Scrum Master, Product Owner, RTE, Agile Coach

DAVID VAN RHEE AGILE COACH, RTE, PRODUCT OWNER, SCRUM MASTER

DAVID VAN RHEE **.*******@*****.*** PACHTREE CITY, GA 770-***-**** SUMMARY

o Have Led and/or Contributed to several Enterprise Level Agile Transformations, Coaching at Team, Program, Portfolio levels o Organization level contributor aligning portfolio objectives with organizational mission and goals o Highly metrics driven utilizing KPIs and OKRs to showcase progress (or lack thereof) with the organization o Expert in Agile Scaling methodologies such as SAFe® Scaled Agile (SAFe®), Cognizant’s Daikibo™, Spotify and Scrum@Scale o Expert in Agile Team level methodologies such as Scrum, Kanban and Extreme Programming o Have Led and/or Contributed to the launching of several Agile Release Trains (ARTs) o Have worked as Agile Coach, Release Train Engineer, Product Owner, Scrum Coach and Scrum Master o Have directly managed 4 SMs onsite, 16 SMs indirectly offshore, and organizations over 120 personnel o Direct supervision and leadership of development teams from 10 to 20 people within various organizations o Strong verbal, written and presentation skills, able to translate technical matter to technical and non-technical audiences o Able to effectively communicate complex and difficult issues/risks to leadership and provide guidance/plans to mitigate o Possess technical acumen to effectively collaborate with architects, designers and dev ops teams o Strong communication skills have provided effective negotiation and persuasion skills o Exceptionally transparent servant leader, able to function effectively at team, ART, program and executive tiers o Conducted Agile training: Agile 101, Scrum, Kanban, SM, PO, Cognizant’s Daikibo™, 2, 3 and 5 day Agile Boot Camps o SAFe® Enabled Training: Leading SAFe®, SAFe® LPM, PMPO, Advanced SM, SM, Team o Extensive experience with Waterfall to Agile transition and hybrid SDLC approaches; familiar with PMI PMP PMBOK o Tool specific based training: Jira, Jira Align, CA/Rally, Version One and Service Now’s SAFe® Module o Experience spanning: Aerospace, Banking, Big-4 Consulting, Finance, Insurance, Healthcare, Telecomm and Telematics o Recently completed courses: Design Thinking, Training from the Back of the Room (TBR) [Sharon Bowman], Cloud Computing AGILE CERTIFICATIONS

SCALED AGILE, INC.

Certified SAFe® 6.0 Program Consultant (SPC 6.0)

Certified SAFe® 5.0 Program Consultant (SPC 5.0) IC AGILE

Agile Coaching Consistency (ICE – ACC)

Agile Team Facilitation (ICE – ATF)

SCRUM ALLIANCE (SA)

Certified Scrum Practitioner (SA – CSP)

Certified Product Owner (SA – CSPO)

Certified Scrum Master (SA – CSM)

AGILE LIFECYCLE MANAGEMENT (ALM) TOOLS UTILIZED

ALM TOOLS

CA/Rally

Version One

ATLASSIAN Jira (and Confluence)

Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS)

Service Now – SAFE Module

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Airbus Mobile, Alabama Feb 2024 – Jul 2024

Scaled Agile Coach, Product Owner Coach and onsite RTE

Provide thought leadership with Airbus’ ARP (Airbus Resource Planning [Airbus derivative/customization of SAP])

At the Program Tier, working with Product Management to define and prioritize Epics; assess and improve portfolio maturity

Facilitated preparations for, and execution of, PI Planning and facilitated post PI planning events DAVID VAN RHEE AGILE COACH, RTE, PRODUCT OWNER, SCRUM MASTER DAVID VAN RHEE **.*******@*****.*** PACHTREE CITY, GA 770-***-****

Facilitated ART Sync(s) meetings, Feature dissemination meetings at PI and sprint cadence

