Denver, Colorado, United States
Experienced Scrum Master, Coach, and Product Owner with a background heavy in startups, Lean, Agile, SAFe, XP, and CD. What people are saying.... “…Alec is intelligent, highly proactive, and dependable... Moreover, he has a great sense of humor and straightforward personable approach to people, which makes it easy to recommend him as a great asset to any team…” ~ Ashvath Narayanan “...Alec ended up leading some of our key SCRUM ceremonies. His retrospectives were the most productive I have ever seen in the real world...” ~ Andrew Claiborne
-Orchestrate Agile delivery for a global mobile app team of 14, ensuring consistent sprint execution and alignment with business goals. -Elevate retrospective effectiveness through a data-driven framework, achieving 85% of sessions with 3+ actionable improvements and ensuring 100% follow-through on action items. -Optimize team performance by analyzing outcomes, refining workflows, and eliminating low-impact initiatives. -Enable high-performing teams by removing impediments and reinforcing a culture of accountability and continuous delivery. -Helped realize approximately $140,000 in annualized time savings by adding up efficiency gains.
• Orchestrate Agile delivery for a global mobile app team of 14, ensuring consistent sprint execution and alignment with business goals. • Elevate retrospective effectiveness through a data-driven framework, achieving 85% of sessions with 3+ actionable improvements and ensuring 100% follow-through on action items. • Optimize team performance by analyzing outcomes, refining workflows, and eliminating low-impact initiatives. • Enable high-performing teams by removing impediments and reinforcing a culture of accountability and continuous delivery. • Helped realize approximately $140,000 in annualized time savings by adding up efficiency gains.
-Directed Agile delivery through backlog refinement, sprint planning, and PI Planning to align execution with business priorities. -Reduced app store complaints by 30% by introducing Lean Startup principles and structured customer feedback loops. -Spearheaded WSJF prioritization and Buy-A-Feature sessions, improving value delivery by 25%. -Strengthened backlog quality by refining user stories and acceptance criteria, enhancing team clarity and execution. -Facilitated alignment across stakeholders, serving in a dual Product Owner and Scrum Master capacity during PI Planning to ensure seamless delivery.
• Directed Agile delivery through backlog refinement, sprint planning, and PI Planning to align execution with business priorities. • Reduced app store complaints by 30% by introducing Lean Startup principles and structured customer feedback loops. • Spearheaded WSJF prioritization and Buy-A-Feature sessions, improving value delivery by 25%. • Strengthened backlog quality by refining user stories and acceptance criteria, enhancing team clarity and execution. • Facilitated alignment across stakeholders, serving in a dual Product Owner and Scrum Master capacity during PI Planning to ensure seamless delivery.
-Supported 2 offshore teams. -Helped realize approximately $150,000 in annual time savings by adding up efficiency gains through Scrum/SAFe. -Reduced stand-up times by 15 minutes by doing the math to highlight the problem and encouraging the team to take more offline or other meetings where better. -Introduced Lean Coffee for the team to learn from each other.
-Guided Agile delivery across 4-2 teams as Scrum Master, improving delivery efficiency by reducing sprint length, ticket size, and overcommitment by 50%. -Established and scaled a Scrum Community of Practice (CoP) using the Spotify Model, strengthening Agile consistency and cross-team alignment. -Hired, coached, and managed global Scrum Masters, providing mentorship and driving Agile best practices across distributed teams. -Facilitated Agile ceremonies and removed impediments, enabling high-performing, self-organizing teams and improving delivery predictability.
-Founded and led an Agile-driven startup, applying Lean Startup and Scrum principles to build and iterate on product concepts. -Led end-to-end operations, aligning product development with customer feedback and market validation. -Implemented Kanban workflows using Trello to streamline processes, improve visibility, and enhance team productivity. -Collaborated with developers and beta testers to refine features, accelerate iterations, and support continuous product improvement.