Don Bailey

+1-843-***-****

Hilton Head Island, South Carolina (USA)

adhrdk@r.postjobfree.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dbail8888

Summary

Seasoned, results-oriented global consultant equipped with an impressive background successfully blending business operations and technology design and implementation advising Agile business and development teams across complex enterprises using a mix of best-practice mythologies, templates, and playbooks. Working with C-suite senior leadership teams with a reputation for possessing a high-level of business strategy formulation, market-relevant insights to increase market share or create new markets, advanced analytical skills, solid ability to coach executives in business agility across the enterprise all backed by years of a strong technical background. Offers excellent communication, organizational, and interpersonal skills and an unwavering commitment to consistently perform at the highest level of professional excellence.

Skills Summary

Agile

Certified Agile Coach

Certified Professional Business Agility Coach

Certified Professional Team Facilitation Coach

Certified Agile Portfolio Program Manager Coach

Certified Agile Professional TEST Coach

Certified Professional Scrum Master

Certified Professional Product Owner

SAFe 5.0 Program Consultant (SPC)

SAFe 5.0 Leading Agile

SAFe 5.0 DevOps

SAFe 5.0 Release Train Engineer

SAFe 5.0 Advanced SAFe Scrum Master

SAFe 5.0 SAFe Scrum Master

LeSS Lean Scaled Scrum Certified Practitioner

AWS Amazon Cloud Certified Solutions Architect (AWS CSSA)

HEALTH RADAR Agile Matrix, Jira, and Confluence tools

Depth in Agile Frameworks: Scrum, Lean, Kanban, SAFe and Nexus

Software development and testing CD/CI experience

Behavior-Driven Development BDD / Test-Driven Development TDD

Extensive technology, software development & document experience for Transformation

Distributed Teams experience, Geo Teams, Emerging Markets

Business Strategy

Lean Portfolio Management

Professional Experience

Portfolio Transformation Coach Bank of America Feb 2020 - Present

Donal is the Portfolio Coach responsible for enabling multiple wide/scale organizational transformations to Lean-Agile principles, practices, and structures. He advises key executives and senior portfolio leaders for cultivating an Agile organization. He develops a Lean-Agile transformation strategy and supporting its execution including the mentoring of organizational Agile Coaches and serves as the Lean-Agile subject matter expert for the organization.

Mentors Executive leaders to embrace, model, and foster a culture of lean thinking.

Educates leaders and facilitates outcome-based planning and definition of KPIs.

Facilitates discussion, decision making, and conflict resolution within the executive teams to increase their adoption.

Establishes the process and structure for Lean Portfolio management to align strategy and execution.

Utilizes in-depth knowledge of the Lean-Agile frameworks along with industry and technology experience to assess the organization's maturity and recommend, establish, and ensure consistency in practices across the organization.

Established and leading the Agile Centers of Excellence in both Jira and Confluence as necessary to take Lean-Agile practices across the organizations and their enterprises.

Provides feedback to executive leaders regarding their progress of Agile adoption for their organization.

Hands-on individualized training/coaching to executive leaders on Agile transformation strategy best practices.

Guides the development of the Agile operating model including product and value stream definition based on business value, and alignment of teams to optimize flow and reduce dependencies.

Enterprise Agile Coach Synchrony Financial 10/2019 – 02/2020

Donal is the Enterprise and Program Level advisor and coach who is facilitating a consistent business strategy for Agile roll-out across a wider swath of the organization. Utilizing in-depth knowledge of banking and financial business systems architectures in the lean-agile frameworks along with years of industry and technology experience to assess the organization's maturity and recommend, establish and ensure consistency in lean-agile practices across both business and technology platforms.

Facilitating the engineering and adoption of the SAFe framework and advising business agility, vision, migration strategy, and road map. Coaching and advising the C-level executives and senior department leaders in the Lean-Agile Portfolio Strategy and Investment funding, Agile practices, mastery of the Business Agility core competencies, and harnessing the full benefits of the SAFe Framework for best outcomes.

