Enterprise Business Agility Strategist & Trainer

• Feb 2012 - Present

Working with AgilityHealth partners and customers to accelerate their journey to business agility. I've listed below only training and short-term contracts... Longer contracts are listed separately - NaturAll Club Philadelphia, PA - Agile Training for Business & Executive Strategy Session - Jan. 2020 - One World Vision Toronto, Canada - AgilityHealth Assessment - Nov 2016 - Synapse Wireless, Huntsville, Alabama - September 2015 - October 2015 * Agility Health Assessment * Agile Coaching Benaissance Omaha, NE - September 2015 * Requirements Gathering Training HHMI - Washington D.C. - July 2015 * Scrum-Master Coaching & Advanced Agile Training UNUM/ Colonial Life Insurance - Chattanooga, TN, Columbia, SC, Portland, ME - July 2015 * 4 Servant Leadership Training Courses US STRATCOM Military Omaha, Nebraska June 2015 & August 2015 * Real World Agile & Scrum Training * Overview of Agile for STRATCOM leaders AFWA Air-force Weather Agency, Military Omaha, Nebraska May 2015 * Real World Agile & Scrum Training Shelter Insurance, Columbia, MO - June 2014 - July 2014 * Real World Agile and Scrum Training * Stood up Agile Team * Enterprise & Team Coaching Textura Corporation, Deerfield, IL - June 2014 - July 2014 * Real World Agile and Scrum Training * Stood up two Agile Teams * Enterprise and Team Coaching Spirent Communications. Silicon Valley & Maryland - Sept. 2013 - Feb. 2014 * 4 Real World Agile & Scrum Training Courses * Jump Start Agile Pilot Team/ Project * Coaching Equilend New York, New York- Sept 2013 * Agile Training Orange Lake Resorts Orlando, FL- July 2013 - Aug 2013 * Coaching on release planning Show less

Owner/ Executive Coach

• Apr 2011 - Present

Executive, Life, and Career Coaching. Enabling individuals and organizations to accelerate their journey to achieving measurable outcomes and living a life by design not default. Executive, Life, and Career Coaching. Enabling individuals and organizations to accelerate their journey to achieving measurable outcomes and living a life by design not default.

Enterprise Business Agility Strategist & Executive Coach

• Jul 2018 - Dec 2019

I'm honored to have worked with USAA digital on implementing lean portfolio management and enabling their enterprise business agility transformation. I enjoyed working with the digital executive team on forming the team and coaching with some of the most established executives in the industry. I’ve definitely learned so much from all of them. To lean more about Enterprise Business Agility please follow the link. I'm honored to have worked with USAA digital on implementing lean portfolio management and enabling their enterprise business agility transformation. I enjoyed working with the digital executive team on forming the team and coaching with some of the most established executives in the industry. I’ve definitely learned so much from all of them. To lean more about Enterprise Business Agility please follow the link.

Enterprise Business Agility & SAFe Coach

• Mar 2017 - Dec 2017

Agile Coach and Trainer

• Dec 2016 - May 2017

I was excited to join Kiewit as their Agile coach and trainer on their journey of transforming the way they work and build software. Trained multiple Real World Agile & Scrum/Kanban courses. Assisted Kiewit with developing their internal Agile Playbook Coached multiple SAP, and custom development teams on agile, ScrumBan, and Scrum. Ran multiple deep dive training sessions to deepen the knowledge of the teams and do group coaching I was excited to join Kiewit as their Agile coach and trainer on their journey of transforming the way they work and build software. Trained multiple Real World Agile & Scrum/Kanban courses. Assisted Kiewit with developing their internal Agile Playbook Coached multiple SAP, and custom development teams on agile, ScrumBan, and Scrum. Ran multiple deep dive training sessions to deepen the knowledge of the teams and do group coaching

Infrastructure teams Agile Coaching

• May 2016 - Nov 2016

Helping coach the infrastructure teams at Fanatics to create high performing teams and an agile process that is customized. Helped the infrastructure team implement a scrum of scrum across the teams and manage dependencies. Coaching DevOps on implementing a customized process and liaisons to development teams Coaching Netwroking & Compute/Storage team on adopting a Kanban process Coaching Database team on implementing Scrumban process. Helping coach the infrastructure teams at Fanatics to create high performing teams and an agile process that is customized. Helped the infrastructure team implement a scrum of scrum across the teams and manage dependencies. Coaching DevOps on implementing a customized process and liaisons to development teams Coaching Netwroking & Compute/Storage team on adopting a Kanban process Coaching Database team on implementing Scrumban process.

