Functional Skills

Artificial Intelligence
DevOps
Agile Software Development
Communications
Service Delivery
E-commerce Implementation
Operations Management
SQL Analysis
Leadership Development
Finance Transformation

Software Skills

Artificial Intelligence
Storage Area Network (SAN)
SQL
AWS

Certifications

CSMCertified Scrum Master
CSPOCertified Scrum Product Owner
CSPCertified Scrum Professional
PMPProject Management Professional
SASMSAFe Advanced Scrum Masters

Sector Experience

Energy
Financial Services
Retail
Technology
Telecom
Big 3 Consulting (MBB)
Fortune 500
Top Consulting Firms

Experience

Agile Mindset Product Management / Strategy
Managing Partner
8/2015 - Present
Led the discovery phase for the implementation of: Strategic Operations at Tractor Supply Company, and Ai at Howard Hughes. Led a team of 30 people at Southwest Airlines to help implement a new Portfolio management tool. Provided Agile training to organizations in San Francisco and Bengaluru. Interviewed Simon Sinek, CEOs, and co-founders. Set up a Meetup.com group, had Bas Vodde present the LeSS framework.
McKinsey & Company Management Consulting
Sr. Product Manager
6/2022 - 4/2024
Drove Artificial Intelligence (AI) roadmaps for client needs. Provided client organization wide operating model support. Led and upskilled three product owners and six workstreams (45 people), including product roadmaps, OKRs, team capability improvement metrics, and backlog refinements, for cloud service delivery on AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Built and drove strategic roadmaps, radiation plans for partnerships within the firm. Provided leadership updates. Published internal documents. Industries: Retail, Energy, and Finance.
PayPal Operations
Engagement Manager
9/2020 - 3/2022
Supported the client with five direct-report senior consultants to provide a data-driven Ways of Working transformation at scale across a top-tier Silicon Valley FinTech organization with 1600+ people. Provided people and capacity planning for service contracts worth $1.25M.
TietoEVRY Operations
Global Agile Mentor
1/2018 - 1/2021
Mentored 3 Directors, 7 Managers over multiple product areas to help 30 teams across Sweden, Norway, Finland, Poland, and India move toward better Agile and DevOps operation practices. Supported cross-geography leadership by leveraging OKRs for strategic endeavors.
Ingram Micro Information Technology
Sr. Tech Program Manager
9/2016 - 1/2018
Navigated the leadership and product teams to deliver client value and to meet the quarterly expectations in a Software-as-a Service (SaaS)/Cloud environment. Reorganized the R&D organization, from 3 teams to 7 Product Scrum teams. Convened all leadership for a sustainable & Strategic Agile transformation. Coached VPs and directors on the best operational practices.
DEXMEDIA (now THRYV) Information Technology
Program Manager
2/2016 - 8/2016
Worked with top-level executives to improve the organization's product mindset. Mentored Product Owners to deliver customer-centric products and identify ways to improve predictability of roadmaps.
Rodan + Fields Product Management / Strategy
Project Manager
2/2015 - 8/2015
Provided Agile mentorship to the organization. Led teams to be motivated, cross-functional, self-organizing, and more trusting. Provided Agile training to the product team and the VP of engineering. Increased the release frequency to the test environment from once a week to daily.
Party City Holdco Product Management / Strategy
Ecommerce Project Manager
4/2014 - 1/2015
Provided e-commerce leadership over all phases of enterprise IT implementations for the organization. Reported to the vice president of information technology. Provided omnichannel experience optimization to increase sales.
Accenture Engineering
Engineering Architect
2/2006 - 4/2014
Provided Software Engineering project lifecycle leadership over all phases of enterprise implementations. Go-to Hands-on Lead Developer for 3 offshore and 2 onshore teams to create enterprise software using JSPs, PL/SQL with an Oracle Database. Led client leadership meetings with status and follow-up. Supported top companies in Silicon Valley. Architected J2EE ordering online SaaS using Spring framework, JSFs, & Hibernate.