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Process Improvement Director Developer Experience
PNCProcess Improvement Director Developer Experience
Dec. 2023• Helping bring in collaboration and central operation toolsets to improve developers experience such as Internal Q&A tools, Internal Developer Portals, AI Coding Assistants, and Desktop Containerization Hosting • Host regular events, serving an active role in annual events to engage, encourage, and uplift the engineering community • Capturing the voice of the community by delivering regular surveys, hosting events and and leaning in with other communities in the neighborhood such as scrum and product communities. • Serve and support platform and other component teams whose primary customer are other teams. • Serve and support the larger engineering community to help capture, prioritize and improve the developers experience. • Join delivery teams and deliver production quality working software along side them as a way to stay connected to the engineering experience and how we are all by default more predictable, faster to market, of higher quality, and having a more enjoyable time doing so.
PNC - CEI Contract Enterprise Tech Agility & Remote Agile Dojo Coach
PNCPNC - CEI Contract Enterprise Tech Agility & Remote Agile Dojo Coach
Feb. 2023 - Dec. 2023Remote• Helping uplift the enterprise Agile Dojo program by improving internal dojo sales process and building strategic relationships with platform teams within the corporation. • Coaching coaches and teams in key 6-week dojo engagements on how to step into the driver seats of executing their own sprints, devops, code quality, agile ceremonies, scrum-of-scrum flow, ci-cd pipelines, and test automation. • Working with community of practice owners and hosts to further invert the flow of communication and participation from the community membership and helping design and host unconference events for wider internal audiences.
Generative AI Platform Development Contributor
AI Dev BridgeGenerative AI Platform Development Contributor
Dec. 2022United StatesA lightweight, markdown-driven system that syncs business intent, developer workflow, and AI precision.
Senior Advisor I
FiservSenior Advisor I
Dec. 2021 - Oct. 2022New Jersey, United States• Sculpting and implementing simple pathways for development practices, CI, test automation, build automation, and CD deployment automation; with a focus on providing product models, estimates, improving team quality and predictability, reducing cycle times, and increasing throughput while improving overall team efficiency. • Delivered customized remote Agile coaching and training services across cross-functional teams, providing guidance throughout the entire program delivery cycle including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and documentation. • Coordinated with key management and cross-functional teams to gather business requirements and establish a roadmap for software development, integration, and reporting projects. • As an overseer of an application development team, I addressed project issues, trained on coding methods, and increased team cohesiveness. • I have also developed several internal applications to automate tasks at the enterprise level.
ETO Coaching Services @Fiserv, Coach, Technical Trainer, Communities of Practice, Dojos, Events
Insight GlobalETO Coaching Services @Fiserv, Coach, Technical Trainer, Communities of Practice, Dojos, Events
Sep. 2021 - Feb. 2022New Jersey, United States• Served in the Enterprise Transformation Office @Fiserv alongside an amazing team of coaches and trainers, 1/2 the original Agile Dojo inception staff and other legends as part of an effort to help a very large organization that is working to become the change. • Assisted in building up the Communities of Practice, helping delivery from a coaching and training menu of services, hosting and co-hosting events, training teams and supporting many others far more fantastic than myself to the same in everything from Testing Automation, Devops Automation, Code Refactoring, Containerization, to Agile portfolio management, Story writing and Product Backlog development et all.
Enterprise Agile Coach, Technical Trainer, Software Developer
Wabato, IncEnterprise Agile Coach, Technical Trainer, Software Developer
Oct. 2019 - Feb. 2022Florida, United States• Assisted teams in developing software-based solutions by applied mastery of cloud technologies and database including DotNetCore, Java, Cloud*, Serverless, Messaging Services, Queuing Services, Notification Services, TypeScript SPAs, BDD & Test Automation. • Delivered complex system changes to high throughput cloud applications, by consistently monitoring in CloudWatch. AWS, Lambda, S3, CloudFormation, and Java/.net, as well as evaluating emerging technologies to improve processes. • Assisted with many full company agile transformations, including hosting on-site events and training at all levels. • Assisted many clients with miscellaneous application development scenarios leveraging DotNetCore, Java, Cloud*, APIs, Serverless, Messaging Services, Queuing Services, Notification Services, TypeScript SPAs, BDD & Test Automation, various database on-premesis and cloud needs.
