Agile Coach

LaTanya Hurt

Fort Worth, Texas 256-***-**** **************@*****.***

Career Summary

Lean-Agile servant leader, experienced in coaching, training, and empowering teams and organizations to drive adoption of and consistency in agile mindset while increasing business value, achieving organizational agility, and fostering continuous relentless improvement.

Core Qualifications

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Practice Consultant, instructor of Agile values, principles, and practices

Experienced Agile Coach, skilled in coaching cross-functional agile teams in agile methodologies

Possess strong communication skills, team motivation, conflict resolution, and relationship building expertise Professional Experience

Staff Agile Coach, September 2020 – Present

Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company, Fort Worth, TX Reflective observer, facilitator, mentor, coach, hands-on expert, and counselor to Agile Teams and leadership

Leading Agile transformations for multiple organizations of over 1000 individual contributors

Technical Lead, Product Owner, and active team member on a Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE), providing Agile training and coaching to executives, managers, technical leaders, and teams

Well-versed in supporting multiple teams of various functions and disciplines with planning and coordinating dependencies in an enterprise organization using Scrum, Kanban, and Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Engineer Squad Leader, February 2005 – May 2023

United States Army Reserve, Seagoville, TX

Primary Military Occupational Specialty - Carpentry and Masonry Sergeant

Retired from 284th Engineer Vertical Construction Company, (2021 – 2023)

Honorably served 5 years with 279th Engineer Detachment (2015-2021), awarded Army Commendation Medal for exceptional meritorious service in support of Operation Inherent Resolve and Operation Iraqi Freedom (2017-2018)

Completed 10 years of distinguished service with 375th Engineer Company (2005-2015), received Army Commendation Medal for outstanding achievements in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (2009-2010) Scrum Master and Agile Coach, November 2018 – September 2020 The Boeing Company, St. Louis, MO

Trained and mentored Agile Teams from interval planning to final system demonstration and release of quality products and solutions

Tracked and facilitated sprint plans, team syncs, stakeholder meetings, and system demonstrations using Confluence collaboration workspace

Reviewed and presented team and Agile Release Train burndown metrics, velocity, and task breakdown using JIRA project management tool

Collaborated and coached Product Owners on backlog development, refinement, and prioritization Agile Software Engineer, November 2014 – September 2020 The Boeing Company, St. Louis, MO

Defense and aerospace experience using C/C++ programming language and tools to develop, maintain, and integrate first-time quality components of full software systems on an Agile Team

Implemented and verification tested military aircraft electronic warfare code functionality contingent on customer requirements and design specifications

Developed and maintained test procedures for desktop, integration lab, and regression testing

Created and executed runtime analysis memory debugging tests to improve program stability and performance

Education and Certifications

Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Practice Consultant (SPC), Scaled Agile, Inc., November 2024 Leadership Principles for Engineers, Scientists and Researchers, Massachusetts Institute of Technology MIT xPro, March 2020

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Alabama A&M University, GPA 3.4, Graduated May 2011

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