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Experienced, Successful, Lean-Agile Enterprise Coach, Trainer and Learning Culture Lead. Business Agility, User Experience Change Agent. Tameflow Enthusiast Outside of work I train wild mustangs with my sister and study horse and rider biomechanics 🤓❤️🐴 We're often so busy building product or services that few are paying attention to the users experience, improving business results or employee engagement. Helping teams and managers move beyond "doing agile" to using leadership, flow and integrative thinking to start obtaining measurable improvements, empowered teams and a true continuous improvement strategy. Extensive engineering, leadership and "transformation" background. Agile, Lean and "plan-driven" project management SME. Certified in many frameworks and methodologies to help reduce common misconceptions related to methodologies. Enable Business Agility to help create environments that remove excuses, embrace a growth mindset, and move beyond following prescriptive practices to promote innovation,continuous improvement, happy teams, and happy clients. If it's not fun, it's certainly not "Agile". Introduction of Agile and Lean principles and methodologies at all levels within large and small companies. Syracuse Chapter PMI Adjunt Professor Syracuse University In addition to implementing Agile and Traditional Project Management, also teach teams and individuals how to effectively apply in their environments - from small to large teams/organizations, from very little process to many, legacy baselines to new product launch, safety-critical, highly-regulated or not! 3 Day Agile Project Initiation Workshop Trainer Teach PMP, PMI-ACP and SAFe certification classes. Enterprise Scrum – CSSC (Certified Software Scaling Coach) - Software Scaling and Release Planning for multiple teams using the Enterprise Scrum framework - Business Agility SAFe Program Consultant (SPC5) Certified Traditional (PMBOK) and Agile Project Management (PMP, PMI-ACP) Professional Scrum Master (PSM II) Lean, Six Sigma Blackbelt Extensive leadership training Full Life Cycle Embedded Software Development 20 years experience in both manufacturing and software development. Experience in all phases of project and software development life cycles in a large variety of roles. I have seen both so-called "waterfall" (plan-driven) and "agile" projects have both amazing success and spectacular failures. I lend this experience to help teach what the common denominator is to either.