Advisor at CA
Massachusetts
United States

March 2009-Present

Provide company-wide leadership in the areas of Agile and Configuration Management (CM) to help transform product development by adapting to customer needs and market changes, and increase innovation.

Agile Champion who leads an Enterprise Agile Team using collaborative approaches to build the CA common Agile Scrum framework with effective Agile practices. Building out training to support the organization focusing on Agile Overview, Agile Scrum Team Foundations, Agile for Executives, and Agile Product Owner areas.

Agile Coach for numerous teams to help them adopt Agile methods.  Applies a self-established Agile Adoption Roadmap where teams prepare during the readiness stage focusing on team roles, practices, etc, and then help teams deploy including training and in-session coaching and mentoring.   

Agile Product Advisor for the CA Agile Vision product focusing on meeting customer needs, establishing appropriate messaging, training presales and sales teams, and providing content for Ovum white paper and marketing materials.

CM Champion who leads an Enterprise CM Team using collaborative approaches to build a common CM policy, process flow, procedures, and practices. CM Advisor for CM and ALM technology and infrastructure projects.

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Agile Consultant at Harvard Business Publishing


April 2013-December 2013

Provide Agile consulting to help teams ramp up in Agile. Active Scrum Master applying Scrum events and a focus on personas, story writing, story points, and more.

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Vice President of Methodology and Architecture at Fidelity Investments
Massachusetts
United States

January 2001-December 2008

Innovative IT Leader who built relationships and provided progressive leadership in the Agile, Product Mgt, Infrastructure, Project Mgt, SCM, and IT Governance areas. Grew a SCM consulting business from scratch to serve over 100 products. Head of System Administration for Development and Test systems including server consolidation. Improved the company methodology including strong PM practices and promoted adoption from having 200 hits a month to the methodology website to over 30,000 hits a month. Established and deployed an IT Governance architecture practice from scratch to where all business units are assessing standards and reducing cost. Also established the first Agile Coaching Forum bringing together Agilists for the first time within my company to consider and implement new lean methods.

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