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SkillExperienceScrum Master10+ YearsAgile10 + YearsJira8+ YearsAn experienced agile coach with a solid development background looking to deliver value to your organization.Career Notes:Scrum Master/Agile Coach, Certified Scrum Master, and Product Owner with 10+ years of experience leading/coaching the Agile Process. I have a technical background as a developer in Microsoft tools.Experience turning around dysfunctional teams with a 50% reduction in defects, increased unit test coverage from 0% to 65%, and lowered turnover on development teams.I served as the servant leader of seven scrum teams, averaging nine per team, working domestically and in India as a Release Train Engineer. I led big room planning and production integration sessions and was the principal facilitator for all agile activities.Advanced skills in using Azure DevOps for work item management, source control, continuous integration, continuous deployment, and continuous regulatory compliance. Complete understanding of source control with this tool.Strong Jira skills with the ability to manage a backlog with Kanban or Scrum techniques. Strong understanding of queries and how to customize the tool for a project. Able to work with Confluence tools. A precise knowledge of Git and GitHub.He has a solid understanding of metrics and how to give frank appraisals of project progress.As a coach, I actively train product owners to improve their skills.As a coach, I led efforts to implement continuous integration, test-driven, and SOLID development.I have presented a white paper at the Agile 2018 conference, "Delivering Value and Defeating the Cobra Effect." My most recent presentation was "The Voice of Servant Leadership" at the 2023 AgileIndy conference.I understand how to use Midjourney Graphics AI, Dall-E, Bearily AI, and Bard AI tools.Authors a weekly blog on Agile and Leadership, "Dirty Fingers"Last engagement working with Microsoft Artificial Intelligence tools.Experience with E-Commerce for Retail, Gift cards, Apparel, Logistics, Mail, Insurance, Financial Applications and Artificial Intelligence.Certifications:Certified Scrum MasterCertified Scrum Product OwnerCertified Scrum Professional Scrum MasterCertified Scrum Professional Product OwnerScrum Alliance Foundations EducatorSAFE 6.0 Lean Portfolio ManagementSAFE 6.0 Leading SAFeCertified Agile Coach From Chicago State UniversityICAgile Agile Team FacilitationICAgile Agile CoachingGenerative AI Fundamentals from Google Cloud.Microsoft Certified: Azure FundamentalsProfessional Experience:Consultant Chicago, IL April 2024 to July 2024Kenan Reid: MicrosoftShort-term engagement, helping lead projects for Microsoft's CodeWith program, helping the team create artificial intelligence tools for customers in the United States and Europe; Worked with diverse clients such as The NBA, Ahold Delhazie, Eli Lilly, Comcast, Temonos, and ExactBV.I worked with international teams in the Netherlands on artificial intelligence, including the Azure AI Development studio and Sematic Kernal.Short Turn Around with two-week sprints for each engagement.Responsible for over $400,000 of additional revenue generated from these projects in three months.35% Product Ownership, 50% Scrum Mastery, 15% LeadershipEnvironment: Azure DevOps, Loop, Microsoft 365, Teams.Senior Consultant Chicago, IL May 2021 to December 2023Capco: Guardian InsuranceI was a product owner and servant leader in a large insurance company. I provided coaching and support for product owners at a large insurance company to help them write better stories and develop a clean and easy-to-understand backlog.Responsibilities included the servant leadership of the Jira environment, helping with Jira Align to better facilitate work inside a release train, working with offshore teams, story coaching and refinement, defect triage and mitigation across the release train, facilitation of meetings with development teams, leadership during PI planning, and servant leadership of daily scrum meetings, providing regular reports of project progress daily.Leveraged the theory of constraints to ensure that the development teams were helping to improve the flow of work through the project.Involved with the training and development of product owners on writing better storiesengaged in the agile practice delivery team at CAPCO, authoring content for the company's agile training tool.Experience with PI planning and working on a large agile release train to help mitigate dependencies between the API teams and third-party vendors.During my tenure, I accomplished the organization's and client's goals, including turning around a dysfunctional team in six months and delivering software to production regularly.Helped to reduce defects by a factor of 50%. Collaboration between vendors and the client improved, helping improve productivity.Unit test coverage on the middleware API layer was enhanced from 0% to 65% in twelve months, reducing team turnover and helping maintain code consistency.50% Product Ownership, 25% Coaching, 25% LeadershipEnvironment: Jira, Jira Align, Confluence, Git.Director of Delivery and Agile Coach Chicago, IL January 2020 to April 2021CODAL: I was an agile coach and servant leader for numerous scrum teams.Provided coaching and support for scrum masters and product owners to improve product quality and delivery. Responsibilities include working with offshore teams, training project managers to better deliver solutions, Jira administration, including the hygiene of projects across the enterprise, training developers and project managers to practice better code quality, and integrating quality assurance professionals into the development process, authored performance plans and spent countless hours making continuous improvement of the organization via retrospectives and inspection and adaptation sessions.Agile transformation efforts include lean coffee, improving Jira hygiene, and coaching and training others in story writing.Understands Agile maturity and how to evaluate others using SMART goals. Can