Scott Barnard

ad3a7o@r.postjobfree.com 206-***-****

Strengths

●Program and Project Management

●Expert in Agile & Waterfall Methods & Coaching

●Solution Architecture

●Business Process Engineering

●Executive Coaching

●Strategic & Critical Thinking

Experience

Senior Consultant

●Proven program and project manager with 25 years’ experience leading and participating in enterprise and departmental initiatives across a variety of industries.

●Seasoned consultant in business process improvement, Agile & Waterfall methods and transformation

●Public speaker and author on leading successful projects by laying a foundation of leadership understanding, shifting the organizational thinking, defining intentions, building an incremental value plan, and defining and executing a communication strategy that serves tactical teams, program sponsors and executives.

Providence Health 2022-2023

Senior PM, Agile Coach, System Analyst (contract)

●Led Agile teams in the digital transformation organization.

●Applied Agile and Project Management methods implementing the organization’s Agile playbook.

●Leveraged Agile Kanban and Scrum experience daily, developing and integrating caregiver financial reporting applications to augment the new corporate general ledger system and legacy data.

●Provided business and technical coaching on communication plans and content and a variety of Agile best practices to assist in organizational transformation.

●Developed and implemented a structured Release Train process to compliment the fast paced, scaled agile development environment.

●Implemented scheduled cross team integration communications to reduce risk and improve implementation reliability.

●Reported regularly to leadership on opportunities and progress.

Starbucks 2021 - 2022

Senior PM, Agile Coach & Scrum Leader (contract)

●Led infrastructure software developers in support of enterprise applications.

●Responsible for scheduling and holding ceremonies and setting up and leading elements of Agile best practices with technical engineers.

●Led teams in custom development and sustainment work focusing on implementing Scrum Agile with integrated planning and sprint base execution.

●Coordinated work across software and systems engineering teams.

Walt Disney Co. 2020 - 2021

Senior PM, Agile Coach & Scrum Leader (contract)

●Leveraged Project Management, Agile Kanban and Scrum experience daily and applied to help transform business supply chain and retail applications to an Agile continuous delivery model. Effort involved refining toolkits at the team level to support the Agile and Waterfall PM methodologies

●Provided business and technical coaching on communication plans and content and a variety of Agile best practices to assist in organizational transition. In addition, provided Risk & Issue reporting along with weekly status reports at team level and on projects covering team member contributions.

●Led enterprise infrastructure software development teams in support of cross functional enterprise supply chain applications.

●Responsible for scheduling and overseeing ceremonies and leading Agile best practices.

●Coached the API and Order Management Support teams in sustainment work as well as integrated them into enterprise business retail programs operating in a scaled Agile team structure.

●Reported weekly summary to technical leadership about my teams’ achievements and impediments, and prepared weekly summaries for the status decks of the various projects that we served.

Barnard Business 2020 – 2023

Executive Business & Agile Coach

●Coached clients on the Barnard Business proprietary 4-Point Project Success Leadership Approach

●Targeted the elimination of 4 common areas of project failure in Agile and Waterfall.

●Emphasized key elements of an Agile mindset and culture in business and technology.

LPL Financial Services– San Diego 2018 – 2019

Senior Program Manager - member of Executive Steering Team, Remote / Virtual teams (contract)

●Coached the Executive Steering Committee, PMs, and teams as we delivered on an evolving business-driven capabilities Roadmap using Agile and Waterfall to implement regulatory and “Best Interest” solutions in support of Advisors and Investors following DOL and SEC requirements.

●As senior Program Manager Oversaw teams and PMs in the design and development of risk and regulatory applications by a matrixed team of engineers and PMs, with a budget of $4M. Presented deck and status report of technology team progress in weekly meetings with C-Suite executive.

●Implemented planning and financial controls for forecasting, budgeting, and reporting.

●Reported to senior executive team.

●Led the development of the Agile Center of Excellence including cross-functional teams, ceremony and PMP methods that integrate teamwork efforts with the PMO performance and reporting.

