David Winstead
Visionary IT Executive and Scrum Coach driving lean business practices
- Role
- Senior Project Manager at Southwest Airlines
- Location
- Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About David Winstead
Effective professional dedicated to achieving strategic initiatives through innovation…
Experience
Senior Project Manager
Jan 2012 — Present · Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US
Epic Owner – Air Crew OperationsOperate in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) Environment. Sheppard Epics through the Portfolio Kanban, Funnel, Review, Analyzing, Backlog, Implementing, Done. Author Lean Business Cases, drive Epics to Definition of Done. Initiatives include Pilot Scheduling application Migration to the Amazon Web Services Cloud, and Replacing the Crew Training application with a commercial off the shelf product. Subject matter expert for the Portfolio Team in the area of Contracts, Budgeting, Funding Requests, and Capital Asset Reporting.Senior Project Manager - Dot ComCoordinated 2 Java development teams, as well as teams from Mobile, Content Management, Amadeus, and Marketing stakeholders, to ensure all work packages, change requests, and integration tests were completed by the cutoff dates for the product launch of the international reservation system. Organized a PM community of practice; Coached the development team into meeting all Sprint Commitments; increased the backlog grooming sessions by 150%; trained the team on how to split user stories in order to reduce sizing estimates by 50%.Scrum Coach - Executed Agile best practices to plan sprints and releases at a 90% statistical confidence level. Coached team members on task breakdown and estimation to promote commitments, transparency, and accountability. Trained and mentored business analysts to act as proxies for the product owners. Implemented a checklist of inputs and deliverables combined with a RACI matrix. Collaborated with the planning team to create and deploy a granular roadmap to graphically represent sprint and release plans to promote more effective communications. Collaborated with Release and QA leaders to create and implement a statistical calculator that estimates the number of test cases and resources needed. Organized a bi-monthly Scrum Master leadership meeting to define and measure quality pain points, and implement Agile best practices to improve release quality.
Education
The University of Akron
Marketing
1986 — 1991
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