Joseph Barjis
Chicago
About
Title: Vice President
Agile Digital Transformation, Data Science, and Product Management Leader with 20 years of experience as Agile Enterprise Coach, Agile Portfolio Coach, Chief Product Officer, and Predictive Analytics from Europe to Silicon Valley, Fortune 50 to Fortune 1000, and top consulting companies in domains of IT, Banking and Financial Services, Insurance, Aerospace, and Academia.
CORE COMPETENCIES
- C-suite and Executive Engagement, Coaching, Training
- Leading Large Scale Enterprise Agile Transformation
- Agile Digital Transformations in Fortune 50, Fortune 500, and Fortune 1000 Enterprises
- Enterprise Agility Author, Speaker, and executor
- Value Streams Identification, Mapping, Management
- Prepared, Launched, and Coached dozens of Agile Release Trains (ART)
- Enterprise Strategy, Portfolio Management, Portfolio Vision, Portfolio Backlog
- Strategy Development, Strategy Execution, and Strategic Thinking
- Product Management and Customer Experience
- Enterprise Engineering - co-author of Enterprise Engineering Manifesto
- Data Science Methodology
- Superb international experience, collaboration, and network
- Trained 4000+ people in academic and professional courses from teams to SVP and CIOs of large enterprises, including 700 in SAFe Certification courses
- SAFe SPCT Nominee, SPC co-Trainer and Formal Contributor to SAFe Framework
- Authored and published 100+ papers
Experience and services
-
Career history
- 2020-12-07 - present - CNO Financial Group (Senior Director of Agile Practice)
- 2008-06-15 - 2013-09-30 - Delft University of Technology (Associate Professor)
- 2013-09-01 - 2016-01-22 - Institute of Engineering and Management (Agile Research Director)
- 2016-01-25 - 2017-01-06 - Autodesk Inc (Agile Coach / Scrum Master)
- 2017-01-03 - 2018-05-31 - Cognizant Technology Solutions (Associate Director)
- 2018-07-16 - 2020-04-16 - Boeing (Senior Agile Consultant in Digital Enterprise)