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Business Development Agile Coach

Location:
Irving, TX, 75063
Posted:
May 22, 2025

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DAVID NORTHCUTT

713-***-****

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Large Scale (enterprise and country level) Transformation Leader, Executive Coach, Agile Coach and Practitioner, Operations Director, Technologist, Strategic Leader, and Patterns of High-Performance Teams Researcher with Operations and Business Development Experience focused on working with leadership and teams on delivering valuable outcomes using Team Science, Complexity Theory, and patterns of High-Performance Teams.

EXPERIENCE

DEC 2019 – PRESENT

AGILE/DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION LEAD CONSULTANT, Chevron

Working with senior leaders and teams in Upstream, Midstream, Downstream, OPG, New Energies, and Value Chain Optimization to plan and execute Chevron’s journey toward Agility and organizational design to deliver valuable outcomes using

Teaming- using the concepts of Situational Awareness, Clear Leaders Intent, Outcomes, PBED, Systems Drive Behaviors/Behaviors Are Your Culture, High Performance Teams, Complexity Theory, and building internal Organizational Capability.

Building Organizational Capability- through building Resilient High Reliability and Antifragile People, Teams, and Organizations that understand that failure is inevitable and the need to focus on weak signal detection and quick recovery.

Environment- OODA, identifying threats and opportunities through Red Teaming, Customer First, and 5th Generation Business Practices

Regional experience in; The Americas, Midcontinental, Rockies, San Joaquin Valley, Gulf of Mexico, Latin America, Southern African Strategies (Angola), Nigeria, Saudi Kuwaiti

Non-Partitioned Zone, Asia, Australia, EMEA, and Kazakhstan

Experience in; Shipping, Supply and Trading, Originations/ Aggregations, Renewable Power, Deep Water, Wells, Drilling and Completions, Pipeline and Power, Health and Medical, Wellness and Productivity, Digital Platforms, Digital Transformation, IT, Land, Corporate Affairs, America’s Fuels and Lubricants, Retail Hydrocarbons, Internet of Things, Manufacturing (El Segundo and Pascagoula Refineries), Retail Transformations, Commercial Real Estate, Chairman’s Strategic Imperatives (Decision Making, Digital, Leading Performance), Mergers and Acquisitions, LNG, Hydrogen, Global Supply and Trading, New Products, Fleet, Drones/Robotics, Laboratories, COSTCO, Operational Excellence/HSE, Capital Projects, Water, SAFe Implementations, Product Engineering, Digital Core, Risk/MOC, Learning and Talent, Assurance, Abandonment, Strategy and Business Planning, Change Management, Geology, Verification and Validation, Control of Work, Procedural Discipline, Earth Science, Petrophysics, CTC, Leading Performance, and Decision Analysis.

OCT 2017 – MAR 2019

HEAD OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT AND OPERATIONS - AGILE CONSULTING AND TRAINING, Toyota Connected

Co-founder of the Toyota Agile Consulting Practice. Responsible for creating the business unit, including all aspects of Business Development; Sales Strategy, Lead Generation, RFI, RFP, contracts, organizational assessments, SOW, relationship management, staffing, oversight of customer engagement, and delivery of training and consulting services with the Toyota Customer First focus. Responsible for all aspects of Operations including P&L, budgets, staffing, rate cards, and revenue projections. Responsible for Delivery including Leading large-scale Enterprise Digital Transformation and training initiatives, Organizational Design, and Implementation, coaching of organizational executive and senior leadership, maintaining KPIs, and ensuring customer expectations were met and value was delivered. Created new curriculum and patterns of value delivery based on current research in the areas of Team Science and Complexity Theory. Worked with Toyota Financial Services/Bank, Capital One, and USAA.

MAR 2015 – OCT 2017

CEO, KDF Global

Special Liasson and primary point of contact for US government relations with countries in North Africa. Responsible for strategic and government relations, relationship management, business development, RFI, RFP, contract bidding, contract award, and delivery of US Government; technology, anti-radicalization, social media intelligence, signal and human intelligence collection, and security projects in Africa. Chief Compliance and Governance Officer for all import, export, United Nations, DDTC (Defense Directorate of Trade Control), and ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) matters. Served as country liaison for US Joint Terrorism Task Force, FBI, and other US agencies. Managed Profit and Loss. Prepared regional threat assessments for senior government decision makers, Congress, and the Whitehouse. Experience for Direct Commercial Sales DCS and Foreign Military Sales FMS.

