Shaaron A Alvares
Director AI Transformation & Delivery @ Salesforce
About
Follow me on X @shaaron2010 & on InfoQ Certified Agile Coach, Agile Leadership, DevOps Leadership Certified SAFe Release Train Engineer 5.0 & SAFe Program Consultant & SAFe Implementation 5.0 SAFe with Jira Align - Jira Align rollout, operationalization; Portfolio Reporting & Dashboard Keynote Speaker & Awarded Top Speaker Several Best Agile and Best Leadership Articles nominations Passionate, influencer, servant-leader at heart, self-driven and goal oriented Software Delivery Manager, Release Manager and Agile DevOps Transformation Coach and Trainer with 10+ years’ experience in delivering complex and high performance products and solutions that exceed customers’ expectations. Adept at salvaging programs where others failed and ability to thrive in large complex or start-up like environments. Scaled Agile and DevOps transformation, Agile Trainer, Release Train Engineer - Project to Product - Value Stream Mapping & Mgt. PRODUCT & BUSINESS COACHING: Partner with Business Executives and Product Teams to adopt Agile & Product practices. Recognized numerous times by Business Leaders (Microsoft, Expedia, BECU, T-Mobile) for bridging gaps between Business & Technology and driving a culture of transparency and delivery excellence. TECHNOLOGY: Ability to translate products and technology requirements into enterprise infrastructure capabilities and continuous delivery. Partner with Business, Lead Engineers and Architects to deliver scalable fit for purpose solutions. TEAM LEADERSHIP: Effectively managed, mentored and trained 15+ direct reports Technical Program Managers/ Scrum Masters to support large scale organizational transformation from Waterfall to Agile. Introduced culture of Open Space Agility, Communities of Practices, Test & Learn and Continuous Improvement to effectively upskill and address technical impediment leading to improved developers' productivity. VALUE STREAM COACH: Transitioned organizations from Project to Product and Value Stream Management increasing business alignment, agility, velocity and stability. Designed Value Stream & and kicked off Release Train; scaled myself across a Value Stream (50 to 100 teams) to drive Agile adoption and Delivery. PRAGMATIC EXECUTION: Ability to leverage and customize Frameworks and Methodologies to make them fit for purpose and valuable for the current level of organizational maturity: DevOps, Scaled Agile, SAFe, RTE, LeSS, Scrum, Kanban, ScrumBan, Extreme Programming, Test-Driven Development, Lean Agile, Kaizen, CICD. Align strategic transformation goals to enterprise annual performance goal.
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Canada
Professional Training & Coaching
Engineering productivity, Diversity, Leadership Coaching, Leadership Development Coaching, Career Development Coaching, Executive Coaching, Agile Coach, Scrum master, Enterprise Agile Transformation, Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Technical Program Management, Program Management, Change Management, Product Manager, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), Software Development, Engineering, Jira, Cross-functional Team Leadership
Experience
Director AI Transformation & Delivery
Salesforce
Vancouver, BC
Director Engineering Productivity & Operational Excellence
Salesforce
Vancouver, BC
Senior Manager Organization Agility
Salesforce
Seattle, WA
Career & Leadership Development Coach
Up With Women / Exponenti'elles
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Certified Professional Coach
News Reporter & Editor for Agile, Culture, Inclusion in Tech
InfoQ
Seattle, Washington, United States
Speaker & Author: Product - Agility - DevOps - Culture - Inclusion in Tech
Self
United States
