Randy Wilk

Randy Wilk - Enterprise Agile Coach, NextEra Energy, to provide leadership and direction to all Agile teams within the Division, serving as an expert in multiple Agile frameworks including Scrum, SAFe and Kanban.  Former SVP, IT Engineering at MetaBank having successfully increased Software Engineering effectiveness and predictability, completed a transformation to Large Scale Scrum (LeSS).  Previously Senior Manager of Software Engineering at Ultimate Software implementing continuous improvement initiatives and managing the Kanban process for Customs Development. Former IT Management Consultant and Agile Coach with FIS Global Commercial Services, and Vice President of Technology for FIS Prepaid Card Solutions, responsible for development of a Prepaid Card Processing platform.  Implemented a full scale Agile Transformation adopting Scrum and Kanban for a distributed Technology team of 200 at Prepaid resulting in an average improvement of 300% in project delivery times.  Formerly Vice President of Wealth Management Services at FIS Canada, responsible for the development and delivery of Securities Order Management systems for the Retail Brokerage Industry.  At FIS Canada our team made great strides in moving to become an Agile organziation with enormous success on several large projects.  I'd been with FIS for over 15 years, having started as an Applications Architect, then moving on to Development Management, VP Services at FIS Canada, relocated to Florida to take on VP Technology for FIS Prepaid, and into my current position as Development Management Consultant and Agile Coach.  Prior to FIS I spent a couple of years working as a Consultant for an IT Consulting company called LGS, and before that I worked for several years as a Software Architect for the Ontario Gaming and Lottery Corporation (OLGC).  In my earlier years I worked as a Software Engineer for a biomedical software company called Stellate Systems developing EEG recording and analysis software, and I worked on a project at Astral developing a digital audio editing suite for the film industry.  I have a Masters of Computer Science degree from McGill University, having also competed my undergraduate Joint Honours Bachelors Degree in Music Theory and Computer Science at McGill, and I hold the IEEE CSDP certficiation as a Certified Software Development Professional.