Software Engineer Manager

Jonathan Jenkins

***** *********** *** *******.*******@*****.***

Germantown, MD 20874 240-***-****

OBJECTIVE

Attain a position as an Enterprise Agile Coach, Agile Team Coach, or Release Train Engineer EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

• 16+ years as an Agile / Lean practitioner; Scaled Agile Framework Program Consultant (SPC4), AgilityHealth Facilitator (AHF), Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), eXtreme Programming (XP), Kanban

• Release Train Engineer (RTE) for several federal agencies

• Author of patent Waste, Opportunity, and Risk Engine (in-progress)

• Trademark Holder: Lightweight Agile Governance Framework, Lifecycle Sleuth, Lightweight Delivery Framework, Reinventing Software Delivery

• Creator of the Lifecycle Sleuth®

• Experienced enterprise Agile Practice Lead and Agile Architect / Coach

• Lead 11 Agile Transformations

• 10+ years engineering and process coaching

• 15+ years project management and team lead experience

• 20+ years’ experience with software engineering, Continual Integration (CI), Continuous Delivery (CD)

• Inactive Top-Secret Clearance (TS/SCI)

EDUCATION

• Master’s in information technology & MBA (Upsilon Pi Epsilon)

• Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Studies (University of Maryland)

• 60+ Marine Corps resident schools and online courses CERTIFICATIONS

• ICAgile Coaching certifications; Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF), Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)

• Scrum Alliance: Certified Enterprise Coach (CEC) / Certified Team Coach (CTC) – both in progress

• Scrum Alliance: Certified Scrum Professional (CSP), Certified Scrum Master (CSM)

• Scaled Agile Framework Program Consultant (SPC 4.5), Scaled Agile Framework Agilist (SA)

• SAFe certifying instructor; Leading SAFe, SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Product Owner/Product Manager, SAFe for Teams, SAFe Agile Software Engineering, SAFe for Government

• Large Scale Scrum (LeSS) - Basic (CLB)

• Certificate Visual Basic (University of Maryland)

• Lean Six Sigma: Yellow Belt

• Air Traffic Controller (US Marine Corps)

MILITARY

• Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant (Iraq War Veteran)

• Platoon Sergeant, Air Traffic Controller, Marine Air Ground Task Force Planner AGILE EXPERIENCE

Coach / Mentor

• Currently serve as Transformation Lead, RTE, and coach for a federal agency (15 teams, 5 suppliers) to include risk management, process improvement, Lean Portfolio Management, DevOps improvements, measures & metrics, testing, and Release Management

• Served as RTE and initiator for a federal agency’s first Agile Release Train

• Served as Agile Practice Lead for a major health division within a $10B company (2 portfolios and 7 programs)

• Served as Chief Methodologist and designer of Agile approach for federal agency with 139 project teams

• International coaching, mentoring, and training experience

• 10+ years of experience coaching practitioners of SAFe, Scrum, XP, Kanban, Lean, and iterative Waterfall

• Developed governance models and supporting wikis for consistency of Agile approach, standards, and best practices

• Developed CI and CD approaches to help teams become more XP-like

• Experienced coach and mentor across all skillsets and roles within large organizations to include government officials

• Experienced coach and mentor to executive leadership to adopt and promote Agile culture, governance, and metrics Jonathan Jenkins

19838 Celebration Way *******.*******@*****.***

Germantown, MD 20874 240-***-****

Instructor

• Scaled Agile Framework (SA 4.5 certification course)

• Professor Villanova University (Master Certificate in Agile Management)

• Partner network with ICAgile to deliver Agile Fundamentals & DevOps certification

• Creator of the Agility Training Series (Business, Engineering, and Government)

• Creator of the Blockchain Considerations courses

• Extensive experience with public speaking to include webinars, seminars, formal & informal training, and brown bags

• Developed and taught Agile engineering curriculum (e.g. Agile 101, SAFe Executive Overview, Scrum, XP, Kanban, User Stories writing, Estimating, Driving Acceptance, Scrum of Scrums, and Onboarding an Agile Release Train)

• Trained Scrum & XP teams; developers, testers, technical writers, product owners, and leadership/management

• Trained Kanban to non-development teams; leadership, stakeholders, help desk, and shared services groups WORK EXPERIENCE

2015 Jan

Full-time

Present Clearly Agile – Founder / Chief Methodologist International boutique consulting firm focused on creating disruptive tools and services for the Agile / DevOps community. Secondary value streams include services for governments and large heavily regulated agencies to like strategy, assessments, planning, execution, training, governance, and metrics.

