Dana Pylayeva

Mental Fitness coaching for experienced Agile professionals, who are ready to break through the glass ceiling in their lives and their careers.

Supporting women in Agile through the custom-designed "Unlocking Leadership" coaching program, enabling them to: - step in powerfully into public speaking, - start their own businesses, - leave dead-end jobs, - take on much bigger roles, - reconnect with their creative, authentic self. Bringing a powerful combo of Co-Active Coaching, Mental Fitness Coaching (PQ), Executive Coaching and a deep knowledge of the Agile Coaching space. https://app.paperbell.com/checkout/packages?provider_id=7811

- Agile/DevOps coaching for tech new hire bootcamp ( Scrum, Kanban, CI/CD, Java Engineering best practices, DevOps Toolchain (Git, Maven, Jenkins, jUnit, Cucumber, Chef, Puppet, SonarCube), "Shift left on Security" mindset. - Business Agility/ DevOps coaching and consulting (various FinTech, Insurance, Government and non-profit clients in US, Europe, India) - Virtual facilitation and training (Agile, Lean/Kanban, DevOps, Agile Facilitation, Training from the Back of the Room, Liberating Structures) Customer testimonials: https://www.agileplayconsulting.com/kudos

In collaboration with internal coaches, designing and facilitating a highly experiential 4 weeks cohort-based coaching experience for mid-/ senior level technology leaders (Scrum, Kanban, Growing and supporting Agile teams, Agile leadership, Change Management)

Business Agility team coaching and training (Scrum, Kanban) Agile leadership coaching

Business Agility transformation coaching - Established agile transformation program and change management strategy for non-Tech (ADKAR/Kotter Models) - Developed custom Business Agility framework and piloted it with geographically distributed teams - Designed and developed virtual training program (Agile Leadership, Scrum for non-IT, Kanban, Team Liftoff) - Coached leadership and pilot teams

DevOps Culture coaching workshops, DevOps transformation readiness assessment and dysfunctions analysis. Leadership coaching

Agile2018 - Learning track Agile2017 - Project Program and Portfolio Management Track

- Led an Enterprise-wide Agile transformation (change management (Kotter)) - Established Agile Champions team, provided training and coaching to the first pilot teams (waterfall to Scrum@Scale) - Facilitated agile process alignment with external vendors - Coached Agile and DevOps teams in New York, Toronto, Dublin (25 geographically distributed teams)

- Provided teams and individual coaching on Scrum/Agile practices, team dynamic and conflict management. - Developed team health check assessments for quarterly checks with 25 teams - Facilitated retrospectives for multiple project teams ranging in size from 5 co-located team members to over 60 team members distributed over 4 locations and 3 time zones. - Developed engaging training curriculum and facilitated hands-on Agile workshops with Agile games on variety of topics (Agile refresher training, Scrum, Kanban, Agile for marketing, DevOps etc.) - Facilitated Agile project chartering/ Liftoff workshops, User story mapping, Product Discovery workshops. - Ensured executive buy-in, planned and facilitated teams self-selection pilot. - Provided Agile coaching for HR and Marketing teams - Contributed agile content to tech.gilt.com technology blog. - Established Agile CoP

- Developed training material and facilitated Agile/Scrum/DevOps workshops for groups from 10 to 120 people (development teams, management, business stakeholders, accounting etc.) Presented at 21 events in 8 countries. - Facilitated Distributed Open Space (un)Conference for members of geo dispersed technology team; led weekly agile learning sessions (Thinkshare), introduced Lean Coffee format for Agile PM community of practice. - Facilitated Scrum events and team start-up workshops with new teams, coached them on establishing working agreements, definition of done and making all work visible. - Coached Product Owner and facilitated project inception, agile chartering, user story mapping workshops. Worked closely with IT Operations and Security team to identify monitoring, operations and compliance needs and help scrum teams address them proactively. - Used Jira/Confluence for backlog management, agile documentation and metrics. Introduced a number of free/open-source tools to improve collaboration effectiveness in distributed teams environment (FeatureMap, LinoIt, GroupZap).

