Elmer Francis Reyes
Southington,CT
Summary
Accomplished Agile Leader, Coach, Scrum Master, Product Owner and Project Manager with 23 years of IT professional experience. Specializes in complex Agile delivery, builds high performing teams, establishes strong collaboration with stakeholders and promotes culture of continuous improvement. Passionate in helping clients successfully implement Lean, Agile and DevOps values and principles.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Group Manager, Agile Coach, Product Owner
Avanade
New York, NY
04.2020 - Current
- Led Agile transformation and Agile delivery projects for clients in Insurance and Healthcare Industries.
- Coached and mentored Product Managers, Product Owners, Release Train Engineers (RTE), Scrum Masters and Developers to successfully apply Lean, Agile and DevOps values and principles.
- Coached client executives and an entire Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) portfolio on Lean Portfolio Management.
- Served different agile roles such as RTE, Scrum Master and Product Owner and directly responsible for successful product delivery
- Led delivery of large Analytics program on Azure and served as RTE for SAFe Agile Release Train (ART) comprised of 7 agile teams, with more than 60 team members across US and India.
- Evangelized culture of continuous improvement.
- Owned product and worked with technologists and other stakeholders to define value stream, product roadmaps, and product backlogs.
- Conducted SAFe and Scrum.Org trainings to accelerate learning.
Senior Manager, Agile Coach
Accenture
Hartford, CT
11.2016 - 03.2020
- Coached teams and leaders for clients in Insurance industry on Agile practices and provided necessary trainings to accelerate adoption and create positive mindset to Agile methodologies.
- Coached and led transformation of waterfall projects to value stream, product-centric agile release trains and teams.
- Served as RTE and led SAFe ART of 4 Scrum teams for Technology Value Stream that delivered large-scale cloud migration and application upgrade projects.
- Facilitated SAFe, Scrum and Kanban frameworks
- Served as go-to resource for agile coaching and mentored other Scrum Masters.
- Provided strong leadership to enhance team productivity and morale.
- Conducted performance evaluations and promotion decisions to maintain appropriate staffing requirements.
Project Manager, Scrum Master, Data Architect
Accenture
Chicago, IL And Manila, Philippines
09.2010 - 10.2016
- Led Enterprise Data Management team (30+ team members across US, Argentina, Philippines and India), responsible for development, platform, architecture and support of Accenture's Data Warehousing and Master Data Management Capabilities.
- Facilitated Scrum for Enterprise Data Platform upgrade initiative.
- Defined and implemented Data Governance, Master Data Management and Data Quality strategies to ensure high quality, consistent and reusable reference data across all Accenture applications.
- Designed enterprise conceptual and logical data models and data strategies for various Accenture functions (HR, Finance, Sales, Marketing).
- Provided architecture solutions with Microsoft SQL Server and Business Intelligence (SSIS, SSAS, SSRS).
- Created and managed project work plan as well as staffing and financials.
- Evaluated team member performance and provide coaching and feedback.
- Provided project status updates to stakeholders and executive management.
Data Architect
Accenture
Chicago, IL And Manila, Philippines
09.2006 - 08.2010
- Guided project teams in defining data requirements, led data model design and oversaw implementation.
- Designed and reviewed conceptual, logical and physical data models.
- Served as SME in using different Microsoft SQL Server technologies (SQL Server database, SSIS, SSRS and SSAS).
- Provided SQL coding optimization, performance tuning and profiling services.
- Conducted trainings on SQL Server development and Relational Data Modeling.
- Led migration from SQL Server 2000 to SQL Server 2008 and SQL DTS to SQL SSIS.
Team Lead
Accenture
Manila, Philippines
01.2003 - 08.2006
- Led tech team that performed server upgrades (Windows and SQL Server) and server consolidation initiatives to improve performance and reduce costs.
- Led dev team that migrated BI reports from BRIO to SSRS.
- Led tier 2 production support for Accenture's project scheduling application.
- Developed and reviewed code in VB.NET, SQL, SQL Server DTS, SSIS and SSRS.
- Mentored team members on development standards and best practices.
- Evaluated team members performance and provide feedback.
- Managed team budget and team work plan.
Software Developer
Accenture
Manila, Philippines
07.2000 - 12.2002
- Developed applications using VB 6.0, VB.NET and SQL.
- Performed OS (Windows Server 2000), Web (Internet Information Services) and Database (SQL Server and Oracle) administration of non-production environments.
- Discussed issues with team members and tech leads to provide resolution and apply best practices.
Education
Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering
De La Salle University
Manila, Philippines12.1999
Skills
- Agile Product Management
- Agile Coaching
- Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
- Scrum, Kanban and Nexus
- Program Project Management
- Lean Portfolio Management
- Value Stream Mapping
- Agile Management Tools (Jira, Rally, ADO)
- Microsoft Azure
- Data Warehousing and Master Data Management
- Data Modeling
Certification
- SAFe Practice Consultant (SPC)
- SAFe Agilist (SA)
- SAFe Release Train Engineer (SAFe RTE)
- SAFe Product Owner / Product Manager (SAFe POPM)
- Scrum.Org Professional Scrum Master 1 & 2 (PSM 1 & 2)
- Scrum.Org Professional Scrum Product Owner 1 (PSPO 1)
- Scrum.Org Professional Scrum Developer (PSD 1)
- Scrum.Org Scaled Professional Scrum (SPS)
- ICAgile Certified Professional - Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)
- Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals
Timeline
Group Manager, Agile Coach, Product Owner
Avanade
04.2020 - Current
Senior Manager, Agile Coach
Accenture
11.2016 - 03.2020
Project Manager, Scrum Master, Data Architect
Accenture
09.2010 - 10.2016
Data Architect
Accenture
09.2006 - 08.2010
Team Lead
Accenture
01.2003 - 08.2006
Software Developer
Accenture
07.2000 - 12.2002
Bachelor of Science - Electronics And Communications Engineering
De La Salle University