Creators of the Blockchain Considerations courses (Blockchain Sherpas) and the Agility Training & Workshop Series; Business Agility, Engineering Agility, Government Agility, and Agile/Scrum Reset. Deliver other in-demand training such as the Scaled Agile Framework SA 4.5 certification course and all topics related to Agile, DevOps, Kanban, XP, and Lean. Developed the Lifecycle Sleuth TM, a disruptive find and fix tool for Agile / DevOps practices which uses our patent-pending analysis engine to analyze the build, test, delivery, and release processes and provides immediate suggestions for improvements to real-time findings of financial cost, waste, risks, and opportunities for improvement. 2014 July Present Agile 270

Part-time Founder/speaker of monthly meetup group discussing all things Agile for the Washington DC metro area with a concentration on those working along Maryland 270 corridor. 2015 May

2017 Dec Leidos – Health Information Informatics and Infrastructure Solutions (HIIS) Agile Practice Lead / Architect / Coach

• Responsible for the development of the HIIS Agile practice to include transformations, training, metrics, language, and thought leadership

• Leading Agile transformations internally and with clients

• Leading introduction to Continuous Delivery across multiple technology stacks (.NET, Java) with overhauling of the Continuous Integration and Automated Testing

• Responsible for development and maintenance of the Agile Center of Excellence and annual Agile / development training roadmap and its execution

• Member of the HIIS leadership team

• Write and critique HIIS proposals that reference Agile or engineering

• Serves as an authority for scaling for Leidos (corporate-wide) 2016 Sep 2017 Sep Villanova University – Professor (Agile Certifications) Part-time Professor of online courses for students to receive a Master Certificate in Agile Management and Master Certificate in Agile Management for Information Technology. 2013 Jan 2015 May Deloitte Consulting

Release Train Engineer, Enterprise Agile coach, instructor, project manager, and manager.

• Designing Enterprise Agile Approach for Internal Revenue Service (139 teams).

• US Trademark Office: RTE / Enterprise Agile Coach for Next Generation Software Engineer efforts (6 Agile teams and 1 waterfall team). Developed Agile Framework, governance model, and Center of Excellence. Scrum Master for Transformation Team.

• US Patents & Trademarks Office: Key member to Agile 2.0 Transformation Jonathan Jenkins

19838 Celebration Way *******.*******@*****.***

Germantown, MD 20874 240-***-****

• United States Postal Service: Subject Matter Expert for requirements capture for exploring move towards SAFe.

• Financial Crime Enforcement Network (FinCEN): Project Manager, Agile Coach and mentor for public facing website for law enforcement (local, county, state, and federal).

• Assisted with standing up Release Train for $1.5B commercial client.

• Continually developed and presented Agile-focused eminence (White Papers, training presentations, and webinars).

2009 Sep 2013 Jan Office of Intelligence and Analysis - U.S. Department of Treasury (CACI) Scrum Master, Kanban Facilitator, Senior Software Engineer (SharePoint / .NET) Scrum Master for SharePoint (2010, WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007) and C# solutions. Kanban facilitator for helpdesk, system administrators, and information stewards. Lead a staff of 4. SharePoint; Create/enhance site collections, scopes, managed properties, sites, wikis, libraries, web parts, features, workflows, and dashboards. Create and maintain ecosystem documentation. Administer multiple farms.

.NET / Java; Low-level file handling, data manipulation/cleaning with regular expressions, log file scraping, search engine/indexer logging/analysis/health monitoring. Languages: C#, VBA, XML, HTML, CAML, Perl, MS SQL, Java, JavaScript, and jQuery Data: MS SQL 2005/2008, CSV, XML, Excel

Tools: Visual Studio 2010, SP Designer 2010, MS SQL Server, MS Office, and STSADM. 2006 Apr

Part Time

2010 Dec Corps Strategies-Consultant

Owner, .NET/SharePoint Developer, Seminar speaker, Trainer Conducted seminars on Agile frameworks (Scrum and XP) as well as leadership seminars for small business owners and political organizations (Marine Corps Maneuver Warfare, and Marine Corps Leadership Principles & Traits. Business analysis, requirement capturing, design, development, release planning. Work with product owners to refine backlogs. SharePoint solutions; web parts, workflows, libraries, wikis, sites, and dashboards. Internet Solutions; .NET-based sites, WordPress.

Languages: C#, ASP.NET, VB.NET, VBA, HTML, XHTML, CAML, JavaScript, and jQuery Data: MS SQL 2005/2008, CSV, XML, Excel

Tools: Visual Studio, SP Designer, Web Expression, MS SQL Server, and MS Office. 2008 Apr

Active Duty

2008 Oct Marine Corps Center for Lessons Learned (Al Taqaddum, Iraq) Liaison, Trainer

Operated independently in Al Anbar, Iraq to capture lessons learned for the Marine Corps. Continuously provided training to Marine Corps commands on capturing, disseminating, and enhancing lesson learns.

