I work closely with clients to build internal capacity and develop their agility, autonomy, and resilience. As a product development consultant and Lean-Agile Coach with 25+ years of experience, I'm passionate about driving business results while cultivating work environments where people thrive and do their best work. I specialize in Lean, Agile, Product Management, OKRs, Jobs-to-be-done (JTBD), Kanban, Cynefin, strategy, and sense-making.

• Coached eight hardware, firmware, and software development teams building home security devices on Scrum, Acceptance Criteria, High-performing teams, Story Mapping, and Big Room Planning
• Accelerated hardware development by teaching hardware teams to vertically slice and incrementally deliver Epics
• Worked with senior directors and software managers on psychological safety, intent-based leadership, and Cynefin

Transformation and Product Management Coach – Seattle, WA March '22–Sept '22
• Launched Agile release trains and quarterly planning sessions for 120-person product development organization
• Kicked off and trained development teams on Scrum and integrated UX and UI work with application development
• Trained and coached product managers on methods and practices to develop a viable native iOS retail sales experience including UX, product strategy, roadmaps, OKRs, value-in-use, and service blueprints
• Coached product managers, solution managers, architects, release train engineers (RTE), and internal Agile coaches

Enterprise Agile Transformation Coach – Houston, TX May '21–Feb '22
• Lead Agile and Product coach for 600-person org with focus on Scrum, Kanban, and SAFe practices including Lean Portfolio Management, cross-functional teams, and dependency management
• Advised teams on transitioning from project to product management and trained them on product strategy, roadmaps, landing zones, product lifecycles, and decision-making
• Assessed & coached key change agent roles including, VPs, directors, product managers, internal Agile coaches, RTEs

• Designed a fit-for-purpose workflow management system for drug development safety teams
• Coached 10 teams & improved team autonomy with behavioral markers, intent-based leadership, & skills assessment
• Worked with first, second, and third-line managers on how to apply Lean & Agile principles and OKRs to drug safety
• Improved regulatory filling process by breaking down work and developing acceptance criteria

• Coached and advised a dozen internal digital transformation and product innovation startup teams to validate customer problems and accelerate their "time to first value delivered"
• Advised leaders of 400-person global IT organization on how to grow talent, increase predictably, improve quality, and reduce time-to-market
• Guided Project Management Office in creation of Lean Portfolio Management system and develop a product lifecycle
• Designed and led global distributed ethnography sense-making cultural scan – collected >400 anonymous stories from employees and contractors to understand and mitigate Lean and Agile transformation impediments

• Delivered 3-week boot camps to on-board and train new technology analysts and software developers
• Topics included Lean and Agile methodologies, LASD, Scrum, Test-Driven Development (TDD), acceptance test-driven development, full stack Java, and presentation skills
• Coached six teams on how to use Agile methods to deliver results fast

Lean Agile Software Development Professional Trainer – San Francisco, CA Oct '17 – Nov '17
• Leadership development training for high-performing, mid-level leaders on decision making and complex challenges

Global enterprise coach & consultant for organizations to achieve higher predictability, quality, and faster value delivery
• Product manager and innovation hub supervisor that provided coaching to a dozen internal startups to rapidly prototype, innovate, and validate new hardware, software, and services with users
• Led transformation of 300-person hardware design team that delivered 30% more scope, 30% faster w/ no added cost
• Developed senior staff of 800-person service and operations organization to teach Lean and Agile & lead by example
• Worked with hardware equipment teams across the globe to solve complex business challenges & accelerate delivery
• Led eight distributed ethnographic research and sense-making initiatives on Agile adoption, user requirements capture, and employee engagement, diversity equity and inclusion (DEI). Presented findings to CEO
• Trained over 1000 employees and internal coaches on Lean, Agile, systems engineering, business models, design thinking

• Owned product roadmap & strategy for security engine and cryptographic accelerator IP blocks in microprocessors