Experience

Dotwork

• Belgium
• Software Development

• Head of Customer Success

  • Apr 2023 - Present

  Greater Chicago Area Dotwork is the first platform of its kind to help connect the dots from strategy to execution.



The Uncertainty Project

• United States
• Technology, Information and Internet
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-Founder

  • Apr 2023 - Present

  Greater Chicago Area


Atlassian
• Australia
• Software Development
• 700 & Above Employee
• Principal Solutions Architect

  • Apr 2019 - Mar 2023


AgileCraft

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Enterprise Solutions Architect

  • Apr 2017 - Apr 2019

  Georgetown, Texas



Motorola Solutions

• Software Development
• 400 - 500 Employee

• SAFe Transformation Lead

  • Oct 2014 - Mar 2017

  Schaumburg, IL • Launched 18 Agile Release Trains and 14 Value Streams over 24 months, covering half of the R&D operations for the $5.7B company. • Delivered SAFe 4.0 training to 1000+ leaders across seven global design centers. • Coordinated best practice sharing across network of 25 internal SAFe Program Consultants (SPC4s).

• Engineering Manager

  • Nov 2014 - Aug 2016

  Schaumburg, IL • Created and executed roadmap for company's $5M/year annual software development life-cycle (SDLC) tools budget. Drove a 3-year modernization of the legacy SDLC environment. • Led global (US, Poland, China) team of 21 engineers responsible for the administration, configuration, and evolution of the software development tools and methods for the Systems and Products group ($3.7B business with 3000+ software and systems engineers). Team accomplishments: • Piloted, configured, and… Show more • Created and executed roadmap for company's $5M/year annual software development life-cycle (SDLC) tools budget. Drove a 3-year modernization of the legacy SDLC environment. • Led global (US, Poland, China) team of 21 engineers responsible for the administration, configuration, and evolution of the software development tools and methods for the Systems and Products group ($3.7B business with 3000+ software and systems engineers). Team accomplishments: • Piloted, configured, and deployed a new development ecosystem centered around JIRA, Bitbucket, and Git. • Built custom integrations (using Mulesoft) between JIRA and each of the following: VersionOne, ClearQuest, and a legacy engineering metrics platform.

• Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff

  • Jun 2006 - Oct 2014

  Schaumburg, IL • Designed and deployed corporate metrics for agile software development • Led common agile practice definition and global deployment efforts across 1000+ engineers for the Government business unit • Created and taught several internal courses including: "Software Architecture Design for Six Sigma" and "Controlling and Improving Flow" for the Lean Product Development series. • Evaluated, piloted, configured, and deployed VersionOne for agile project management to 1500 users.

• Six Sigma Black Belt

  • Jun 2001 - Jun 2006

  Schaumburg, IL • Applied statistical process control to agile project management, then designed and piloted new standard metrics for agile project management, using predictive modeling, resulting in $25K savings. • Deployed an improved front-end estimation process based on functional sizing (Mk2 function points) • Defined a scaled agile framework for system-level agile development that was successfully piloted in the A6.9 release on the Vortex 2C feature team, then deployed to over half the programs in… Show more • Applied statistical process control to agile project management, then designed and piloted new standard metrics for agile project management, using predictive modeling, resulting in $25K savings. • Deployed an improved front-end estimation process based on functional sizing (Mk2 function points) • Defined a scaled agile framework for system-level agile development that was successfully piloted in the A6.9 release on the Vortex 2C feature team, then deployed to over half the programs in the Government business unit. • Defined a software development common process for the Government business unit, supporting the successful efforts to achieve SEI CMM Level 5 certification in 2005. • Wrote influential internal blog on agile practices, estimation, and software development

• Software Engineer Team Lead

  • Jan 1996 - May 2001

  Schaumburg, IL • Led team in creation of an object-oriented (OO) redesign and C++ implementation of the resource allocation component for the Zone Controller, which provides distributed call processing for the wide-area private trunked radio networks. • Created architecture and led team in the C++ implementation of a distributed Home Location Register (HLR) that added state-wide roaming capabilities to wide-area private trunked radio networks. • Introduced Scrum, XP, and Design Patterns into the… Show more • Led team in creation of an object-oriented (OO) redesign and C++ implementation of the resource allocation component for the Zone Controller, which provides distributed call processing for the wide-area private trunked radio networks. • Created architecture and led team in the C++ implementation of a distributed Home Location Register (HLR) that added state-wide roaming capabilities to wide-area private trunked radio networks. • Introduced Scrum, XP, and Design Patterns into the department.