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I am a Sr. Agile Coach / Agile Advocate at Bank of America, where I participate in the Agile transformation of six Agile Trains of the Global Banking Technology Division. With over 17 years of experience as an Agile Coach and Trainer, I have multiple credentials and certifications in Agile, Scrum, LeSS, and SAFe, which enable me to provide effective and engaging coaching, mentoring, and training to various roles and levels in the organization. Some of my key contributions and achievements include presenting and training the administrative staff on the Metrics That Matter for six ARTs, creating and presenting personal assessments of all Agile Coaches, RTEs, SMs, PMs, POs, and Managers, and starting a Mindset Coaching Training for the team of Agile Coaches. I also organized an Agile Study Cohort for beginners and professionals, and helped the teams to remove impediments on a daily basis to allow them to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables. I foster collaboration, communication, and feedback among the teams and stakeholders, and align them with the vision and values of the organization. My mission is to help the teams and individuals to achieve their full potential and deliver value to their customers.
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Sr. Scrum Master And Agile Trainer And Agile Coach And Dev. LeadBank Of AmericaNew York, Ny, Us -
Sr. Scrum Master/ Agile Trainer/ Agile Coach & Dev. LeadBank Of America Mar 2023 - PresentCharlotte, Nc, UsParticipated in Agile Transformation of seven Agile Trains of Global Banking Technology (GBT) Division of The Bank.• Conducted Agile training sessions for teams of up to 25 individuals, focusing on requirements gathering, stakeholder interactions, and Scrum ceremonies.• Developed comprehensive course materials, including slide decks, facilitator guides, and participant handouts. • Participated in tactical and strategical Agile development of the ORG.• Presented and trained administrative of the ORG Metrics Which Metter for six ARTs.• Created and presented personal assessment of all Agile Coaches, RTEs, SMs, PMs, POs and Mangers.• Coached and mentored number of Scrum Masters, RTEs and Technical Managers.• Started Mindset Coaching Training for the team of Agile Coaches.• Organized Agile Study Cohort for beginners and professionals. • Helped teams to remove impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables. • Encouraged and assisted teams with making continuous improvements. -
Head Agile Coach & Agile TrainerSuccess Charge Academy Apr 2006 - PresentNew York , Ny, UsCreated a Training, Coaching and Mentoring program for talented individuals to get to professional level of New Generation Manager/ Scrum Master role within 70 days. -
Agile Trainer/ Rte / Agile Coach / Sr. Scrum MasterMacquarie Group Nov 2022 - Mar 2023Sydney, Nsw, Au• Leaded Agile Transformation from Waterfall to Scrum/Kanban/Scaled Agile in Macquarie US.• Delivered onsite Agile training workshops tailored to team needs, covering Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe practices.• Provided actionable feedback to teams to improve stakeholder interactions and optimize delivery processes.• Organized CoP for all Scrum Master Guild. • Conducted number of 1:1 and group sessions with 13 teams of Macquarie MAM• Helped teams to remove impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.• Worked closely with leadership to improve progress, dependencies, impediments and to help achieve great client and team outcomes.• Helped the teammates with key motivations, career objectives and personal improvement needs. -
Agile CoachWells Fargo Feb 2022 - Nov 2022San Francisco, California, UsActively participated on L1 (Team Level), L2 (Sub-Product Level) and L3 (Product Level) Training and Coaching in SAFe 5.1 to LeSS transformations.Product: RCO - Retail Core Operation• Trained Engineering Managers, Delivery Coordinators, Scrum Masters and Kanban Leads in Team and Scaled Agility.• Organized Scrum Study Cohort, prepared participants to PSM-1 exam;• Conducted Kanban CoP for the organization.• Coaching developers on AWS concepts.• Helped the teammates with key motivations, career objectives and personal improvement needs.• Encouraged and assisted teams with making continuous improvements.• Coached teams in defining all their work in terms of a clear outcome.• Promoted, prepared training materials and organized training for the POs, Product Managers and Scrum Masters on Estimating User Stories;• Conducted series of trainings and workshops on Writing Powerful User Stories;* Explained and moved to daily practice for the Product Directors, Product Managers and Product Owners for the Weighted Smallest Job First Epic/Futures Prioritization Technique;* Trained Product Owners and Product Managers to conduct productive Scrum, Kanban and SAFe-to-LeSS Transformation.