- Collaborated with other architects on defining a future-state architecture framework and establishing engineering best practices (TDD, Continuous Integration, ATDD) - In partnership with newly formed security office, worked on security framework definition, vulnerability threat assessments, scanning tools introduction (SonarQube / SonarLint ) - Led PII data cataloging initiative. - Acted as a Technical Scrum Master (facilitation, backlog management, agile metric analysis and reporting (Jira/Confluence) - Coached Product owner, business stakeholders and members of geographically distributed teams on agile practices, - Promoted organizational culture of learning by hosting monthly ThinkShare sessions, facilitated training workshops,

- Led database design and data modeling ( ERwin, Rational Data Architect) for OLTP databases (Oracle 10G and MySQL), introduced standards and best practices in high volume, low latency environment. - Facilitated effective communication between Sys Dev, Operations, BI/ETL and QA , ensured data model integrity and environments consistency. - Managed a team of in-house and off-shore DBAs, provided 24x7 operational and project support in high volume, low latency environment with the needs of high availability, disaster recovery and scalability. - Introduced Kanban for Operations - Hiring, performance appraisals, monthly budget forecasting, team coaching, training and career goal setting.

Agile Coach - Played a key role in the first Scrum/XP pilot and facilitated Agile adoption in organization. - Established environment for Continuous Integration, collective code ownership, Continues Testing (TDD, ATDD, BDD) - Provided coaching and training to team members on a key customer-facing pilot project to help them embrace agile mindset, understand Scrum values, roles and ceremonies. - Led company-wide introduction of Kaizen. Worked with the teams to identify process improvement opportunities, facilitated value-stream-mapping (VSM) sessions - Shared Agile adoption results at Rakuten headquarters in Tokyo. Data Architect - Facilitated DevOps culture adoption through collaboration, communication, and goals alignment of development and operations teams on infrastructure projects (data purging, environment refresh across multiple data centers etc.). - Led database design and data modeling for OLTP databases (Oracle, MySQL) in low latency environment. - Led Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) evaluation effort (prepared RFP, vendor evaluation matrix, POC).

• Collaborated with business stakeholders in France, Canada and Singapore to ensure successful rollout of Edsched application to local markets. • Introduced Scrum on multiple projects in 2004 (for both co-located and distributed teams). • Shared the success story, observation and recommendation with LexiNexis PMO, facilitated Scrum process adoption across the organization. • Hands-on Technical Lead on Automated Filing Instructions (AFI) project (implementation for UK business unit.) (Java, JUnit, J2EE Web Service, Content@, XML, SGML, Oracle,SQL). • Worked with product owners, developers and QA on Sprint planning, estimation, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, production deployments, facilitated retrospectives, reported progress to upper management. • Managed off-shore analytics team (Hummingbird BI ) and off-shore QA team, ensured their successful integration into the project team. • Led architecture, design and implementation of EdSched internationalization: (J2EE: JSPs, EJBs, Servlets, JMS, Hibernate, Oracle 10G) • Designed and implemented J2EE Web services to enable data exchange between a .NET system hosted in UK and Java app in US. • Researched industry standards, developed best practices as a part of Global Architecture I18n Best Practices project. • Actively participated in Global Architecture SOA governance council, worked on the SOA roadmap to enhance the data exchange for existing applications. • Worked on the pilot project to create TIBCO wrappers for existing Web Services and analyze ESB and messaging capabilities with BWEngine and EMS Server.

• Led a team of 8 engineers to design and implement the first J2EE application in LexisNexis • Conducted Infoshare sessions, facilitated design boot-camps and prepared presentations to demonstrate usage and benefits of the various technologies to others in the organization.

• Design, implementation of enterprise authors management system (PowerBuilder 6.5, Sybase XI) • Technical project management, full SDLC (ERwin 2.5, RapidSQL, PowerBuilder 6.5, Sybase XI) • Reporting and user administration using BusinessObjects 3.1