STEPHAN CHEATHAM - PMI-ACP, SSM, SCM, ICP-ENT, ICP-CAT, SAFE RTE 5

CONTACT

PHONE: 954-***-****

EMAIL: ad2gai@r.postjobfree.com

TRANSFORMATION & DELIVERY LEADER

PROFILE

My experience over 5+ Major enterprise environments have centered on building or rebuilding productive teams. Forming consistent and measurable team and project habits has always been key. Establishing strong, constant inter and external team communication is foundational, allowing for quick knowledge transfer and efficient product delivery. Vertical communication through iterative prioritization, value mapping, KPI reporting and advanced roadmapping promote high value development.

My experience has heavily focused on introducing teams unfamiliar to Agile and Scrum to the methodology, training them in its processes, measurements and tracking protocols. I have trained and established Agile best practices in food and service, manufacturing, energy, insurance and medicine. Every industry has its own unique needs. Strong experience with each creates a permeating amount of perspective that allows a leader like myself to quickly understand needs and exceed them.

HIGHLIGHTS

Flowers Foods (#4 Baked Good Provider Nationally)

- Facilitated Digital Transformation of 40 Bakeries

- Trained over 80 team members individually new to Agile

- Established first Agile Dept at Flowers Foods

- Manufacturing and Development

Tyson Foods (Top 5 Food/Beverage Company: USA)

- Trained 300 employees Training for Prepared Food Department to transition from Waterfall to Agile

- Created 70 million Dollars in savings over first 2 months

- Converted 5 Project Managers to Scrum Masters and 10 directors to Product Owners

- Implemented Vertical Slicing process using Jira

Ford Motor Company (12th Largest Company Nationally)

- Peer Coach, Department Jira/Confluence SME to teams that

- Developed the original Mustang EV SUV

- 3 Teams – 2 Remote – Full Stack

NextEra Energy (4th Largest Energy Firm in the World)

- Fully Automated Land Prospecting and Executive Data Driven Decision Making

- Upgraded 5 Productivity Dashboards for improved

- Estimation Accuracy and 50% more efficient development

- 3 Teams – 1 Inter Departmental – Full Stack

- Created 25 Million in Revenue & over 700% ROI

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified SAFe Scrum Master – ID# 102*****-****

Release Train Engineer – ID# 574*****-****

Certified Scrum Master

2015

Certified SAFe Scrum Master

2020

Certified Agile Coach

2021

Release Train Engineer

2022

Educated at Robert Morris University, Nova Southeastern University and South Florida Academy of Technology

ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATIONS

CERTIFIED AGILE FACILITATOR

CERTIFIED ENTERPRISE COACH

CERTIFIED TRANSITION COACH

CERTIFIED RELEASE TRAIN ENGINEER

CERTIFIED JIRA SME

Measured Experiences

-14 Years in Technology and Advisement

-12 Years in Agile Environments

-10 Years Leadership and Coaching

-9 Years Stakeholder Exp

-8 Years Implementing Agile and Scrum

-8 Years Delivery, Support and Project Management

- 5 Years Devops Exp.

Strong Proficiencies:

-Management Tools

-Jira

-Confluence

-SAP

-Rally

-Azure Devops

-ServiceNow

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-ITSM Methdology Principles

- ITIL Service and Effort Management

-One on One Coaching

-PI Planning

-Sprint Planning

-Business Relationships

-Key Performance Indicators (Velocity, Burndowns etc.)

-Vertical Slicing

-Value Mapping

-Release Planning

-Devops Efficiency

-Infrastructure as Code

-Goal Management

-Measuring Effort

-Prioritizing Features

-Backlog Refinement

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

FLOWERS FOODS

Lead Scrum Master & Release Train Engineer March 2021 – November 2023

Release Train Engineer improved interconnected communication, implementation of first Agile department and aligned change management process with organization of work through Jira, Azure Devops and ServiceNow, increasing Deployments from 3 per sprint to nearly 2 a day.

Product Release Increased on average by 50% each year, resulting in an average of 40 additional releases each year.

Lead digital transformation of 40 bakery manufacturing plants project and discovered over $50 Million dollars of savings using ITSM principles to drive adaptability along with data driven digital and mechanical analytics of Loss Mitigation and Resource management using digital tracking implementations.

Trained over 80 employees new to Agile in Agile Development and Delivery practices

Coached and matured 10 Product Owners, 3 Scrum Masters and over 100 development Employees.

Developed and maintained Agile Standards for the Digital Products department.

