Scrum Manager
Resume:
Dr. Thomas Baxter
Principal Agile Consultant, Agile Coach, and SPC
A seasoned and accomplished senior IT leader, with over twenty (25) years of professional IT experience in the roles of Agile Consultant, Enterprise Agile Coach, Scrum Master, SAFe Program Consultant, Product Owner, and Director of IT across many domains. Successfully implemented and transformed teams from Waterfall to Agile. Actively leverages technology, resources, and Agile frameworks (Scrum, ScrumFall, KanBan, SAFe, LeSS, Spotify) and engineering practices to enhance business operations, which have resulted in significant savings to the clients' bottom line as well as the improving the quality of life for the teams. Experience
2019-07 -
present
Agile Transformational Coach
Fidelity Investments
Instrumental in the Agile transformation of 14 squads of Internal Auditors, Squad Leaders (Product Owners), Scrum Masters, Tribe Leaders, Chapter Leaders, Domain Leaders, and the Chief Audit Officer. Facilitated the following:
• Creation of the Agile Transformational Roadmap
• Formed and grew the Centers of Practice (COP)
• Creation of Agile training for each Spotify role
• Audit Agile maturity assessments
• Facilitate Audit Canvas Reviews and Sprint POV Session Agile and Professional Coaching of audit squads, tribes, chapters and domains in the Agile and Spotify methodology
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• Integration of Spotify and Scrum methodologies within the organization
• Developed standards and requirements for the Agile process Provided training to non-collocated squads across the United States and Internationally
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• Helped teams navigate Agile tools and software
• Encouragement of team member and stakeholder buy-in Weekly Agile transformational reviews with the Chief Audit Officer and Senior Vice Presidents
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2017-04 -
2019-07
Principal Agile Consultant / Associate Director
Mindtree
Has consulting, pre-sales, sales, and delivery responsibility over multi-year Agile transformational engagements.
Conducts all SAFe trainings as a Certified Scaled Program Consultant (SPC 4.6) for Mindtree employees as well as clients
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• Provides Executive Agile Workshops
Provides thought leadership to include blogs, white papers, and professional speaking engagements
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Leads client SAFe transformations to implement Agile Release Trains through Agile training, value stream mapping, epic/feature/story authoring and prioritization sessions
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• Creates and performs Agile Training
Coaches Executives, Product Owners, Release Train Engineers, Agile Coaches, and Scrum Masters
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• Conducts Agile Maturity Assessments
• Responds to RFI and RFP’s
• Performs Client Oral Presentations
• Chief Evangelist to all levels of the client companies Personal Info
Address
9126 NW 18th Pl
Gainesville, Florida
32606
Phone
agiletransformationalcoach@gmail.
com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomba
xter/
Citizenship
US Citizen
Education
Doctorate of Management
• Information Systems Technology
• Magna Cum Laude
Master of Science
• Computer Information Systems
• Summa Cum Laude
Bachelor of Science
• Computer Science
• Mathematic Minor
Certifications
SAFe Scaled Program Consultant
SAFe Scrum Master (SSM)
SAFe Agilest (SA)
SAFe Practitioner (SP)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Certified Scrum Professional (CSP)
Professional Scrum Master (PSM)
Certified LeSS Practitioner
2009-03 -
2017-01
Enterprise Agile Coach / Scrum Master / Director of IT Sedgwick CMS
Has application delivery accountability for 8 teams, 8 unique products, 10 executive partners, 14 technologies, 5 strategic vendors, and 35 applications Trained, coached and transformed multiple teams (co-located and distributed) from Waterfall to Enterprise Scrum
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Coached and mentored Scrum Masters and Product Managers, Product Owners, and Business Analysts
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Facilitated all the scrum ceremonies (daily stand-up/daily scrum, backlog refinement, sprint review/demo, sprint retrospective)
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Ensured teams were on track to completing their sprint commitment as well as providing visibility and transparency
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• Shielded teams from interruptions during the sprint Held story writing workshops with Product Managers and Product Owners to ensure they had a healthy backlog
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• Encouraged collaboration between the Scrum team and product manager(s)
• Developed and coached Agile Workshops to expedite adoption of scrum
• Performed quarterly Agile Maturity assessments
• Consistently acted as an Agent of Change, SME, and Chief Evangelist Coached Agile teams during retrospectives to continuously innovate and improve
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2004-07 -
2009-02
Senior Manager – Vendor Engagement
Earthlink, Inc.
Accountable for all onsite and offsite development for the entire IT department. The duties included:
Worked with external vendors to hire, train and lead consultants in multi- million dollar projects that were core to the success of the company
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Development covered Open Edge / Web speed, Java, and Quality Assurance Testing
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Built a team in India for an Offshore Development Center (ODC) to support onshore engagements
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Direct responsibility for a four (4) million dollar a year Professional Services budget
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Creation of Requests for Information (RFI) and Requests for Proposals
(RFP) and Statements of Work (SOW) to include Vendor negotiations
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Creation of a governance and metric model that allowed evaluating process improvements, measure cost efficiency, productivity, and usability
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1997-06 -
2004-06
Systems Development Manager
Micro Electronics
Responsible for the following duties/tasks: Directed high-level design and analysis, research, and prioritization of all new and existing application development projects
Advised the VP's of Marketing, Purchasing, and Retail Operations in the design of their mission critical systems
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• Ensured the designs matched the business rules of the company Directed the in-house training of business, systems, and programmer analysts
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Primary responsibilities entailed leading development projects surrounding Point of Sales
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• Point of Sales initiatives using Progress 4GL
• Refactored the point of sales system to include signature capture Release Train Engineer (RTE)
Skills
Agile Assessments
Training executives, managers,
leaders, and practitioners
Value Stream Mapping
Agile Coaching
Planning
Knowledge of Agile software
development
Strong communication
Problem solving
Integration of related
methodologies
Develop standards and
requirements
Help teams navigate Agile tools
and software
Encourage employee and
stakeholder buy-in
Active Listening
Agile Frameworks
SAFe
Scrum
Kanban
Less
Spotify
Nexus
References
Adam Solomon, Mutual Benefits
CIO, 513-***-****
Steve Elliott, Sedgwick CMS
SVP, 901-***-****
Anand Cherian, NIIT Technologies
SVP, 678-***-****
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