SUMMARY

Seasoned business professional with a variety of role experience (agile, people, product, operations) always ready for interesting work. Strong believer in empowering teams to use innovation and experimentation to discover better ways of collaborative work benefits. Currently engaged with high-profile product tribes ranging from design through refreshes, for senior leaders through recent squad hires. An agile chapter coach demonstrating high output that strengthens the enterprise’ ability to achieve objectives.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (Business)

Saint Leo University, St. Leo, FL

Cum Laude

Bachelor of Arts (Television/Theater)

Rutgers University, Newark, NJ

EXPERIENCE

Agility Consultant / Associate Director Business Transformation

DTCC, Tampa, FL Oct 2019 – Present

Driving agile design, implementation, and adoption of methods and roles (Tribe Leaders, FMs, POs, SMs, PfMs, PMs, BAs, squad, CoEs.) As a tribe, chapter, and squad member, contributing to OKR deliverables while keeping an eye on internal commitment.

Coach design planning emphasizing agile best practices for ultimate ownership: opportunities, risks, potential solutions (events, interactions, strategy)

Consistently reinforce tool and metric usage:(Jira, self-assessments, MS Teams, Whiteboard)

Create training modules and facilitate sessions to introduce or reinforce empowerment (role interaction, story writing, Sprint 0, roadmaps, Epic and story relationships)

Partner across compliance teams ensuring agile practices compliment regulatory requirements

Facilitate agility topics to increase awareness and transparency

Agile Coach / Engineering Manager

Nielsen, Oldsmar, FL Mar 2018 – Oct 2019

Selected to become a certified Agile Coach and Facilitator to continue agile implementation within the software engineering department. Supplied consistent guidance that supported portfolio guidelines propelling teams to higher levels of performance. People manager of a global team responsible for internal test environments.

Orchestrated and facilitated Program Increment (PI) planning/synchronization events (80+ attendees); established simul-casted Demo Days showcasing completed work and life cycle impact

Collaborated in Jira Portfolio transition for holistic visualization and reporting

Scrum Master

Nielsen, Oldsmar, FL

Jun 2017 – Mar 2018

Transferred to Insights and Support team bringing the global Audience Measurement CoE to full agile transition

Leveraged agile methodology to drive team releases, while reinforcing healthy Scrum practices

As Scrum of Scrum Master, led impediment resolution until there were none

Resolved long standing server environment constraints, in 2 months

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Scrum Master/Project Manager

Nielsen, Oldsmar, FL

Mar 2015 – Jun 2017

Selected as one of the first Scrum Masters to drive the agile transformation for audio and television digital watermark technologies

Servant leader and agile evangelist: daily stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint retrospectives, story point negotiation; impediment removal

Client Engineer Project Manager

Nielsen, Oldsmar, FL

Mar 2014 - Mar 2015

Facilitated and managed waterfall software integrations with national and international original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) ensuring broadcast client satisfaction

Resolved backlog blockers by streamlining process and updating legal agreements (EULA)

Led media Software Development Kit (SDK)integrations, valued in the tens-of-thousands

Engineering Research Specialist

Nielsen, Oldsmar, FL

Mar 2013 - Mar 2014

Transitioned to engineering in a data science role supporting the Director of in-home test panel data

Monitored statistical trends to identify weaknesses needing improvement

Created and managed a research pilot that led to improved process for panel participation (Code Reader)

Product Manager Operations

Nielsen, Oldsmar, FL

Mar 2009 - Mar 2013

Product Manager with daily client-facing activities of customized raw advertisement data files. Managed entire product life cycle including explaining complex data sets to teams and clients at all skill levels.

Led U.S. software project feeding European Webservice, $500k annual revenue

Realized 590+ on-time data file delivery commitments

Spearheaded product syndication yielding significant cost savings

Additional

Mentor: USF Corporate Mentor program (1st generation students); Elementary “at risk” students

Tools: Jira, Confluence, MS Teams, Mural, Zoom Whiteboard

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