ROBERT H. HOSKINS

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Cincinnati, Ohio 45208

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Experienced, self-motivated, and charismatic Agile Coach, Release Train Engineer & Certified Scrum Master with 15+ years of Agile experience in improving the quality and efficiency of software development teams, training all levels of software development organizations, implementing Agile and Waterfall methodologies.

Agile Certifications include: Professional Agile Leader (PAL I), SAFe 5.0 (SA), Certified Scrum Master (CSM) & Kanban professional (KPM I).

Lead Agile transformation efforts both across an entire organization and, in several instances, across dozens of teams within a software organization. Worked extensively at the manager and director level to improve agile planning and methods across the organization. I have also worked extensively with Agile/Waterfall hybrid model software development.

Experience in various roles within a SAFe environment including RTE. Introduced SAFe, Kanban, LeSS, TDD and Pair Programming methodologies to supplement and enhance Agile processes. Experienced RTE & scaled agile trainer.

Successfully managed data, mobile, SaaS and web-based application projects using

.Net, Java, J2EE, Unix, SQL, XML, SAP and other technologies. Proficient in MS Project, Jira, Jira Align, Azure DevOps, Rally, Aha!, Visio, et al. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Enterprise Agile Coach & Scrum Master, Global Medical Response

(Remote) June 2022 to present)

Agile Coach for 7 software development teams and the vertical business units tied to same. Also day-to-day Scrum Master for 3 of those teams one of which practices an Agile/Waterfall hybrid process.

Established foundational agile practices including agile events, story sizing, using metrics to track progress and implementing an organized work intake process. Lead a series of agile training programs for all levels of the organization. Worked with Directors to create standard Sprint Reports for development teams to show progress and issues after each sprint.

Agile Coach & RTE, Wells Fargo Bank (Remote) Jan 2022-May 2022

Coached 10 software development teams relative to their transition to agile including establishing guardrails to allow for consistent fundamentals across teams while allowing the flexibility to craft the optimal solutions for each team. Served as RTE.

Identified areas for improvement through comprehensive team self-assessments and worked with each team to prioritize and create a workplan to implement improved procedures. Led the implementation of a series of metrics by each team to identify areas for improvement and to track progress.

Worked with Scrum Masters and Kanban Leads to improve team workflows to reduce bottlenecks. Led a series of workshops on basic agile roles and events to improve fundamental skills and procedures.

Scrum Master, CBTS (Cincinnati, OH) Oct 2021-Jan 2022

Worked with 6 software development teams at Fifth Third Bank to improve quality and efficiency through improved agile processes, better quality assurance methods and through the creation of a series of feedback loops that allowed teams to more quickly harvest feedback and to create work plans to implement changes based on the same. Left to take a more senior position at Wells Fargo.

Enterprise Agile Coach, Total Quality Logistics (Cincinnati, OH) 04/20 – 10/21

Led company beyond the initial stages of Agile through extensive training at all levels and by implementing sound practices with each of the company’s 18 software development teams.

Led 9 Scrum Masters and instituted metric tracking to show progress and identify opportunities for improvement.

Instituted long-term planning through a series of Big Room Planning sessions and coordinated the company’s first multi-team projects utilizing a LeSS process. Worked with H.R. and C.I.O. to try to keep Agile teams together and to right size those teams before trying to create additional development teams. Managed the creation of 4 off- shore software development teams to provide additional capacity despite the limited availability of local software engineers.

Agile Transformer, General Electric Aviation (Cincinnati, OH), 08/2017-03/2020

As both an Agile Coach and a Scrum Mater I was one of the leaders of the agile transformation of a software development division that includes 115 Developers and QA’ers spread over 12 different Dev. teams, with 20 PO’s & PM’s that create and maintain software for over 30,000 internal users.

We took teams whose only Agile practice was daily meetings to fully functional Scrum Teams. After regular agile training and retrospective evaluations, teams were able to reduce escaped defects by 20%, increased velocity by 17% and significantly increased NPS scores. Orientated and trained 4 new Scrum Masters.

Led the group responsible for marketing and running GE Aviation’s participation at international air shows through a complete agile transformation utilizing a Kanban model which facilitated the tracking of tasks internationally. Also coached a manufacturing R&D group through a transition to an agile working model that accompanied their process improvement efforts.

My teams heavily utilized metrics to both track teams’ progress and to identify areas for improvement. Worked with teams to increase interaction with users and stakeholders.

We effectively used team building and team empowerment methods to help unify a culturally and geographically divided development team. R.T.E. & Scrum Master, LexisNexis (Dayton, Ohio) 09/1994-08/97; 03/2016- 06/2017 Implemented agile / Lean philosophies in a Scaled Agile Framework

(SAFe). Completed projects involving new standalone software, updating existent infrastructure and creating cloud based applications.

Work closely with Product Owners on backlog grooming and story estimation and facilitated daily scrum meetings, sprint planning and review and retro meetings. Led SAFe scrum of scrum and coordinated A.R.T.

Enabled improvement in team delivery commitments and capacity planning for sprints by identifying & tracking hidden tasks. Used work breakdown structures and Kanban boards to organize work into more manageable portions. Utilized Agile Scrum practices to help the team increase their velocity by 40% within the first six months and to significantly reduce bug report figures through periodic code review efforts.

Project Manager / Scrum Master, BLD Development (Cincinnati, Ohio) 05/2012-03/2016 • Helped lead transition from Waterfall to Agile development methodology including performing training, coaching and developing new SOPs.

• Develop systems to harvest very large data sets from both client and third-party locations for inclusion within various customized or industry standard databases for review and categorization. Created a Waterfall / Agile hybrid working model relative to the company’s ultimate transition to Agile.

•Increased client satisfaction by creating a single contact point for each project and by implementing agile principles such as producing deliverables in shorter iterations and regularly improving procedures through sprint planning and retrospective meetings.

Director, Litigation Information Technology, Dinsmore LLP (Cincinnati, Ohio) 09/1997- 04/2009; 04/2010-05/2012

• Managed I.T. staff relative to infrastructure improvements and the creation of databases to host legal data for review primarily using Waterfall methods.

• Budgeted projects of all sizes and at different offices. Designed software to host legal data for attorney review. Drafted procedural manuals, conducted user training and worked extensively with various vendors.

• Led development of new infrastructure software using Waterfall methods. Utilized MS Project for detailed project tracking and to create project status materials to share with internal and external shareholders.

Shareholder, Gonzalez Saggio & Harlan (Cincinnati, OH) 04/2009-04/2010

• Designed and implemented a system to harvest data for the FDIC relative to a series of failed banks including leading the review of that data, interviewing bank personnel and records and making recommendations to the FDIC.

• Led development of new databases utilizing Waterfall methodologies.

• Developed training models for internal users and regional FDIC offices to increase the usage of data regarding failed banks which, in turn, led to an increase in legal actions against the former leadership of failed banks. Project Manager, Access Group (Cincinnati, Ohio) 05/1991-08/1994

• Managed the design and installation of AS400 based engineering document imaging and change control systems in manufacturing facilities like Ford and CR Bard.

• Primary client contact for several concurrent projects. Budgeted each project and provided weekly status updates. Led the on-site installation, training and implementation of each imaging and change control system. EDUCATION

Juris Doctorate, University of Dayton School of Law, (Dayton, OH)

• Associate Editor, Law Review ● Class President

Bachelors of Arts, Earlham College (Richmond, IN)

• Varsity Football (four years) ● Special Olympics Coordinator

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