Deborah C. Springstead Hawkins

About Deborah C. Springstead Hawkins

SUMMARY Deb Hawkins is a Consultant, Trainer and Coach who specializes in guiding organizations as they unlock the potential of their people by adopting Lean-Agile values, principles, and practices. Over the past 12 years, she’s worked with over 100 Agile teams on both large- and small-scale transformation efforts in various roles: Scrum Master, Agile Coach, Trainer, and Agile PMO Analyst. Her thoughtful, honest, and collaborative leadership style has been cultivated over 20 years of IT management consulting. Deb is a life-long learner who has earned three college degrees – two in engineering – and obtained several professional certifications.YEARS OF EXPERIENCE• Agile – 14 years• Database Design & Development – 7 years• Process Engineering – 3 years• Project & Program Management – 12 years Industries• Automotive Manufacturing• Computer and Information Systems• Entertainment• Healthcare• Public UtilitySKILLS Competencies: Agile in a Regulated Environment, Change Management, Coaching and Mentoring, Cost Estimation, Issue and Risk Management, Public Speaking, Release Planning, Root Cause Analysis, Statistical Process Control (SPC), Story Mapping, Technical Writing, Training, Training and Workshop Facilitation, and Value Stream Mapping.Frameworks: Extreme Programming, Iterative, Kanban, Lean Six Sigma, Product Driven Development, Rapid Application Development (RAD), SAFe, Scrum, Scrumban, Total Quality Management, and ITIL.Tools: Agile Zen, Azure DevOps, CA Agile Central, Clarity, HP Quality Center, HP Virtual Room, Live Meeting, Microsoft Office tool suite, Microsoft Project Server, NetMeeting, SharePoint, Teams, Visio and WebEx Connect.CERTIFICATIONS10/22 to present SAFe 5.1 Program Consultant (SPC5) 06/17 to 07/20 SAFe 4.0 Program Consultant (SPC4)11/11 to 11/20 Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI)05/10 Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance)04/10 ITIL v3 Foundations07/04 to 08/20 Project Management Professional (PMI)

Experience

1. Agile Coach Product Transformation Team

   Consumers Energy

   Sep 2022 — Present · Jackson County, MI, US

   Coach new Product Teams through a 30-60-90 day transformation process. Collaborate with Product Transformation Team to continuously improve our efforts to transform the IT organization, align the IT organization to specific products, and implement scaled Agile practices. • Serve as a liason to the Agile Service Delivery Office (formerly the IT PMO). • Facilitate the Product and Platform Owners Community of Practice.

Education

• University of Michigan-Dearborn

  Master of Science, Industrial and Systems Engineering

• University of Michigan-Dearborn

  Bachelor of Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering

• Northern Michigan University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Biology

Skills

• Software Development
• Software Project Management
• Project Planning
• Change Management
• Program Management
• Microsoft Project
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Project Management
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Sdlc
• Business Process Improvement
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Requirements Analysis
• Process Improvement
• Agile Methodologies
• Management
• Project Management Office (Pmo)
• Public Speaking
• Ms Project
• Agile Project Management
• Testing
• Sharepoint
• Pmo
• Pmp