Facilitate and guide PO COPs, SM CoPs, Scrum of Scrums, RTE – PO sync; demonstrate and promote servant leadership

Extensive work with POs on breaking Epics into Features, Feature Scoping, Prioritization and Feature Level DoD

Identify, communicate and mitigate issues and risks across ART

Liaison between Product Management and ARTs

Hands on experience with Product Owners to break Epics into Features, Feature prioritization and creation of product backlogs and prioritization

Facilitate DoR and DoD at the Feature level and the Story level, DevOps, relentless improvement

Provide guidance on and conducting AMM Assessments to streamline agile processes across ART and teams, providing readouts to stakeholders

Chosen ALM Tool: VerionOne

Tata Consulting Services, Edison, New Jersey Jan 2021 – Sep 2023 Fleet Level Agile Coach (Spotify model), Mentor of RTE and Product Owners

Provide thought leadership within TCS’s ACoE (essentially the Agile Coaches Guild)

Conducted SAFe® LPM, PMPO, SM and Advanced SM classes

Working with client leadership conducted Value Stream Mapping workshops and implementation of LPM within client Finance organization

Working at the Tribe tier to articulate, define and refine WBS: Strategic Objectives into Initiatives; Initiatives into Epics and Epics into Features

Coaching of RTEs for preparations for, facilitation and execution of, PI Planning; I acted as overall facilitator of PI planning

Direct work with Product Management, facilitation of RTE and PO sync; facilitation of PO and SM CoPs, mentoring of Scrum of Scrums

Enabling Team Coaches to Coach Teams (Sprint 0 and beyond), break Features into User Stories

Creation of and conducting of AMM assessments; coaching of SMs to conduct their own AMM assessments of their respective teams

Facilitate production of DoR and DoD at the Feature level and the Story level, DevOps, relentless improvement

Facilitate, Coach, Mentor, Advise and Consult on all ART (Fleet) level and Team Level Ceremonies

Facilitate/Coach “Community of Practice” sessions at the PO and SM level; Participated in Agile Coach Guild and Scrum Master Guild

Chosen ALM Tool on Major Banking Engagement: Jira/Confluence and CA/Rally, Other engagement: Microsoft’s TFS and Azure DevOps US Army: GFEBS Program, Arlington, VA (contracted through IBM) May 2020 – Sep 2020 Release Train Engineer (RTE) and Product Owner (for one team)

Championed Lean-Agile practices and mindsets with leaders, teams and Scrum Masters

Working closely with Enterprise Architecture team and Business teams to design and develop robust solutions to meet client requirements

Led transformational initiatives to improved delivery predictability and efficiency

Facilitated PI planning events across Agile Release Train

Facilitated transparent metrics reporting towards KPIs and OKRs

Drove Program Vision, Roadmap and backlog for GFEBS program, assisted organization with WBS

Built excellent client relationships between the business users of GFEBS, the ART leadership and the implementing development teams

Participated in Agile Coach Guild and Scrum Master Guild and Facilitated PO COPs and SM COPs, Product Management and PO alignment meetings

As SM for the Greenback Beret$ team

o Facilitated backlog refinement sessions and scrum ceremonies (sprint planning, daily standup, sprint review and retrospective) o Facilitate production of DoR and DoD at the Feature level and the Story level, provide guidance on implementation of DevSecOps o Assured alignment of team deliverables with ART objectives and roadmap

GFEBS’ chosen ALM Tool: Service Now’s SAFe Module Fidelity Investments, Raleigh, NC (employed by Eliassen group) Aug 2019 – Jan 2020 Portfolio, Program and Team Coach

Worked within Agile Release Office (ARO)

Launched and Coached one Tribe with 5 squads (a tribe is equivalent to an ART within the Spotify model)

