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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