Product Owner - Trilogy Innovations, Inc. - Clarksburg, WV
(2025-07)
- Maintaining the team backlog – Working with other ART stakeholders and other members of the organization on understanding of work against plans and roadmaps and bringing the vision and planning for the team to deliver.
- Iteration Planning – Prioritizing the backlog as part of the prep work for Iteration Planning, including coordination of dependencies with other POs.
- Supporting Acceptance Test–Driven Development (ATDD) –Development of story acceptance criteria, draft them when feasible, and provide examples in support of ATDD specification by example.
- Accepting stories – Validating that the story meets acceptance criteria and has the appropriate, persistent acceptance tests, and that it otherwise complies its Definition of Done (DoD).
- Participate in team demo and retrospective –Essential role in the team demo, reviewing and accepting stories. They also participate in the Iteration Retrospective, where the teams gather to improve their processes and are active in the Agile Release Train's (ART's) Inspect and Adapt (I&A) workshop.
- Recommend ART and team level improvements- As part of the agile mindset, always looking for where we can make small adjustments to increase flow, feedback and ultimately better outcomes for the end users and stakeholders.
- Mentor and Coach- Willingness to coach any role or understanding as needed at the team level or contractor level during CoPs.
Army PEO Enterprise HQ LACE Agile Coach - United States Department of the Army - Fort Belvoir, VA
(2024-04 - 2025-07)
- Provide HQ support to O6s/O5s using various agile frameworks and best practices to help deliver business outcomes.
- Drove improvements of over 30% in delivery and outcomes for several companies and cost savings of over $700k in delivering functionality in one PI.
- Provide PEO Leadership recommendations for process improvements for programs.
- Provide coaching and facilitation for PEO Offsites to align the enterprise on the agile transformation.
- Develop alignment across the PEO on metrics for continuous improvement.
- Leading alignment of LACEs, and Agile Coaches across the organization for alignment on transformation efforts through PEO LACE Sync.
- Conducting weekly coaching sessions with various roles to help continuous learning (Program Managers, BOs, RTEs, SMs, Agile Coaches)
- Leading continuous learning for all of PEO Enterprise with monthly Community of Practice (CoP)
- Provide PO support for the effort to examine ERPs for future consolidation to a single AMO (Agile Management Office).
- Provide recommendations for implementing Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) within one of the Portfolios within PEO Enterprise.
- Provided external partners' coaching support and recommendations to other services (e.g. DCSA, Navy) as requested.
Enterprise Agile Coach - Packaged Agile - Leesburg, VA
(2023-04 - 2024-04)
- Led Agile transformation for Army Enterprise Business Systems-Convergence (EBS-C) program.
- Established and coached Agile teams through Lean-Agile Center of Excellence (LACE).
- Provided executive coaching and leadership mentoring on Agile best practices.
- Provided PO support to the LACE team to help drive transformation efforts.
- Supported Jira configuration and Agile Release Train (ART) implementation.
- Facilitated PI planning, backlog prioritization, and SAFe training workshops.
Agile Coach - Tygart Technology - Fairmont, WV
(2022-09 - 2023-04)
- Provided Agile coaching and mentoring across multiple teams within Data Sharing Services Unit.
- Developed and implemented Agile workflows, improving operational efficiency and visibility.
- Facilitated Lean-Agile mindset adoption to align strategic goals with execution.
Senior Manager & Agile Coach - Aeyon - Fairmont, WV
(2022-03 - 2022-09)
- Led Agile transformation and strategic planning initiatives for SAF/AQXP.
- Provided Agile coaching to Continuous Process Improvement (CPI) teams.
- Designed roadmap and key performance indicators (KPIs) for Agile implementation.
Deputy PM & Agile Coach - ManTech International Corporation - Bridgeport, WV
(2021-11 - 2022-03)
- Managed program staffing, performance, and contract execution for CJIS Government Team.
- Provided Agile coaching to 100+ employees, facilitating process optimization and knowledge sharing.
PM SME II & Deputy Program Manager - Xcelerate Solutions - Bridgeport, WV
(2019-10 - 2021-11)
- Spearheaded Agile transformation for CJIS using SAFe methodologies.
- Established Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and Agile Center of Excellence.
- Led Product Owner Community of Practice, mentoring professionals on Agile best practices.
Senior Business Analyst - Spectrum Comm Inc.
(2015 - 2016)
Functional Analyst - ATSG Corporation
(2016 - 2018)
Senior Business Analyst - Spectrum Comm Inc.
(2018 - 2019)
Management & Program Analyst - DHA Group
(2013 - 2015)
Quality Coordinator & Technical Writer - DSD Laboratories
(2007 - 2013)
Loan Officer - Harrison County Bank
(2006 - 2007)
