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23
years

Years of Experience

6/21

Member Since


Top Consulting Firms

Experience

 
K5Labs LLC Management Consulting
founder, principal consultant
09/2013 - Present
K5Labs is a boutique consulting and training firm blending the best of agile principles and practices with the latest in successful remote work practices. We research the cutting edge of technology and trends in agile and remote work to help you succeed as a distributed agile organization. We work with large organizations to startups on remote work practices and policy, agile process, leadership development, and product management across multiple industries.

Sonatype Engineering
Agile Coach
03/2014 - 03/2020
As the first agile coach, developed innovative agile coaching tools and techniques for a unique, fully distributed product engineering organization that equipped software organizations worldwide to realize the promise of agile, component-based software development while navigating and mitigating security, quality, and licensing risks. Launched multiple teams and new product groups and coached them to be self-sustaining, mentored and trained other leaders, and developed remote hiring/onboarding.

Leading Agile Management Consulting
Enterprise Agile Coach
04/2013 - 03/2014
Led an engagement to restructure a 250-person IT organization within a financial services product firm. Also assisted other coaches in stakeholder management at a large telecommunications firm. Mentored both customer coaches and Leading Agile coaches on various topics including training and coaching of agile practices, facilitation techniques, and consulting practices.

Rally Software Development Management Consulting
Agile Coach
05/2008 - 03/2013
While with Rally, trained over 1000 individuals (70+ teams across 16 organizations) in 4+ years on agile methodology and collaboration techniques across industries including healthcare, electronics manufacturing, telecommunications, national defense, insurance, energy transmission and distribution, and web commerce and services. Teams were comprised of hardware and software developers, business analysts, QA, product managers, program managers, support staff, and executives.

Accenture Engineering
Scrummaster
05/2007 - 05/2008
At the request of the Gestalt COO after Accenture acquisition, joined the Pathfinder methodology development team in October 2007 to develop agile processes for CMMI Level 3 certification. Also assisted in analyzing the compatibility of Pathfinder with Accenture Delivery Methods after the acquisition of Gestalt closed on Dec 2007.

Gestalt LLC Engineering
Scrummaster
03/2003 - 05/2007
Piloted their first XP/Scrum team and helped with rollout of agile methodology throughout the 200+ person company.
Largest program: Coached a 50-person program divided into 6 teams across 5 locations (Philadelphia, Orlando, Boston, Colorado Springs, Hawaii) to adopt agile methodologies in maintaining and evolving a suite of legacy training simulations and utilities. This $30M USAF program successfully delivered 19 releases to the simulation centers worldwide in one year.

SAIC Engineering
Technical Lead
10/2001 - 03/2003
Managed and co-developed several homeland security programs including: - development of 3D terrain databases for National Guard rotary-wing aircraft training simulation - co-development of prototype language translation and teleconferencing applications on PDAs for dismounted infantry for US Army - co-development of incident command training software to prepare local emergency responders for terrorist incidents in over 3100 U.S. jurisdictions.