Heidi Araya
Orlando, FL
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About
Title: Director of Agile Transformation
- Enterprise Agile Transformation Leader. Proven expertise in Enterprise Lean & Agile transformations. Provide strategic transformation guidance to leaders & teams. Coaching, training, mentoring teams & leaders on Agile-Lean processes and systems thinking. Help instill a continuous improvement & innovation culture for self-sustaining transformation.
- Operational Leadership, Organization Design, and Culture. Established Lean-Agile PMO & enterprise prioritization process in a variety of industries. Worked with leadership to restructure teams, processes, & culture in multiple companies (up to 40 teams/~400 people), to focus on business value, limit work to align with core business strategy, & reduce cross-team and cross-division dependencies. Passionate about growing a positive culture with high performing, engaged teams. Experience working entirely & partially remotely for 20 years & working with collocated, distributed & offshore teams.
- Business Process Improvement. Implemented continuous improvements to business processes to create efficiencies, cut lead & cycle time, and better reflect the flow of value to customers. Performed value stream analyses to improve end to end processes. Made process changes to speed delivery and save up to 90% of costs in multiple companies.
- Thought Leadership: Experienced speaker at national/international conferences, meetups, webinars on technology/ Agile/ DevOps/business events. Co-founder and co-host of highly popular (50-90 people each session) virtual meetup series (www.coachingagilejourneys.com). Developed a highly successful virtual meetup engagement model.
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Career history
- 2016-02-01 - present - BrightLogic, LLC (Lean & Agile Coach)
- 2015-05-11 - 2016-01-29 - Frontline Insurance (Scrum Master)