Agile Coach Software Development

Annette Ash

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Salt Lake City, UT 84101• 435-***-****

Senior Agile Coach

Multi-certified leader with extensive experience enabling achievement of measurable organizational impact by implementing Agility and driving key initiatives from planning through execution.

Distinguished record of successful agile transformations and optimizing software development practices. Proven success in leading all efforts related to implementation of agility through detailed knowledge and training of Scrum, Kanban, Scrum@Scale, and (SAFe). Versatile leader with remarkable acumen in training teams to complete project deliverables ahead of schedule. Excel in collaborating with C-level and senior management to execute and align on Objectives and Key Results including those affecting cross-functional teams. Distinguished influential educator, with expertise in training professionals worldwide in Agile, Scrum, Lean, Kanban, and Agile Testing, including large-scale and smaller organizations.

Areas of Expertise

•A full 360 of Waterfall, Agility, and Lean

•Software Lifecycle & Management

•Strategic Planning & Execution

•Team Leadership & Development

•Agile Leadership

•Process Improvement Initiatives

•Agile Training & Consulting

•Scrum/ Kanban / SAFe / Lean

•TDD/BDD

•CI/CD

•Project & Program Management

•Cross-functional Collaboration

Career Experience

Sr. Agile Coach –Contract/Consultant, Fidelity Investments, Salt Lake City, UT 2019 – Present

Orchestrate identification and management of risks, dependencies, and delivery confidence via PI (Program Increment) planning In the Cyber Security organization. Formulate agile transformation roadmaps by collaborating with C-level and senior management. Foster deep understanding of roles, including product owners, development teams, and scrum master’s by offering training, guidance and coaching across all levels of teams. Enable teams to align with company initiatives and deliver results by overseeing scaling of agile practices at the program level.

Key Accomplishments:

●Cultivated culture of agility by directing Agile transformation journey for 20 cross-functional teams and at the Program Level

●Successfully increased business productivity and customer outcomes by setting up at the Program Level team scaling within the Scrum@Scale as well as SAFe framework

●Improved team dynamics and performance by serving as trusted advisor in implementing Agile team topologies.

●Strengthened direct customer engagement within large organizations by facilitating mindset shift towards customer-centricity.

●Effectively coached customer delivery by helping to establish and close 5 scaled objectives in 1 quarter by 1 product area in the organization. Those objectives estimated completion was to be a year. Each objective was customer outcome delivery.

●Streamlined work processes by cultivating a profound understanding of quality standards within an agile organization.

●Maximized efficient customer delivery by guiding teams in recognizing and resolving detrimental patterns.

●Engaged external partners in the delivery process as well as enhanced teamwork by heading cross-organizational collaboration.

Sr. Agile Coach & Trainer, Accenture SolutionsIQ, Redmond, WA 2015 – 2019

Led adoption of Agile methodologies within businesses through provision of education, training, and mentoring services. Boosted employees’ development by providing on-site Agile coaching, Agile training, and software development expertise. Coached software development teams in their Agile adoption journey.

Key Accomplishments:

●Expedited productivity and time-to-delivery of numerous companies, individuals, and teams to facilitate high-quality software within dynamic work environments.

●Augmented worker's skill sets by conducting training sessions for diverse range of large and small companies covering Agile Foundations, Scrum Master, Product Owner, Kanban, Agile Testing, and Paired Programming.

●Imparted knowledge to over 1000 professionals across various sectors, including banking, insurance, and healthcare, empowering them to grasp customer-centricity and shift from delivering mere outputs to achieving meaningful outcomes.

●Attained accreditation in Agile fundamentals, Agile testing, and Agile engineering, resulting in ensuring deep understanding of Agile principles and practices.

●Propelled collaboration among teams/individuals by acting as facilitator in resolving conflicts and aligning divergent perspectives.

Software QA Manager, Experticity, Salt Lake City, UT 2011 – 2015

Streamlined work processes by administering team of software engineers responsible for manual and automated testing within the companies previously embraced automated testing practices. Collaborated with engineers to establish necessary infrastructure for automated testing. Implemented continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines by utilizing Jenkins and Bamboo. Ensuring quality by implementing SonarQube and a test first mindset. Building in quality vs testing in quality,

Key Accomplishments:

●Optimized testing efficiency and reliability by automating testing processes using cutting-edge tools, including Selenium WebDriver, Maven, JMeter, and Junit.

●Empowered teams to set and attain their quality objectives by integrating Sonar into automated build process.

●Directed multiple daily deployments by enabling teams to deliver software of highest measurable quality.

●Enabled teams to define and track their quality goals through user-friendly team dashboards, while fostering visibility into progress with each build iteration.

●Improved development workflows by initiating creation of infrastructure facilitating smooth build and testing procedures.

Additional Experience

QA Director, Waterford Institute, Salt Lake City, UT

QA Director, Overstock, Salt Lake City, UT

Software Applications Test Engineer/Manager, Iomega Corporation, Roy, UT

Education

General Studies: Brigham Young University, Provo, UT

Associates in Business Administration, Weber State University, Ogden, UT

Training & Certifications

−Agile & Use Case Training Certification

−ACI Certified Coaching Agile Teams

−ICAgile Professional

−ICAgile ICP Instructor

−SAFe SA (Scaled Agilist)

−SAFe SPC4 (Certified SAFe Program Consultant)

−Agile Coaching Academy (13-week Course)

−Scrum@Scale Agile Practitioner

−CSM

−Manager PSP trained from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

−IPS Project Management Program trained on Planning and Managing Projects.

−Completed Interim Technologies Structured Testing course.

−Completed course in Testing Computer Software conducted by Cem Kaner.

−Six Sigma Champion

−International Institute for Software Testing (Certified Software Testing Professional) Certificate for

−Software Test Planning and Design

−CMMI

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