KaiRise

In my role as a Partner at KaiRise, I spearheaded the development of the industry's first on-demand ICAgile accredited course, transforming the way agile training is delivered. By prioritizing flexibility and speed, I successfully increased course enrollment and client satisfaction, making agile training more accessible than ever before.

Partner

Accenture

Working across all Federal accounts and capabilities at AFS’ San Antonio location, promote awareness and adoption of Lean-Agile values, principles, processes and technical practices. Consult with clients and account teams on effective patterns for transformation and high-quality delivery. Provide thought leadership to enable accounts to grow their Lean-Agile practice. Provide sales and BD support at the account, sector and portfolio level. 

Primary focus falls into four key areas:

Delivery Support - Jumpstart new Agile projects by helping client teams understand Agile, onboard key roles, execute Sprint Zero. Work closely with project leadership to assess organizational impediments, measure flow and develop strategies for continuously improving. 

Thought Leadership - Collaborate with the AFS Agile Institute, Accenture LLP,  and the industry as a whole to promote local adoption of our corporate capabilities, and industry best practices. 

Education - Provide classroom training to project teams and clients in our ICAgile accredited courses and the Scaled Agile (SAFe) curriculum. 

Sales Enablement - Play an active role in supporting business development and proposal efforts for Agile opportunities across all accounts.

Agile Consultant

Compassion International

As a servant-leader, coach the global solutions engineering teams (currently 11 agile teams) to manage the life cycle of critical corporate-wide and customer-specific technology based products primarily using Lean and Agile SDLC practices – Scrum, KanBan, XP, ScrumBan, SAFe.  

Continuously develop a work environment promoting continual improvement and learning, free from fear of failure, while supporting mistakes that encourage continual learning.  Employ a Lean leadership style focusing on developing team members’ skills. 
Serve as an Agile Coach and transformation agent as the ministry transforms to a new way of thinking, applying Lean Agile principles to all levels of work.  Create teams that are jointly responsible for success, solving problems together in ways that develop people’s capabilities and increases their engagement and commitment, focusing on respect for people.

Develop and implement global strategy for application software design and development. Ensure staffing and development in function to provide technical and strategic expertise in the creation of global inter-related system design for existing architecture or new deployments.  Direct the development of specifications and requirements to integrate global applications.  Serve as catalyst and expert leader, driving the development and implementation of new standards in software development.

Provide strategic direction in gathering requirements and development specifications to design and integrate into applications.  Direct application software design and development services and technical leadership for existing architecture or new deployments. Create an environment that attracts and develops skilled professional staff engaged in coding, testing, implementing, and maintaining large software applications.

Sr. Director - Solutions Engineering

Direct technology delivery focused on enterprise services (Service Oriented Architecture and the Enterprise Service Bus)  enterprise information management (the Enterprise Data Warehouse) and enterprise database management (MSSQL DBMS).
Direct enterprise information management solutions, division staff and resources. 
Direct solutions delivery, process and policy assurance, budgeting and financial management, resource planning, management reporting and the attainment of cross-organizational objectives and service levels. Collaborate with IT management teams, key decision-makers and global stakeholders to identify, recommend, develop, implement and support cost-effective, strategically - aligned enterprise data management solutions for all aspects of the global organization.
As Strategic Business Partner, and Agile Coach, participate in the development and execution of strategies to drive agile adoption throughout the organization. Examples include defining an Agile maturity model, establishing best practices, teaching Agile related classes and guiding the Managing Directors, Product Managers and project leads in the establishment of Agile practices.

Director - Enterprise Technology, SBP

Douglas County

Responsible for the day-to-day operations of the Elections office in a medium-sized County, providing direct supervision, coordination, and technical guidance to staff, maintaining a high level of morale, ensuring service excellence and increasing team productivity. Supported advanced technical needs of office staff, as well as Directors and Elected Officials both inside and outside of Douglas County, including hardware/software support, project management, business analysis, and vendor relations.   Utilized sophisticated technology skills to streamline processes and reduce overhead by implementing methodologies to improve support, manage customer expectations, and build strong cross-agency relationships. Recognized leader in the State by the Colorado Department of State (CDOS) with regards to voting systems technology and statewide voter registration database management.

Senior Product Manager

Senior System Analyst

Reformed PMP turned Agile delivery expert | Helping you earn more 💵 | Agile certification pays - get yours today at your own pace. KaiRise.com

Instructor-led agile training is one of the worst ways to up-skill your workforce. There are 3 gigantic problems with old-school, instructor led training.

🚫 It pulls workers away from their daily jobs to take training
🚫 It takes forever to schedule, coordinate and run
🚫 It doesn’t scale

◾️What I do

I'm a partner at KaiRise, with three decades of experience helping enterprises implement agility. We've cracked the code on how to train your staff in a way that actually generates results.

◾️How We Help?

I’ve distilled what I’ve learned into the fastest most effective way to earn the ICAgile Certified Professional Certification. We created the world’s first on-demand ICAgile accredited course.

