Thom Roach, Csm, Sa Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

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.

Chicago, IL, US

Crete, IL, 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.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• 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.
• 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.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• 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.

Chicago, IL, US

• 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.

Chicago, IL, US

• 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

Skokie, IL, US

• 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

Sunrise, FL, US

• 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.

Oakbrook Terrace, IL, US

US

Northbrook, Illinois, US

Bs, Electronics Engineering / Computer Science

Bachelor'S Degree, Electronics Engineering

Diploma, Pre-Engineering