• Conducted a number of coaching sessions with the Leadership of the RCO using Transformational Coaching Technique.• Coached and trained leads, project and program managers across globally distributed organizations adapt and understand how to apply agile and lean.• Established 20 teams (200) team members. Trained Scrum Masters Product Owners & Dev teams• Facilitated Scrum and Kanban Study Cohorts to introduce organization to Agile, Scrum, and Kanban• Helped to form the transformation roadmap for training, coaching, and building Communities of Practice for Scrum and Kanban.• Agile Mindset coaching for executives, managers, and teams• Facilitated the formation of an enterprise Agile transformation team -
Agile CoachSantander Bank, N.A. Feb 2021 - Feb 2022Boston, Ma, UsStarted company transformation to Agile/Scrum/SAFe 5.1 process by working as an Agile Coach for the Digital Division of the Santander Us Bank. • Launched two Agile Release Train: 1) Express Digital; 2) Self-Help ART.• Operated as the only SPC for the Santander US. Trained and certified: other Agile Coaches, Technical Directors, Scrum Masters, Advance Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Product Managers and Lead Developers in Agile/Scrum/Kanban and SAFe. • Lead the following Community of Practice: a. Agile SM/PO/Delivery Team; b. Agile Coaching; c. QA CoP;• Helped teams to remove impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.• Worked closely with leadership to understand progress, dependencies, impediments to help achieve great client and team outcomes.• Conducted Product Discovery Trainings for the CTO and Product Sr. Executive, which included: - Value Stream Mapping Workshops; - Persona Workshop; - WSJF• * Trained, Coached and certified 47 Product Owners, Product Directors at SAFe 5.1 POPM Class;• * Prepared and launched first Agile Release Train for the Santander US:• - Conducted SAFe for Teams;• - Organized and conducted PI Planning and Inspect and Adapt Workshops;• - Converted, trained and certified number of Business Analysts and Project Managers to highly skilled Product Owners and Scrum Masters. • - Trained and certified two Release Train Engineers.• Enterprise coach over organizational for Global Agile transformation and Executive reporting• Established 14 teams (120) team members.• Establish and guide leadership coalitions and Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE) to establish and sustain high performance team-of-teams across Strategic, Portfolio, Program and Agile Team levels• Transforming agile product delivery with DevSecOps, focusing heavily on continuous integration and continuous delivery (CICD) practices that go with it to bring further improvements to quality, time-to-market -
Agile Coach/ RteAmerican Express Feb 2020 - Jan 2021New York, Ny, UsHelped company transformation to Agile/Scrum/Kanban process by working as a Agile Coach for the Domain Generation division of the company. • Trained and certified: other Agile Coaches, Technical Directors, Scrum Masters, Advance Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Product Managers and Lead Developers in Agile/Scrum/Kanban and SAFe. • Improved, train the System Team, SMs, POs and facilitated PI Planning meetings & Inspect & Adapt.• Trained and coached the Agile Release Train of Rally and JIRA Dashboard utilization in the Agile maturity.• Developed Agile Maturity Model for the organization.• Created cross-functioning Solutions and Efficiency & Tools Teams. Improved Organization Agility on the Global Shop of AmEx.• Created and successfully conducted number of trainings: Leading SAFe®5.0, SAFe® SM, SAFe® Advance Scrum Master, SAFe® POPM, Successful Retrospective, Why Agile Training, Why SAFe Training. • Facilitated team workshops, and developed technology strategy recommendations.• Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.• Leading RTE Community of Practice at AmEx. -
Agile TranerChase Jul 2019 - Nov 2019New York, Ny, Us• Deliver JPM training material to SEP engineers while receiving feedback at high levels.• Train software engineers and business analysts in Agile concepts, computer science theory and practice in Concurrency, Domain Modeling, Java Collections, TDD et. • Facilitate and coach all Scrum ceremonies based on “Flow Monster”, trading educational product • Build teamwork. Promote technical excellence and Agile DevOps practices. -
Agile CoachAudible, Inc. Aug 2018 - Jul 2019Newark, Nj, UsWorked as an Agile Coach for the Fulfillment Services of the company. • Transformation Leadership providing Lean-Agile consultancy, and training;• Pioneered in adopting and enforcing Scrum rules;• Trained and coached Scum Masters, Stuck Holders, Product Owners and team members in Continue Integration effort.• Actively participated in Conflict Management and Communication Coaching. • Facilitated team workshops, and developed technology strategy recommendations.• Removed team impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables.• Developed several parts of Fulfillment Services on TDD. -
