Gordon “Luke” Wakefield

CSM, CSP, CSPO, SPC, PMP, CPCC

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Agile Transformation Support and Guidance

“My proven record of excellence at companies both large and small, including numerous Fortune 50 clients, improves business results through development of High Performing Teams in a collaborative environment.’’

Skills and Competencies

JIRA Certified Coach CoActive Agile Training

Azure DevOps Microsoft TFS (Team Foundation Server) Scrum Master training Project Manager PMP Kanban Product Owner training

Agile Central (Rally) Sprint 0 Launching agile teams Agile for Execs training PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Enterprise Agile Coach Coach Circle (Sep 2022 – Current)

Agile Coach for various organizations allowing for smoother transformations

Co-create, Re-design, and delivery of Agile Transformation strategies in support of needed adjustments along the way.

1 on 1 Leadership partnership coaching, allowing for opt-in growth and support often neglected in agile transformations while teams highlight most coaching support.

Hands on Scrum Master work such as facilitating scrum events such as Sprint Reviews, Retrospectives, and other areas Scrum Masters request a model to follow. Enterprise Agile Coach Global Foundries (Apr 2022 – Sep 2022) MultiNational SemiConductor

Agile Coach invited to assist with growing changing organization.

Design Agile plan for executive team for key areas within organization.

Launch new teams and re-launch struggling teams.

Partnership Coaching helping leadership and teams make clear value based decisions.

Mentor Scrum Masters and Product Owners in service of their goals. Enterprise Agile Coach Morgan Stanley (Mar 2020 – Mar 2022) Banking and Finance

Agile Coach Invited to assist multiple teams in an effort to re-brand this transformation.

Launch new agile (Pods) teams Scrum and Kanban within Spotify model.

Coach multiple new and existing teams until acceptable agreed time.

Executive 1 on 1 Coaching allowing for clear value based decisions on personnel changes, budgets, and shifting priorities.

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Enterprise Agile Coach Wells Fargo (Jan 2019 – Dec 2019) Banking and Finance

Agile Coach invited to assist multiple teams in an effort to re-brand the agile program.

Mentor Scrum Masters\Product Owners and key individuals promoting their growth.

Coach multiple new and existing teams until agreed levels are achieved.

Design and Facilitate agile workshops for more than 20 teams (various business units). Agile Coach\Scrum Master ExxonMobil (Apr 2018 – Dec 2018) Multinational Energy Company

Team Coach invited to assist with internal web content team.

Team Coach invited to assist with internal Data team.

Together improved sprint commitments an average of 10% per quarter (for 2Qs).

Improve predictability metric of Scrum team from 40% - 77% over 1 Quarter.

Improved Sprint Review system demo(s) strategy resulting in better stakeholder relations.

Agile Coach\PM Phillips 66 (Jun 2016 - Mar 2018)

Multinational Energy Company

Invited and key in impacting Phillips 66 PMO agile transformation program.

Mentor Scrum Masters, Project Managers and Executives in an agile transformation journey.

45% increased release frequency to align with evolving business values for customers

(vis\Tableau team).

Team-level coaching for a comprehensive and sophisticated pipeline management system. Key role in this Asset (Big Data Science Product being sold to Microsoft Partner).

Improve DevOps release frequency from 7.4 week average release to 2.3.

*More agile coaching and Scrum Experience dating back to 2015 can be provided if requested. EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS

BS, Bachelor of Science, Excelsior College CIS, Computer Information Systems CPCC, Certified Professional Co-Active Coach

CSP-SM, Certified Scrum Professional PMP, Project Management Professional CSP-PO, Certified Scrum Professional CSPO, Certified Scrum Product Owner SPC, SAFe Program Consultant CSM, Certified Scrum Master Luke Wakefield ad4lor@r.postjobfree.com

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