Agile Instructor & Course Developer at Learning Tree International
Reston, Virginia 20190-5304
United States
http://www.learningtree.com/
April 2010-April 2012

(Currently employed by Learning Tree but didn't see how to indicated this.) 4/2010 - Present: Customized 21 courses for Learning Tree clients using the Scrum framework. I played the role of ScrumMaster / lead developer, and my clients played Product Owner. Other members of the teams included Learning Tree editors, marketing, and publications personnel. 21 courses x average 10 hours customization per course = 210 6/2010 - Present: Taught 23 three-day Scrum Project Management courses around the world for companies such as General Motors and Citigroup. 23 events x 25 hours each = 575 hours 11/2010 - 5/2011: Developed a new Agile course called Complex Project Management. To manage the project I used the Scrum framework. I played the role of ScrumMaster / lead developer, and my Learning Tree client played Product Owner. Other members of the team included editors, marketing, and publications personnel. I now maintain the course in an Agile way as change requests are added to the product backlog for prioritization and work. 620 hours 8/2010 - 12/2010: Developed a new course called Project Leadership. To manage the project I used the Scrum framework. I played the role of ScrumMaster / lead developer, and my Learning Tree client played Product Owner. Other members of the team included editors, marketing, and publications personnel. I now maintain the course in an Agile way as change requests are added to the product backlog for prioritization and work. 670 hours

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Head of IT & Agile Coach at Health Decisions
Durham, North Carolina 27713
United States
http://healthdec.com/
October 2008-January 2010

I was asked to lead an IT organization in their transition to Agile. I served as Agile Coach to several project managers. Half my time was spent on one large project, HD360. This was a new clinical trial data management system. Traditional estimates were 3-5 years, and the project had failed twice before due to complexities. We delivered 2/3 of the features in 16 months, and the remaining work was deemed unnecessary. The product was successfully delivered in 3 releases. See http://bit.ly/IkK0zK for press coverage. The Scrum framework was followed. I initially recruited a business analyst to play Product Owner and hired an accomplished project manager interested in learning Agile to play ScrumMaster. We spent a couple of sprints preparing the product backlog before a full team was assigned. Each sprint consisted of sprint planning, execution including daily scrums, review, and retrospective. The project was tracked using low-fidelity task boards and burn down charts, plus high-level Gantt charts. My role was formal and informal training plus ongoing coaching.

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