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Pottstown, PA PHONE NUMBER AVAILABLE EMAIL AVAILABLE LINKEDIN LINK AVAILABLEAGILE COACHHighly accomplished coach/mentor with a solid history of coaching and leading end-to-end product development and teams. As a Servant Leader I meet people and teams where they are and iteratively introduce new ways of working utilizing my agile experience working on product teams. As a strong and adaptive coach, I focus on fostering behaviours that encourages people/team development, promotes a culture of excellence and establishes a safe environment for learning. I bring an unyielding commitment to excellence, setting industry benchmarks for people, process and technology. I'm passionate about helping people and teams excel and deliver value aligned to overarching business objectives.KEY SKILLSProduct Discovery Domain Driven Design Software Engineering System Architecture Quality Assurance Agile Coaching Scrum Kanban DevOps OOAD Relational Database Design FDD TDD BDD API First Toyota Improvement Kata Java Ruby On Rails Ubuntu Jenkins Git Jira Bitbucket PostgreSQL Bash Maven Liquibase Terraform Cloud EC2 RDS S3 LightSail WordPressCAREER INDUSTRY EXPERIENCEBanking Finance Mechanical Engineering (Fluid Handling Equipment) Regulatory Compliance Healthcare Pharmaceuticals Manufacturing Systems IntegratorsPROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCEWells Fargo & Company Wilmington, DE 2021 2024LEAD TRANSFORMATION COACHDesignated to provide comprehensive coaching and mentoring to product teams operating primarily under Scrum and Kanban frameworks in the realm of Agile/Lean principles and values. Performed active coaching of product managers, product owners, SMs, KLs and Development teams to establish a solid metrics driven foundation of agile behaviours within a product structure.Delivered interactive coaching during team events, guiding teams on effective implementation of discovery, backlog refinement/replenishment, effective story writing, Scrum, Kanban, and continuous improvement to enhance delivery effectiveness, quality, and reliability.Delivered interactive team coaching of Behaviour-Driven Development (BDD) techniques to better understand, define and validate the desired behaviour of the product.Delivered interactive team coaching on the principles and methods of Test-Driven Development (TDD) to promote cleaner code, reduce bugs, and enhance the reliability and maintainability of the software.Delivered interactive team coaching of the Toyota Improvement Kata, fostering a significant mindset shift in retrospectives, enabling teams to break down retrospective findings into actionable, incremental achievable improvements.Delivered interactive coaching to Product Managers on effectively crafting OKRs and linking to product roadmaps to ensure alignment with business objectives.Addressed enterprise product vision, strategy, roadmap, and backlog quality issues by designing a 10-part workshop incorporating an end-to-end product case study focused on Discovery, Backlog Refinement/Replenishment, Prioritization and Epic/Story writing resulting in improved alignment with business OKRs and improved predictability and throughput for most product teams.Created a Pluralsight self-paced curriculum for Scrum Masters and Kanban Leads to address skill gaps, streamlining training for 200+ product teams.Provided Jira support to Product Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Kanban Leads including building product dashboards, advanced roadmaps, workboard configurations and automation.Revalize (FPX & Intelliquip) Bethlehem, PA 2013 2020PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT/ DEVOPS DIRECTOR Intelliquip is a specialized division of Revalize approximately 35 people total (Sales, Services, Development and Operations) that provided SasS based Select, Configure, Price and Quote products to Fluid Handling Equipment Manufacturers and their application engineers.Served as Product Owner for SaaS (and customer hosted) product suite working directly with SMEs (Mechanical Engineers) to specify and build new features based on product roadmap and customer collaboration. Servant leader to 4 teams of skilled software developers, driving the product suite toward an exceptional customer experience and quality, frequently serving in a hands-on capacity to ensure the teams success, improve product quality, and maintainability.Implemented effective release discovery/planning methods and cadence for core product suite in collaboration Customers, Sales, and Services organizations replacing lengthy document driven process, significantly improving the customer experience.Pragmatically introduced Lean/Agile practices growing the product team from 4 members to 4 autonomous product teams of 4-5 members each, thereby increasing development capacity, reducing product release cadence from 9 months to 2 months and on-demand for patch releases.Designed and implemented CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins, Maven, Bash, and Nexus, improving release reliability, enabling binary packaging and on-demand releases thereby reducing release duration from 4-5 hours to 5 minutes.Lift and shifted a 750K-line Java SaaS product suite from RackSpace (Windows/MS SQL) to AWS (Linux/EC2/RDS PostgreSQL), slashing monthly hosting costs by 45%, reducing latency and increasing reliability, scalability, and maintainability.Refactored the product suite of Java SaaS products to run on CentOS and Ubuntu replacing Windows Server resulting in 100% server operating system license cost reduction.Refactored the product suite of Java SaaS products to run on both PostgreSQL and MSSQL resulting in a 100% reduction in MSSQL licensing costs for SaaS service and providing a free database engine option for self-hosted customers.Refactored the product suite to eliminate the Java home grown database migration component replacing it with Liquibase XML based database migrations and elimination of about 5000+ lines of custom database migration code.Refactored the product suite to incorporate multiple deployment environment configurations (Maven, Bash, Nexus) resulting in enhanced dependency management, command line/convention-based configurations to support test and production deployments.Successfully designed and built a foundational object model for the fluid handling equipment quoting product, achieving over 90% test coverage and 200% performance improvement.Built smoke tests to execute postproduction deployment eliminating the need for manual production deployment validation resulting in an 85% reduction in production deployment testing time.In collaboration with product development teams spearheaded building and exposing RESTful APIs in the SaaS product suite for Sales Force integration and other customer specific system integrations.In collaboration with the product development teams spearheaded building an Open LDAP based authentication and authorization API to enable single sign-on for both SaaS and hosted customers.Regulatory Data Corporation, Inc. King of Prussia, PA 2011 2013DIRECTOR OF PRODUCTION SOFTWARERegulatory Data Corporation is a Goldman Sachs owned service provider to financial institutions that performs background checks of people and organizations for criminal activity related to money laundering, fraud, and other financial criminal activity.Oversaw daily operations and drove continuous enhancements by spearheading pragmatic Agile adoption, automating various processes, implementing CI/CD and integrating innovative technologies and practices.Served as the technical lead for a team of 6 software developers, 2 architects, and 1 DevOps specialist, focusing on refactoring and improving the quality of the codebase and data mining tools.Spearheaded automation of RDC systems to seamlessly convert varied customer data formats, resulting in significant efficiency gains, cost reductions, and enhanced business acquisition potential.Implemented test-driven development for a Java codebase, eventually achieving 85% test coverage and improved application quality and reliability.Introduced CI/CD using Atlassian Bamboo, fostering code collaboration and early defect detection.EDUCATIONGraduate Studies in Fiber Optics Technology and Software EngineeringPennsylvania State University Malvern, PABachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering TechnologyPennsylvania State University Harrisburg, PACERTIFICATIONSAWS Certified Cloud PractitionerGCP Certified Cloud LeaderMember of Agile AllianceCertified Scrum Master |
