Shahriar Ghaemmaghami

Senior Agile Coach / Agile Transformation Lead

Shahriar1@msn.com
310-720-0327
OBJECTIVE:

To secure a challenging position that will utilize my relevant Agile Coach, Agile Lead skills and abilities.

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

 25+ years of experience in SDLC, Agile and Waterfall or a hybrid approach, designing and implementing
large scale software solutions, Management Information Systems (MIS), and Executive Information Systems
(EIS), Decision Support Systems, and Business Intelligence Systems (BI), and Multi-Million-dollar Software
Applications, requiring integrity and alignment of team level work with large scale solutions.
 Senior Agile Coach, Enterprise/Organizational Agile Coach for 10+ years for IT and Infrastructure Programs
and Projects, Product Management/Product Owner, including incorporation of Scaled Agile Framework
(SAFe 5.0, 4.6), Scrum@Scale, incorporating mainstream Lean and Agile Frameworks, Scrum of Scrums
SoS), Scrum, KANBAN, extreme Programming, mob programming, Product Lifecycle Management (PLM),
Feature Driven Development (FDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Acceptance Test Driven
Development (ATDD), along with incorporation of DevOps (since 2014), Automation, and Cloud
Computing, AWS.
 Implementation of industry Best Practices and improving performance at all levels.
 Coaching and Implementation of Agile at all levels, Portfolio Management level, Value Stream level,
Program level, project team level; this includes years of experience mentoring, helping teams in their journey
following Agile way of working and practices, regardless of type of engagement, as external or internal
resource.
 Extensive In House and Virtual Training and Workshops for all levels of Management, Workforce, and
Teams.
 Developing Strategic Roadmaps, Release Plans; and Business Plans, diligently working with Business
Leaders.
 20,000+ hours Experience as Program/Senior Project Manager of multi-million-dollar programs/projects,
involved in technical and architectural requirements, in the context of Agile Architecture.
 Expert in Transforming organizations from Traditional, Plan Driven/Waterfall methodologies to Agile
 Expert in incorporation of Hybrid methods, in transformation processes from Waterfall/Traditional methods
to Agile, significantly reducing possible resistance to change, while following Agile Transformation
Roadmap.
 Extensive knowledge and practices of Scaled Agile, SAFe, Scrum@Scale (directly being trained by Jeff
Sutherland; LeSS, and DAD (Disciplined Agile Delivery) and their applicability for enterprise level Agile
 DevOps: Knowledge of DevOps, its incorporation with Agile implementations since inception via IBM.
 Expert in Determining Best fit Delivery Methodology Programs/Projects, to maximize ROI.
 Providing Specific Agile Transformation Roadmaps, and Plans of Action, tailored to the needs, requirements,
and demands of the organization, at all levels
 Coaching and Training all levels of organizational workforce (Executive Management, Middle Management,
IT Resources, End User Community, Customers, Stakeholders, Agile teams, etc.), through workshops,
training modules/sessions; this has required incorporation of wide range of communication medium, one on
one, face to face, small group communications, domestic and international voice and video conferencing, and
travels
 Real time Agile Coaching through involvement in actual routines and ceremonies (PI Planning, Iteration
Planning and Demos, Review Sessions, Retrospective Sessions, Daily Standup, Backlog Refinement
Processes), and working with tens of teams, with different levels of knowledge and experience on Agile.
 Continuous Improvement efforts done throughout the engagements, and Assessment of Agile Maturity taken
place at the starting point, as “Base Maturity Assessment”, then repeated every 3 to 6 months, in order to
identify progress level, qualitatively and quantitatively, provide Agile Maturity trends, through Annual
Metrics.
 Active participant of new emerging Best Practices and techniques related international and domestic IT and
Agile gatherings, user groups, and Conferences.

