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ImprovingPrincipal Consultant
Sep. 2022 - Mar. 2024Houston, Texas, United States
CirrusLabsSenior Director of Agility and Agile Practice Leader
Apr. 2019 - Sep. 2022McLean, Virginia, United StatesTransforming organizations to become Agile and Lean by coaching and leading them in the way of Business Agility.
MatrixSenior Agile Coach
Oct. 2018 - Apr. 2020Houston, Texas AreaTrained and coached 4 teams in Agile methods including Scrum and Kanban
Developed and delivered curriculum for Agile including Agile for Teams, Agile for Product Owners, Writing User Stories and Test Cases, and Accountability for Agile Teams.
Provided cross-functional support to the IT DevOps organization involving the integration and improvement of the CI/CD pipeline. Lead and coached other Agile Coaches.
Crane CapitalSenior Agile Coach/Senior Operations Manager
Oct. 2017 - Oct. 2018Houston, Texas AreaAs Senior Operations Manager assisted with startup of Modiant (formally On3) to include building the Agile development team.
As Senior Agile Coach for Crane Worldwide Logistics...developed and implemented Agile transformation strategy for several software development teams as well as business partners
Trained and coached 8 teams in Agile methods including Scrum, Kanban, and XP
Developed and delivered curriculum for Agile and project training
Coached company executives to lead teams in an Agile organization
TechnipFMCSenior Manager Business Operations/Sr. Manager Delivery Model Optimization & Control
Sep. 2016 - Oct. 2017Houston, TexasManaged IT operations and budget for a $140M Infrastructure and Operations IT organization. Managed and directed 2 vendor mgmt. analysts.
Executive leadership team mentor and trainer.
Agile/Scrum process instructor and coach…developed team and mgmt. training in Agile software development methodology.
Virgarien Consulting GroupCEO and Principal Consultant
Jun. 2014Houston, Texas Area
PROSDirector of PMO/Sr. Business Operations Manager/Agile Coach/Leadership Mentor
Jan. 2013 - Apr. 2016Houston, Texas AreaAs leader of the Professional Services Program Mgmt. Office, developed and implemented the Agile process for the implementation and delivery teams. Implemented Rally for the global implementation teams to provide much needed project management and visibility for all PS projects.
Developed Agile training program for all development and implementation teams. Coached and mentored Agile/Scrum development and implementation teams to improve team performance and product delivery.
Agile/Scrum process instructor and coach…developed team and mgmt. training in Agile software development methodology. Developed and implemented successful project audit and corrective action process.
Senior leadership coach and mentor for senior executive staff. Facilitated the senior leadership team through strategic planning process which resulted in the company’s primary mission and vision for the foreseeable future.
PROSManager, Professional Services
Jan. 2013 - Mar. 2014Houston, Texas Area
Deloitte Touche TohmatsuProduct Owner/Program Manager/Sr. Project Manager
May. 2011 - Jun. 2012Hermitage, TNSuccessfully developed and implemented Credit Card payment application for Financial Services Group and Deloitte Disaster Relief Fund utilizing SAP Biller Direct, .NET, and Java. These projects were implemented using best of practice Agile (SCRUM) project methodology.
Successfully implemented several SAP O&M projects for Treasury and Leased Asset Mgmt. product areas.
Product Owner and Agile Coach for Treasury and Leased Asset Management groups. Successfully represented these product areas to the IT organization to ensure their O&M and new development was completed in a timely manner with the highest possible quality.
Developed and led Agile cultural change consulting and coaching team. Provided Agile SCRUM coaching to various teams, mentoring them on best of practice Agile methodology approaches to improve team performance and product delivery.
State of ArkansasSr. Program Manager/Agile Coach/Leadership Coach
Jun. 2010 - Mar. 2011Little Rock, Arkansas AreaDeveloped and implemented Business Intelligence Dashboard for the State of Arkansas enterprise. The dashboard serves as the state’s portal for all IT information for state agencies. This info includes network availability, incident management, finance and billing, and business continuity. This project was implemented using best of practice Agile project methodology.
Developed and implemented strategic planning process for the Arkansas Governor’s office. Provided leadership to develop the IT strategic business plan for the Department of Information Services.
Deployed ITIL enterprise strategic initiatives. Utilizing ITIL best practices, implemented several service related initiatives including reducing repeat help desk incidents, change management processes, knowledge database, CMDB, and incident management.
Developed and implemented project governance process for the approval of projects into the overall portfolio of projects. Trained and mentored junior project managers. Assisted PMs through the PMP certification process by teaching PMP prep classes.
TEKsystemsSenior Agile Coach/Senior Project Manager
Aug. 2009 - Sep. 2016VariousAgile Program and Transformational Coach, Allegis Group, Inc.
Coached and mentored Agile/Scrum/Kanban project teams to improve team performance and product delivery using best practice Six Sigma and Lean change management processes. Developed and led Agile Transformation process for entire Back Office organization.
Managed and directed 12 Agile Team coaches.
Executive leadership team mentor and trainer.
Agile/Scrum process instructor and coach…developed team and mgmt. training in Agile software development methodology. Agile Program Coach, Cisco
Coached and mentored Agile/Scrum/XP/Kanban project teams to improve team performance and product delivery using best practice Six Sigma and Lean change management processes.
Developed and implemented TDD (Test Driven Development) and BDD (Behavior Driving Development) process and principles for XP, DevOps, and CI/CD teams...implemented Jenkins and GitHub.
Agile/Scrum process instructor and coach…developed team and mgmt. training in Agile software development methodology.
Agile Coach/Mentor, Hospital Corporation of America
Coached and mentored Agile/Scrum project teams to improve team performance and product delivery using best practice Six Sigma and Lean change management processes.
Agile/Scrum process instructor and coach…developed team and mgmt. training in Agile software development and Lean methodology.
Sr. Project Manager/Agile Coach, AutoZone, Inc.
As the Scrum Master led successful large parts lookup and sales system upgrade project. Project budget was $600k with expected 1-year ROI of over $3 million.
As Agile Coach developed and implemented Agile process methodology as well as trained and coached project teams to use the Agile/Scrum process.
Coached the IT DevOps team in the setup of the CI/CD pipeline…implemented GitHub.
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