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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States

- Served as a RTE and Agile Coach for the Infrastructure and Cloud Services portfolio, overseeing the adoption of SAFe agile practices.- Organized and efficiently facilitated all agile-related team ceremonies, ensuring effective collaboration and communication among team members.- Took a proactive leadership role in identifying opportunities for improvement within the agile teams, fostering their growth and enhancing their performance.- Presented comprehensive monthly "State of Agile" reports to the organization's VP and direct reports, providing valuable insights into the current status and future outlook of the agile initiatives.- Developed and executed quarterly agile maturity plans, which highlighted areas of opportunity and tracked the progress of improvement efforts, resulting in enhanced efficiency and effectiveness.- Served as Project Manager to ensure delivery of Network development-based projects including project scheduling, milestone tracking, risk and issue identification, status reporting and progress tracking.

Des Moines, Iowa, United States

- Scrum Master and Agile Change Champion, guiding and supporting multiple product teams in their agile journey as organization embraced SAFe methodology.- Skillfully facilitated various agile scrum ceremonies, such as daily standups, retrospectives, and sprint planning, ensuring smooth collaboration and efficient workflow.- Proactively identified areas for improvement within the teams to enhance predictability and optimize performance, leading to increased productivity and delivery.- Organized team Pre PI Planning sessions, meticulously tracking team capacity and Epic allocation to maximize efficiency and align with quarterly planning objectives.- Increased participation and engagement in daily standups and retrospectives through creative and fun team-building activities.

Glen Allen, Virginia, United States

- Led the SAFe agile transformation of the Wealth and Investment Management application team from Waterfall to Agile methodologies.- Facilitated agile ceremonies, organized sprint demos, and collaborated with stakeholders to review new functionality.- Implemented improvements in user story estimation and streamlined daily status communications, fostering a collaborative team environment.

Richmond, Virginia Area

- Coordinated and conducted all agile Kanban ceremonies, ensuring smooth collaboration and workflow.- Identified, logged, and escalated issues for quick resolution, maintaining high productivity.- Ensured effective utilization of Version One team boards to provide accurate work item status updates.- Created biweekly and quarterly metrics for senior leadership, capturing team trends and highlighting areas for improvement and remediation.- Responsible for SAFe quarterly capacity planning and played a key role in reducing testing timelines, overall cycle time, and release planning preparation time, resulting in increased efficiency and resource allocation.- Responsible for representing team’s progress, status, and escalating impediments in S2 (Scrum of Scrums)

Richmond, Virginia Area

- Coordinated multiple quarterly releases of large and complex projects, ensuring smooth execution and preventing overlap with small maintenance project releases.- Collaborated with project managers, technical leads, QA leads, and application managers to avoid conflicts in scheduled releases, updates, and initiatives related to the BPM conversion.- Provided production support for legacy application suite, facilitating weekly production investigations meetings to review and resolve open production issues.- Implemented effective backlog grooming sessions, managed scope for monthly maintenance releases, and maintained Functional Specification Documents (FSDs) for deployments. Developed Release Tracker and Production Investigation log in Version One for efficient monitoring and early detection of conflicts.

Richmond, Virginia Area

- Managed the Commercial IT Technology Portfolio, focusing on the adoption of release engineering automation tools.- Implemented continuous delivery automation pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub, Subversion, and other relevant tools.- Developed and executed AWS Cloud onboarding plans for Commercial applications, ensuring smooth migration to the cloud environment.- Promoted effective communication by conducting bi-weekly presentations for senior leadership, showcasing progress in improvement strategies adoption.

Richmond, Virginia Area

- Successfully led firewall, switch, and End of Life load balancer upgrades, as well as routing optimization and DNS migration, managing critical network components and ensuring their seamless operation.- Acted as the intake coordinator, presenting events to Network Management and optimizing event awareness among stakeholders.- Collaborated with cross-functional teams to coordinate integrated releases into production, maintaining proficient monthly release metrics; mitigated risks by obtaining necessary approvals, conducting testing, and securing customer sign-offs prior to implementation.

Richmond, Virginia Area