person team supporting 270 stakeholders company-wide. Interviewed stakeholders, analyzed root causes, and applied industry best practices to reorganize structure, improve culture/methods/tools, and institute metrics. Project success led to similar service initiatives being implemented throughout all company departments.* Led six month project to create and launch Application Security department. Responsible for the development of code review processes and standards in accordance with OWASP; the selection, installation, and administration of Fortify suite of SCA tools and Burp penetration testing tool; and for meeting the requirements in the PCI-DSS. Upon launch, acted as AppSec Manager, with one direct security auditor report and indirect reports from the QA and Development departments. Designed and implemented web-based security awareness training for all employees.

Basel, Baselstadt, Ch

* Initiated and led cross-functional backup request process improvement project, with team of eight, supporting 300 stakeholders, and sponsored by the directors of the Storage Management, DBA, Technical Services, and Production Services departments. Re-engineered and documented the processes, workflows, and procedures for requesting and implementing server and application backups. Managed the elicitation of requirements and the establishment of goals, objectives, milestones, and ensured all requirements, goals, objectives, and milestones were met on schedule and to the expectations of the sponsor. Success of project led to the approval and initiation of a server provisioning process improvement project.* Led a server provisioning process improvement project, with team of six, supporting 300 stakeholders, and sponsored by the directors of the Storage Management, DBA, Technical Services, and Production Services departments. The project re-engineered and documented the processes, workflows, and procedures for provisioning production UNIX and NT servers. The requirements, goals, objectives, and milestones were met on schedule and to the expectations of the sponsor.* Reviewed, approved, and coached PM's in the defining of project plans and deliverables.* Trained PMs in PMBOK.* Helped designed the PM Cookbook an online, dynamic workflow tool.* Developed a project management Lessons Learned database.* Lead administrator for TrueChange change management application.* Selected for Transformation Leadership Team to improve customer care by spearheading changes and managing communication between depts.

Masters, English

Bachelors, English

Bachelors

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English