Agile CoachWells Fargo Jan 2017 - Jul 2018San Francisco, California, Us• Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks that increased customer satisfaction.• Facilitated Agile adoption retrospective for the organization with the leadership and guided teams with outcome resulting in enhanced performance.• Removed obstacle for the team by escalating an issue to leadership resulting in early delivery of customer issue solution. Customer provided positive feedback.• Lead daily stand-ups and scrum ceremonies for two scrum teams. Work with product owners to groom the backlog and plan sprints. Track, escalate and remove impediments. Report at daily Scrum of Scrum meetings. • Improved team velocity by incorporating capacity planning into sprint planning sessions.• We currently have a 4 week sprint; larger projects are implemented by delivering working software frequently with the consent from the Business Owners.• The Tcoe (Testing center of Excellence) team is part of our daily SCRUM call to keep them involved in the project.• Wireframes are used to ease the development process.• The Business owners and development team review the requirements and design of the projects in a sprint at regular intervals to meet the sprint deadlines.• The focus is to make the team self-organizing and technically strongTechnologies: Endur, FlexTrade, Java 8, multithreading, Oracle.• Designed, created, tested and deployed to PROD Wells Cron2Autosys application on core Java 8. It analyzed files with CRON jobs, reads several JSON property files and generates JIL scripts as output.• Couched management and team members in Agile and Scrum methodologies and practice.Developed FRENTE (Framework for End-to-end Testing) for Commodity Trading platform Endur, made by OpenLink and Wells Cron2Autosys application for FlexTrade and other Equity Trading platforms. -
Agile Coach & Tech LeadChase Feb 2016 - Oct 2016New York, Ny, Us* Converted several divisions from Waterfall to Scrum. Developed Scrum Team. * Actively participated in Dr. Jeff Sutherland Scrum Training for SMs and POs.* Helped Coach Gene Gendal in LeSS educational sessions.* Provided Scrum Study Cohort and TDD Training -
Agile CoachNew York & Company Oct 2015 - Feb 2016New York, New York, UsManaged the team of 8. Developed, supported one of the major applications for the business called OPPS, the major part of Order Fulfillment and Order Management.Technologies: Java 7, ESB (JBoss & Mule), Oracle and MS Server, Spring Boot, AngularJS as the front-end.• Changed full DAO, BO layers of the application by introducing pure layers of separation, refactoring and restructuring.• Switched the DAO layer from Hibernate to Spring JDBC framework to gain performance boost and to avoid dead-locking Technologys.• Replaced many Groovy classes with Java for maintainability and future enhancement. • Created Reporting Dashboard as a separate application for the company within 10 days of work.• Participated in architectural development of the company dataflow. • Tuned JVM to run Java app most effectively.• Created company’s Wiki on Confluence/Jira platform.• Trained junior developers on Angular JS and Core Java. -
Sr. Scrum MasterMorgan Stanley Jan 2015 - Jul 2015New York, Ny, Us• Developed on a large-scale project involving two major Java-based applications.• Participated on Scrum Teaming. Created and trained Scrum Masters for several teams.• Trained Business Analysts to start Product Owner career path.Trained teams on User Story writing and sizing and Conflict Management. -
Agile CoachWells Fargo Dec 2013 - Oct 2014San Francisco, California, UsManaged the team of 17. Worked on a large-scale project involving two major Java-based applications: a data preparation application for fixed income yield curves and a related data synchronization application.Technologies: Java 7, Spring Framework, Java Concurrency package, Sybase, Joda.• Developed the Fixed Income Division Yield Curves Multithreading application, designed to display several yields or interest rates across different contract tenors for a similar debt contract;• Reverse-engineered a poorly documented legacy platform and investigated the way the existing code was preparing data for the database tables;• Refactored the application legacy code and implemented an easily maintainable and extensible permanent solution; • Was responsible for performance and JVM tuning.• Analyzed Fix Income and Equity Reference data and performed data preparation to refactor the Imagine Trading Platform yield curve's processing algorithm;• Developed a flexible, table metadata-based data synchronization mechanism for an existing Sybase database that contained over 500 tables;• Implemented the functionality to synchronize data between different application versions for various failover scenarios;• Designed the project as a multi-tier application with four different tiers: Manager, Worker, BO and DAO tier; wrote requirements, created UML diagrams and unit tests, as well as the final deployment to production;• Trained junior Java developers on Java Multithreading concepts and best practices. -
