Job History
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Senior Product Owner
Riverside Insights
Riverside Insights helps teachers evaluate students’ needs and skills through a variety of assessment programs. As a Senior Product Owner, I helped to deliver a first-in-class testing and proctoring platform.
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Agile Coach and Trainer
Owlsy
Owlsy is a small group of dedicated coaches and trainers who specialize in helping businesses find ways to become more customer-focused and agile.
As an Agile Coach and Trainer, I help clients to see and realize the benefits of working in collaborative and customer-focused ways.
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Lead Agile Trainer
Hanesbrands Inc.
As part of its Full Potential Plan, Hanes Brands Inc. was developing more agile ways of working. As an Agile Trainer in this initiative, I developed training content for and delivered training content to Scrum Teams, individual Scrum Team members, stakeholders, and members of management.
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Agile Facilitator
Pearson Virtual Schools
Pearson Virtual Schools provides digital solutions to students and teachers who are making a shift to virtualized learning. Virtual Schools are at the forefront of Pearson’s transition to digital learning and learning materials.
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Agile Coach and Trainer
Shelter Insurance
As a coach and trainer at Shelter Insurance, a 70 year-old agent focused insurance company, I engage teams and individuals to evaluate and improve their workflows and deliver more innovative products.
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Scrum Master
Shelter Insurance
As a Scrum Master on one of the new Scrum teams formed at Shelter, it was my responsibility to guide the team in the application of Scrum practices and values.
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Agile Coach and Linux Admin
979 Design
979 Design was a small start-up web design agency. I primarily filled two roles in this organization: Linux administrator and agile coach.
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Software Developer
Shelter Insurance
As a member of a Scrum team, I shared the responsibility of designing, implementing, and testing the Say Insurance web application. This was part of an initiative to move Shelter away from their traditional agent driven business model to a direct-to-consumer model.
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Web Associate
Daniel Boone Regional Library
As one of two web associates at the Daniel Boone Regional Library, I was jointly responsible for designing and coding all of the library’s web applications, both internal and external.
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IT Senior Associate
Daniel Boone Regional Library
I was an instrumental figure in planning and executing IT initiatives at Daniel Boone Regional Library, a public library system consisting of three branches and serving two counties in mid-Missouri
Certifications
Additional Training
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bikablo Basics Day 2
Whether you are a beginner “with two left hands” or a self-taught person – the bikablo visualization technique is your springboard into the wonderful world of visual thinking.
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bikablo Basics Day 1
Whether you are a beginner “with two left hands” or a self-taught person – the bikablo visualization technique is your springboard into the wonderful world of visual thinking.
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Training from the Back of the Room - Virtual Edition
In this practical and interactive 5-module virtual class, you’ll explore current “brain science” as it relates to human learning in virtual environments. You’ll discover 6 specific brain-science principles and a 4-step instructional design model that you can use in your own virtual teaching and training. And you’ll leave with dozens of new ideas, activities, resources, and a new “Gold Standard” for virtual instruction and learning.
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Crucial Conversations for Mastering Dialogue
Backed by 30 years of social science, Crucial Conversations skills represent the standard in effective communication and the marker of high performance individuals and organizations.
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Effective Facilitation and Collaboration Skills
This course covers several advanced facilitation, emotional intelligence and cultural transformation topics that are guaranteed to have an immediate positive effect in the way you work. It has been designed to have extensive workshops and live demos to demonstrate the key skills needed.
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Training from the Back of the Room
In the TBR Practitioner Class, you’ll explore how the human brain really learns, which is very different from traditional assumptions about learning. And you’ll be introduced to the most current “cognitive neuroscience” – the brain science behind all effective instructional design and human learning. Agile42’s course goes beyond the basic course and includes additional time for real world practice and evaluation of the classroom materials.
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Advanced Team Coaching Course
The Advanced Team Coaching Course is for ScrumMasters, Team Coaches and others who want to take their skills, knowledge and abilities for coaching and facilitating teams to a professional level beyond the basics.
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Agile Servant Leadership
Working to empower and serve the people you lead is the main concept behind Servant Leadership. Challenging them to go farther, reach higher, innovate and have fun doing it requires leadership skills that are beyond the traditional “Command and Control” style of management. Through this course, participants learn and practice execution of the most critical skills needed for leading by serving first.
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SAFe: New Roles, New Responsibilities
This one day course will describe how SAFe functions. It will cover the various roles within the SAFe framework, how those roles fit together, and how SAFe enhances agility.
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