2021 *DevOps Enterprise Summit *Keynote: "DevOps Culture as a Product", SDLF *Keynote: DevOps Online Summit *Speaker: "Inclusion in technology. Team & Manager Practices", The Continuous Delivery Foundation *Speaker: "Value Stream Mapping and the Future of DevOps", Copado.com 2020 *Co-Author: IT Revolution - "A Framework for Incident Response, Assessment and Learning" *Author: DevOps Institute: "How To Build A Winning DevOps Culture of Innovation" *Co-Reviewer: The DevSecOps Certification program by DevOps Institute *Co-Reviewer: "Epic Failures in DevSecOps, Volume 2" by All Day DevOps/ Sonatype *Panel Speaker, BrightTalk: "DevOps Dojo - What on Earth is That?" *Interviewee by InfoQ: DevOps Enterprise Summit London 2020: "A Diversity and Inclusion Q&A with Shaaron A Alvares" *Speaker: DevOps World: "DevOps Value Stream mapping & Innovation" *Speaker: DevOps World: "Accelerate your DevOps Culture of Innovation with Everyday Inclusion & Belonging" *Keynote Speaker: GitLab Commit: "Automation, Mastery & Purpose" *Speaker: GitLab Commit: "Accelerate your DevOps Culture of Innovation with Everyday Inclusion & Belonging" *Speaker: DevOps Institute SKIL-up Conference: "Accelerate your DevOps Culture of Collaboration & Innovation with Value Stream Mapping" *Interviewee Podcast: DevOps Institute: "Humanize Manager & Team Inclusion - Playbooks" *Speaker/ Fireside Chat: INNO, New Orleans: "Innovation at Scale: Don't Forget about your People" *Interview & AMA: DevOps Online Summit, Seattle: "Accelerate Your DevOps Culture of Inclusion and Innovation" *Speaker: IIL Agile + Scrum: "Accelerate your DevOps Culture of Collaboration & Innovation with Value Stream Mapping" *Speaker: Devops Enterprise Summit London and Vegas: Accelerate your DevOps Culture of Innovation with Everyday Inclusion & Belonging *Speaker: 2020 Agile + DevOps West, Vegas 2019 *Speaker: DevOps Enterprise Summit, Vegas *Speaker: All Day DevOps, Seattle *Speaker & Product Trainer: Product School, Seattle
Product Advisory Board Member
DevNetwork
DevOps Ambassador
DEVOPS INSTITUTE
Seattle, Washington, United States
*Contributor to the DevSecOps Certification Course *Authoring the DevOps Human Playbook - DevOps Culture chapter *Speaker at SKILUp Day Conference: How to Accelerate Your Culture or Collaboration & Innovation with Value Stream Mapping"
DevOps Ambassador
Continuous Delivery Foundation
Seattle, Washington, United States
Featured Speaker
Product School
Greater Seattle Area
Manager, Enterprise Agility Coaching
Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution
Seattle, Washington, United States
* Delivery Lead/ Manager for our Internal Productivity Value Stream. * Member of The Diversity Council at Large. * Disney Technology Influencer & Advocate. Disney Media & Entertainment Distribution (DMED) brings the Company’s best-in-class product, technology, and commercialization teams together into one global organization. 370 million – users reached monthly by DMED Digital Products 30 billion – minutes spent engaged monthly on DMED Digital Products 3 billion – videos watched monthly on DMED Digital Products
Education
City University of Seattle
People & Systems in Organizations
• Major: People and Systems in Organization. Minor: Corporate Finance • Awards, Phi Beta, Zeta Kappa Chapter • Dean's List, 2009 and 2010 • Letter of Appreciation from the Dean of the School of Management • Merit Scholarship 2009 and 2010 • Students' Representative, Phi Beta, Zeta Kappa Chapter for City University of Seattle • Member, Students in Free Enterprise, SIFE
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Human & Social Sciences
• Published PhD & MPhil theses with the French National Center of Scientific Research (CNRS) & the Pantheon-Sorbonne University Publication • MPhil with Highest Honors • PhD & MPhil Merit Research Scholarships from the Sorbonne University and the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs • Merit Grant Recipient from Le College de France (University & Research Center) • Teaching Assistant, Sorbonne University • Research Associate at the CNRS (French National Center of Scientific Research), Paris • Research Associate for the United Nation in Phnom Penh Cambodia, and for the UNESCO & INTERPOL in Paris and Geneva: Research report published with the UNESCO publication • Research Associate at the EFEO, Paris
University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
• Asian Art History, Archeology, Languages and Civilizations • Completed with Highest Honors. • Published with the French National Research Center (CNRS)
Université Sorbonne Nouvelle
Human & Social Sciences
• Completed with Highest Honors
University of Paris I: Panthéon-Sorbonne
• Asian Art History, Archeology, Languages and Civilizations • Completed with Highest Honors.
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