Agile CoachThomson Reuters Apr 2013 - Nov 2013Toronto, On, CaProject to enhance and upgrade FXAll's proprietary Portfolio OrderManagement System (POMS) to the latest version of Gigaspaces in-memorydatabase platform XAP 9.5.POMS is an advanced portfolio trading tool that streamlines the foreignexchange workflow for asset managers and corporations. It reduces theeffort required to execute an entire portfolio of trades across multipleallocations, currencies and forward dates.* Analysed existing POMS infrastructure and code to find 'bottlenecks' andgood areas for XAP 9.5 implementation.* Converted DB Logging functionality to Gigaspaces's Polling Container withAsyncronic Persistency using Mirror Service (Advanced - XAP 9.5). New codeallowed 10-fold throughput performance and efficiency comparing to existingfunctionality.* Worked on Events logging part of the platform by using Spring framework and Gigaspaces technology.* Created a part of End Of The Day sub-project using TakeMultiple() on XAPPolling Container that allowed to take array of object out of Cashe and persist it to database.* Developed 'Order-Test-Harness' mechanism with the functionality of building sofisticated multry-layers Order Ojbect with loading live data from Oracle platform using Gigagaspace Processing Unit.* Set up and developed JUnit testing framework for many areas of new version of POMS. -
Agile CoachSnsv Corporation Apr 2011 - Apr 2013Project: Bank of America, EIS Department Responsibilities -• As a member of Golden Copy module development, participated in the development and maintenance of the JMS-based Fusion platform;• As a personal initiative built Field Matcher Java Application 6.0 for BA support, tested and delivered it in a very aggressive time-frame.• Actively participated in migrating of existing Monte Carlo Simulation platform to GemFire Enterprise 5.0 of GemStone.• Was involved in a number of smaller ETL projects to work with FIX protocol data files, configured WebSphere servers, performed Single-Sign-On-based set up of administration tasks. Futures and Options products on Equities.• Redesign legacy Java feed loaders for FIX protocol trading data to increase fields delivering in ten times.• Design and developed number of FIX protocol data loaders in Java to Oracle.
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Agile Coach, Scrum Master & Sr. Java DeveloperBank Of America, Risk Reporting (Radar), New York, Ny Aug 2010 - Apr 2011Charlotte, Nc, UsSenior Java DeveloperResponsibilities -• Developed number of Spring-based feed handling configurable applications on Java 6.0 for Oracle and MS SQL Server back-end.• Created Equities/ Derivatives data delivering platform on Java 6.0 between TMS London Risk DB on MS SQL Server to RADAR Oracle DB.• Developed several parts of communication platform to synchronized data with major company’s data warehouse – Fusion using DataSOA distribution layer. Platform called “GEFRM” used Publish/Subscribe and HTTPRequest/HTTPReply technology and was based on Spring DI.• Wrote new version of GEFRM Equity, Warrants and Bond Parsers to get additional data from Fusion DataSOA. -
Scrum MasterBloomberg Nov 2009 - Mar 2010New York, Ny, UsDeveloped:• A part of back-end for Portfolio Analyz-er and Property Des applications on BLOOMBERG.COM: Core Java, GigaSpace, Hibernate, Oracle within Spring container. • A part of EIS_API, EIS_IMPL packages.• A part of Business_API, Business_IMPL packages.• Data loading mechanism for GigaSpace - Hibernate – Oracle technology with Spring.• Number of Hibernate hbm.xml files for data manipulations.• A part of JUnit infrastructure – Unit Tests and Spring-base Integration Tests. -
Senior Software Developer/ System AnalystMerrill Lynch Dec 2006 - Aug 2009New York, Ny, UsResponsibilities:• Developed a Java Multi-Threaded data migration application for the FUSION project, one of key projects for the company, which involved conversion to Oracle time-slicing architecture; Fusion became one of the major company’s data warehouse. Worked with the following instruments: Futures and Options products on Equities and Commodities.• Perform tuning of Java Multi-Threaded applications for Restricted List feed handling. • Completed performance tuning of Feed-Handling application. Found a problem of miss-using of Collection Java Framework.• Proposed architectural design for the Restricted List Application, and implemented its Java back-end data structuring and distribution. -