It’s used at enterprises around the world to transform the learning experience, while stretching budget dollars and…

👉Is Available 24/7
👉Is Trusted & Certified 
👉Has Bite-sized learning for seamless integration into daily tasks
👉Has zero death by powerpoint or forgetting everything you’ve just learned
👉Will certify your workforce in half the time of regular training

◾️Expected Results

✅ 40% reduction in training costs
✅ 30% increase in the volume of certifications issued
✅ 50% reduction in the time to complete training
✅ 72 Net Promoter Score (excellent)

◾️Don't just take my word for it

“Absolutely loved the content, format, and instruction style of this course. The self-pacing was great for my learning style. Would recommend it to practically anyone!”
Stella Griffith - Sr. Business Analyst at Fidelity Investments

“Great Course and Engaging Style. From the bite-sized learning modules to the reinforcement through quizzes and interactive activities, this course is a great intro to the world of Agile.”
Ian Santo Domingo - Principal & Managing Director at Vault Consulting

“I am a Certified ScrumMaster, but I truly believe this course has set me up for broader organizational success. I can't say enough great things about Agile Foundations!”
Lindsey Parker - Strategic Projects Coordinator at Fellowship of Christian Athletes

And many more at www.KaiRise.com

◾️My Background

With three decades of hands-on experience, completed 16 agile certifications, and having trained thousands, I've garnered over 10,000 followers and earned recognition as a top voice in the Agile Community by LinkedIn. My journey has taken me through diverse landscapes, from startups and nonprofits to global corporations and government agencies.

◾️Contact

Ready to change your enterprise training experience? Send me a LinkedIn DM and let's explore if we're a fit. 

💻www.KaiRise.com

Mike Lyons

Blueprint

Blueprint is redefining the data solutions ecosystem. Headquartered in the greater Seattle area with employees across the US and Europe, Blueprint is a data intelligence firm that is committed to delivering an informed world. Focusing on customer experience and intelligent supply chain in retail, manufacturing, technology and the federal government, we enable digital transformation by offering technology solutions that build digital culture, make employees more productive, improve satisfaction and increase revenue.

Delivery Manager

Do Agile Better

Financial Services IT - MM (MA) - Defined and delivered tailored foundational Lean-Agile strategies within End User Technology & Services, and Annuity Technology Portfolios in partnership with executive leadership and over 30 globally distributed hybrid/remote delivery & operations teams to analyze and improve the flow of Value to End Users. Provided Training and hands-on coaching for Developers, Technical Leads / Architects, Testers, Analysts, Product Managers, Product Owners, Project Managers, Scrum Experts, Release Train Engineers, Directors, and Team Leads to improve clarity and alignment of strategy through execution. Key performance highlights include 19% improvement in organizational ability to respond to change, 12% improvement in time to market, and 17% improvement in value delivered.

-Introduced the AgilityHealth measurement and growth platform to provide consistent data and meaningful qualitative and quantitative metrics to drive effective decision-making towards achieving shared business-driven outcomes.

Sr. Project Manager & Agility Coach

Mindset Consulting, LLC

As a Sr. SAP Delivery Lead, responsible for defining project delivery strategy, as well as the end-to-end delivery of 50+ high-value cloud-based UI5/Fiori applications for several Fortune 100 customers. As an Agile Coach, established the agile delivery center of excellence, expanding delivery organization by 10x, with 100% success rate on projects delivered to satisfied customers, evidenced by Net Promoter Score.

-Rail Transportation, CA: S/4HANA Facility Tools, Customer Dashboard
-Manufacturing, MN: Repetitive Manufacturing
-Education & Medicine, MD: Employee Display
-Consumer Products, IL: S/4HANA Sales & Purchase Orders
-Medical Equipment, MN: S/4HANA Advisory & Managed Services
-Energy / Utilities, NE: SAP Equipment Management & Reporting
-University / Public Services, PA: Inventory Provisioning Apps
-Dental & Animal Health, MN: CRM Sales Enablement Apps, EWM/ECC/Legacy SQL Inbound/Outbound Dashboard, & Fulfillment Center; $1.3M annual benefit.
-Financial Services, NY: Invoice Approval & Advisory
-Water, Hygiene and Energy Tech, MN: Agreement & Incentives Management for Mobile Sales Reps, Reporting Apps: Training cost reduction 90% per user, 100% adoption.
-Agriculture, MN: Farmer Customer Portal, Design Thinking / Advisory
-Medical Equipment & Devices, MN: Mobile App for Field Technician Service & Repair, Offline Mobile DT & PoC
-Agriculture, Cargill; MN: EWM Route Monitor - Central America, ERP React Native Hybrid Mobile, Bank Asset Management, DevOps CI/CD, Europe, Supply Chain - North America including EWM, ECC, AWS, TM, PM, QM, WM, Leonardo, & S/4HANA back-end integrations.
-Chemical, OH: In-Plant Inventory Management - ECC WM Data Management, Forecast, Order Planning, Sales Orders
-Diversified Industrial & Consumer Products Technology, MN:  Warehouse App - DevOps, Internal Movements, Receiving, and Shipping

Sr. SAP Delivery Lead & Agile Coach

UnitedHealth Group

Big Data - Responsible for program and team-level leadership of large, high-value (blue chip) healthcare application software development, data integration, and analytics programs supporting Optum's clinical lines of business. As a PMO Agile Champion, provided coaching and portfolio-level strategic guidance to streamline delivery process flows, introducing new tools, practices, and methods of measuring growth across the organization over time.

