Kevin T.
Release Train Engineer @BetterHelp
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WORK HISTORY
Release Train Engineer @BetterHelp
CA
Led implementation of automated testing suites across environments from development to production that saved thousands of hours in a given year, reduced cost, ‘improved reliability, efficient, accuracy and quality’, and increased speed to market.(Automation saved 5300 hours in 2022)• Taking care of all finances & budget needs of the program, facilitating program roadmap sessions, demand and capacity calculations, clarity allocations and forecasts.• Facilitate program and solution Kanban refinement sessions, prioritization, manage the flow of work through Kanban boards, evaluate “ready for IT delivery” readiness check of the work coming through the intake process or business solution leads.• Coaching product managers, product owners, teams, scrum masters, and stakeholders in Agile- SAFe, Kanban, Scrum framework, and quality improvement practices like shift-left testing, TDD, and BDD as part of the way of working.• Led the transformation of highly productive agile release trains with cross-functional, full-stack and self-sufficient teams.• Led RAP ART transition into a mature team with a consistent 90% and above delivery, and business value predictability over the years.• Led addition of one scrum team dedicated to autmate business process of error and fallout handlings utilizing blue prism bot, that saved hundreds of hours in repeat tasks and supported business growth without adding more staff.• Developed actionable key performance metrics/dashboards and identified and removed constraints to improve the ART throughput.• Established a mature coordination and communication model across onshore and offshore team members by greater use of available collaboration tools and working agreements.• High focus on continuous improvements, Inspect and Adapt, Retrospectives, Innovation and Planning activities, and problem-solving.• Established uniform working agreements across teams in the ART.• Built a psychologically safe and open culture in the team.
EDUCATION
Higher Institute Of Technology of Central Africa
Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
University of Douala
Bachelors of ARTS
ABOUT KEVIN T.
Bilingual seasoned professional with significant experience in IT solutions delivery, product management and agile transformation. Adept at applying Lean Systems Thinking, Intelligent Automation, and Agile engineering techniques such as SAFe, Kanban and Scrum to drive outcomes. Skilled in leading large complex Agile Programs and multiple release trains, Product roadmap, Finances, Data Analytics, Actionable Metrics, People Management, Strategy and Planning, Risk Management, and Quality control.Catalyst in revolutionizing the culture and mindset of organizations. Outcome-driven leader utilizing servant leadership and psychological safety to build high-performing teams.8+ Years experience in Healthcare, Insurance, and BankingSkills:• Lean Agile Transformation, operation effectiveness, people management.• Product and solution management, Product decomposition workshops.Encourage customer-centricity, design thinking, and system thinking.Facilitating Program roadmap sessions.• Finances, demand & capacity planning, and roadmaps.• Improve speed to market by utilizing DevOps, Automation, and removing constraints.• Metrics/ Key Performance Indicators and data-driven decisions.Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 5.0), Scrum and Kanban.• Quality control methods: Automated test suite, Test Driven Development (TDD), Behavior Driven Development (BDD), Specification by Example (SBE) and Continuous Integration (CI).• Coaching Leaders, RTEs, Scrum Masters, Teams in Agile frameworks, various agile practices, quality control practices and SAFe ART launch.• Transforming ARTs and Scrum Teams to cross-functional, full stack, and self-sustaining teams.• Focus on continuous improvement and implement a constant feedback loop.Defining communication and coordination models to work in multiple time zones.• Risk management and Cross program & cross solution dependency management.• Facilitating SAFe ceremonies like PI Planning, Inspect and Adapt (problem-solving) workshops, ART Sync, PO Sync, System Demos, Program backlog refinement, and prioritization using WSJF.
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