Alex Gas

About Alex Gas

I believe that my experience in emergency management and delivering value flow and projects in agile or complex hybrid environment may greatly benefit your organization, in these uncertain times- As an adviser to CEOs and Board Directors I coach executives to become truly soulful and Agile leaders. I show them how to align their vision, values and strategy with execution, how to improve strategy and business agility, shorten time to market and focus on client-centric constructs. Most importantly I teach them how to trigger cross organizational innovation and cultural change. As a practitioner with roots in IT I deliver visionary IT strategy and full life cycle project management for software development, global enterprise systems, infrastructure and architecture projects. My professional strengths are the following: 1. Strategy - Strategic Planning that focuses on identifying new opportunities for accelerated growth- Execution Improvement Road-Mapping which defines the areas that block flawless execution and develops a sound executable roadmap that produces short-term results with long-term growth- Improvement of implementation by assisting the executive teams with process fine-tuning, organization redesign and change adoption to ensure successful implementation of the strategic initiatives. Product & Business development - Developing of the Strategic Compass (Vision, Values, Purpose)- Establishing innovation and product management processes where none existed before or improving the existing ones. Organization transformation - Managing the Strategic Human Resources - Overseeing the Agile-centric budgeting, procurement and financial forecasting 4. Developing a set of matrices to support Executive and PMO Adaptive - Data Driven Decision Making. Developing Adaptive Self-Organizing Teams - Developing Adaptive Self-Organizing Teams - Enabling the creation and fostering of Innovative mindset. Information Technology practices and management - Defining and leading the creation of DevOps - Enforcing the product quality by defining code quality strategy and test Automations. As practitioner, besides training people and organization, I also serve as bridge between the business and IT. I’m passionate about achieving business results through people as my main objective is to create a breakthrough in the way in which Human Capital is harnessed to generate value for all stakeholders.

Experience

1. Senior Agile Coach

   Citi

   Jun 2022 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Defined and delivered KANBAN implementation experiment and metricized results in $, productivity and human capital. Proposed to senior leadership changes based on experiment to a build High Maturity System with improvement/savings of $17.4M per 100 teams where current (2 year) transformation scope is 800+ teams across Americas & EMEA regions. • Facilitated products, value stream mappings, educational and discovery workshops. • Led ACOE engagement communication channel/workshops to keep global and cross business transformations aligned. • Supported the design of the global Product centric approach and help aligned it with Internal Audit and IT BAU. • Defined JIRA architecture and set of meaningful metrics to support empirical approach for delivery and predictability. • Designed and build Product Owners office, train and coach human capital across business and IT.

Education

• Moscow State Technological University "Stankin"

  Combined Master Degree, Computer science / Engeneering

  1986 — 1994

• COPE Institute

  RDBMS

  1994 — 1995