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 OFFICIAL SPEAKER/PRESENTER AT PRESTIGIOUS IT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
 Official Speaker/Presenter of IIBA’s BBC 2016 International Conference, Building Business Capability
International IT Conference in 2016, on “A Day in the Life of an Agile Business Analyst”
 Official Speaker/Presenter of IIBA’s BBC 2015 International Conference, Building Business Capability
International IT Conference in 2015, on “Challenges of Business Analysis in Agile”
 More than 25 years of experience working within a host of industries, Oil and Gas, Financial (Mortgage,
Banking and Credit/Debit Cards), Global Retail, Construction, Architectural and Engineering, Medical and
Health, International Staffing Services.
 Project Management Methodologies (PMI/Waterfall and Agile methodologies); Project Management Tools,
MS Project, TFS, JIRA Agile Lifecycle Management, Visio, SharePoint, MS PPM.
 Invaluable experience in Business Intelligence, Knowledge Mining, and Machine Learning, working with Dr.
Ryszard Michalski, one of the pioneers of Machine Learning. Participating in development of a Visual Rule
Based Machine Learning, called VINLEN within LUCITE Project for NIS, National Institute of Science,
 Contributor to Agile sections of IIBA BABOK; Presenter of BA Agile Best Practices at Chapter
 Facilitator at Agile Alliance Agile Jam; Facilitator at Agile Open Space in SoCal
 Project Planning, Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Milestones, Estimating, Scheduling, Progress Control,
Status Reporting, Project Organization, Resource Allocation; Leading Complex and Concurrent Projects
 Organizational Reengineering, Workflow/Process Optimization and Reengineering.

CERTIFICATIONS/TRAININGS:
 Certified Agile Coach
 Scrum of Scrums (SOS), Scrum@Scale
 SPC 5.0, SPC 4.6, SAFe Agilist (SA)
 Advanced Scrum Master
 Certified SCRUM Master (CSM)
 Certified Project Manager
 Quality Assurance and ISO 9000 Lead Assessor program
 Organizational Reengineering, Strategic Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

MEDG Consulting Engineers, GLENDALE, CA June ‘22 to Present

Engineering firm providing services mainly for Disney Theme Parks, University and School Projects-

Senior Agile Consultant

 Leading Consultation on Agile Methodology, and Agile Transformation.

 Coaching, Training, Mentoring Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Project Managers, Agile
Teams, Customers and End Users, and helping a selection of associated Vendors, within the context of
DevOps Department and for Agile and DevOps Teams.
 Monitoring and Observing ongoing Agile Implementation Efforts, performing Assessments at time intervals.
 Agile Maturity Efforts: Agile Maturity efforts aiming at standardizing and promoting agile processes, creating
uniformity, and elevating the level of understanding and improvement of Agile Best Practices.
 Resolution of the “pain points”, Identification, prioritizing, and taking necessary actions, including but not
limited to providing Training Sessions, Workshops, Common Group Trainings, and one on one trainings.
 Assessment of Suitability and Feasibility of Large-Scale Frameworks, SAFe, Scrum@Scale, LeSS, and
otherwise.

FANNIE MAE, WASHINGTON DC, REMOTE Nov. ‘21 to Mar. ‘22

The Federal National Mortgage Association

Senior Agile Coach, Agile Lead, Agile Lead

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 Senior Agile Coach, Transformation Agile Coach, Agile Scrum Lead, Promotion and Implementation of
Large Scale Agile.
 Coaching IT and Business workforce at all levels on Agile, in the process of transitioning from Waterfall/Plan
driven methodology to Agile.
 Coaching, Training, Mentoring Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Project Managers, Agile
Teams, Customers and End Users, and helping a selection of associated Vendors, within the context of
DevOps Department and for Agile and DevOps Teams.
 Identifying the “pain points”, prioritizing them, and taking necessary actions, including but not limited to
providing Training Sessions, Workshops, Common Group Trainings, and one on one trainings.
 Monitoring and Observing ongoing Agile Implementation Efforts, performing Assessments at time intervals.
 Agile Maturity Efforts: Agile Maturity efforts aiming at standardizing and promoting agile processes, creating
uniformity, and elevating the level of understanding and improvement of Agile Best Practices.
 Assessment of Suitability and Feasibility of Large-Scale Frameworks, Scrum@Scale, SAFe, LeSS, and
otherwise, in the direction of providing Prioritized Recommendations for the Leadership, for the best path
forward, resulting in the best ROI, within acceptable budget, and time, and total effort required.
 Assessment and Recommendations on the most suitable Agile Lifecycle Management and Reporting Tools
and Capabilities.
 Coaching, Training, and implementing Agile, as needed for IT and Business units.
 Setting up knowledge enhancement sessions about Agile for Executive and Middle Management, Project
Managers, Product Owners, Teams, and Business Analysts, and Business Customers.

