ALEX GAS

AP-CAC, CSM, PMP, TKP, KMP, LESS, SA SAFE 5.0

Brooklyn NY 11235 ad3r9w@r.postjobfree.com 347-***-****

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QUALIFICATIONS SUMMARY

• Insightful and innovative Enterprise Senior Project Manager, Strategic Transformation Manager, Lean Agile Coach with a proactive delivery style.

• Over 20 years of IT experience specializing in business and technology transformation accompanied with an in-depth knowledge of SDLC Waterfall and Agile (Scrum, Kanban, XP, DAD, S@S) methodologies for designing and delivering business, technical and product solutions.

• Servant leader responsible for building, growing, and supporting high-performance teams and human capital.

• Demonstrated ability to develop executive level relationships and champion numerous global engagements for leading companies.

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Agile & Lean Transformation, High Maturity Systems (KANBAN), Operating Model Design, Establishing Transformation Office & Procedures, DevOps, Agile Scaling (LeSS, S@S, SAFe, DAD), Software Development (SDLC - Waterfall/Agile)

• Program & Project Management, Governance & Tactical Execution, Product & Roadmap Development, Risk Management, Information Security, Scheduling, Budgeting, IT Delivery Skills, Problem Resolution and Decision-Making Coordination and Collaboration, Documentation and Presentation, Compliance/Audit, Innovation and Human Capital Development. FUNCTIONAL SKILLS

Program, Project, and Delivery Management:

• Effective hands-on Lean style based on data driven approach to planning, budgeting, process optimization, and resource management. Innovative and rigid risks/issues management model for communication and levels of reporting. Innovation, Strategic and Tactical Planning:

• Able to introduce and utilize decision-making frameworks. Talent for identifying organizational ‘change’ vectors, supporting methodologies and frameworks, defining, and implementing metrics to promote team/delivery efficiency and quality. Governance, Policies and Compliance:

• Hands-on in establishing and delivering governance for IT, PMO, BMO and operations across organizations, development practices, audits, or government compliance initiatives as well as in controlling, appointing tasks to appropriate personnel. Communication and Interpersonal:

• Effective application of interpersonal and communication skills in coordinating with business partners in resolving and supporting related issues in the entire organization as well as in working closely with the technology group to ensure a clear communication model and reporting capabilities.

Transformation Management:

• Adept in establishing effective strategical and tactical goals, developing transformation roadmaps, operational models, playbooks, empirical metrizable model, optimization, and shift strategy across the organization. CAREER HIGHLIGHTS

• Managed multiple concurrent large-scale initiatives. Responsible for end-to-end delivery within scope, budget, and timeline.

• Provided budget controls and engagement schedules. Managed outside vendors and clients.

• Kept all the stakeholders informed and engaged throughout execution by managing risks/issues and providing executive reporting.

• Facilitated discovery of Value streams, roadmaps, product journey and integrate results in Jira, Rally or Kanban toolsets.

• Led PMO and BMO to adapt Agile operational model, procurement, reporting and controlling governance and rolling budget.

• Proactively participated as a member of Agile steering committees that took charge to define Agile implementation & OKRs.

• Supported and assisted with the selection of Agile operational models and frameworks that fit organizational needs.

• Delivered Tactical and Strategical Analysis, Transformation Plans, Op-Model, Tactical Playbooks and Area of Optimization.

• Served as Enterprise/Team Level Agile Coach, Scrum master, Product Owner, and Agile Project Manager.

• Coached IT/Business stakeholders Agile/Scrum/Kanban/XP/Lean provided “Handholding” to a novice team.

• Led new initiatives and programs across department boundaries to drive success in-line with company goals and objectives.

• Evaluated software development practices to improve productivity and to address associated risks.

• Delivered Agile and DevOps transformations, for globally distributed Agile teams (Americas, EMEA, Europe, China).

• Advised and coached teams on Agile delivery methodologies and scalability KANBAN/SAFe/S@S/LeSS/DAD for mission critical projects, designed and created Roadmaps, Matrix, Tools/Training material and run an Agile boot camp.