Continual interaction with Marine Corps and Naval commands for situational awareness to create reports for world-wide dissemination that would result in future battlefield success, prevention of loss of life or injury, and best practices to reduce time or financial commitments. 2003 Mar

Active Duty

2008 Apr Logistics Readiness Coordination Center Headquarters Marine Corps, Washington DC (Watch Chief, SharePoint developer, and resident geek) Recalled from Marine Corps Reserves to Active Duty to support the Global War on Terror. Collect and report critical logistics information for the Marine Corps. Continuously monitor all logistics functions: supply, maintenance, transportation, general engineering, health services, and services across the strategic, operational, and tactical elements. Provided critical information requirements and reporting to facilitate supply chain management and distribution support to the warfighter (warehouse to warfighter). Jonathan Jenkins

19838 Celebration Way *******.*******@*****.***

Germantown, MD 20874 240-***-****

Focused on the continuing deployment/redeployment of forces; readiness, reconstitution, and regeneration of equipment, assisting the Strategic Ground Equipment Working Group in addressing equipment shortfalls; and monitoring vehicle-hardening efforts. 2002 Oct

Active Duty

2003 Mar Marine Air Group 49 (MAG-49) – Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove, PA Information System Coordination Chief

Managed users, computers, and other equipment for the MAG. Conducted monthly and quarterly audits and managed daily technical support issues. Functioned as the project manager for upgrades and equipment moves. Led a staff of 3 Marines. 1999 Jun 2002 Oct Dollar Financial Group - Director Software and Database Development Introduced XP to organization. Migrate DOS-based systems to Windows/ MS SQL platform. Led 11 developers (Visual Basic, Delphi, Clipper, dBase, and Microsoft SQL). 1995 Apr

1999 Jun Information Empowerment Group - Owner, project manager, lead developer, trainer Lead software engineer: Delphi, Visual Basic, C#, ASP.NET, HTML, XML, and MS SQL. Lead SharePoint developer and trainer. Utilized XP methodology. Part Time Seminar speaker: Delphi, MS SQL server, and component building. Created and conducted training (AT&T, MCI, Nextel, Eastern Telelogic, Teleport Communications Group). Engineered solutions for Banco Popular and Popular Cash Express to ensure state/federal compliance as well as PATRIOT Act and Sarbanes-Oxley 1994 Nov

1996 Jun Integra Mental Health (Senior Software Engineer: Delphi, Clipper, and dbase III+) Senior software engineer for enterprise software systems. Utilized facets of XP and Scrum before the methodologies were formally named (pair programming, incremental releases, customer facilitation, user stories, and daily swarms). 1994 Nov

Reserves

2002 Oct United State Marine Corps (Air Traffic Controller, Platoon Sergeant) Provided Air Traffic Control Services to air stations and remote airfields throughout the U.S. Platoon Sergeant for 3 Marine Air Command Squadrons, leading upwards of 60 Marines. 1993 Jul

Active Duty

1994 Nov United States Marine Corps (Air Traffic Controller) Formal Training: Boot Camp, School of Infantry, and two Air Traffic Control schools. Provided Air Traffic Control Services for Naval Air Station Millington, TN (Memphis). 1989 Jun 1993 Jun Department of Defense - Naval Air Warfare and Development Center (Computer Specialist: COBOL, FORTRAN, Clipper, dBase III+)

Project manager for 3 software engineering projects through all phases of project life cycle - analysis, design, development, testing, implementation, and post-production support. SOFTWARE ENGINEERING / DATABASE MANAGEMENT

SharePoint

.NET

C#, jQuery, CAML, LINQ, InfoPath, SharePoint Designer C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, .NET 2x/3.x/4.x

Windows Visual Basic, Delphi, C, C++, VBA

Web ASP, HTML, Java, jQuery, JavaScript, XML, XHTML, DHTML, CSS Other Clipper, dBase III+, FoxPro, Pascal, COBOL, FORTRAN, WordPress, PHP RDMBS Platforms Microsoft SQL, Oracle, INTERBASE

Local Platforms XML, Access, Excel, dBase, FoxPro, CSV Agile ALMs Agile Central (Rally), VersionOne, Team Foundation Server (TFS), JIRA CI/CD Jenkins, TFS, Git, GitHub, GitLab

Quality SonarQube, SonarLint, Proof, NUnit, JUnit

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES AND INTERESTS

• Volunteer Work Autism, schools, veteran organizations, public speaker to political and civic organization

• Athletics: Whimpered through 8 marathons, hundreds of half-marathons, and lift supposedly heavy things

• Other Interest: Raising my little princess and little man, travel, re-learning French

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