Lean Business Agility Enterprise Coach

• Oct 2015 - Mar 2016

Verizon Enterprise IoT Innovation Program wanted to pilot a lean business agility (LBA) program with their newest IoT platform ThingSpace.com. * I was brought in as an enterprise coach for the LBA and ThingSpace programs. * The Lean Business Agility Program (LBA) consisted of 6 pillars:- 1. Customer Seat at the Table 2. Lean Product Development 3. Stable Teams 4. Agile Framework & Mindset 5. Leadership & Culture Transformation 6. Making it Stick Change Plan. * Coached and trained the ThingSpace Program on the 6 pillars. * Designed the ThingSpace Program team and stable teams. * Facilitated multiple big room program planning, demos, and retrospectives. Show less

Agile Transformation Coach

• Oct 2013 - May 2015

As Paychex is transitioning to using Agile across the enterprise, I'm glad to have been brought in to help them with their transformation. * Transformation Strategy and Team Structure Recommendations * Delivering an enablement program to allow paychex following our engagement to stand-up programs, and teams on their own. Through Coaching internal resources to becoming Agile Coaches. * Standing up & Coaching 3 Portfolio Teams * Standing up & Coaching 6 Program Teams * Standing up & Coaching multiple Communities of Practice (CoPs) * Standing up & Coaching 9 Scrum Teams * Standing up & Coaching 6 Kanban Teams Show less

Agile Transformation Coach

• Apr 2013 - Jul 2013

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Nebraska is a leader in Agile Adoption. They have transformed every level of their organization to the Agile Mindset and values. I was truly honored to be brought in to work with their claims business department on adopting agile. As an Agile Transformation Coach: • Worked with the leadership team on designing the new agile business team, a workforce management team to manage the claims coming into their area. • Worked with the leadership team on defining the team roles, roles and responsibilities for each member of the team. • Coached new resource management team on people development and coaching. • Assisted leadership with kicking-off the new workforce management team. • Initial customized assessment of claims group in order to use later to determine if workforce management team has been able to improve status quo. • Helped the Workforce management group to establish team identity, meeting cadence, and working relationship. • Provided the new team members with one on one coaching in order to assist them in their new roles. • Facilitated retrospectives cross teams in order to improve communication and collaboration. Show less

Agile Transformation Coach

• Mar 2013 - Jul 2013

Hayneedle is an organization that truly has embraced Agile and the value it can bring. I was honored to work with them on scaling their agile practice and coaching their scrum masters and product owners. As well as providing them with a User Story Workshop for their teams. In my role as an Agile Coach: - I had the joy of coaching 3 amazing scrum-masters on scrum, kanban, facilitation, servant leadership, agile reporting, and ways of assisting the organization in transforming to agile. - Coached the newly formed product management team on agile project initiation, portfolio planning, and defining the product owner role. - Helped the organization launch an Agile Champions Group to support removing organizational and team impediments, and facilitate continuous organizational improvement in adoption of Agile. - Provided the teams with team assessments/ Health team radar in order to highlight areas that the team should focus on improving. - Provided the organization with Team, Process, and Enterprise organization assessment and recommendations for scaling agile. - Facilitated changes to release cadence toward continuous integration - Facilitated meetings to assist in establishing design process and how it integrates into the scrum team/ process - Provided multiple mini-training sessions for the team, including: - Agile Release Planning - Agile Issue Management - Scrum training - Agile Feature Planning & Estimating Show less

Agile Coach/ Program Manager

• Feb 2012 - Mar 2013

TyMetrix is an organization that is transforming to Agile. I'm glad to be brought on to lead and drive the organization and teams through this transition and help maintain transparency throughout the organization while collaborating closely with product owners to ensure the delivery of value. In my role as an Agile Coach & Scrum Master: - As Program Manager for two programs, I was able to oversee the standing-up of 8 scrum teams. - I coached 3 scrum-masters on assisting the organization with transforming to agile. - Set PMO standards on facilitation - I played the scrum master role for 3 teams, 2 distributed teams which required close collaboration, and training in Russia. - Provided product owner training on Agile for the business - Facilitated release planning with teams and product owners - Coached the teams to use Scrum methodology and follow the agile principles. - Facilitated Agile Champion Community for the organization to help drive the vision of agility. - Facilitated the scrum meetings for the team:- Daily Stand-ups, sprint planning meetings, retrospectives and demos. - Acted as the shield for the team, helping protect them from outside distractions and removing impediments to give them the environment necessary to deliver their sprint goals. Show less

Scrum Master/ Project Manager Consultant

• Apr 2011 - Jan 2012

Manage all aspects of IT project development, including business requirement gathering, progress tracking, and delivering on time · Coach & train teams on Agile development process and Scrum methodology - Facilitate project planning, daily stand-up meetings, retrospectives, demos, sprint and release planning meetings. · Synthesis requirements into stories and lead estimation using complexity analysis. · Forsee future impediments & stomp them - Use Microsoft Project for budget and capacity tracking · Collaborate with the business in driving decisions and managing project risks and issues Show less