Senior J2Ee DeveloperMerrill Lynch Jan 2006 - Oct 2006New York, Ny, UsMaintained and developed several components of Arctic Feed Loading platform: changed Multi-Threaded and Single-Threaded Java classes to process nearly 100 feeds, changed Tolerancer Java classes.Developed ETL for one of the largest feed loading processes using Informatica PowerCenter 7.0 and 8.1 to replace legacy systems.Participated in the development of Merrill Lynch LRT standard for Java distributed cache platform. Created proof of concept in GemFire Enterprise 5.0 of GemStone.Optimized legacy Java feed loaders to increase performance up to 60%.Participated in analyzing, optimizing and reengineering of legacy platform.Participated in the creation of the Merrill Lynch standard for feed loading.Created Servlets-based caching /feed processing platform with iBatis ORM.Was one of the contributors to the Grid-based proposal for feed processing.Participated in J2EE front-end development for Arctic ETL (JSP with Struts). -
Senior J2Ee DeveloperLord Abbett & Co., (Investment Management) Dec 2004 - Oct 2005Jersey City, New Jersey, UsDeveloped five major use-cases of CRD (Common Reference Data) Maintenance Application. The application was designed to provide a user-friendly interface that allows the query, addition, modification and conditional deletion of data in the Data Warehouse CRD repository including: Maintenance of the "boilerplate" data for all Broker/Dealer firms doing business with Lord Abbett & Co. including basic name and address information. Creation and tracking of "events" (mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, legal name changes) relevant to the Broker/Dealer firms. Responsibilities:Served as the senior technical leader for the complete project cycle Trained full-time personnel in settlement system platform development, in particular: P&S, fees & commissions, trades bust & reinstate for derivatives: futures/options trading. Developed project architecture using UML based on business requirements. Used the following environments to build the application infrastructure: WebLogic on desktops, development and QA on UNIX servers, JBuilder, ant scripts. Performed daily duties of the WebLogic administrator. Developed Struts-based, JSP, J2EE application in the environment with rapidly changing requirements.Created application support for large size transactions with Session-Façade J2EE design patterns.Documented system with JavaDoc and UML diagrams. Trained full-time development personnel responsible for continuation of the project on Java/ J2EE platform. Created single-tone PoolLocater class to get access to connection pool using JNDI. Designed and developed HTML, JavaScript and CSS for front end; transferred HTMLs to JSPs.Implemented and tested SQL statements for DAO layer. Used Struts and JSTL tag libraries on the front-end, namely; Platforms: J2EE: (EJB, JSP, Servlets, JNDI), Struts 1.1, Oracle 10g.on WebLogic 7.0 -
Sr. J2Ee DeveloperDow Jones, Wfc Mar 2004 - Dec 2004Designed a J2EE replacement of a Vignette legacy system for Financial News & Article Publishing using Rational Rose UML engineering and reengineering. Developed server-side for two subsystems, AWE and CAPS, to be used for publishing/un-publishing article content from the fileservers and Oracle database backend of the WSJ.com website. Automated Wire Editor (AWE) subsystem for collection and formatting newswire stories for WSJ.com and Newswires DJDayweb.com websites, with the daily volume of publishing transactions exceeding 20,000.Used Struts as the choice of MVC framework, which provided clear separation between Business Object (BO) and Data Access Object (DAO) layers as a replacement of the Vignette architecture.Developed the major BO class XMLManager for applying XSL filters to an XML article and loading pre-formatted XML data into Data Transfer Object (DTO). Created UML use cases and sequence diagrams for the System on Rational Rose and Visio for five use cases; Developed a full cycle of Article Kill CAPS and AWE use cases. Wrote major classes for AWE publishing, CAPS pre-publishing and CAPS publishing use cases, XMLManager classes, XSL filters, Data Access Object (DAO) classes and Utility package with Converter and Identifier classes.
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Scrum AllianceAgile -
Peoples’ Friendship University Of RussiaAnimal Sciences -
Peoples’ Friendship University Of RussiaAnimal Sciences -
LessLarge Scale Scrum -
Dow Jones, Wfc -
New York Mercantile Exchange -
Scaled AgileScaled Agile Transformation
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