Director, Agile Business Unit at IBA
Herndon, VA 20152
United States
www.ibacorp.us
January 2012-Present

Mr. Hunter McCluer is the Agile Business Unit Director for IBA. Mr. McCluer is a senior Agile Scrum Master / Scrum Coach / Program Manager. He is PMI and Scrum Alliance Certified with over 27 years of proven success guiding teams that develop and deliver complex client solutions. He brings extensive on site, off site and off shore teaming experience to IBA. His industry experience includes Defense Health, State and Federal Government, Health Care, Finance and Mortgage Banking, Cellular and Digital Wireless, Education, and Television, Internet and Mobile Advertising. IBA Agile products and services include our Agency Agile Health check, Agile Coaching, Training, Staffing and Agile Development solutions. Our Agile products and services are designed to help our customers succeed in their missions to improve quality while reducing time, cost and risk per initiative / release. All products, along with the IBA Agile web pages, were co-authored by Mr. McCluer. Since January, 2012, Mr. McCluer has coached and brought on line 14 DOD Product Development Teams at DHSS, and conducted ~150 Agile Training Sessions that range from a 3-hour Agile 101 / Intro class to up through all parts of the Agile process. (Backlog and T0 Prep, and included training teams on all key positions, meetings and deliverables for a successful Agile Scrum team. Mr. McCluer has acted as an embedded Agile coach for the 14 above DOD Product Development teams, where by he mentors new Agile teams from T-30 days / ramp up / Product Backlog creation, through their 1st 3 sprint cycles. He is also the founder of the Washington DC Federal Scrum Alliance User group. A group with ~1,800 registered members via our Constant Contact system. Our User Group site can be found at http://scrum.ibacorp.us. In addition to his training courses at DHSS, while at IBA, he has provided on-site training to teams at Walter Reed, Ft. Detrick and DHIMS. Department of Defense teams using IBA’s Agile approach are achieving on average per release: * 400% reduction in time to market * 50% reduction in cost * 60% reduction in deliverables

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Washington, DC, District of Columbia 20005
United States
www.comcast.com
June 2011-March 2012

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Senior Scrum Master / IT Tech Project Manager - AOL Online Media at AOL
Dulles, VA 20102
United States
www.aol.com
April 2004-January 2010

• Assembled and led Agile and Waterfall teams that designed, developed and deployed numerous highly complex initiatives, in mission critical, revenue generating environments. Deployments encompassed front end, back end, and network / infrastructure upgrades. Teams included on site, on shore, off site and international resources. • Led teams through process to form, storm, unite, initiate, plan, and execute as a single unit, focused on a common goal. • Successfully launched over 30 initiatives into production, resulting in lowered cost and increased revenue to the respective business units and AOL overall. • Provided team members and executive stakeholders weekly, and when needed, daily updates on program health, and status. • Lead global technical teams, which implemented Phase I of a complex ad server migration for all AOL Ads. Results of the migration were greatly improved ad functionality, significant cost savings, and approval to proceed with overall conversion. • Business Client units included AOL Advertising, AOL Mobile Advertising, Billing, Streaming Media (Audio and Video), Tacoda Behavioral Targeting, and more. • Developed and deployed various Agile tools to streamline and enhance Planning Sessions, Daily Stand-ups, Demos and Stakeholder reporting. • Provided Agile overviews to groups interested in converting from Waterfall to Agile to streamline process and improve on time delivery of products. • Managed successful relocation of two Data Centers. • Produced and co-hosted monthly employee and contractor networking events, DWBH@AOL. Events were a venue to celebrate successes, highlight new ideas and showcase new products, both internal and external. Events raised over $125,000 for local and national charities. Normal event crowds were ~1,200 Guests, with larger events at ~3,800 Guests.

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Bellevue, WA 98004
United States

March 1996-August 2000

Lead Scrum Master / Program Manager / Managing Director - AT&T Wireless National Billing / Usage Delivery Conversion Project • Bid, won and managed $20 million SCRUM project that successfully upgraded national billing environment. • Successful converted 71 switch sites, along with all related applications and client systems from a batched, call record collection and distribution environment to a real-time, UNIX based centralized architecture. • New architecture managed mission critical, real-time feeds from all cellular switches, while feeding all downstream applications including customer billing and fraud prevention. • Project team: ~70 individuals, 6 Project Managers, 4 consulting firms, various hardware and software vendors, and numerous client Finance, IT, and Engineering teams. Lead Program Manager: AT&T Wireless North East Region Inbound/Outbound CRM Upgrade Project • Bid, won and managed $8 million project that successfully deployed new front and back end solutions, as well as new LAN/WAN environments, for over 250 offices and over 3,000 CRM client workstations spread across 80 sites. • SCRUM Project deployed new in-house application, upgraded back-end databases (Oracle/Sybase), and deployed new UNIX and Windows workstations into North East Region's 7 x 24 CRM production environments. • Program team: ~150 individuals, 10 Project Managers, 3 vendors, 6 consulting firms, and 3 client teams.

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