Conducting and facilitating Value Stream Mapping workshops for the business and assisting in the early planning and preparation of big room Program Increment (PI) planning and Work Out sessions. Facilitation and coordination of new DevOps teams added to the organization for achieving CD/CI. Helping organizations to set up in Jira to conduct the initial PI as the SAFe SPC and change agent on the Agile Release Train (ART) and advising Business Stake Holders, Program Managers, Product Owners in facilitating and coordinating the Program Increment (PI) Planning events while leading and coaching Release Train Engineers (RTE), Solution Architects and Development Leads to reach technical alignment. Helping Agile managers to master new Agile metrics and other skills like the program board and program Kanban board for maximum transparency and effectiveness across their enterprise.

Coach and servant leader for over 30 geographically dispersed Scrum & KANBAN teams using Jira at various maturity and transition levels. Guiding the transition of Waterfall teams to Agile and/or help improve cooperation between these teams. Conducting audits and health assessments of the team. Engage with new teams to get them self-organizing up and running using Agile ceremonies. Building an organizational level Coaching Model to support growth to 30 teams. Introducing, facilitating, and guiding the adaptation of the Scaled Agile Framework SAFe and implementing full systems view solutions.

Enterprise Agile Transformation Lead FEM Ltd 02/2010 – 10/2019

Overview: Leading a unique M&A technology team as a Technology and Agile enterprise business transformation coach. Lead these teams across the full lifecycle—target screening, due diligence, pre-deal planning, post-deal integration/separation in M&A deals while accelerating Agile transformation through next-generation analytics and digital tools. The role required flexibility to move between contributions as an enterprise executive coach and deep technology advisor while facilitating and demonstrating Agile principles across a portfolio of early & mid-stage technology and software service investments, and their end-client firms, under asset management, all for select global investors in the financial sector, banking, technology, and finance. Don worked with the portfolio of new acquisition companies in the development of each firm's business and product development strategy alignment.

Across these firms, he coaches and facilitates Agile best practices for teams at the executive, portfolio, solution, program/project team levels in highly complex product development environments with the objective of transforming the enterprise from waterfall to Agile/Scrum software development methodologies. He is experienced and certified in the SAFe framework and also has familiarity with the Spotify model. His work includes:

Value Stream Mapping - Guiding initial business conversations with the Business and the Agile leaders on aligning the enterprise leadership team’s goals with the business metrics and KPIs to drive value across the business and technology enterprise

Removing impediments and dependencies in the enterprise

Working with the C-level teams at the outset of each firm’s journey, especially in business product vision development,

identifying the value streams and objectives feeding formulation of the road map, Agile Release Train, building continuous delivery pipelines.

Coaching the solution and release engineers and architects in effectively organizing their continuous delivery pipeline and detailed Increment drill-downs with a ‘see-at-a-glance’ component in the Increment during pre-post Planning (IP) activities

Launching Agile Release Trains (ARTs), facilitating synchronizations

Designing workshops on topics such as Minimum Viable Product (MVP), Value Stream Mapping, and Lean Portfolio Management

Maturing Agile teams toward sustainability with various software development platforms ranging from mainframe to cloud

Working with DevOps in CI/CD initiatives and DevOps transformation baselining, Paired Programming, SAFe DevOps Health Radar metric

Manager to Scrum Master to Agile Coach, Asseco Group (Gladstone) 01/2001- 02/2010

The Asseco Group is Central Europe’s largest IT company and a top 10 Truffle 100 company with over 2 billion euros in sales and more than 13,000 workers. Gladstone is a wholly-owned subsidiary that runs the core banking projects for Bank Pekao SA (Unicredit Group) (among others), Poland’s largest privately held bank, and a part of the Unicredit Group. For projects in the corporate group, a wide variety of project management frameworks are employed from Waterfall to Agile (Scrum).

Don’s work included Scrum projects for clients moving to cloud computing models (AWS, Amazon EC2, S3) from outgrown infrastructure where he also coached teams and individuals on Agile/Scrum best practices and use of Scrum events: Daily Scrum, Backlog Review, Sprint Planning, Sprint Demo, and the Retrospective.