• Designed and delivered “High maturity KANBAN” transformation with improvement/savings of $17.4M per 100 teams.

• Effectively led a team of product owners to define and prioritize their products and maintain the 3-month road map.

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CERTIFICATIONS

Project Manager Professional (PMP) Certified LeSS Practitioner (LeSS) Certified Scrum Master (CSM) Certified SAFe 5 Agilist (SA SAFe 5.0) Certified Agile Coach (AP-CAC) Leading SAFe (5.0)

Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP) Kanban System Design (KMP 1&2) ALEX GAS

AP-CAC, CSM, PMP, TKP, KMP, LESS, SA SAFE 5.0

Brooklyn NY 11235 ad3r9w@r.postjobfree.com 347-***-****

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PROFESSIONAL HISTORY

Vector ATS NY 05/2023 – Present

BUSINESS STRATEGY PMO AGILE PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT COACH

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• Defined the product space, identified target industries, formulated an engagement strategy, and outlined value streams.

• Organized and managed a RegLLM ecosystem product delivery pipeline based on LLM (Large Language Model).

• Established Lean PMO to ensure seamless planning, budgeting, and product delivery across US & Europe clientele.

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CITI Group NY 05/2022 – 06/2023

BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION PMO LEAD AGILE COACH

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• Transformed Data and Reporting verticals into a new way of working and delivering ‘Consent Orders’ on time.

• Designed and implemented Agile based Operational Model integrated with IT/Internal Audit and transformational roadmap.

• Lead transformational ACOE practices, defined coaching roadmap and delivered relevant artifacts, trainings, coaching.

• Designed and delivered KANBAN implementation and metricized results in $, productivity and human capital. Established High Maturity System delivered improvement/savings of $17.4M per 100 teams across Americas & EMEA regions.

• Defined KPI, OKR & RACI models, and facilitated products/value-stream mappings discovery workshops.

• Led ACOE engagement communication channel/workshops to keep global and cross business transformations aligned.

• Defined JIRA architecture and set of meaningful metrics to support empirical approach for delivery and predictability.

• Designed and build Product Owners office, coach business and IT in design of the global Product centric approach.

• Supported full cycle of R&D for the data science team including LLM fine tuning/deployment and data cleansing

/normalization.

• Work closely with product management across business verticals to ensure delivery is in line with requirements.

• Delivered a comprehensive program of Agile Transformation and transition from Waterfall to Agile on an organizational scale and create an environment for experimentation and ensure teams members stay highly motivated, defined Agile governance on various programs for a smooth Agile development strategy.

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Morgan Stanley NY 10/2020 – 05/2022

AGILE COACH BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION PMO

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• Designed and developed custom roadmap implementation towards an outcome driven divisional transformation.

• Designed and facilitated journey alignment with senior leadership, OKR and KPI alignment across business and fleets.

• Facilitated multiple value stream mappings, flow analysis, program & project roadmap creation & related workshops.

• Led and helped business to define OKR & KPI and coached divisional alignment toward omnidirectional visibility and governance using lean metrics. Defined team/program/initiative measurements & reporting based on Lean delivery model.

• Supported the design of the global reporting system by coaching design of WIP & CoS driven Lead Time calculations.

• Coached business, ‘fleet’ and ‘squads’ on implementing STATIK(KANBAN) as delivery model, reporting and planning.

• Established and supported transformation standards, artifacts, timelines, KPI & RACI for PMO, BU, Fleets and ACOE.

• Build global custom AMM (Agile Maturity Metrics), helped interpret results and respond by tactical decisions/experiments.

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Fiduciary Trust International / Franklin Templeton Investments NY 10/2018 – 04/2020 AGILE COACH AGILE TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM MANAGER TPM SCRUM MASTER

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• Established Agile COE to deliver enterprise-wide digital solution and secure market opportunity (LeSS/DAD)

• Delivered and consolidated Business, PO, DevOps teams and stakeholder around feature centric delivery model.