DEXXXON GROUP (HEADQUARTERS), PARIS, FRANCE Jan. ‘18 to Oct. ‘21

DEXXXON DIGITAL STORAGE, INC, LEWIS CENTER, OH
European Multi-National Company in Data Media with branch in the US

Senior Agile Coach, Agile Lead

 Senior Agile Coach, Transformation Agile Coach, Agile Lead, Promotion and Implementation of Large Scale
Agile, Value Stream and Portfolio Management, and Agile Product Lifecycle Management: Coaching IT and
other workforce on Agile, in the process of transitioning from Waterfall/Plan driven methodology to Agile.
 Coaching, Training, Mentoring Agile Coaches, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Project Managers, Agile
Teams, Customers and End Users.
 Coordination of Agile Enhancement efforts of the Headquarters and Branches.
 Training and Assisting Teams for BDD, and TDD.
 Agile Maturity Efforts: Leading Agile Maturity efforts aiming at standardizing and promoting agile processes,
creating uniformity, and elevating the level of understanding and practices
 Provide capabilities for Incorporation of Jira, and MS TFS for Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and
Retrospective, also for Product Backlog Grooming activities, and Product and Sprint Backlog generations
 Training and Workshops on Agile Methodology, both local and Virtual trainings.
 E-Commerce Programs, Financial Management of related Programs and associated Projects.
 Coaching, Training, and implementing Agile, SAFe and Scrum and KANBAN processes, DevOps, Providing
Training Workshops for Business Units.
 Setting up knowledge enhancement sessions about Agile for Executive and Middle Management, Project
Managers, Product Owners, Teams, and Business Analysts, and Business Customers.

CHEVRON, BAKERSFIELD, CA Oct. ‘12 to Jan. ‘16

Fortune Third Oil and Gas Company

Agile Coach, Agile SME, Scrum Master (IT – Solution Delivery Unit)

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 Member of Chevron’s global (international) Agile Council (Agile Center of Excellence), Guiding all domestic
and international business units on their Agile experiences, and agile product lifecycle management for 3
years.
 This Council/COE also served, as an enterprise PMO for agile programs and projects, across global Chevron
for Agile, DevOps, Scrum, KANBAN, Extreme Programming, FDD, ATDD and TDD Practitioners
 The Council/COE would set up the “guidelines”, based on industry best practices and global business unit.
experiences, and communicate them with all global business units, along with sharing effective experiences
and activities of each business unit with all, through communications, global online presentations, and demos.
 Very active in all functions of the “Council”; delivered several industry state of the art global presentations.
 Agile Coach, DevOps, and Cloud Computing, FDD, ATDD, TDD, mob programming, and Agile PLM
incorporation, and Transformation Lead: Coaching executive and middle management, and all levels of
workforce on Agile and DevOps, and point of Reference for Agile aspects of processes and projects, Leading
Agile and DevOps Transformation for IT and other departments and for determining best delivery method for
each IT Project.
 Agile Maturity Effort: Leading Agile Maturity efforts aiming at enhancing Agile Best Practices, standardizing
Agile processes in the enterprise, creating uniformity, and elevating the level of understanding and practices,
globally. Extensive work on Behavior changes for Agile implementation.
 Coaching, and implementing Agile processes, Providing Training Workshops for the Business Units. Setting
up knowledge enhancement sessions about Agile for Project Managers, Product Owners and Business
Analysts (including BA Role in Agile environment), and Team members.
 Extensive Training Classes locally/ Virtually, due to many Domestic and International Chevron Business
Units.
 Scaled Agile Feasibility Assessment and partial adaptive implementation: Assessment and feasibility study of
SAFe implementation, PI Planning, Release Train Engineer work, within the reasonable time, cost, and
quality characteristics; with inclusion of levels of SAFe, Value Stream, Portfolio, Program, and Team.
 System Thinking, building incrementally with fast, integrated learning cycles, Visualize and limit work-in-
progress, unlocking the motivation of knowledge workers, and Decentralization of decision making
 Incorporation of DevOps with Agile practices: Assessment and feasibility study of DevOps implementation,
within the reasonable time, cost, and quality characteristics; attempts for Culture change; implementation of
more Automation, including in testing, and continuous delivery; Incorporation of Lean practices; Measuring
and incorporation of aspects of business operations and engineering; Lunch and Learn sessions.
 IT Project Manager for Thermal DSC project with multi-million-dollar budget, involving data analysis.
 Leading i-DOT (Integrated Diatomite Operations Tool), a high priority and mission critical sensitive
operations integrated software system; This project required significant data migration analysis and
implications and required compliance to Chevron’s data governance requirements, with incorporation of Test-
Driven Development (TDD).
 Helped Solution Delivery Supervisor (Product Owner) in developing and maintaining the Product Backlog for
PM, Scrum Master, and PO Team (or PMO) Action Items, and related Events. This set up was introduced, to
coaching all Project Managers on Agile processes
 Business Analysis Organizational Capability (BAOC) an Infrastructure high priority project: Co-leader for
BAOC project, in 3 phases of Assessment, Implementation of Recommendations/Enhancements; and Look
back. This Non-IT project held one of the highest priorities throughout the Business Unit.
 Facilitating Sprint Planning, Sprint Review and Retrospective meetings and helping in sprint Pre-Planning
and Backlog Refinement process and meetings.
 Helping Product Owner and Business Analysts for drafting the user stories and requirements, Product
Backlogs, Release Planning and Road maps, UAT determinations.
 Providing Status, progress reports, scorecards, project team velocity, and facilitating the work in a very
collaborative environment.
 Designing and Enhancing Metrics and Progress Tools, Reports and Scorecards, Agile Maturity Reports for
internal use, Stakeholders, End Users and other respective Business Units.
 Working as On-Boarding coach for new resources, during a 30, 60, 90 day On-Boarding.