TYSON FOODS

SAFe Scrum Master Aug 2020 – Sep 2020

● Converted 5 Project Managers to Scrum Masters and 10 Directors to Product Owners, trained 300-person department to implement Agile methodology through vertical slicing and SDLC processes.

● Coached the discovery of $50 Million Dollars in savings related to analytics and loss mitigation through process improvement and value mapping within provided 8-week deadline provided by leadership

● Facilitated groups first PI plannings for teams Q2 and Q3 activities, hitting 75% of deployment goals for Q2 and 85% for Q3.

● Running basic cadence of daily stand-up, daily technical discussion, weekly backlog refinement, with bi-weekly sprint planning, retrospectives and reviews.

FORD MOTOR COMPANY

SAFe Jira Agile Project Manager Contract Cut by Covid - Nov 2019 – Apr 2020

● Standing Agile and Jira/Confluence Subject Matter Expert for autonomous driver assistance department

● Coached groups to the development of the safety features for the original Ford Mustang SUV EV.

● Oversaw 3 teams, one Dev Ops, one algorithm, one full stack, conducting Stand Ups Backlog Refinement, Kanban Creation and Training, Sprint Planning, and Retrospective within 3-week sprints

● Coached new project managers in Jira administration and agile methodology to maintain and improve standard of operation for department

● Ensured that all JIRA data is accurate and reliable per JIRA usage guidelines using digital communications using email and information radiators to increase individual and team accountability

NEXTERA ENERGY RESOURCES

Sr. SAFe Scrum Master Contract Completed - Oct 2018 – Oct 2019

● Projects were highest budgeted innovation projects consisting of major interoffice cross department web-based application focused on turbine and solar farm planning and construction, including scanning land, bidding, short- and long-term overhead and financials, and building infrastructure repositories for live data with the purpose of on-the-spot decision making.

● Projects managed created $25 Million in Revenue & over 700% ROI by improving purchasing methods through GIS enhancements and AI sentiment analytics aggregation

● Overseeing three teams, two software development and one Dev-ops, managed via scrum and Kanban, centered on renewable project management and land prospecting under a 4-million-dollar budget.

● Coordinated relationships, Data sharing, ITIL measurements, PI Planning and forecasting over Six Departments using Jira, Tableau and PowerBI

● Chair on a committee focused on administration of the Jira Portfolio to enhance visibility of all initiative items for internal and external measurement and consumption

● Implemented a department wide initiative to include 4 weeks of innovation to allow the team to either tackle technical debt or create an approve addition, in relation to the current project, that they are passionate about

ENVISION HEALTHCARE

SAFe Scrum Master - Project Manager M&A March 2018-October 2018

● Took over 6 Acquisition Projects, all of which managed the incoming infrastructure, web applications, mobile infrastructure, hardware and employee data for assimilation to Envisions umbrella.

● Maintain projects using Jira and ServiceNow for status reporting ITIL standards and metrics including budget health, schedule health, major risks and strategies

● Facilitating ITSM focused Network, Application and Infrastructure teams; 6 teams, (2 software, 1 Dev Ops, 1 network, 1 system, 1 desktop) of 7 or more

● Primary Manager on the company’s second largest acquisition of over 400 Million Dollars

● Creating Milestones, budget points, facilitating SOWs and installs for all project

● Expanded relationships with CTOs of 4 acquisitions

WBS TECHNOLOGIES

Scrum Master – Infrastructure, Dev Ops Direct Hire - Nov 2016 - Feb 2018

● Scrum Master for teams overseeing 15 client sites for Web application development, infrastructure, network, mobile management and site related services

● Assisted with application migrations, including healthcare CRM apps, distribution and MSM software deployment, cloud migrations and some data center management using ITSM best practices

● Implemented Scrum practices immediately alleviating backlog and improving customer relations through improved communication and new platform encouraging customers to actively request updates and services.

● Coached Teams of 10, 4 teams of 7, and 5 teams of 6

INDEPENDENT PURCHASING COOPERATIVE (A SUBWAY SUSIDIARY)

Scrum Master I/O & CRM Dev Direct Hire - Jul 2015 – Aug 2016

● Worked to implement a new CRM Salesforce solution to improve reporting, coordination and administration efforts for all franchisee owners

● Our project would enhance the current web applications interface and increase throughput for more robust data and communication tools.

● Helped introduce a program to improve employee satisfaction while improving productivity and Work in Progress monitors.

● Reestablished Agile practices that faltered due to lack of employee engagement and top down facilitation

● Assisted in the complete restructuring of department teams, assigning appropriate methodologies to each and creating standard practices for each team

Additional Consulting For:

- Blue Cross Blue Shield

- All State Insurance

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