I leverage Agility experience to support project teams to prepare, and incrementally deliver working software to our customers (mostly corporate people, some customer things). That includes:- Coaching around how to best organize and work together to deliver incremental value to customers- project management alignment things like helping with planing, estimating, actioning Definition of Ready prerequisites, etc.- Some analyst work like learning the software, asking questions, coaching good user-stories to get the team to think and resolve problems before they block us.

• Responsible for continued transition from waterfall to Agile methodologies decreasing time to market, improving product transparency, increasing feedback and improving our development process overall.• Organized Agile teams around two major Railroad geometry measurement product lines; expanded influence over four products giving us the ability to act and react quickly.• Coached Product Management group in Agility to align and support Product Road-mapping, Portfolio Management with strategic vision and execution.• Engineered and Maintained metrics at the team and portfolio levels in order to measure improvement and progress toward strategic goals.• Created and executed targeted training materials on various Agile topics to assist in understanding and adoption.• Engaged teams in meaningful retrospectives that fostered continuous improvement for teams and for special projects.

• Part of an Agile Coaching team responsible for Agile adoption across a growing start-up organization.• Scrum Master for 1-3 teams in various product value streams from R&D in our fleet group to production systems in Construction & Railroad analytics that helped to achieve incremental delivery to gain feedback to increase learning.• Participated on strategic Agile initiatives that improved understanding throughout the organization.• Focused on meaningful product development demonstrations that are attended by leadership and sponsorship.• Member of Agile Practices team that defined and executed Agile at scale within our value streams and shared learnings with other groups.• Facilitated continuous improvement through retrospectives for teams and product development.

• Responsible for Agility in the new Chicago development office.• Successfully implemented Scrum/Kanban across three development teams defining how we incrementally build software and continuously improve as a team.• Contributed to strategic Agile/Lean growth in our organization organizing quarterly feedback, Agile workshops, and focused training sessions across our US and New Zealand offices.• Conducted regular team health checks and facilitated organizational improvement committees.• Created and maintained team and organizational metrics and tracking to align teams to product/portfolio strategy.

• Responsible for organizational Agile transformation.• Established Agile framework for the organization to support BAI’s goals. Scrum & Kanban.• Identified and implemented Agile tools to visualize and track sprint work and epics.• Promoted strategic Agile organizational growth through management Agile training, and focused sessions for new and existing teams.• Project Management of strategic projects during the transition.

• Execute/Coach Agile Scrum for three of our development teams.• Work with Scrum Masters to create and execute Agile training for the organization• Support Program Management and PMO on scaling Agile across multiple teams on larger initiatives.• Member of our Agile Improvement team to support uniform rollout across our organization

• Responsible for Project Management & Quality Assurance department budgeting, personnel, and operations• Implemented Agile-Scrum Methodology; transitioned development teams from traditional waterfall methodology. • Defined Agile team roles within the organization • Designed and implemented four Agile teams for product development (2 Kanban; 2 Scrum) • Agile coach, trainer and evangelist across all departments • Improved transparency and accountability for all teams to the organization• Responsible for strategic process improvement • Establishing Agile roles, responsibilities and guidelines non-development teams. • Identifying and implementing tools and processes to improve Agile teams effectiveness.• Coach teams on project evaluation, portfolio planning and product road-map planning.• Promote strategic Agile/Lean growth in our organization through strategic planning, training, interactive sessions, space planning, and team growth

• Project management/scrum master responsibilities through regular development iterations in an Agile environment.• Responsible for full SDLC project management for web application development, 3rd party integration, enhancements, new product development efforts.• Assisted Product and Senior Management in project evaluation, program planning and creating a company-wide project roadmap.