Agile Coach / SCRUM Master (contract)

●Led the development of an enterprise (business & technology) Agile Center of Excellence using a Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) approach. Began with a charter and developed roadmap for implementation of processes, tools and Agile training for business and technology.

●Provided Agile team coaching and Scrum support using Agile methods to deliver solutions in an enterprise Release cadence adhering to the DevOps.

●Working with Product owners and stakeholders, championed recommendations for improvement.

●Provided project management for planning & financial controls, forecasting and reporting.

●Organized, communicated, planned, and managed Agile sprint ceremonies.

●Participated in the implementation of solutions leveraging Appway and Fiserv on separate projects.

●Leveraged DevOps for a CI/CD delivery model.

Wells Fargo Bank - Remote CA / FL 2017

Senior Agile Consultant/Coach (contract)

●Provided project management and oversight of design and development for 20 engineers and managers implementing a credit card processing solution to drive significant revenue for the bank.

●Leveraged a blend of Waterfall and Agile methods aligned with the organization’s transformation to Agile.

●Managed project for planning and financial controls including forecasting, budgeting, and status reporting.

●Led weekly project wide technical and business status reporting and issue management and contract management with program stakeholders.

Wells Fargo Bank (BP-3 Global) CA / FL 2014 – 2016

Project Manager & Agile Coach (contract)

●Led project using Agile and IBM BPM to transform enterprise-wide Wholesale Banking “systems” and processes.

●Beginning with roadmapping, managed 7 releases to completion, deploying over 30 applications while negotiating and facilitating and evolving business-driven set of capabilities in the Roadmap.

●Coached executives, SCRUM teams and developers on applying Agile and developing an Agile culture as client embarked on a $20 Million a year, multi-year program to transform development, systems, processes, and metrics following a “SAFe” approach.

●Coaching covered Agile transformation, Process Engineering, Project Management and Rally for 7 simultaneous Scrum Agile Teams, often facilitating negotiations on sprint and release scope.

●Taught and mentored teams by actively contributing in scrum teams as we did roadmap planning, sprint planning, burndown analysis, issue / risk management, close out, deployment and retrospectives, while planning, leading and facilitating the code release events.

●Contributed suggestions to either improve the process, move things forward or validate approach.

●Actively engaged in analyzing process improvements to address the fact that defects were still being rationalized late in iterations and contract management.

Ventura County Health Care Agency 2012 – 2014

Senior Project Manager / Business & Solution Architect (contract)

●Managed 18-month project from charter development and resource planning to implement a transformation of the Agency supply chain systems as part of a move to Cerner and PeopleSoft SCM, FM, HR

●Analyzed contract and worked with vendor to uncover and recommend strategies to the Agency executive to alleviate potential program blocking issues and mitigated other risks and issues, supported UAT.

●Analyzed and implemented capabilities to efficiently manage supply procurement and distribution; and the integrations between PeopleSoft Material Management Supply Chain, Cerner Revenue cycle, PeopleSoft Financial Management, VCMC Fiscal systems and County payment systems.

●Provided project communication, facilitated meetings, prepared and presented reports and provided regular status.

Starbucks 2012

Senior Project Manager / Solution Architect - Global Supply Chain (contract)

●Led analysis and design of the supply chain reverse logistics process for Verismo.

●Supported the development of supplier process integration for global roasting & packaging

●Utilizing existing distribution infrastructure, facilitated cross-functional sessions to design a management process for machines being returned by customers through any Verismo retail outlets.

●Collaborated with local and global supply chain teams to define the solution’s processes and tools.

●Communicated project budget and status regularly to management and executives.

Adobe 2011

PMO & Engagement Manager – Business Architect / Agile Coach / Scrum Master (contract)

●Implemented a Project Management Office organization and best practices using Agile to staff and manage projects in a coordinated fashion

●Formalized Project Management Office processes and tools to enable management of consulting projects.

