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Join Catalant to View Full ProfileI work with IT-savvy organizations that want to further benefit
from the DevSecOps, Cloud, and AI/ML revolution. My company, Ardigent Consulting,
provides strategic advisory, coaching, and engineering services to help your
enterprise thrive in a very competitive landscape. Through our experience, we
have learned that each organization has its unique challenges and objectives. We
tailor our approach to our client’s context, keeping only a very few
constants: Integrity, Simplicity,
Agility, and Innovation.
Clients:
- Top-tier federal government agencies
- Fortune 500 Financial Services organizations
- Large and mid-tier systems integrators
Certifications:
- AWS Solutions Architect Associate
- AWS Machine Learning
- PgPM (Program Management Professional) and PMP (Project Management Professional)
- ICP-ACC (Agile Certified Coach) and ICP - ATF (Agile Team Facilitator)
- SAFe Program Consultant 4.x
- CSM (Certified Scrum Master) and PMP-ACP (Agile Certified Professional)
- ITIL4 Foundations
Founder and
principal consultant of the IT Management Consulting firm Ardigent Consulting.
Engagements:
· Cloud PMO Agile/DevSecOps Coach (Client: Department of State) – team,
program, and executive-level coach – transformed the CPMO to a large-scale
Agile program (7 teams); established a team (self)assessment framework;
establishing Agile governance process and
metrics; achieved 4x reduction of release cycles and overall product quality improvement.
· IRM Systems Integration Office Agile Coach (Client: Department of
State) – team, program, and executive-level coach; coached the team through establishing
their DevSecOps tooling and processes; assisted the team with adopting lean
product management capabilities; brokered partnerships and DevSecOps support in
a very fractured organization.
· Enterprise Agile Transformation SME (Client: Department of State) –
authored and co-authored the roadmap and artifacts for the Department-wide
Agile transformation – Agile Policy, FAQs, Glossary. Worked with and influenced
senior executes.
· Enterprise Agile Transformation Lead and Technical Agile Coach (Client:
Securities and Exchange Commission) – conducted an agency-wide Agile Readiness
Assessment; prepared the Agile Transformation Roadmap; authored the SEC Agile
Playbook; coached the first Agile Pilots. Provided CIO/DCIO support and Agile Transformation
status reporting.
· Agile and DevSecOps Coaching (Clients: misc. mid-tier GovCon) –
guided the clients in forming their DevSecOps Communities of practice; coached
high-velocity teams; facilitated workshops; managed the coaching backlog for
best practice adoption.
· AI/ML Rapid Prototyping (Clients: misc. GovCon) - coached three
teams through the design and implementation of fully operational ML-enabled
solutions built with microservice architecture, deployed on AWS via CI/CD
pipelines; consulted the leadership team on developing advanced skills and
corporate approach for continuous learning.
Line of Business Lead, Agile and DevOps Services – corporate capability development and growth, thought leadership, P&L responsibilities:
· Developed new corporate capabilities for Agile Delivery, DevOps, Cloud Migration, and Cloud Development. Technical Coach for the team that performed the FHS UCSIC e-Verify system migration to the AWS cloud.
· Stood up the Agile and DevOps Center of Excellence. Built the internal R&D lab for innovation and prototyping of AWS cloud solutions and evaluation of DevOpsSec tools. Coached the cross-functional team in adopting best DevSecOps practices.
· Consulted client leadership at DHS OBIM and Coast Guard on planning and executing their Agile transformations. Consulted DHS USCIS client leadership on best practices for scaling Agile in large programs.
· Managed a portfolio of eight (8) Federal prime contracts (160 personnel, $15.5M annual budget). Achieved in 2017: budget underrun of $1.7M; new revenue of $1.6M; a significant increase in CPAR ratings, numerous client kudos and social media shout-outs.
Developed a portfolio of shared services for: Continuous Integration; Build & Release Automation; Configuration Management; Release Management; Code Quality; Test Data Generation; Architectural POCs, and DevOps.
· System Integration Lead and Enterprise Release Managerfor the Common Securitization Platform – an industry-wide mortgage securitization utility consisting of 10 microservices and 3 COTS products. Established the internal standards and procedures for release management, API versioning, branch management, and code quality management.
· Championed SAFe adoption to scale agility across a fast-growing team. Mentored and coached junior Scrum Masters.
· Managed the implementation of two generations of CI/CD pipeline and the automated CI test suite.
· Facilitated a major data center migration from the Fannie Mae infrastructure to AWS - 240+ VMs and 50+ environments.
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