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

Integrity Inspired Solutions

I share the responsibility of running a terrific custom software development company.  I get to collaborate with some of the brightest, passionate, empathetic, and hilarious developers in the Kansas City area.  I get to meet new people and help them come up with ways that software can help with business problems or make them some money in the open market.  I get to coach teams and organizations on how to work in Lean and Agile methodologies that actually work in the real world.  I get to architect and code new systems.  Sometimes I have to do things I don't like as well, but I hear that's true for most people.  I get to use a wide array of technical, problem-solving, marketing, and teaching/coaching skills alongside people who bring me joy in my work, and it's hard to imagine another place where I could do all of that.

Co-Owner

Netchemia, a PeopleAdmin Company

I'm not 100% sure that's the right job title, but at Netchemia, I got to write .NET code on some very innovative software that helped American education.  I got to help different developer teams use Kanban and various agile tools and techniques to improve their flow, their processes, their metrics, and sometimes told good jokes.  I got to look for efficiencies in our production and coordinate with our Product Manager on what features we could get out the door for the most impact.  I got to enjoy the company of passionate, like-minded, entrepreneurial individuals.  I smoked a cigar on the porch several times a week.  Great place and great experience.

Project Development Manager

Valorem Reply

I worked in the Microsoft stack developing applications primarily to assist Microsoft themselves.  I worked mostly in .NET both on web-based applications and Excel automation to generate metrical tools for the Office 365 sales team.  I also brought Kanban to my team of devs, and we used it to coordinate our workflow.

Solutions Architect

AdventureTech

I worked in a wide array of .NET technologies, databases, and even mainframes for a variety of clients solving a variety of problems - from apps to manage the business of financial institutions to multi-vendor e-commerce platforms.  This is where I cut my consulting teeth and really began my learning in Lean methodologies collaborating with some of the top notch Agile thought leaders in Kansas City.

Senior Consultant

Cyberclick Marketing

This was an intensive time to grow as an architect (under the leadership of one of the best architects I've ever met) and as a .NET developer, working on a high volume, real-time transactional application that moved money and data around from many locations at high speeds according to the dynamic application of complex business rules.  Working on this system helped me grow in not only my .NET skills, but also problem-solving in the domains of parallelism, multi-threading, fault tolerance, and neural networks.  I got to work with an amazing group of people that I still keep tabs on to this day and have continued to work with them in various ways over the years.

Senior Developer

KeyBank Real Estate Capital

I bounced back and forth a little to KeyBank both as a contractor and as an FTE, which is why the span of years overlaps with other engagements.  KeyBank is where I began to put my .NET, SQL Server, and LINQ skills to practical use working on commercial real estate loan and private equity apps.  At this stage of software technology, doing things like AJAX in Internet Explorer was still a really big deal, requiring doing things with JavaScript that humankind was never meant to do.  It was here that I first became a Certified Scrum Master, beginning my journey into agile methodologies.

Burns & McDonnell

Co-lead, actually, with another fine gentleman who was hired at the same time.  Burns & Mac was growing a software engineering group to do project work for clients, and I was hired as a lead for that group.  I worked on such diverse apps as software to manage military training engagements to edge device photography of water levels.  This was primarily Microsoft stack technologies, including various report-writing techs (Crystal Reports, SSRS, Kronos).  I also built out some things in SharePoint at this time.  Along with the other co-lead, I was a primary architect for the apps we built.

Lead Developer

Centriq Training

I love to teach and coach - doesn't matter the subject.  This job gave me an opportunity to do this on a wide variety of technical topics, software packages, certification tracks, and career-changer bootcamps.  I taught hundreds of students, some of whom might be working for you right now (I hope they're good!). I always did side projects in the technologies I taught so I could bring practical experience to my students and not simply book knowledge.  Along with the skillset that comes from teaching and the technologies, themselves, this job honed my ability to learn fast, as it was not uncommon for someone to request a class on short notice on a technology I did not know, and I had to come up to professional-grade knowledge of it in a week or two.

Lead Instructor

BigEdison

My first real job as a software developer!  I learned ASP and PHP, bringing server-side tech to my existing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript knowledge.  I also learned Flash, multimedia streaming, webcams, and proprietary fish-eye photography technology that could create interactive, 360 degree photos for virtual tours.  I built websites ranging from print and decal companies to local radio celebrities as well as constructed virtual tours for well-known locations all over the Kansas City area.

Web Developer

Covenant College

The job title makes it sound like I was at a desk dealing with paperwork and phones most of the day, but I was an assistant in the college's physical plant, which meant such diverse activities as: building locks and installing them, grinding keys for said locks, freeing college students trapped in elevators, hanging doors on new buildings, testing fire suppression systems, maintaining the college's fleet, checking for gas leaks and wiring failures (ideally not in the same place), selecting construction vendors, and listening to people who were angry about their parking tickets.

At first glance, this might not seem to have much bearing on a primarily software-development career (except for dealing with the angry, stressed out people), but I think it's good to know that, if push comes to shove, your software developer could get you out of a trapped elevator with his bare hands and a wrench.

Administrative Assistant

I love to help companies grow into faster, leaner, more predictable, and more humane ways of working. Increasing production, being more responsive to the market, and making your company a great place to work are not mutually exclusive goals but rather go hand in hand.  On top of that, I can send you a team of software developers to build out your product and show you how it's done (if you're a company that needs software built - otherwise that would be weird).

I do this by helping you discover how lean and agile principles can work in your organization, your industry, with your particular situation.

I've worked for many different organizations as a programmer, consultant, or coach, and always a leader. If you're in the Kansas City area, I might be doing work for your company right now! Have you checked? Come downstairs and say hi!

Through my experiences, I've learned and continue to learn some things about myself that may interest you:

- I can help companies in any vertical from tiny startups to global enterprises of 15k+ employees and 29 billion+ in equity.

- I can put together a top notch software development team who can execute predictably, swiftly, and responsively on projects ranging from internal line-of-business apps to products on the open market.

- I can transform great ideas into safe, measurable, and accomplishable product plans.

I’ve gotten where I am today because of the great people I know who challenge, teach, and encourage me each day. Feel free to connect with me to have fun conversations about Lean/Agile, Kanban, software development, or Filipino Martial Arts (I teach a class on it).

Professional Skills 
Lean Consulting | Agile Consulting | Software Development | Programming | Software Architecture | Product Planning | Domain-Driven Design | Kanban | Scrum | Project Management | Teaching | Coaching

Philip Ledgerwood

I help companies use AI securely & purposefully | AI Consultant | Software Developer | Professional LinkedIn Gadfly

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