DASA US Ambassador of DevOps
2016 - PRESENTDevOps Agile Skills Association- Progressed toward authoring DASA DevOps, Agile, and leadership standards; creating and delivering certificate programs and training; and applying the standards to customers' real-world operations to achieve results.
- Launched and continue leading a collaboration with DASA leaders in Canada and Latin America to organize a common forum to help organizations learn, understand, and apply the new DASA standards to achieve real-time results.
- Hand-picked a team to bring these DevOps standards to North America.
Technologies: DevOps, Agile, Lean Six Sigma, Business Process Improvement (BPI), Program Management, Technical Program ManagementTransformation Leader | Consultant
2010 - PRESENTTYIIR Institute, LLC- Led and continue to lead transformations for leading global organizations, Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, and individuals. Well-known clients include Cisco, Pearson, and Buhler.
- Trained, mentored, consulted, facilitated, and provide leadership for mission-critical, high-profile business initiatives to transform culture, mindset, people, process, and tools for successful overall transformations.
- Collaborated with C-Level executives and hands-on with resources down in the trenches to provide transparency, alignment, and understanding so that everyone was on the same page, working together to make the shared vision a reality.
Technologies: Transformational Leadership, Program Management, Technical Program Management, Digital Transformation, Business Transformation, Business Process Improvement (BPI)Transformation Leader | Change Agent | Program Manager
1998 - 2017Consultant- Served as the transformation lead or on a team of transformation leaders to lead digital and other transformations for many world-leading organizations and governments.
- Owned delivery of all aspects of transformations related to culture change; evolving mindsets; transitioning and growing people; and modernizing processes, tools, and technologies—all to compete and beat the competition.
- Led transformations for AWS (MIS service, aka Sentinel); Philips (global enterprise migration to the cloud and operationalization of HSDP platform); and CSC (modernized the global vBlock infrastructure and led transformations for global clients).
- Consulted with additional clients: New Age Systems (created GIS service offerings); SPAWAR now NAVWAR (program overhaul for the fleet system that became the standard for 10 years); and Netegrity now CA (SiteMinder, the world's leading SSO solution).
- Defined the strategy, gathered requirements, and led the development, rollout, and integration of 100+ products and services, several of which were industry-leading and breakthrough technologies and services.
Technologies: Leadership, Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC), Development, Implementation, Testing, Quality Assurance (QA), Governance, Operational Readiness, Requirements Gathering, Customer Experience, Management, Auditing, Program Management, Technical Program Management, Digital Transformation, Transformational Leadership, New Products & Services, Product Development, Service Development, New Products, Web Services, Business Transformation, Business Process Improvement (BPI)