He deployed a Java-based mobile banking application with the Croatian arm of Asseco that was sold and later deployed to banks on the US West Coast in association with “The Javelin Group” and using SAFe 4.6.

Staffed and managed the core banking software implementation at Pekao SA (Unicredit, Italiano) $50 million+project

Program. Managed a greenfield loan company (Money Express) and built a bespoke loan system in C++ using the Scrum Framework (time-boxed executions, etc.).

Liaised, staffed, and project managed similar software deployments in Cyprus, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Mauritius, and Singapore for major financial institutions Consulted with client organizations to move from waterfall to Agile (Scrum) for software development operations. Participated in multiple roles and responsibilities spread over dozens of projects including, Business Analysis, Scrum Master, Project Manager, performance monitoring, etc.

Ran projects in Saudi Arabia for Riyadh Bank, Al-Bilad Bank, Al-Hollandi Bank, Al Rajhi Bank using Agile and SAFe, Lean, and SixSigma.

Managing Director and Software Development SaaS, Intel ™ NC-Virtual (a project of Intel ™) 01/2000– 01/2001

NC-Virtual was a Swedish/Israeli led project to develop an inexpensive cloud-computing platform, delivered via wireless LMDS broadband technology. Internet and other services were delivered via a Citrix based thin-client architecture to provide all software as a service (SaaS) with data available via smart card accessible Cloud Services and the Internet to the broadband TV delivered over wireless broadband provided by Ericksson. Donal led the organization of 60 programmers as Director, Software Development Program Manager, and the iteration manager. The firm was an early adaptor use case and user story mapping and provided best-in-class automated testing and UAT program.

OTHER Positions

KPMG (Sr Manager) Dec 1999 – Dec 2000

Fidelity (formally Systematics /ALLTEL) May 1995 – Dec 1999

MCI (SKYTEL) March 1994 – April 1995

ARINC Inc May 1991 – March 1994

Atlantic Research Corporation March 1988 – May 1991

Education

Harvard Business School, Boston, MA.

Certificate Managing Successful Professional Services Firms

Nova Southeastern, Fort Lauderdale, FL.

MS Computer Information Systems

The Citadel, Military College, Charleston, SC.

BS Business Administration

Certifications and Certificates:

ICAgile Certified Agile Business Agility Foundations ICAgile (ICP-BAF)

ICAgile Certified Agile Portfolio Program Manager ICAgile (ICP-PPM)

ICAgile Certified Agile Professional Coach ICAgile (ICP-ACC)

ICAgile Certified Agile Professional Team Facilitation ICAgile (ICP-ATF)

ICAgile Certified Agile Professional TEST ICAgile (ICP-TST)

Scrum.org Certified Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Master (PSM-1)

Scrum.org Certified Product Owner, Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO-1)

SAFe 5 Advanced SAFe Scrum Master (SASM)

SAFe 5 SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)

SAFe 5 Leading Agile (SA)

SAFe 5 DevOps (SDP)

SAFe 5 Release Train Engineer (RTE)

SAFe 5 Program Consultant (SPC)

AWS Certified Solutions Architect (AWS CSSA)

IBM Data Science Professional – Certificate

Managing as a Coach by University of California, Davis - Certificate

Project Management / Portfolio Management / Agile

Project Management & MIS – Corporate trained & certified

Scrum Master PSM I – Certified

Product Owner PSPO I - Certified

SAFe 5.0 Program Consultant (SPC) – Certified

Cloud Amazon AWS Solutions Architect (AWS-CSSA)

MS Project, Sharepoint, MS VisualStudio, Visio PERT, GANTT

Kanban & Lean in a development environment

Testing: Selenium, QTP, A/B Testing

IBM Tivoli, Maximo

BDD/TDD, Cucumber, Gherkin (GML) Git, GitFlow, GitLab, GitHub, BitBucket, SpecFlow

Rally (CA – AgileCentral now), VersionOne

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