George Schlitz

Current

Principal Agile Coach, Co-Founder at BigVisible Solutions

Past

Agile Project Manager and Coach at Fidelity Investments
Enterprise Agile Consultant at Fidelity Investments
Project Manager & Coach at ThoughtWorks

Project Manager and Agile Coach at Back Bay Technologies
Vice President at State Street Global Markets
Consultant at Computer Sciences Corporation

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Education

Bentley College
University of Massachusetts at Amherst - Isenberg School of Management
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

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Information Technology and Services

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George Schlitz’s Summary

• Extensive experience introducing Agile/Lean Thinking/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 4 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 - 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.
University of Massachusetts at Amherst

BS , Resource Economics , September 1993 — May 1997

Dual Degree