Coached One Tribe Lead and several Chapter Leaders

Coached and Enabled SMs within the Tribe

Assisted facilitation in Big Room Planning and Quarterly Tribe Planning

Facilitated, Coached and Consulted within the Fidelity enterprise

Contributed to Eliassen’s Guild of Agile Coaches

Fidelity’s chosen ALM Tool: Jira

Bank of America, Charlotte, NC (employed by ettain group) Apr 2019 – Aug 2019 Program and Team Coach

Launched and Coached two ARTs within Philippi Release Train

Facilitated PM/PO Sync meetings; mentored RTEs on SM Sync meetings

Assisted facilitation in PI Planning

Mentored Team Coaches in launching of teams within ARTs DAVID VAN RHEE AGILE COACH, RTE, PRODUCT OWNER, SCRUM MASTER DAVID VAN RHEE **.*******@*****.*** PACHTREE CITY, GA 770-***-****

Taught Agile 101, Story Writing Workshops, PO/SM Workshops, Epic & Feature Writing Workshops

Contributed to several Agile playbooks (Agile Playbook, Jira Playbook, Train Playbook, etc.)

BofA’s chosen ALM tool: Jira

Cigna, Hartford, CT (employed by Strategic Staffing Solutions, S3) Jul 2018 – Apr 2019 Portfolio, Program and Team Coach

Launched the Customer Value Stream which contained three ARTs

Coaching three Program level ARTs to build their Portfolio, Program and Feature Backlogs

Coach POs on Portfolio to Program Epic breakdown and Program epic to Feature breakdown

Coach/Assist PO/RTE in Program Epic and Feature Grooming

Taught Agile 101, Story Writing Workshops, PO/SM Workshops, Epic & Feature Writing Workshops and Leading SAFe® classes

Coach CA/Rally usage to assure Program Epics and Features are defined properly and sufficiently

Cigna’s chosen ALM Tool: CA/Rally

Mentor use of CA/Rally tool to enable Enterprise level rollup. Reporting and Visibility Lowes, Charlotte, NC (employed by Blue Agility) Mar 2018 – May 2018 Portfolio, Program and Team Coach

Launched two ARTs within Retail Value Stream

Worked with Product Managers on RoadMap

Worked with POs to create/organize/align Features to/from RoadMap

Mentored Program Coaches in launching of ARTs

Mentored Coaches in Coaching of their SMs. POs and Teams

Taught Agile 101, Story Writing Workshops, PO/SM Workshops, PM/PO Workshops, Epic & Feature Writing Workshops

Lowes chosen ALM Tool: Jira

DISCOVER, Riverwoods, IL (employed by Cognizant) May 2017 – Mar 2018 Portfolio, Program and Team Coach

Integrating Customer Engagement Platforms [Messaging, Customer Relationship Management (CRM)], and Interactive Voice Response (IVR) epics at the portfolio level to build their Portfolio Kanban and Backlog

Coaching two (ARTs) program level areas to build their Program Kanban and Backlog

Standing up multiple scrum teams in IT delivery space for enhanced agility

Stood up three Campaign Management teams in Shared Services space and, through metrics and coaching, enhanced their agility

Building standard-work artifacts for the Discover Lean/Agile Center of Excellence (COE)

Provide guidance and coaching on the implementation of DevSecOps and relentless improvement

Discover’s chosen ALM Tool: CA/Rally

CARDINAL HEALTH, Columbus, Ohio (employed by Cognizant) Jan 2016 – May 2017 Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach

Deployed to Edgepark (Twinsburg, OH), a wholly owned subsidiary of Cardinal Health

Responsible for overall delivery and Agile Transformation of Edgepark engagement

Launched one ART containing eight onsite teams onsite and twelve offshore development teams

Utilized Cognizant’s Daikibo™ Scaled Agile Framework (similar conceptually to SAFe)

Coached Operations at the Executive Level, PM/PO RoadMap/Feature ideation/definition, SMs in Agile direction for Teams

Training: Two Day Agile Boot Camps, Agile Essentials, Story Writing, Scrum Master, Product Owner and Product Manager Workshops

