Agile Coach at Apriva
Scottsdale, AZ
United States
www.apriva.com
January 2011-May 2011

Contracted to implement Scrum across the organization and deliver a high visibility mobile project in record time while introducing automated testing to increase the quality and increase customer adoption and satisfaction.

- Assembled and trained Scrum teams
- Educated all levels of the organization about Agile methodologies
- Identified and trained Product Owners to create stories, manage a product backlog and prepare for release planning

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Agile Coach at Choice Hotels International
Scottsdale, AZ
United States
www.choicehotels.com
April 2010-May 2011

Contracted to implement Scrum across the organization and deliver enterprise wide projects including the internationalization of key systems and the adoption of a Service Oriented Architecture on standard development platform.

- Assembled and trained Scrum teams
- Educated all levels of the organization about Agile methodologies
- Identified and trained Product Owners to create stories, manage a product backlog and prepare for release planning
- Created improvement communities to introduce best practices in Automated Testing and Continuous Integration
- Ongoing coaching and mentoring of Scrum Masters, Product Owners, QA Engineers, Business Analysts
- Implemented Rally as the Agile Lifecycle Management solution

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Agile Coach at First Things First
Phoenix, AZ
United States
www.azftf.gov
March 2008-August 2009

Joining a newly created state agency serving early childhood in Arizona, this contract required acquiring all the infrastructure and resources to support the following applications: a grant management system, a quality improvement rating system for child care providers in Arizona, an intranet/extranet, a website and a data warehouse to track and report on key measures regarding early childhood. My role was managing this project to completion, as well as introducing Agile to the organization and coach many state employees into their new roles associated to Scrum. This was the first project approved by the Government Information Technology Agency (GITA) to use Agile, and although it was initially received with strong skepticism, it ultimately attracted the attention of other state agencies to closely observe this project. This overwhelming success was mostly due to the speed to market key deliverables and the overall satisfaction from the Executive Director at First Things First. 

- Implemented Scrum across the organization
- Managed the development of the grants management system, intranet, extranet and website
- Managed projects involving: SharePoint, ASP.NET/SQL Server and Data Warehouse

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Agile Coach / Program Manager Sr. at JDA Software Group
Scottsdale, AZ
United States
www.jda.com
June 2006-March 2008

Hired to coach and mentor all agile teams which included 400+ team members. Following the successful transition to agile Scrum, I joined the IT department to manage critical projects including the PeopleSoft and SharePoint upgrades. I also played a strong role to shift the overall culture of the organization as the facilitator of “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”.

- Implemented Agile Scrum in a distributed environment (including 200 team members in India)
- Managed Scrum of Scrum across new product development to handle cross-team dependencies and coordinate delivery dates
- Implemented VersionOne as the Agile Lifecycle Management solution
- Facilitated “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People” across the organization using the three days Signature program format, as well as trained other facilitators 
- Managed projects involving: SharePoint, PeopleSoft and Salesforce.com

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Agile Coach at Wolters Kluwer Pharma Solutions
Phoenix, AZ 85016
United States
http://www.wolterskluwer.com/
July 2011-Present

Implemented Scrum/Kanban.

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