• Observed program syncs and interactions of the Portfolio team, designed tailored Agile engagement activities, and addressed specific needs, including portfolio backlog visualization, portfolio dashboards development, epic creation, and economic prioritization.
• Trained and mentored Business Owners to adopt a strategic investment approach through the creation and refinement of Epics and Lean Business cases.
• Facilitated the creation of OKRs and tracking their progress.

• Trained, coached, and guided leadership in defining and motivating metric-driven Objective Key Results (OKRs) to gain organizational alignment and promote forward-thinking while setting strategic directions for teams and programs.
• Collaborated with portfolio leadership to ensure delivery aligns with product vision and organizational strategy through a combination of roadmaps, OKRs, and work hierarchy (Epics, Features, Stories) using Jira and BetterWorks.

• Assessed the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) program and Leidos' ability to change and created an implementation roadmap to scale Agile Transformation to the program and solution levels.
• Established partnership with the FDA stakeholders and Leidos leadership to initiate the Agile Release Train Launch Readiness activities. Integrated industry best practices for PI readiness including creation of customer Journey Maps, Feature Refinement, economic prioritization, etc.

• Assisted program leadership and teams in Agile Release Planning; provided Release Train Engineer and Product Manager guidance in creating Product Vision, PI Roadmap, and Release/Program Plan with features and dependencies.
Coached R&D team on best quality practices, including code refactoring, continuous integration, small batch size development, and lean flow. Helped the team reduce the escape defect rate by 45% in the first three months of engagement.

• Provided training, coaching, and mentoring to developers, testers, and business analysts to ensure development teams of internal Cyber Security programs adopt Agile best practices in delivering high-quality services and products to the federal government.
• Drove adoption to Scrum of Scrums ceremony helping Department of Transportation Scrum Masters to better coordinate cross-team dependencies and escalate impediments and risks to Release Train Engineer.

• Implemented mobile strategy for InsureKidsNow.gov and Medicaid.gov websites and led the implementation process of the responsive website allowing Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services to avoid costs associated with mobile application maintenance.
• Monitored the project development over all phases of SDLC to ensure the effectiveness of the incremental value delivery process to the customer.
• Helped team to integrate Agile best practices for time-boxing, code design/review, etc.

• Conducted collaborative workshops and working sessions with stakeholders and leadership to identify team structure, program quality standards, and overall governance for iterative value delivery.
• Worked with senior leadership to establish business rhythms for cross-team coordination and dependency management.
• Led a virtual team of 5 engineers in the implementation process of an online learning platform while ensuring compliance with Section 508 and WCAG accessibility standards.