Primary focus was to raise Agile awareness and maturity by teaching SAFe classes (“SAFe for Teams”, “SAFe Scrum Master” and “SAFe Advance Scrum Master”), provide one-on-one Scrum Master training and co-lead the transformation of the Scrum Master Community of Practice organization. Assisted in interviewing prospective scrum masters and development engineers. Worked with the company’s Agile coaching group to produce workshops, such as facilitation, to help mature the company’s scrum master staff.  Additionally filled in as an interim RTE when the need arose.

•      Gained the ICP-ACC (Agile Coach Certification) in April of 2023 to round out my skills as an Agile Coach.

•      Gained the SAFe RTE certification to be able to assist RTEs when needed in various areas and formed leadership triads to focus on improvement outcomes from teams’ retrospectives.  Was the interim RTE for the 2021.PI1 PI Planning event and was responsible for running the event for a train of 7 teams.

•      Led the Architectural team to transform to a Kanban flow process for their work.  This improved their delivery to Agile teams and allowed the Architectural team to focus on what is needed and deliver work products on time.

•      Successfully transitioned to different Scrum teams due to value stream mapping of the organization.  This helped the impacted teams and organization to not get interrupted with things tied to purpose and process re-alignment.

•      Active in several company communities of practices (CoP) focusing on scrum mastery and Agile metrics.

•      Was involved heavily in re-imagining and re-branding CVS’s Scrum Master CoP.  This resulted in roughly 80% attendance by the SM community at CVS and an uptick in community participation.

•      The bulk of my teams worked on service/microservice layers using AWS and GCP focusing on either IoT or identity access for cloud implementation.

Primary focus was to raise Agile awareness and maturity by teaching SAFe classes (“SAFe for Teams”, “SAFe Scrum Master” and “SAFe Advance Scrum Master”), provide one-on-one Scrum Master training and co-lead the transformation of the Scrum Master Community of Practice organization. Assisted in interviewing prospective scrum masters and development engineers. Worked with the company’s Agile coaching group to produce workshops, such as facilitation, to help mature the company’s scrum master staff.  Additionally filled in as an interim RTE when the need arose.

•      Gained the ICP-ACC (Agile Coach Certification) in April of 2023 to round out my skills as an Agile Coach.

•      Gained the SAFe RTE certification to be able to assist RTEs when needed in various areas and formed leadership triads to focus on improvement outcomes from teams’ retrospectives.  Was the interim RTE for the 2021.PI1 PI Planning event and was responsible for running the event for a train of 7 teams.

•      Led the Architectural team to transform to a Kanban flow process for their work.  This improved their delivery to Agile teams and allowed the Architectural team to focus on what is needed and deliver work products on time.

•      Successfully transitioned to different Scrum teams due to value stream mapping of the organization.  This helped the impacted teams and organization to not get interrupted with things tied to purpose and process re-alignment.

•      Active in several company communities of practices (CoP) focusing on scrum mastery and Agile metrics.

•      Was involved heavily in re-imagining and re-branding CVS’s Scrum Master CoP.  This resulted in roughly 80% attendance by the SM community at CVS and an uptick in community participation.

•      The bulk of my teams worked on service/microservice layers using AWS and GCP focusing on either IoT or identity access for cloud implementation.

Coached and mentored team members in Agile best practices and freely shared information with other local scrum masters. Produced training documents on various aspects of Agile, Kanban, and Scrum. Active contributing member of the company’s Agile Community of Practice (COP).                                                                                                                                                          

•         Led 2 to 4 teams that were dispersed around the world. All teams used Jira to capture information about work items.

•         Teams were dispersed (members located in different regions of the world) and composed of contractors from Deloitte and IBM.

•         At least one team uses the Waterfall methodology, whereas the others follow a hybrid Agile Scrum framework.

Led 2 to 3 Scrum Teams working on the Paragon Ambulatory product across 4 office locations (Georgia, India, North Carolina, and Illinois). Led a total of 6 teams. Some teams were co-located, and others were distributed. Project administrator in Rally for those teams.

•         Coached and mentored team members on Agile SAFe, Scrum, and Kanban principles. This was done in both group and one-on-one settings and have produced documents and WebEx recordings to help facilitate.

•         Regularly worked with the Product Manager to define and review product requirements and captured the information in story format in Rally.

•         Participated in the Agile Community, providing coaching, process improvement recommendations, and tools. This includes coaching other Scrum Masters and Product Owners.

•         Developed a capacity model used during sprint and PI planning by 35 Scrum teams.

•         Worked with the DevOps team to set up and configure development and test environments for Scrum Teams.

•          Completed SAFe certification (SPC4) and provided ongoing training to other teams.

Was called back to be a senior engineer to lead development of next-generation data base upgrade tool for Horizon Meds Manager (HMM) and build the upgrade scripts for HMM’s major product release.

•      Wrote enhancements and fixes for Horizon Meds Manager (HMM), a patient pharmaceutical safety application for hospital pharmacies using C#, C++, .Net, and Power ++.

•      Drove the HMM database integration with Clinicals EDM along with developing a new database upgrade tool and provided overall documentation for the HMM to HMM-R upgrade.

Was introduced to Agile values, principles and practices and sought to grow my skills in these areas.

•         Gained CSM certification in April 2012. Scrum mastered 4 distributed teams.

•         Used Kanban framework and used Rally as the tool to capture team and project work artifacts.

•         Documented/specified new processes to aid in maintaining and updating the HMM product.

As the Development Support Lead, managed engineering and analyst resources used to provide technical support of the HMM product, and built confidence between the Development Team, other groups within the HMM business unit, and customers.

•         Functioned in multiple roles of increasing responsibility (senior software engineer, CMMI Level 2 Champion, process improvement contributor, Development Support Lead, and HMM 8.7 Development Lead)

•         As a senior software engineer, wrote enhancements and fixes for a Horizon Meds Manager (HMM), a patient pharmaceutical safety application used in hospital pharmacies using C++ and Power ++.

•         As the CMMI Level 2 Champion for the HMM business unit, led the effort to document and specify processes by CMMI. The HMM business unit gained a Level 2 rating in 7 months. This was 5 months sooner than planned for.

•         As a process improvement contributor, oversaw the HMM business unit migration to the StarTeam Change Request System, and aided in improving development processes.

•         As the HMM 8.7 Development Lead, led a group of engineers in successfully developing and piloting HMM 8.7.

•         HMM business unit leaders acknowledged this release as the best HMM release meeting delivery, functional, and quality goals.