Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Technical delivery professional with 18 years of experience supporting aerospace, defense, and federal programs. Background includes Agile delivery, Configuration Management, Test Engineering, Jira/Confluence, change control, requirements traceability, and cross-functional team coordination. Focused on improving delivery visibility, backlog quality, workflow consistency, documentation, and team adoption in complex DoD environments.
Led Agile delivery across cross-functional IPTs supporting DoD initiatives, facilitating Scrum ceremonies and ensuring alignment to sprint goals and team cadence. Configured and maintained Jira boards, dashboards, and workflows, improving data integrity, reporting accuracy, and delivery visibility across multiple teams. Developed solutions including a Jira Data Hygiene Dashboard and a Confluence-based Agile Knowledge Management System to standardize workflows, improve team adoption, and scale Agile practices. Collaborated with Agile Coaches and stakeholders to support Agile transformation, while delivering Jira training to enhance consistency, board health, and overall team performance.
Led Agile delivery activities within a Scrum environment, facilitating ceremonies including Sprint Planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives to ensure consistent team cadence and alignment to sprint goals. Managed and refined product backlogs in Jira, supporting creation of user stories, epics, and acceptance criteria to improve sprint readiness and delivery consistency. Facilitated Program Increment (PI) Planning and participated in Scrum of Scrums to coordinate dependencies and align cross-functional teams. Supported Agile transformation efforts by coaching teams on Scrum practices, improving workflow consistency, and removing blockers, while also contributing to verification and validation (V&V) testing to ensure software quality.
Supported configuration management and systems engineering activities, improving workflow consistency and stakeholder alignment. Managed ECRs and served as CCB secretariat, ensuring accurate tracking, documentation, and traceability. Leveraged Jira and SharePoint to track verification and validation requirements, improving visibility and supporting system integration milestones.
Supported Agile software delivery and enterprise operations across QA testing, release management, and service assurance functions. Developed and executed test scripts for enterprise applications, collaborating with Scrum teams to refine user stories and acceptance criteria and improve backlog clarity and sprint readiness. Coordinated change and release activities using BMC Remedy and ITIL-based processes, improving governance, scheduling, and production stability. Served as liaison between program teams and the Enterprise Management Integration Office (EMIO), facilitating stakeholder communication, tracking dependencies, and supporting cross-team alignment across IPTs, while improving system availability and operational efficiency.
Supported development of NRAI II by mapping requirements to the GEOINT Reference Architecture (GRA), improving alignment across engineering teams. Participated in RFC coordination, TEMs, and CCBs to evaluate change impacts and support change management processes. Ensured requirements traceability by tracking RFCs throughout the configuration management lifecycle.