Rick Hoxie

About Rick Hoxie

As those who know Rick will attest, he is a proven expert in community creation, team collaboration and organizational problem solving using agile/scrum methodologies. He has architected and innovated solutions that have launched multi-million dollar business portfolios, helped 110 year old companies transform themselves into agile organizations through deep technical acumen, team empowerment and insightful servant leadership. As the spear head of projects and product teams valuing many millions of dollars, Rick has a reputation of delivering on time and exceeding expectations. Rick possesses a rare combination of strengths in both strategic thinking and tactical delivery. As a team mobilizer, he enjoys cultivating trust through coaching and mentorship, plotting team direction, and empowering them through development and accountability. Deeply analytical, Rick enjoys piloting progress through strategic road mapping, backed by decisive leadership across schedule, resource, and budget planning, all while prioritizing focused execution.Throughout his career he has been branded a high producer and has been recognized for uncovering and extracting value during challenging climates and in competitive environments. As an expert in enterprise application development, Rick demonstrates time and again successes in turning undisciplined, uncoordinated development teams into agile developers who get the big picture. As a hands-on technical cohort, he excels at creating synergy and unlocking the hidden potential within his surrounding leadership, teammates and employees.

Experience

1. Enterprise Agile Coach

   AAA

   Jan 2019 — Present · Los Angeles County, CA, US

   DevOps / Agile Advisory Board Member reporting to the Vice President & CIO of Information Systems - The Board was created to serve as a communication conduit between the organization and management to help facilitate the IT Transformation to DevOps / Agile organization• Established and supported several different Communities of Practice to help facilitate the IT Transformation• Wrote Agile FAQs, articles and success stories which were distributed via newsletter and posted on a SharePoint site to improve the Agile maturity level• Participated in Enterprise Agile transformation and coordinated Agile adoption for teams across multiple sites in the U.S.• Developed and delivered team training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate the Agile Transformation• Coached and mentored Team Members, Scrum Masters, and Line Managers on Agile values and principles to promote continuous improvement in practices and artifacts• Championed cultural change and collaborated with other Coaches on plans and techniques for accelerating and advancing the organization\'s transformation• Mentored teams, leading them to be self-directed with strong accountability, decision making, conflict resolution and transparency• Initiated the Leadership Scrum team, creating a process for feature/product team escalations when the feature/product teams have organizational impediments. This involved creating an Obstacle Escalation Board process for the Leadership Scrum team that focused on resolving organizational debt issues and completing the transition of items in the Undone Unit• Spoke difficult but necessary truth to power through the use of Communities of Practice, Systems Modeling, Leadership Coaching, Facilitation and Collaboration• Systematically resolved impediments outside the team and in the organization by navigating long-standing/intractable conflict using Triangulation, Education, and Leadership Coaching

Education

• Wayne State University

  BSBA, Business Administration

  1985 — 1990

• Wayne State University

  PBC CS, Computer Science

  1990 — 1992

Skills

• Development Estimates and Schedules
• Erp
• Contact Center
• Process Improvement
• Requirements Analysis
• Release Management
• Capability Maturity
• Structural Code Quality
• Enterprise Architecture
• Project Planning
• Systems Analysis
• Business Process Improvement
• Source Requirements
• Software Project Management
• Crm
• IT Infrastructure Library (Itil)
• Sharepoint
• Business Analysis
• Model Integration (Cmmi)
• Business Process
• Certified Scrum Master Csm
• Microsoft Sql Server
• Quality Assurance
• Web Project Management
• Software as a Service (Saas)
• Integration
• Project Portfolio Management
• Soa Governance
• Xml
• Elearning
• Change Management
• Requirements Gathering
• Project Management
• Strategic Planning
• Ms Project
• Information Architecture
• Agile Project Management
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Ecommerce