Summary
Overview
Skills
Certification
Accomplishments
Work History
Education
Quote
Affiliations
Work Preference
Interests
Additional Information
Timeline
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Dennis Conte

Dennis Conte

Rathdrum,ID

Summary

A seasoned professional in agile methodologies, agile coaching, program management, and project management. In this journey, I have learned what it takes to successfully increased productivity, drive predictability, and deliver quality in fast paced environments. As an agile coach or program manager, lead with integrity, practice servant leadership, and empathic. Security minded and works to ensure security is built into operational processes and products. Focus on driving solutions working in collaboration with management to increase efficiency across product delivery life cycle. Passion is to empower teams and organizations to deliver value and innovation with agility and excellence. Comfortable with remote training technology and methodologies.

Overview

13
13
years of professional experience
4
4
Certificate

Skills

  • Agile Principles
  • Agile Framework Expertise
  • New Business Opportunities
  • Lean Startup
  • Scrum Methodology
  • Managing Multiple Projects
  • Agile Transformation
  • Requirements Definition
  • DevSecOps
  • FedRamp Compliance
  • SOC2 Compliance
  • Program Administration

Certification

  • Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Professional - Scrum Alliance - Credential ID 433811
  • ICF-ACC VUCA - International Coaching Federation Neurologic Certified Specialist (NCS) - IANLP International Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming - Issued April 2022
  • Scrum Foundations Educator - Scrum Alliance -Credential ID 000433811
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) - Project Management Institute - Credential ID 25247

Accomplishments

  • Manage critical security programs such as Mission Control, and Enterprise Security (300 Million product) along with the broader security suite to deliver quality landing Splunk top of Gartner's Security Magic Quadrant, 7 plus years.
  • Introduced Test-Driven Development methodologies to design quality before the code is written, benefitting the client by reducing cost in support calls by 760k over 3 quarters.
  • DevOps system-wide transformation, increasing productive by 69%.
  • Created and held 27 Test Driven Development (TDD) trainings for developers in JAVA, and Python.
  • Consumer Apps, Kaizen training to remove overburden and waste resulting in 75% in flow in three months.
  • Speaker, Scum Alliance Global Conference Minneapolis

Work History

Senior Technical Program Manager

Akkodis, Inc.
02.2023 - Current
  • Delivered efficient project management by overseeing cross-functional teams and ensuring timely completion of milestones.
  • Enhanced product development for streamlined processes through implementation of agile methodologies.
  • Performed Agile training for engineering teams, managers, and product owners, resulting in a 67% increase in productivity while driving defects down by over 69% over 6-month period.
  • Reduced project delivery timeframes with rigorous attention to detail and proactive risk mitigation strategies.
  • Optimized resource allocation, coordinating team efforts to achieve desired outcomes within budget constraints.
  • Ensured compliance with industry standards and best practices, conducting regular audits and implementing corrective actions as needed.

Senior Agile Coach

AT&T
04.2022 - 10.2022
  • Executive and Leadership coaching for marketing operations.
  • Enhanced team productivity by implementing Agile methodologies and facilitating daily stand-up meetings.
  • Use of Agile patterns to identify keys areas for improvement for teams in consumer division.
  • Collaborated with other Coaches on plans and techniques for accelerating culture change in order to advance organization's transformation.
  • Established culture of continuous improvement through retrospective meetings and process refinement.
  • Trained and mentored 125 new personnel hired to fulfill various roles.

Senior Technical Program Manager

Splunk, Inc
12.2018 - 04.2022
  • Drive long term programs to deliver cutting edge technology in th security and artificial intelligence group.
  • Manage cross-functionally to ensure programs such as Mission Control, and Enterprise Security (300 Million product) along with broader security suite continuously released on time, landing Splunk year over year on top of Gartner's Security Magic Quadrant.
  • Delivered efficient project management by overseeing cross-functional teams and ensuring timely completion of milestones.
  • Continually improve program processes, refine tools to develop custom solutions to meet unique needs of programs in Security.
  • Ensured compliance with industry standards leading the FedRamp implementation in parallel with SOC2 for SaaS product "Mission Control."
  • Organize cross functionally with Commerce, Go-To-Market teams, and DevSecOps to ensure delivery success.

