Agile Implementation Lead

Since 2023, I have worked with several mid-sized companies to help organize their IT portfolios and implement Agile to deliver the work in those portfolios.

I have over 14 years of experience in project management and Agile and over 18 years of experience in IT, in a variety of industries including education, finance, manufacturing, health care, and data analytics. Before joining the IT world, I worked as a high school English teacher and as a legal assistant in Africa and Europe on a case in the International Court of Arbitration in the Hague.

I earned my PMP in 2013, but when I was introduced to Agile, I immediately realized the value of its transparent, people-over-process approach. I have several Agile certifications and a Certificate in Project Management from UW Milwaukee.

My focus is helping Agile teams work independently so that leaders can focus on strategy—ensuring their teams are doing the most valuable work and letting the team decide HOW to do it. Agile methodology gets work delivered and is flexible enough to use for any project work.

Skills

Agile

I truly believe in the values of Agile and consistently work to promote transparency, communication, and the iterative process of inspection and adaptation of delivered work.

I have served many teams as a scrum master. My focus is now implementing Agile scrum to increase the value IT can deliver to organizations. Training and mentoring team members from help desk staff to C-levels to successfully transform the way that work flows through teams. Working with business leadership, users, and engineers to build teams and deliver working products.

Business Analysis & Product Owner

Working as a BA and PO on projects and training others to ask “the right” questions and listen to the answers. Creating user stories, documenting requirements; determining the value of projects; and creating and managing product backlogs. Creating detailed business process flows and other visuals to help people analyze processes and build usable products; creating and performing tests for quality assurance; creating presentations for executive leadership to deliver accurate, honest project status updates; training users.

PMP, Traditional Project Management

Leading stakeholders to clarify and document project purpose, expectations, and scope. Planning and monitoring projects; communicating for efficiency and transparency; delivering projects through well-planned rollouts; mitigating the impact of scope and schedule change on business users, end customers, and project team. Assisting with hiring, performance reviews, and people management.

Documentation & Training

Organizing, analyzing, and managing data and information; writing and editing for a wide variety of audiences and purposes; evaluating user needs for training and support documentation; designing and creating instructional, marketing, and support documents.

Education & Certifications

Professional Scrum Product Owner 1 Certification, August 2025

PSM Professional Scrum Master 1 Certification, March 2016

PMI, PMP Certification, Renewed 2019

UWM School of Continuing Education, Project Management Certificate, 2012

MSOE, Technical Communication Certificate, 2006

University of Wisconsin—Madison, BA English and Education, 1999

Experience

    • Worked with banking and financial organizations to plan delivery of IT roadmap projects. Average team size 10 to 20 IT staff.

    • Agile Transformation: Implemented Agile methodology using ADO (MS Azure Dev Ops) to convert the strategic roadmaps to operational backlogs.

    • Set-up Axure DevOps with teams, backlogs, and workflow to deliver projects outlined on the roadmaps.

    • Trained the IT team, several product owners, and company leadership in Agile processes. Mentored the teams and a scrum master to full adoption of Agile scrum in the IT department, with an emphasis on continuous improvement and efficiency. Trained Product Owners.

    • Designed and implemented a scaled-down Release Management process (Agile Release Train) for the teams. Created tools in ADO to support the process.

    • Servant-leader of several teams of developers designing and building software and websites for clients in industries including finance, education, manufacturing, and law enforcement. Projects up to $3.5M budget, 12 team members, and 2 years long.

    • Also did BA, PO work, and testing on many of the projects I managed

    • Nexteer Automative, managed a 2-year, $3.5M software development project

  • Project managed the development of software to analyze pharmacy, health care, and insurance claims data.

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