MEDG Consulting Engineers, GLENDALE, CA Mar. ‘05 to Sep. ‘12

Engineering firm providing services mainly for Disney Theme Parks, University and School Projects-

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Agile Coach / Scrum Master / Product Owner
Agile Coach (last 4 years), Agile Project Manager, Scrum Master, Kanban Lead Coordinator

 Leading the company efforts in IT management, and development of strategic IT roadmaps, in compliance
with the strategic business needs and objectives.
 Leading Incorporation of Agile Methodology, and Transformation from Waterfall to Agile.
 Leading IT projects in traditional PMI method or as Agile Project Manager.
 Project Management of multiple projects, leading development of web sites and web based and desktop
systems following PMI or Agile methodologies; prepared and presented the Project executive reports and
Presentations.
 Scrum Master for Agile driven projects, facilitated ceremonies, provided leadership in setting up the
Roadmap for Releases, assistance in optimizing the product and sprint backlogs, priorities, approving or
helping the approval of releases for several projects.
 Product Owner for Agile driven projects, gathering the requirements, writing the user stories, setting up and
updating the product Backlog, and sprint/iteration backlogs.
 Leading the company project efforts for enhancing Targeted Marketing and Business Intelligence in regard to
Business Development and Operations, by incorporating Data Mining that has doubled its major client base,
by utilizing Analysis of large market data sets and creating Reports, creating BI dashboards, Market Trends,
Scorecards, and Performance Metrics.
 Lead in Reprographic Order and Billing and order tracking System Project: Provided a fast-track Project
Management along with Business Analysis for the E-Commerce project providing Reprographic and A&E
Support Services to customers.
 The system included supply and order process, management and order tracking systems, customer billing,
backend administration and access definition modules, online statistics, and metrics analysis.
 Retail Supply Chain, Oder and Billing Tracking and Order Refinement.
 Workflow Optimization: Optimized company workflow resulting in higher work quality and efficiency using
technology enhancement, database development/integration and the use of multi-layered reporting systems.

GNO (Global Nurses Online) – CULVER CITY, CA Feb. ‘02 to Feb. ‘05
International Healthcare Staffing firm, Providing Medical staff for hundreds of Hospitals, Nation-wide

Project Manager / Scrum Master / Product Owner / Senior Business Analyst

 Provided Analysis and solutions for major critical aspects of business, competitive market evaluation and
growth requirements, and Business Analysis of information regarding major aspects of business and its
clients, resulting in problem identification, resolution, and growth.
 Project Management and Master Design of Company’s new integrated web-based business systems and
databases, a hybrid methodology of waterfall and Agile.
 Led the company technology infrastructure planning and development efforts and projects.
 Developed new Business Plans and Profitability Strategies, Budget Analysis.
 Project Management and the Design and Development of an innovative and efficient online Exam Preparation
Center (EPC), as a web portal that identified Hospital medical staff applicants and business opportunities.
 In addition to being responsible for the data modeling of data base engine for this system and its reporting
system for different user categories, I was responsible for producing BI reports and metrics.
 Optimized Corporate Business workflow, contract, and other business templates.
 Led the company Marketing and Contracting efforts, reaching a 60% Hit Rate.
 Designed several corporate web-based systems and proprietary applications.

