Elton Smith

Elton Smith began using Scrum in 1995 after attending the OOPSLA conference in Austin Texas.  Elton enjoys reading, gardening, songwriting, computer programming and working with people from diverse cultures.  Elton's Agile related work experience:

TEKsystems working at Medtronic (June 2022 to April 2023)

• Role: remote Agile Coach
• Agile Coach for teams adopting the Medtronic Delivery Framework (MDF)
• Assumed responsibility as Product Owner for the MDF system
• Supported teams in Asia Pacific region

AP Professionals working at Nike (April 2021 to March 2022)

• Role: remote Scrum Master
• Scrum Master and Agile Coach for three Point-of-Sale teams supporting Nike stores in 40 countries, processing over $8B/year
• Worked closely with the Nike Retail Commerce program RTE to improve scaling and quarterly planning

Cprime (July to December 2019)

• Role: Agile Coach
• SAFe Agile Coach for Google in San Jose California
  • Trained seven teams and Product Owners in an Agile Release Train at Google using SAFe
  • Coached the Agile Release Train in their first SAFe PI Planning meeting
• Agile Coach for T-Mobile in Seattle Washington
  • Defined and documented Agile processes for teams and programs 
  • Worked with one program on preparation for quarterly release planning
• Agile Coach for Maxar in Denver Colorado
  • Trained teams on using Jira Align (Jira+AgileCraft)

Global Logic (May 2018 to July 2019)

• Role: Agile Coach
• Agile Coach for Marketo in Portland Oregon
  • Coached five teams on adopting Scrum and Agile practices
  • Introduced Story Mapping to Scrum teams to help prepare for quarterly release planning
  • Created customized self-assessment questionnaire used by teams in Portland Oregon, San Mateo California, Tel Aviv Israel and Bangalore India
  • Helped teams document sprint activities in JIRA and Confluence
  • Coordinated efforts with GlobalLogic Agile Coaches in San Mateo California and Bangalore India
• Agile Coach for Walgreens in Deerfield, Illinois
  • Coached six Scrum teams in the Clinical Services group on Agile and SAFe 
  • Worked with organization to correct problems with the SAFe implementation
• Worked with Singtel in Singapore setting up a program using the Spotify model
• Taught Leading SAFe classes in Poland for GlobalLogic employees

TEKsystems working at Nike, Portland Oregon (June 2017 to March 2018)

• Role: Agile Coach

Rent-A-Center, Plano Texas (May 2014 to December 2016)

• Role: Agile Coach
• Accomplishments:
  • Implemented SAFe.
  • Coached 12+ teams.
  • Administered AgileCraft Agile tool for Rent-A-Center.
  • Worked with managers, EMPO office and executives on Agile transformation.

AT&T, Dallas Texas (December 2013 to January 2014)

• Role: Agile Coach
• Accomplishments:
  • Agile Coach for collocated teams redesigning AT&T flagship business eCommerce website.
  • Acted as Product Owner when PO left for an extended period.
  • Trained Product Owner and team on use of Rally.
  • Worked with management on Agile transformation and planning organizational expansion.

Good Technology, Dallas Texas (August 2012 to November 2013)

• Role: Scrum Master and Agile Coach
• Accomplishments:
  • Scrum Master for development teams building a secure web browser application on both Android and iOS platforms.  Distributed teams with members in Dallas, California, Poland, France and China.
  • Scrum Master for a development team extending the IBM Domino email and calendar system.  Team members in Dallas, California and India.
  • Worked with Rally and JIRA Greenhopper Agile project management tools for user story preparation, sprint planning, tracking and reporting.  Used Confluence wiki tool for project documentation.

E2open, Dallas Texas (October 2011 to May 2012)

• Role: Scrum Master and Agile Coach
• Accomplishments:
  • Scrum Master for teams in Dallas and Austin.  Worked closely with teams on sprint planning, daily activities, demonstrations and retrospectives.  Coached teams on Agile principles and Scrum best practices.  Removed impediments so teams could concentrate on sprint commitments. 
  • Used Rally Agile project management tool.  Used Rally Portfolio Management to assist Product Owners in communication with stakeholders.

Hewlett Packard (November 2008 to September 2011)

• Role: Developer, Scrum Master and Agile Coach
• Agile Coach for Shell Voyager development project in Palo Alto California and Bangalore India.
• Scrum Master for a team making major enhancements to a .NET/SQL Server based web application facilitating selection of 7-Eleven store sites.  Developed in .Net (C#) and SQL Server.
• Scrum Master for multiple development teams at FedEx Office implementing enhancements to a Java/Oracle/Flex based eCommerce system.