David Sanok

Client: Civil Health Group, Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)

• Maintained a cross-marketplace view of priorities and critical activities to provide delivery teams and decision makers with a consolidated, concise, and accurate representation of current project status and critical milestones
• Conducted readiness reviews to ensure all necessary activities are integrated before delivery
• Identified delivery dependencies, risks/issues, and pending decisions to provide transparency and elevate key topics for delivery awareness to all marketplace stakeholders

• Directed Agile transformation across value stream leadership and three development teams, resulting in improved productivity and business goal alignment.
• Established a comprehensive Quarterly Business Review process for four value streams, setting clear objectives and key results to drive organizational success.
• Conducted value stream Obeyas to promote transparency, enhance alignment, and connect strategic initiatives with execution plans.

• Facilitated remote Big Room Planning sessions with over 100 global participants.
• Transitioned teams to alternative frameworks, achieving a six-day reduction in cycle time.
• Delivered Agile workshops on demand, tailored to specific team needs.
• Provided targeted educational sessions to enhance team proficiency in Agile methodologies.

• Mentored two VPs and several leads on prioritizing objectives, enhancing predictability and visibility.
• Coached ten teams on agile methodologies to promote autonomy and reduce dependencies.
• Engaged Agile Community of Practice to facilitate knowledge sharing among coaches and teams.

• Conducted program-level cross-ART analysis to enhance customer value delivery and provided actionable roadmap for progress.
• Mentored infrastructure teams, promoting autonomy while instilling agile values and principles.
• Implemented visual and virtual boards, increasing collaboration and transparency, resulting in 20% fewer meetings.
• Coached product managers to optimize backlog prioritization and improve feature decomposition for effective planning.
• Onboarded RTEs and supported SAFe program increment planning for globally distributed programs.
• Transitioned six teams across two ARTs from scrum to kanban to improve workflow efficiency.
• Facilitated client and team interactions to minimize dependencies and align work commitments.

Client: Internal Revenue Service

• Led SAFe program increment planning for over 120 participants, ensuring effective collaboration.
• Developed and managed Agile assessments to identify pain points and establish actionable recommendations.
• Incorporated feedback from planning sessions to enhance future ceremonies and scale teams.
• Trained teams on Scrum practices, improving backlog refinement and increasing overall team velocity.
• Conducted workshops on feature vertical slicing, user stories, Kanban methodology, and role definitions.
• Guided four delivery teams in adopting agile values and promoting self-management capabilities.
• Coached product elaboration teams in enhancing backlog readiness and feature decomposition strategies.
• Introduced enabler backlog for improved visibility and prioritization using Weighted Shortest Job First (WSJF) methodology.

Client: Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau

• Piloted two successful scrum projects, securing client and team buy-in for future expansion across workstreams.
• Revamped project tracking methods to improve visibility across multiple workstreams.
• Implemented business processes to track accountability, measure effort levels, prevent scope creep, monitor statuses, and reduce reporting efforts that were previously inefficient or non-existent.
• Trained users on agile values, scrum methodology, and software tools including Jira, Confluence, and Portfolio.

Client: General Services Administration

• Facilitated scrum meetings, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives for IAE project.
• Implemented Agile values and principles within SAFe framework to enhance project delivery.
• Collaborated with client product managers to standardize workflows and business rules.
• Executed team release planning and software demonstrations for senior leadership and end users.
• Managed stakeholder relationships at all organizational levels to ensure project alignment.
• Refined client feature decomposition and acceptance criteria in agile environment.
• Acted as liaison between client, development team, and application work streams to enhance communication.