George Schlitz

I specialize in transformation. My goal is to help your leaders succeed by becoming stronger leaders, and your teams become better teams. By introducing tools like agile methods, lean thinking, and theory of constraints, and bringing a systems approach to the change effort, true change can take place - enabled from the top, driven from the lines.

• Extensive experience introducing Agile/Lean Thinking/ToC/other changes in large enterprises and coaching throughout large change efforts
• Agile project management and coaching
• Familiar with application of Lean thinking and Theory of Constraints to product development process
• Experience introducing and sustaining change efforts in large organizations
• Background in all areas of software product development- development, quality assurance, change management, project management

George Schlitz’s Specialties:

Certified Scrum Coach (CSC)
Certified Scrum Master (CSP)
Project Management Professional (PMP)

Specializes in project rescue and challenging organizational environments/cultures

George Schlitz’s Experience

Principal Agile Coach, Co-Founder

BigVisible Solutions

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2007 — Present (2 years 8 months)

Co-Founder of Agile Consultancy.

Agile Coach focusing on large enterprise Agile/Lean/ToC introductions, transformation, and change management.

Specializes in large enterprise change/transformation.
Agile Project Manager and Coach

Fidelity Investments

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

June 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 11 months)

Project manager and coach for multiple projects/program
Distributed teams
Trainer and coach for project management and other staff:
• Scrum
• Agile estimation and planning
• Agile program management
• Continuous integration
• ATDD
Enterprise Agile Consultant

Fidelity Investments

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

June 2006 — April 2008 (1 year 11 months)

Lead consultant on enterprise Agile initiative
Assisted in development of knowledge base for agile project management
Project Manager & Coach

ThoughtWorks

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2006 — June 2006 (6 months)

Project manager and coach for global securities lending trading system for large financial/investment services corporation
• Introduced and championed use of agile project management and development methodologies (Scrum, XP)
• Introduced use of agile methods at program level for Securities Lending division to manage new and legacy systems
• Trained/Mentored management and development staff in agile project management and development practices
• Participant in definition of agile program management and organizational transformation practices
• Conducted training in agile project management, estimation and planning, program management, and development process for teams
Project Manager and Agile Coach

Back Bay Technologies

(Public Company; ZANE; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2005 — January 2006 (10 months)

PM/coach for enterprise web portal and CMS system for global, multi-industry company.
• Championed use of agile project management methodologies (Scrum, Lean) with multiple distributed teams to implement CMS and web portal project
• Mentored other project managers and conducted training in agile project management processes
• Managed distributed teams in multiple U.S. and foreign locations
• Introduced configuration management practices, as well as build/deployment automation (ANT, LuntBuild) and continuous integration (CruiseControl)
• Conducted training in agile estimation and planning, build/deployment and continuous integration

Technical Project manager for web-based (J2EE) transportation management system.
• Introduced and championed use of agile project management methodology (Scrum)
• Introduced build/deployment automation, as well as continuous integration
• Developed automated db failover and recovery process
• Developed enhancements to J2EE applications
Vice President

State Street Global Markets

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; STT; Financial Services industry)

June 2000 — April 2005 (4 years 11 months)

Project Manager, Change and Configuration Manager, Senior Developer, and Release Engineer.
Consultant

Computer Sciences Corporation

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; CSC; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1997 — June 2000 (3 years 1 month)

George Schlitz’s Education

Bentley College

MBA , September 1998 — May 2001
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

BS , Resource Economics , September 1993 — May 1997

Dual Degree
University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Isenberg School of Management

BBA , Operations Management , 1993 — 1997

Focused on study of continuous improvement, management of quality, lean, and other quality improvement concepts. Dual Degree.