Steve

Manages the entire development lifecycle method and process. Works with teams to come up with improvements to the way they work. Works with the executive teams to bring in agile methods that will help the organization improve the way they deliver software that delights the customer.

Work across the org to: establish/modify appropriate agile team practice and stability in delivery of releases; coach on team empowerment and collaboration; provide visibility into the progress of commitments across all product lines; focus on timely delivery of valuable working software

• Coached on agile principles with a focus on making teams, backlogs, and agile practice a reality – resulting in delivery of quality software releases customers delight in, and teams that can sustain the pace of delivery
• Build Jira dashboards using top-notch tools – resulting in visibility from teams to executives about what concerns them most
• Administers Replicon projects and timesheet approvals

As NHTs first agile coach: built new team practices; created flexible reports & tools giving visibility into the progress of sprint/quarterly commitments; focused on timely delivery of valuable working software; concise dashboard tracking of progress, effort, defects, and releases

• Coached on scrum structure, practice/ceremonies, and culture.
• Facilitated cross-organization quarterly increment planning.
• Administered Jira: fields, workflows, screen, roles, and permissions config.

Managed a team of five engineers, for scrum Masters, and two QA analysts. Worked across the organization to mature the agile process. Worked with the development team to port an application from Azure to AWS.

Worked dynamically across the entire organization in the development of methods, toolsets, and practices that enable rapid and flexible development of software. Managed project managers and scrum masters each having development projects across multiple teams.

• Facilitated Scaled Agile knowledge/methods/practice in the organization
• Provided coaching support to scrum masters and project managers
• Led a team in a port of an application from Azure to AWS

Developed tools, practices, and methods providing the organization visibility into where to apply resources.

• Optimized teams methods giving the organization visibility into the state of feature delivery via Dashboards, Boards, Projects, and Portfolio.
• Configured Atlassian collaboration suite and consult teams on its use to find better ways to work inside the team and around the organization.
• Helped teams self- solve problems through effective root cause analysis.

Managed teams in the development of working software systems in a highly collaborative environment.

• Co-managed CommonWell project, went live <1 year from inception.
• Facilitated communication to senior management and across teams in several locations: manage and advise on project interdependencies.
• Helped establish weekly release cadence of features to customers.

• As a scrum master, acted on teams’ behalf to remove blocking issues
• Coached teams to a consistent 100% delivery on commitments
• Designed approach for integration of data in Emergency Care apps

9 years of experience in designing and implementing code (java and C#) for healthcare charting applications key for patient safety including:
Problems, Allergy, Medication, Immunizations, Orders, and Prescriptions.

Technologies:

C#, .Net Framework, DevExpress, Visual C++, JavaScript, C++, C, Microsoft Visual Studio .Net, NUnit, Java, Eclipse, JUnit, AWT, Swing, JSP, Groovy Scripting (for Jira)