Healthcare IT Systems, HIPAA Compliance, MS Office, MS Project, Visio, SQL, Hadoop/Apache, Quality Center, Rally, VersionOne, Jira, MarkLogic, Jenkins, Drupal, Aha, GoToMeeting, WebEx

Sr. IT Program Manager | Agile Coach

Perficient

-Retail, Target Corp (MN): IBM MB/MQ SOA Enterprise Architecture, Business Integration, Digital / Agile Transformation & eCommerce. Responsible for coordination of multiple cross-functional DevOps teams  continuously integrating back-end database / legacy systems, with RESTful API design, development, testing, and integration for a variety of multi-channel front-end UX applications.

-Public Services, State of MN (MN): Liferay ERP Portal Upgrade and Web Redesign: Responsible for end-to-end project delivery, including ownership of scope, schedule, and budget. Primary point of contact for program and project-level activities, responsible for facilitating collaboration of business and IT delivery teams.

-Retail Consumer Electronics, Best Buy (MN): IBM BPMS Upgrade, BPM Workflow Creation, and Non-POS Recall Automation. Responsible for end-to-end delivery, providing oversight and approval of budget, staffing, and schedule for several interdependent programs and project teams.

-Pharmaceuticals Benefits, Prime Therapeutics (MN): Adobe CQ5 / AEM Content Management System / Website Redesign. Responsible for providing direction and coaching of subject matter experts, facilitating resolution of key issues, and guiding the successful delivery of project objectives.

-Financial Holding Company, UnionBank (CA): Responsible for leading rearchitecture and redesign of the corporate actions functionality within a banking application. Conducted stakeholder interviews and design thinking to elicit detailed business requirements, creation of UX wireframes, business process workflows, the creation of an interactive prototype for moderated usability testing, and onboarding of development team.

Project Manager | Scrum Master - Digital & eCommerce

Ewings Associates

Retail, Target Corp (MN): Project Manager (Contract) responsible for coordinating a large matrix program to launch a new, experimental business model and process for launching the first suite of small footprint urban stores located in select cities. Facilitated steering committee events to align executive level resources responsible for the direction of numerous cross-functional workstreams. Responsible for project planning, systems administration, executive status, along with iterative, incremental, and re-usable pattern for future store launches, as well as new business formats.

Project Manager

Financial Services

Functional and technical subject matter expert for new banking, brokerage, and planning operations technologies including CRM, trading platforms, and information management systems as a result of new regulatory requirements and M&A activity. Worked with local and international cross-functional teams with a focus on test execution and discovery of new business requirements.

Series 7, 63, 66 licensed Financial Advisor

Sr. Consultant

Seasoned Solutions Delivery Manager and Agility Coach with 15 years of experience developing thriving global teams in complex and adaptive environments. With a Lean-Agile mindset, a relentless drive for continuous improvement, and years of real-world experience, I have a strong grasp of the challenges facing enterprise software delivery organizations and their leadership today. I have proven the ability to lead and inspire a wide variety of industry-leading businesses, teams, and people around the world, leveraging data-driven insights to measure and streamline flow, while delivering amazing digital products and experiences for customers on-time, in-scope, and under budget.

Highlights:

-Recently established measures to substantiate impact of transformation efforts with a Fortune 100 Financial Services company: +19% improvement in ability responding to change, 12% reduction in speed to market, and 17% increase in value delivered.
-Established Agile Delivery Center of Excellence, expanding delivery organization by 10x, with 100% success rate on projects delivered to satisfied customers, evidenced by Net Promoter Score.
-Achieved 70% adoption rate within 3 weeks of production deployment vs. legacy, increasing labor revenue and service orders resulting in $1m+ in yearly benefit with a single initiative.
-Successfully delivered initiatives for 13 Fortune 500 companies.

Personal Interests: Family, Humor, Outdoors, Fishing, Hiking, Biking, Boating, Sports, Exploration, Education, Reading, Music, Storm-Chasing, Forestry, Travel, Traffic, Education, Media, Markets, Fitness, Technology, Landscaping, Fossil-Hunting, and Metal Detecting.

Business Interests: Databricks, Team Building, Technology, Global Markets, Digital Transformation, Systems, Data & Analytics, AI, Agriculture, Energy & Renewable Resources, Sustainability, Economics, Finance, Developer Advocacy, Project to Product Mindset, Continuous Improvement & Integration, PMO Evolution, Cybersecurity, Stakeholder Engagement, User Experience, and Customer Service.

Need to Know:

-Legit 3-point shooter: 40%+ from beyond the arc.
-Former Lifeguard: Will save your life.
-Aspiring pilot, master gardener, fishing guide, optimist, and author.

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