• Kept all the stakeholders aligned and engaged, real-time enterprise reports matrix defined and implemented in JIRA.

• Aggressive Agile coaching/boot-camp approach, hand-holding and AGILE CME training provided across program to shorten time required by globally distributed teams to form and norm and to shorten time to achieve Cultural change.

• Established program wide budget, cost analysis including “Capabilities Cost-Impact”, performance and burndown rates.

• Established DevOps framework from the day 1(Introduced Unit test Coverage, Kubernetes, Crucible, Bitbucket, Sonar, Rest API, Microservices, Apigee, Bamboo, Splunk, React JS & Native, PING, JIRA etc.) to enable local Agile optimization.

• Teams established CI/CD pipelines and fully supports 100% Azure utilization for IaS, AaS, DaS

• Zero defect policy established and supported by 100% (unit test, performance, and QA automation) across all environments.

• Product designed as Web and Mobile native applications natively integrated with strategic partners. J.P. Morgan NY 04/2017 – 05/2018

AGILE COACH AGILE TRANSFORMATION PROGRAM MANAGER SCRUM MASTER

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• Increased productivity by integrating departments (Business, Dev, QA, BA) into T-shaped cross-functional teams.

• Shortened lead time & cycle time of product development and extended Definition of Done to production ready code.

• Accountable for program wide budget management, monitoring and reporting including alignment with CFO office.

• Established Agile and DevOps transformation program by champion TDD, CI/CD, test automation, continues monitoring.

• Introduced Communities of Practice, workgroups, and cross/self-training for team members to becoming T-shaped ALEX GAS

AP-CAC, CSM, PMP, TKP, KMP, LESS, SA SAFE 5.0

Brooklyn NY 11235 ad3r9w@r.postjobfree.com 347-***-****

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Bank of America NY 09/2016 – 03/2017

AGILE COACH AGILE TRANSFORMATION PROJECT MANAGER SCRUM MASTER

• Established and managed Kanban methodology used to establish visibility and control over competing PI’s

• ART driven solutions established to control onboarding and development of Risk Engine Data Store across bank verticals.

• Established partnership with PO and PMO across multiple organizational layers: from senior to mid- to team-level

• Introduced Communities of Practice (Guilds), Agile boot-camps, self-training for team members to becoming T-shaped ABI TS (Client: Morgan Stanley (Private Wealth Management)) NY 09/2014 – 08/2016 AGILE COACH SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER PROGRAM MANAGER SCRUM MASTER

• Managed program by introducing Product & MVP concepts, established Scrum framework as delivery vehicle.

• Facilitated product roadmap discovery aligned with company's business, strategy, and PO vision.

• Dissolved boundaries of functional departments by restructuring functional groups into cross-functional teams

• Quality control governance established into the day-to-day routine (TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing)

• DevOps concept introduced as enabler to a continuality of local optimization (TDD, CI, ATD, etc.) ABI TS (Clients : MARSH USA, Cognizant) NY 04/2013 – 09/2014 AGILE COACH EMERGENCY PROGRAM MANAGER SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER SCRUM MASTER

• Established Scrum and Kanban frameworks to communicate current state, progress, SLE/SLA and build roadmap.

• Quality control governance established into the day-to-day routine (TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing)

• Agile training Scrum/Kanban provided for 120+ program wide stakeholders for local and distributed Agile teams.

• Implementation partner resource model changed from offshore/local 80/20 to Scrum 60/40 and Kanban 40/60 respectively.

• Client trust rebuild within 4 months.

EARLIER CAREER

Other experience includes Program Management Office, Application Architect and development in MARSH USA, Cognizant, Credit Suisse, RBS bank (former ABN AMRO bank), Reuters, Tradition North America, Inc., ABI Technology, DeSola Group Inc., CDA Investment (Thomson), Compact Software, Inc., Magic Solutions, Inc., I.P.

EDUCATION AND CREDENTIALS

Moscow State Technological University “Stankin”, MSCS & MSEME

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