create coaching plans and progress documents.Coached others to turn around troubled projects, helped grow the organizational revenue by 30%, and managed up to 53 projects spread over ten people.50% Coaching, 50% LeadershipEnvironment: Jira, Confluence, Git.Scrum Master and Agile Coach Chicago, IL August 2019 to December 2019Charles Schwab:Worked as an agile coach and servant leader for seven scrum teams with Charles Schwab as they attempted to release financial trading software in capital markets.Responsibilities included the servant leadership of the Jira environment, working with offshore teams, story coaching and refinement, training other product owners in story writing, facilitation of meetings with development teams, facilitation of feature requirements with executive leadership, the leadership of big room planning sessions, proctoring release sessions, servant leadership of daily scrum meetings, creating information radiators around the office to illustrate project progress clearly.My efforts helped the team deliver software to the client on time, meeting customer expectations.I have led geographically distributed teams in the United States and India, coached product owners on managing a backlog, and led big room planning sessions and product increment planning using the SAFe framework, improving collaboration with the business and development cohort. I have strong Scrum and Kanban knowledge.50% Coaching, 50% Scrum MasteryEnvironment: Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo.Scrum Master and Agile Coach Country Club Hills, IL January 2019 to March 2019International Code Council:Worked as an agile coach and servant leader for two scrum teams.Began their agile implementation with team members scattered in India, Europe, and domestically.Coached a cadre of product owners on managing a backlog and better collaboration between development and quality assurance professionals.Trained the organization to handle a Kanban process with Jira.Mentored a junior scrum master as a coach on how to be a servant leader for his team and give better retrospectives. 50% Coaching, 50% Scrum MasteryEnvironment: Jira, Confluence, PHP, WordPress.Scrum Master and Agile Coach Warrenville, IL July 2013 to November 2018LSC Communications (Formerly an R.R. Donnelly Company): Agile CoachThe agile coach and servant leader of four scrum teams working domestically and in India. Implemented Team Foundation Server 2015 throughout the enterprise.Extensive coaching experience helps product owners improve their skills. I increased EBITA by $500,000 for the company as the Scrum Master of one of my teams. Coached all teams to practice continuous integration, test-driven, and SOLID development.Led the transition from TFS 2015 to Azure Dev Ops for the organization, including automated builds, continuous integration, and dynamic deployments to production.Working closely with the company regulatory compliance to ensure we are SOX and PCI compliant. A scheduled presenter at the Agile Alliance Conference 2018."Delivering Value and Defeating the Cobra Effect." Working with the Agile Coaching Exchange, discussing "Healthy Ownership."60% Coaching, 30% Scrum Master, and 10% Development of DevOps Pipelines.LSC Communications (Formerly an R.R. Donnelly Company):Scrum Master Scrum master and servant leader of three teams. Helped train and spin up an offshore agile team to work on projects. Helped reduce production bugs from 40 a month to an average of 14. I had twenty developers over two continents reporting to me. Have trained product owners to manage a backlog and develop products on time and within budget. Extensive experience in teaching others technical debt, agile best practices, and making code nimbler. Familiarity with SOLID programming techniques and test-driven development. Strong knowledge of working with non-collocated teams and using TFS to manage a backlog better. 10% Development, 60% Scrum Mastery, and 30% Coaching.Environment: Visual Studio Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013 Visual Studio 2012, Azure DevOps, VSTS, TFS 2015, TFS 2013, TFS 2012, C#, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2016, CSS, Bootstrap, HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, T/SQL, WCF Services, ASP.NET 4.5, LINQ to Entities, LINQ to XML, MVC 5, Entity Framework 6..NET Senior Developer Naperville, IL August 2011 to July 2013KeHe Foods: Joined as a senior-level developer to help with Restful services for an online shopping application. I introduced agile methodologies to the business. Created numerous internal online applications with ASP.NET web forms and MVC 3. Mentored junior developers using the AJAX Control Toolkit to serialize XML objects and wrote multiple unit tests for applications75% Development and 25% Project management.Environment: Visual Studio 2010, Visual Source Safe 2005, C#, SQL Server 2008, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, T/SQL, XML Web Services, ASP.NET 4.0, LINQ to XML, MVC 3, Entity Framework 4.1, MySQL.Education:Management, Master of Science The University of St. Francis, Joliet, IllinoisExtensive training in project management, team building, quality improvement, software management, leadership, agile project development, and Scrum. Was inducted into the Business School honour society Delta Mu Delta.Communications, Bachelor of Science Illinois State University, Normal, IllinoisExperience writing news for print and broadcast media and mastering typography and graphics. I was a National Champion in Speech and have substantial expertise in speech education. Comfortable with leading presentations and discussion groups.Activities and Awards:Presenter at the AgileIndy Conference, Indianapolis "The Voice of Servant Leadership," 2023Presenter at Agile Coaching Exchange San Diego "Healthy Ownership," 2018Presenter at Agile 2018 Conference "Delivering Value and Defeating the Cobra Effect," 2018Illinois State University Forensics Alumni of the Year, 2005Who's Who of Information Technology Professionals, 2002NFA National Champion Impromptu SpeakingEagle Scout |
