Richard Turi
Sparta,NJ
Summary
Professional with expertise in agile methodologies and team dynamics. Strong focus on fostering team collaboration and delivering results in fast-paced environments. Skilled in Scrum, Kanban, and Lean practices, with knack for guiding teams through change. Reliable and adaptable, consistently driving performance and achieving project goals.
Overview
29
29
years of professional experience
1
1
Certificate
Work History
Agile Coach / Lead RTE
Pfizer
09.2013 - Current
- Led cross-functional teams to implement Agile methodologies, enhancing collaboration and project delivery
- Led PI Planning ceremonies for value streams, driving team and stakeholder engagement
- Facilitated workshops and training sessions, driving team engagement and understanding of Agile principles, improving planning and execution consistency
- Mentored junior Agile coaches, RTEs, and Scrum Masters, sharing best practices to enhance overall effectiveness
- Aligned portfolio, program and team objectives, along with product roadmaps to organizational strategic objectives to help ensure alignment of work
- Advised top management on agile strategy development, improving organizational agility
- Established OKRs and KPIs through close collaboration with senior leadership to track delivery of value
- Used agile metrics and retrospectives to assess team performance, fostering a culture of continuous improvement
- Utilized tools such as JIRA, Jira Align and Confluence to streamline workflows and improve documentation
- Facilitated conflict resolution within teams to maintain momentum towards project goals
- Implemented Kronos Time & Attendance cloud solution for eight sites, upgrading 7 sites from End of Life solutions within a compressed timeline
- Led Application Rationalization project, strategically identifying applications across the Pfizer Global Supply (PGS) division, categorizing applications to determine keep, replace, retire or consolidate
Project Manager Level III / Application Enablement
Merck (Consumer Care, Animal Health, Research Divisions)
07.2010 - 07.2013
- Managed migration of 800+ users, preparing documentation, procedures and help guides, to help ensure no data loss
- Ensured readiness of 700+ applications
- Worked with Data Center managers to plan and schedule consolidation of applications
- Managed setup of partners’/vendors’ access to Merck systems, ensuring information was covered by security policies and met compliance procedures
- Trained and supervised migration team, security and privacy teams, and temp workers assigned to project
- Adhered to corporate compliance policies, Six-Sigma , and SDLC processes
VP of Shared Services
Skila a Sela2 Co.
09.1996 - 05.2009
- Established a Client Shared Services Team in the Ukraine within 6- month time frame resulting in cost savings.
- Created strategy, goals, and budgets for global Shared Services, and QA teams.
- Engaged with clients to understand and implement solutions within the company’s product line
- Established new Quality and Deployment procedures that reduced product launch times by 80%.
- Implemented issue tracking solution and support procedures to improve organization’s support service response times
- Developed new performance measurement dashboard reducing response time from 1 week to 1 hour.
- Improved and maintained an office infrastructure uptime from 90% to 99%.
- Successfully led move of organization to new location with less than a 2-hour down time.
Skills
- Agile framework expertise (SAFe)
- PI Planning
- Agile training
- Agile metrics analysis
- Servant leadership
- Release Train Engineer
- Program Manager
- Product Owner
- Scrum mastery
- Agile team facilitation
Certification
- SAFe 6 Practice Consultant
- SAFe 6 Lean Portfolio Manager
- SAFe 6 Release Train Engineer
- SAFe 5 Scrum Master
- Advanced Facilitator: Value Stream Mapping
- Agile Certified Professional (ACP)
- Advanced Facilitator: Value Stream Mapping
Timeline
Agile Coach / Lead RTE
Pfizer
09.2013 - Current
Project Manager Level III / Application Enablement
Merck (Consumer Care, Animal Health, Research Divisions)
07.2010 - 07.2013
VP of Shared Services
Skila a Sela2 Co.
09.1996 - 05.2009