Accomplishments Include:
 
Licensed to teach all of the Scrum.org classes.  In 2019-2020, I provided Agile/Lean/DevOps training to over 1500 people at various Fortune 500 firms and government organizations. Training included Agile Leadership, Scrum Master, Advanced-Product Owner, Scrum with User Experience and Scrum with Kanban. Licensed to teach all Scrum.org classes as well as providing Google Design Sprint and Release Planning Workshops. Clients include: Walmart, Capital One, Merck, US Army, Homeland Security, Wells Fargo, Credit Suisse, Marathon Petroleum, Shell Oil, Occidental Petroleum and Apple.  Trained and coached over 250 people at CapitalOne on incorporating Design Thinking practices into their Scrum cadence using Lean/UX.

Enterprise Agile Coach for Marathon Petroleum supporting Finance and Refining departments in their agile transformation.
Enterprise Agile Coach for an agile transformation at Moody’s Corporation with a focus on the successful delivery or the One Ratings Platform.  Providing Professional Scrum Leadership, Product Ownership, Scrum Master and Developer training along with guidance to the Project Management Organization on scaling up to nine scrum teams focused on ratings and six scrum teams focused on finance.  Worked exclusively with Product Management to help them better align with customer demand.
 
Started an enterprise agile transformation for BNY Mellon innovation/agile transformation group.  Completed a successful pilot with the Enterprise Workflow Solutions team. At the completion of Sprint 12, the team has achieved the Sprint goal each of the last 10 sprints and continues to improve their definition of done and automated end to end testing while producing a working software increment each sprint.  Coached the Product Owner on the importance of having a Product Vision that aligns with the Business Mission and Strategy as a tool to help with backlog ordering.
 
Coached ten scrum teams for the transformation of the Middle Office outsourcing product and service.  Coaching teams on the Scrum framework and prioritization of a product backlog in support of several client product deliverables.  Trained 100+ people on Scrum and have facilitated four Product Backlog Increment planning workshops.
 
At J.P. Morgan Chase, coached the product groups on the development of user stories and using story mapping to help with prioritization along with coaching 2 teams on utilization of the Scrum framework and lean engineering practices.  This engagement was focused on improving the marketing capabilities related to A/B testing.
 
Served as an Agile Coach at AIG in their Business Excellence Department teaching agile and lean methods to their team members and executive leadership in the Multi-National Operations Group.  Trained 70+ team members and 20+ executives on Agile and SCRUM.
 
Consulted as an Agile Coach at Neuberger Berman Investment Bank to teach agile and lean methods to their Compliance, Financial Reporting, and High Net Worth groups.  Interests include how to scale agile frameworks to include enterprise architecture and technology investment/project governance.
 
Consulted at Warner Music Group as a Product Owner Coach for the development of their Strategic Mobile Solution along with a Platform as a Service solution, Continuous Integration and Deployment and infrastructure build-out related to the Warner Cloud Platform (hybrid cloud using Pivotal Cloud Foundry). Current cloud environments being supported included AWS EC2, Tier1 and Bluebox.  The development environment includes Ruby, JavaScript, Java, ElasticSearch, Cassandra, and Titandb.  In addition to managing the development of the Cloud Platform, I am also responsible for managing infrastructure support and the migration of all business technology solutions to the cloud. Coached teams on the use of Agile techniques including best practices concerning software development as they migrated from a data center to a complete cloud architecture. (Test driven development, continuous integration & deployment, pair programming and automated testing.)
 
Provided Agile Coaching consulting services to MetLife’s Corporate Benefit Funding (CBF) business to better integrate agile software projects into enterprise governance and improved risk management.  Introduced the Envelope method as a framework being utilized by portfolio management on the Annuity Customer Experience program with the goal of continued customization for MetLife so that it could be leveraged in future efforts. 

Responsible for the software product development and infrastructure design, procurement and provisioning to enable eight product lines and two websites. Provided infrastructure architecture leadership in the build out of a new data center and migration of an Oracle data warehouse and applications to support the delivery of eight information products being delivered to 700 customers including Aetna, WellPoint, BlueCross Blue Shield and Emblem Health. • Management responsibilities included HIPAA & PCI-DSS compliance efforts along with design and development of our consumer and eCommerce website projects. • Led a team of developers in the design and development of The FAIR Health Consumer Cost Lookup website using of ASP.NET/C#. Developed an Android based cost lookup application using eclipse/java. • Managed the implementation of Salesforce.com customer relationship management system.