●Recruited team of Adobe experienced consultants to deliver consulting projects.

●Implemented project status and reporting tools across 10 concurrent projects.

The Standard Insurance – Portland OR 2009

Release Manager – CRM (contract)

●Deployed a new customer relationship management application to production.

●Led the release management function deploying a new customer relationship management application.

●Implemented tools and methods to migrate data and code in a structured manner.

●Developed Release Management process, tools, templates, and procedures.

●Managed code releases, defects and fix deployments.

JP Morgan Chase Bank – Seattle WA 2008

Project Manager (contract)

●Designed release management function to coordinate onshore and offshore teams during Identity Management deployment.

●Developed project release management tools, templates, and procedures and ITIL processes.

●Collaborated with onshore and offshore teams to release code, manage defects and deploy fixes.

T-Mobile 2008

Agile Coach \ ERP Program Manager \ Solution Architect (contract)

●Led effort to develop an Open Source ERP for use by Premium Retailers in an Agile / Waterfall environment, from supply, transportation and retail POS integration.

●Led the solution architecture and managed the six vendor and internal development teams’ scope, schedule, budget and resources using Agile, Waterfall and a mix of methods in an Open Source application environment.

●Identified business processes and led organizational change efforts to get program on track.

●Worked with onshore and offshore vendors and legal team to negotiate contracts and contract management.

The Boeing Corp 2007 - 2008

Solution Architect \ Process Consultant (contract)

●Redesigned Customer Design process of 787 aircraft to be done in 8 days instead of the conventional 4 months.

●Recruited to lead the effort to align and integrate 8 aerospace design sub processes to achieve the objective focusing on system design including electric, mechanical and sub-systems design

●Identified changes to business processes and organizations.

●Through facilitated organization change sessions, led the initiative to rethink and redesign processes.

●Built the structure and vision for an enterprise Project Management Office (PMO) for the team

●Managed a team to design and train over 400 people on a Requirements Management process.

Planning Innovators of Washington, LLC 2002 – 2006

Infrastructure Project Manager at Idaho State Transportation Department (contract)

●Led several initiatives to meet the upgrade plans for the department’s IT Infrastructure.

●Reported to the PMO with focus on reliability, security, and supportability of the state-wide transportation support systems.

Process Architect / Project Manager at Hewlett Packard (contract)

●Took over $1M equipment testing project that was behind schedule with critically low customer satisfaction.

●Reviewed and transformed hardware testing approach, redesigned physical test lab, and recruited 40 people to operate 2 shifts to design and implement the necessary testing strategy.

●Increased client satisfaction to 100%

Sitelite 2001 – 2002

Director of Sales and Support for Managed Network Operations Services (contract)

●Managed executive client relationships, planned and forecasted sales, and led a team of 10 client service representatives across North America in the sales planning and delivery using the ITIL framework.

●Achieved 25% quarterly sales growth, hit a 40% revenue growth with a $10M budget.

●Created market strategy for outsourcing managed services and operations center solutions.

Exodus Communications, Inc. 1999 – 2001

Director Managed Security Service – Co-Location, Data Center, Hosting, Network Security (contract)

●Developed and managed a 40-member national team of managers and network security engineers.

●Using Agile methods, planned, implemented, and managed information technology security infrastructure across North America for over 1500 customers in 10 enterprise class data centers.

Global Services Solution Manager - Co-Location, Data Center, Hosting

●Developed and led the security network architecture services sales and implementation effort.

●Managed the growth of services business from $1M to $12M annually.

Other employers PwC (1994-1997), Accenture (1986-1989), Computer Associates (1997-1999)- Hewlett Packard (1989-1993) and Canadian Government

Education

York University

Bachelor of Arts – Information Systems

Certifications

Project Management Professional (PMP) – Project Management Institute (PMI) – 2008 – active.

SAFe Certified Scrum Master - Scaled Agile – 2017 - active

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