Agile Coach & Project Manager

• Sep 2010 - Apr 2011

 Implement Agile/Scrum on project  Partner with the project Business Analyst/Information Architect to deliver new features and functionality for saks.com  Work with creative, technical, marketing and other business teams to capture project objectives and scope  Establish and maintain the project timeline  Regularly capture and communicate project status  Identify red flags and resolve impediments to project completion  Ensuring deliverables meet project requirements  Manage project capital and expense budget  Reviewing deliverables with business stakeholders and incorporating their feedback  Maintain and track the project budget. Ensure project is delivered within budget  Manage 3rd-party relationships as needed  Oversee User Acceptance Testing and final sign-off  Conduct post-mortems on projects and disseminate conclusions to the rest of the team  Aid in the management of the project roadmap  Stay in sync with the latest industry trends and communicate findings to PMO and other business groups Show less

Agile BA Consultant

• May 2010 - Sep 2010

Business Analyst

• Feb 2010 - May 2010

Business Analyst working on the Corporate Software Development team using Agile/XP Methodologies. Responsible for being the bridge between developers and internal customers. Responsibilities Include: - Writing Stories and Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) documents. - Gathering requirements for IT development projects by conducting interviews, work flow analysis, process analysis and observation sessions. - Evaluating gathered information from multiple sources and distinguish user requests from user needs - Interfacing with all levels of internal customers and analyzing current business and software development processes - Arranging timely customer reviews of software under development to ensure customer satisfaction - Interfacing with the testing/ Quality Analysis team - Adhering to and suggesting new Agile principles and methods of requirement gathering - Facilitating Agile rapid and meaningful releases - Obtaining authorization and signoff signatures - Doing whatever it takes to facilitate efficient software development Redbox uses Agile Extreme Programming methodologies, paired programming, BDD, .NET 3.5, C#, SQL 2005, Linq, SIlverlight, Subversion. Skills Used on a day to day basis include: - Superior communication skills - Business process analysis and improvement ability - Speaking “tech” and “business” - Working on multiple projects at once - Interpreting customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements. - Challenging business units on their assumptions - And most importantly entrepreneurial, whatever it takes attitude Show less

Project Manager (CSM)

• Oct 2009 - Jan 2010

As a Scrum Master for Total Attorneys I was responsible for facilitating the success of the bankruptcy case support (BCS) application. I worked closely with the case support product development team and product owner to coordinate and manage all aspects of team meetings including: Release and Sprint Planning, Sprint Review, Retrospectives, Daily Stand-ups, and meetings with the product owner as necessary to prioritize and clean up the backlog. Authored and managed all aspects of scrum documentation including: Sprint Backlog, Burn Down and Burn Up Charts, Team Roster, Velocity, Product Road Maps, Functional and/or Technical documentation, Team capacity planning, and bug tracking as well as supporting the removal of impediments. I also maintained transparency into the team's work through a JIVE hosted intranet site and blog posts. Worked closely with the product owner to assist them in maximizing ROI and meet organization objectives through the use of scrum. Show less

Technical Consultant

• Nov 2005 - May 2009

Technical Consultant:  ScrumMaster/ PM for Valmont Industries  CMS for Securities America  www.inanursing.com  www.xstreamcarwash.com Training Coordinator:  Developed marketing materials for the Training and Development Center.  Developed a database for tracking past courses and seminar attendees.  Attended many of the training topics such as basic Java, JSP, Servlets, Struts, RAD, multi-layer architecture, UML, Patterns and best practices, ASP.NET and Ado.NET.  Developed and tested an employee company directory application as part of a major insurance company’s Java Journey training. Used RAD, JEE, Struts, JDBC and a DB2 backend database. Account Executive:  Responsible for developing successful long-term relationships with potential clients in order to secure new business.  Responsible for matching client needs for technical consultants with the right consultant’s skill set. Show less

Student

• 2006 - 2008

Management Information Systems Management Information Systems

Teller Supervisor

• Jan 2004 - Sep 2005

Performed financial and service transactions for customers. Provided excellent service to customers in line with service quality standards and bank policies and procedures. Resolved customer problems and respond to inquiries quickly and effectively. Established successful opening and deepening of relationships. Cross-sold opportunities identified by assessing customer needs and refer to appropriate specialist (Personal Banker, Investment Consultant, etc)Adhere to legal, corporate and regulatory procedures. Operations oriented filled in for Service Manager when needed. Was a player-coach role for other Tellers. Show less