Traveled to Chennai and Bangalore to train development teams, DoR, DoD, BDD/TDD, overall Execution and Observed Metrics

Cardinal Health’s chosen ALM Tool: Jira

CIGNA, Hartford, CT (employed by Cognizant) Jul 2015 – Dec 2015 Enterprise Agile Coach

Member of Cigna’s Agile Center of Excellence

Conducted six Two Day Agile Boot Camps for various Cigna facilities

Taught many Agile classes (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, Scaled Agile) to several groups of Cigna employees

Stood up four new agile scrum teams onsite and 16 offshore

Assisted in Content Generation for Cigna’s Agile Training ERNST and YOUNG (EY), Alpharetta, CT (employed by Cognizant) Apr 2015 – Jul 2015 Enterprise Agile Coach

Portfolio Kanban and Release Planning

Worked with “Concept Team” on Breaking Down Portfolio Items into “Consumable Work” for Delivery Teams DAVID VAN RHEE AGILE COACH, RTE, PRODUCT OWNER, SCRUM MASTER DAVID VAN RHEE **.*******@*****.*** PACHTREE CITY, GA 770-***-****

Facilitated weekly Enterprise Wide SoS meetings (including client)

Facilitated weekly Scrum of Scrum(s) (SoS) for Agile Coaches

Coached eight program teams, Implementation of DevOps and relentless improvement

Taught twenty Daikibo™ (Cognizant’s scaled agile framework) trainings for various teams (on and offshore)

Conducted several Scrum and Kanban courses

EY;s chosen ALM Tool: Microsoft TFS

VERIZON TELEMATICS, Dunwoody, GA 2011 – 2015

Project Manager (and Scrum Coach within LifeComm™ Prgoram)

Reporting directly to the CIO, responsible for managing implementation of multiple projects

Organizational training and implementation of Scrum within Verizon Telematics

Directly coached 4 teams and acted as Scrum Master for one team

Conducted trainings of Agile 101, Scrum training for teams, Scrum Master and Product Owners

Ensure consistent and integrated implementation of service initiatives across customer and business units

Collaborate with Executive management, senior management, functional managers

Identify, document, mitigate risks and issues, escalating as needed to assure crisp project execution

Coached several scrum teams (roles responsibilities of this is listed below)

Successfully delivered LifeComm™, AMP, VDMP and Layer 7 programs during tenure at Verizon Telematics PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE PROVIDED UPON REQUEST (Other roles include Scrum Master, Scrum Coaching, Other Leadership Roles, Application Architect, Group Leader and Direct Coding) EDUCATION

Mathematics, minor Computer Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona TECHNICAL KNOWLEDGE

Organizational Change

Organizational Change Management (OCM)

ADKAR – Awareness, Desire, Knowledge, Ability, Reinforcement Kotter’s 8-step: Create, Build, Form, Enlist, Enable, Generate, Sustain, Institute Business Process Reengineering (BPR)

SMART – Specific, Measurable, Actionable, Relevant, Time bound Process Improvement (PI)

Project Management

MS Project, Leading Local, Remote, Distributed and Offshore teams ITIL Foundation Certification

Technical

J2EE, Eclipse 3.x, Spring Framework, Struts, JSP, JavaScript, JAXB, MySQL, SQL, J2EE Design Patterns, Enterprise Architect, SOA, IBM Websphere, Jasper Reports, MQ, IBM RAD, Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest, iBatis ORM Data Mapper, Oracle, Hibernate, AJAX and SOAP, Visual Studio, C, C++, VB, VB Script CONTACT INFORMATION AND PROFFESIONAL AFFILIATIONS

Direct Cell Phone 770-***-****

EMAIL **.*******@*****.***

linkedIn.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidvanrhee/ Skype *****-*******@****.***

Agile Affiliations

Scaled Agile Community

Scrum Alliance Community

Agile Coach CoP

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