JULY 2013 – MAR 2015

DIRECTOR OF STRATEGIC INITIATIVES AND OPERATIONS/PROGRAMS, Academi

Responsible for program management, new business development, RFI, RFP, capture strategy, bidding, contract award, and delivery at one of the largest and most influential security and government contract delivery companies in the world. Implementation of cross-functional leadership methodologies. Created a strategic alliance of leading domestic and international companies to leverage their tremendous, combined reach, relationships, and strengths to create a holistic solution/one-stop-shop provider for countries, military/police units, and government entities around the world. Served as Compliance Officer, Governance, and Responsible Person for all import, export, BATFE (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives), United Nations, DDTC (Defense Directorate of Trade Control), and ITAR (International Traffic in Arms Regulations) regulations and matters. Oversight and control of the companies 10,000+ US Government regulated and controlled items. Applied Scrum framework to technology and non-technology teams. Managed Profit and Loss for Operations. Experience with Direct Commercial Sales DCS and Foreign Military Sales FMS

2013

AGILE COACH, SCRUM MASTER, AND SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER-CONSULTANT, VHA

Responsible for program management, organizational transformation (PMBOK to Agile using Scrum), Scrum training, Product Owner training, formation of Scrum Teams, integration of Kanban Teams into a Scrum based framework, data migration, KPI, PCI, HIPAA, process improvement, strategic planning, governance, establishing methodologies around cross-functional teams, and C-level reporting for one of the largest Healthcare General Purchasing Organizations in the US.

2013

AGILE COACH, SCRUM MASTER, AND SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER AIRCRAFT OPERATIONS AND GOVERNANCE-CONSULTANT, Southwest Airlines

Responsible for program management, organizational transformation, process improvement, strategic planning, business continuity, C-level reporting, and governance of Aircraft Operations Technology’s $107M yearly budget. Assisting cross-functional leadership and establishing cross-functional teams. Helped to create process improvement communities within the SWA Scrum framework.

2012 - 2013

AGILE COACH, SCRUM MASTER, AND SENIOR PROGRAM MANAGER-CONSULTANT, 1st Global Financial

Responsible for organizational transformation using Scrum in addition to; Scrum Team training, assessments, process improvement, establishing cross-functional teams and leadership methodologies, strategic planning, and C-level reporting for a large financial and trading brokerage house. Program management and governance of RSA, data migration, federal agency compliance, and PCI related programs.

2007 - 2012

SCRUM MASTER AND SENIOR PROJECT MANAGER-NORTH AMERICA RISK MANAGEMENT/SECURITY, Brink’s inc

Responsible for enterprise-wide organizational transformation using Scrum and cross-functional leadership for one of the world’s largest security companies with more than 50,000 employees and a presence in over two hundred countries. Managed large-scale internal and external facing projects for; banking, vaulting of cash and valuables, management of vaulting, Cash-In-Transit, truck and armored vehicle telematics, ATM, video surveillance, reporting, worldwide security, loss reporting, access control systems, and the cash flow/logistics in North America using Scrum. Governance over budgets and US Government mandated audits. Created operational and security policies and training curriculum for more than 10,000 US employees across 240 locations. Experience with DCS (Direct Commercial Sales), ITAR, and DDTC.

2004 - 2010

COMMISSIONED OFFICER, US Army Reserves

Management of training, resources, troops, and equipment in support of unit and Army wide missions and objectives. Directly responsible for vehicles, equipment, aircraft, and 30+ personnel. Other duties included logistics, motor pool, planning, risk assessment, pilot, and flight operations.

EDUCATION

MAY 2004

BACHELORS FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY, University of Texas at Dallas

Specialization in the analysis of human skeletal remains for the determination of sex and age.