MLI (Machine Learning) Center - George Mason University, VA Jan. 2001 to Jan. 2002
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE, BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING

 Modeling, Research, Analysis, and Programming for “The LUCITE (Learning User Style) Project, A
Natural Induction Approach, with Dr. Ryszard S. Michalski provided to Dr. Thomas Goldring, NSF
(National Science Foundation).

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SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY, WASHINTON DC Sep. 2000 to Jan. ‘02
A Higher Educational Institute at Master’s and Bachelorette Levels

Project Planner / Business Analyst and Data Analyst

 Prepared and Presented Project Management Plan for “STARS” (a series of web-based applications with
integrated databases).
 Business Analyst for multiple “STARS” projects; Business Analysis of many inter-related web-based
Projects.
 Designed efficient Integrated Databases for “STARS” projects to optimize legacy systems.
 Instructed Managerial Information Systems, E-Commerce, Mentoring Oracle, Software Engineering.

COBI (Commissioning Organization for Buildings and Installations) Jan 1990 to Aug 2000
Nation-wide Enterprise for managing, budgeting, design, and construction of hundreds of Major Projects, with
$50 Mil annual budget, including 120 Hospitals and their IT Healthcare Systems, and thousands of other projects

Program Manager for MIS & Business Intelligence Centre and PMO

 Initiated the “Center” as an advanced Management Information Systems (MIS), Business Intelligence, and
Project Management Office, leading all infrastructure activities, related to the unit.
 Designed an innovative proprietary ERP, MIS, DSS, BI, and Project Management Systems, provided their
Business Systems Analysis, Gap/Impact Analysis, and led their Development throughout the whole Lifecycle.
 The ERP, MIS, and Project Management Systems were Modular, using an integrated database, multi-level
reporting, covering all departments.
 Lead for the development of MIS and Operations software systems of constructed Hospitals.
 Lead for the development of Modular systems for various departments, including A&E, Budgeting,
Supply/Logistics, Contracting, Purchasing, Accounting, and HR Departments, plus Eight Construction
Management Departments.
 Enhanced Decision Making, Analytical/Business Intelligence Reports for the CEO and the Board of
Directors.
 This required Evaluation and Analysis of major activities of all COBI departments, 500 contractors and about
100 A&E firms, leading to quantifying their progress and identifying their strengths and weaknesses.
 Provided Macro Project Management on Physical and Financial construction progress of more than 1000
projects, including 120 Hospitals, and their software systems.
 Leading the corporate wide technology efforts, as the head of Informatics Committee.
 Managed Internal Training for Technology Courses for all management levels and the key staff.
 Directed COBI’s participation and Presentation in annual International Expositions.
 Special Officer in generating funds for projects via bonds resulting in 50% budget increase.

EDUCATION AND CERTIFICATIONS:

 Master of Science Degree in Computer Science - with Honors - Southeastern University, Washington, DC
 Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering, Distinguished - Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN

EXPERT LEVEL QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

 Enterprise Agile Coaching
 Transitioning/Transforming from Traditional PMI/Waterfall to Agile
 Large Scale Agile, SAFe, Scrum@Scale
 SCRUM, KANBAN, FDD, BDD, XP
 Certified Scrum Master
 IT Program/Senior Project Management
 E-Commerce

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AFFILIATIONS:
 IEEE Computer Society Member
 AITP Association of Information Technology Professionals Member
 Scaled Agile Framework
 Scrum Alliance Organization Member
 Agile Alliance Organization Member
 PMI (Project Management Institute) Member; PMI – Los Angeles Chapter Member
 IIBA (International Institute of Business Analysis) member, and IIBA’s Official Conference
Speaker/Presenter

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