Enterprise Agile Coach and Technical Trainer
VerizonEnterprise Agile Coach and Technical Trainer
Mar. 2018 - Oct. 2019Tampa, Florida• Led in-house engineering teams across Scrum Master, Software Engineering, Quality Assurance and Architect functions, having developed highly performant teams following Agile methodologies, processes, and best practices. • Cooperated with key business decision makers to define and drive technical strategy and key modernization initiatives to improve performance and scalability of products. • Developed internal dotnet core to AWS Linux angular applications to better connect internal systems of Google+, Jenkins, GitLab, Artifactory, Jira, Confluence, as well as developed Java Spring BDD Selenium Gherkin Coded UI test projects. • Helped develop numerous CFTs for/with teams in the Dojo focused on lift-and-shift to help externalize configurations, describe environments, cloudify application installations • Assisted developers during product development through aspect, functional, reactive, key-value, key-wide-table, and event data paradigms, as well as cloud native micro-service event forward functional immutable reactive.
Senior Developer
Pulse8 Inc.Senior Developer
Sep. 2016 - Mar. 2018Annapolis, MD• Assisted company with fully integrating remote agile ceremonies and scrum concepts, leading high-end distributed scrum team to scratch build highly visible product, and providing world class, high functioning digital experiences for teams. • Closely cooperating with multi-disciplinary teams focused on medical record analytics and submissions work/edits/updates in vast deep SQL implementation, as well as BI assembly/repair in Tableau/Sisense, consistently training teams on tech-craft improvement processes. • Contributed to improving internal procedures and overall team efficiency by introducing automation and testing practices {Unit: ‘nUnit’, e2e: ‘casperjs/phantomjs’, bdd: ‘gherkin/specflow’}, and automated production deployments (Jenkins and MSBuild). • Delivered internal .NET StateMachine running as Service/Console app), Internal Client Facing Portals (AngularJs, MaterialJs, AD FS SSO integration, WinSCP Library), file processing and formatting application suite in (WPF/MVVM/C#).
Enterprise Agile Coach
OPIE SoftwareEnterprise Agile Coach
Jan. 2016 - Mar. 2016Gainesville, Florida Area• Helped the company (re) on board scrum, rearrange team composition, invert the flow of communication and information between teams and leadership in a microsoft asp.net mvc environment.
Enterprise Agile Coach
3M Health CareEnterprise Agile Coach
Mar. 2015 - Sep. 2015Greater Salt Lake City Area• Working with the amazing staff of this great 1,200 person software development company is as rewarding and successful as the brand suggests. Looking to take their Agile Scrum adoption to the next level everyone from bottom to top is hungry for the advanced scrum concepts and organizational structures that the highest performing teams and companies have come to adopt. We are only a few weeks into the transformation and it is clear Scrum and these people are a winning combination. I highly recommend this coaching to anyone looking to get to market faster with more valuable, higher quality software products while having a much more enjoyable time doing it. This was a great engagement that yielded in an average self-rating of 520% improvement in 8 weeks. Looking forward to future opportunities to work with these amazing teams!
Full stack Microsoft dotnet engineer & AI integration specialist
RobotBuildersIncFull stack Microsoft dotnet engineer & AI integration specialist
Feb. 2006 - Apr. 2023Remote• Contributed to developing a reusable modular WASM framework based on DDD and Clean Architecture principles. • Collaborated in delivering an off-line voice & touch driven local-AI stand alone kiosk solution, large document training local-AI solution, live event interaction platform, a customer referral app, a network security scanner, and an interactive AI storyteller experience using the aforementioned modular WASM framework. • Previously delivered dozens of applications for customers leveraging Maui, Angular & .NET, Silverlight, .NET MVC, WPF WinForms, all the way back to classic ASP.
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