ACTIVITIES

Research and Strategy

Helped create the Scrum the Toyota Way, AJAIRU GIJUTSU “The Art of Agile” and the concept to make Agile into an actual framework with the use contextual known established patterns and organic positive patterns in additional to empirical evidence specific to the organizations’ needs from a collaborative open-source pattern library

Co-authored an academic peer reviewed paper with the University of North Texas on New Patterns of Team Organization Beyond Scrum based on the concept of Team Science using proximal and distal goals

Working with University of North Texas to create new paradigms around High Performance Teams and use of Team Science Research, Behavioral Markers, Assessments, Known Patterns, and Organizational Specific Organic Patterns

Working with University of North Texas around application of new Team Science and Multi-Team Systems Patterns for organization and assessments using Known Patterns for High Performance Teams and research into Behavioral Markers for Complex Adaptive Environments

Developed strategies for; engagement, sales, training, adoption, and implementation based on known patterns around organizational transformations

Consulting Engagements

Operationalizing AJAIRU GIJUTSU - Scrum the Toyota Way Assessments and Consulting Practice

oCreated patterns for engagements and pricing

Created a political landscape map of Toyota Financial Services (TFS) and arranged for more than 40 TFS key decision makers to tour Toyota Connected and discuss LEAN, Scrum, and Agility

Acted as Lead and POC for Toyota Financial Services (TFS) engagement around assessments and organizational transformation

Helping Toyota Manufacturing Engineering Services (MES) at Toyota Motors Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK) with implementation of Scrum Team Maturity Assessments

Assisted other Toyota Groups and Companies with Dev Ops Constant Integration Constant Development

Training Practice

Trained 1,500+ Toyota Financial Services employees in Scrum the Toyota Way, Team Boot Up Workshops, and Executive Leadership Workshops

Assisted the Toyota Connected Chief of Agile with operationalizing of AJAIRU GIJUTSU- Scrum the Toyota Way training for

oLogistics

oPricing

oCurriculum

Assisted the Toyota Connected Chief of Agile with the AJAIRU GIJUTSU- Scrum the Toyota Way classes

oCovered Toyota history, new patterns around Organizational Transformations, and how Toyota is implementing Scrum and Agility during each classes’ tour of TMNA Headquarters

Training, Knowledge Areas, and Certification

Toyota A3 Problem Solving Process

Toyota Ji Kotei Kanketsu (JKK)

Toyota Business System (TBS)

Toyota Production System (TPS)

Toyota Quality Management (TQM)

ICAgile Certified Professional (ICP) Certification

Scrum the Toyota Way

Product Owners Training

Professional Scrum Master (PSM) Certification

ITAR and DDTC Import/Export Compliance

Global Security Management Certification

LEAN

KANBAN

KAIZEN

Value Stream Mapping

Aircraft and Spacecraft Manufacturing

Aircraft and Vehicle Fleet Operations and Telematics

Automobile Sales

Scientific Research

SAFe

Assessments

Created a Scrum Team Maturity Assessment tool based on research and Known Patterns of High-Performance Teams that was used by

oToyota Insurance Management

oToyota Financial Services

oToyota Manufacturing Engineering Services (MES) at Toyota Motors Manufacturing Kentucky (TMMK)

oToyota Connected Dev Ops and Site Reliability Engineering

oToyota Connected Labs and Innovation

oToyota Connected Vocal Services

oUniversity of North Texas

oToyota Motors North America Enterprise Architecture

Toyota Collaboration

Facilitated and conducted tours for over five hundred people of Toyota Connected and Toyota Headquarters to help explain how Toyota has implemented Scrum and Agility

Served as Liaison between various Toyota companies

Assisted Toyota in leveraging the development stack and Dev Ops patterns from other Toyota companies to reduce critical program delivery timelines

Special Events

Organized and facilitated the Toyota Global CIO Conference Genchi Genbutsu “Go and See” Visit to Toyota Connected including demonstrations by Teams from Toyota Connected Labs, Mobility Services Plat Form, Product Goro, and Vocal Services (Alexa and Google Home)

Kaizen (Continuous Improvement)

Created the 333 KAIZEN PROCESS, a quick consensus based, streamlined, and light-weight Kaizen process based on the Toyota A3 Process, LEAN, Kanban, Root Cause Analysis, Toyota Production System, and Toyota Business Process that being used at Toyota, Toyota Connected, Toyota Financial Services, and Toyota Manufacturing Engineering Services TMMK (Kentucky Plant). The 3 3 3 KAIZEN article was posted on LinkedIn Oct 10, 2018.



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