Principle Manager Agile

SolutionsATI Consulting
02.2016 - 12.2018
  • Design Enterprise Agile transformations and coordinated Agile adoption for teams across multiple sites in US and Internationally.
  • ·Trained of Test-Driven Development methodologies to design quality before code is written, reducing customer support calls resulting in a 760k saving over 3 quarters.
  • Developed and delivered team and organization training materials and workshops, building knowledge and skills to facilitate Agile.
  • Established and supported communities of practices to promote organizational understanding of Agile roles and promote individual develop.
  • Achieved departmental goals by developing and executing strategic plans and performance metrics.
  • Championed cultural change and collaborated with other coaches on plans and techniques for accelerating and advancing organization's transformation.

Principle Agile Coach

Xtime
06.2015 - 02.2016
  • Transformed project delivery by coaching teams on Scrum, Kanban, and Lean principles.
  • Trained and mentored 58 new personnel hired to fulfill various roles.
  • Reduced time to market with introduction of cross-functional teams and efficient backlog management.
  • Drive organization-wide agile transformation strategy and rollout plans
  • Designed DevOps architecture plan as part of transformation, Continuous Integration phase one
  • Working with product owners to drive value stream deliverables building robust prioritized product backlog.

Senior Agile Coach

Cisco
02.2015 - 06.2015
  • Perform metrics analysis, and instructing teams how to apply metrics to improve team performance.
  • Designed team-by-team coaching plan based on evaluating and execute.
  • Created performance dashboards for each team, and taught teams how to first understand metrics and then proper Agile practice for improvement.
  • Introduced new Dependency Mapping process increasing communication.
  • Facilitate orientations for key stakeholders on Sprint Planning, Release Planning, Daily Stand-ups.
  • Drove cross function communication through bi-weekly Scrum of Scrum meetings resulting in 80% drop in impediments.

Education

Bachelor of Arts - History

California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
San Luis Obispo, CA
12.1965

Quote

Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life.
Steve Jobs

Affiliations

  • Scrum Alliance
  • Agile Alliance
  • Project Management Institute (PMI)
  • International Coaching Federation (ICF-ACC VUCA)
  • International Association for Neuro-Linguistic Programming
  • Scale Agile Framework (SAFe)
  • Scrum.org

Work Preference

Work Type

Full Time

Location Preference

Remote

Important To Me

Work-life balancePersonal development programsCompany CultureWork from home option

Interests

Continuous Learner

Fishing

Drone Photography

Community Service

Backpacking and Camping

Cycling

Family

Be More Agile

Additional Information

Greetings,

I have 30 years in the high tech industry, I have chosen not to list every job, but tried to keep to about the last 10 years. I met my wife working for Apple, we both worked. I had three opportunities to work there and some my great accomplishment and memories are from Apple. I also thrilled to work for Cisco and Paypal, both with multiple rotations, starting as a consultant to employee. My journey has been exciting and at time frustrating but the open trait I hold dear is my transparency, some times to a fault, but I have learned to be open, honest, and have integrity.

Thank you for stopping by and giving me consideration, I am tenacious, hard working, and ever learning; technology changes we have to adapt a hallmark of pro-growth mindset.

I invite you to contact me, let's have a conversation.

Dennis

Timeline

Senior Technical Program Manager

Akkodis, Inc.
02.2023 - Current

Senior Agile Coach

AT&T
04.2022 - 10.2022

Senior Technical Program Manager

Splunk, Inc
12.2018 - 04.2022

Principle Manager Agile

SolutionsATI Consulting
02.2016 - 12.2018

Principle Agile Coach

Xtime
06.2015 - 02.2016

Senior Agile Coach

Cisco
02.2015 - 06.2015

Bachelor of Arts - History

California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
Dennis Conte