Functional Skills
Product Strategy
Training and Coaching
Sector Experience
Aerospace & Defense
Business Services
Financial Services
Social & Public Sector
Technology
Fortune 500
Experience
Capital One Financial
Product Management / Strategy
Product & Agile Coach
1/2018 - 12/2020
Moved five Card organizations along the Product Maturity spectrum: re-focused Portfolio and organizational structure to business-centered outcomes, customer driven approaches, fast to fail/succeed experiments.
• Shortened learning cycle time by 30 percent.
• Created and led Product Strategy sessions, Psychological Safety workshops, Google Design Sprints,
and Lean Product Discovery Workshops and more for across the Card organization
Coached product managers on operationalizing strategy
• Shortened learning cycle time by 30 percent.
• Created and led Product Strategy sessions, Psychological Safety workshops, Google Design Sprints,
and Lean Product Discovery Workshops and more for across the Card organization
Coached product managers on operationalizing strategy
Freddie Mac
Information Technology
Product focused Agile Coach
10/2016 - 1/2018
Responsible for training and shepherding core and extended team members, scrum masters, and product owners from forming to performing
Solely responsible for launching the first Innovation Lab at Freddie Mac, borrowing heavily from Google’s 10X Design Thinking and Nordstrom’s innovation lab techniques. The resulting product and process was highlighted on Freddie Mac’s front page
Instilled Shift Left mindset by introducing BDD & Test First Development
Solely responsible for launching the first Innovation Lab at Freddie Mac, borrowing heavily from Google’s 10X Design Thinking and Nordstrom’s innovation lab techniques. The resulting product and process was highlighted on Freddie Mac’s front page
Instilled Shift Left mindset by introducing BDD & Test First Development
U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services
Information Technology
Portfolio Coach
6/2015 - 10/2016
- Responsible for coaching at the Portfolio Level across 4 portfolios within USCIS
- Coached and trained business leads, stakeholders, IT program manager, and other value team members towards re-aligning work towards value streams that match organizational objectives, are more collaborative, and set realistic delivery expectations
- Coached and trained business leads, stakeholders, IT program manager, and other value team members towards re-aligning work towards value streams that match organizational objectives, are more collaborative, and set realistic delivery expectations
Federal Aviation Administration
Management Consulting
Agile Coach
12/2013 - 3/2015
(via Booz Allen Hamilton)
Transitioned a program of 30 from waterfall to Agile utilizing scrum of scrums framework
• Trained and coached product owners, scrum masters, developers, testers, and project managers in Agile methodologies, user story creation, scrum ceremonies, and value-driven management
Transitioned a program of 30 from waterfall to Agile utilizing scrum of scrums framework
• Trained and coached product owners, scrum masters, developers, testers, and project managers in Agile methodologies, user story creation, scrum ceremonies, and value-driven management
Defense Intelligence Agency
Management Consulting
Product Owner
7/2010 - 3/2015
(via Booz Allen Hamilton)
Served as Product Owner of a social-business software platform responsible for facilitating intelligence sharing between agencies.
Trusted with making key strategic decisions aimed at preventing another 9/11.
Served as Product Owner of a social-business software platform responsible for facilitating intelligence sharing between agencies.
Trusted with making key strategic decisions aimed at preventing another 9/11.
USAF
Information Technology
(Multiple)
6/2003 - 7/2010
• Elicited & managed DOD-level requirements for over 60 Intelligence programs.
o Captured technical requirements from COCOM customers, translated into accurate user needs statements, worked into greater over-arching functional requirements, developed use cases, and managed requirements throughout requirements lifecycle.
• Directed requirements specification and integration testing for a $1.8M contingency operations site, enabling 24/7 mission assurance for the command.
o Captured technical requirements from COCOM customers, translated into accurate user needs statements, worked into greater over-arching functional requirements, developed use cases, and managed requirements throughout requirements lifecycle.
• Directed requirements specification and integration testing for a $1.8M contingency operations site, enabling 24/7 mission assurance for the command.