Work with me
Two exits, thirty years of shipping, and a Scrum trainer's feel for what actually moves a team.
I work fractionally with SaaS companies, scale-ups, and founders who need senior leadership in the room without the full-time hire. The shape changes. Chief Agile Officer, CTO, CPO, advisor. The common thread is the same: cut cycle time, ship the right things, and build teams that don't need me forever.
Agile transformations & product work delivered for
What I do
Three ways we might work together.
Fractional Chief Agile Officer
For organizations transforming how they deliver. I embed with leadership, redesign portfolio management, scale Agile practices across teams, and rebuild the feedback loops that should connect strategy to shipped product.
Best for
Mid-market SaaS · scale-up product orgs · post-merger integrations
Fractional CTO / CPO
For founders who need a senior technical or product partner in the room for architectural decisions, hiring, roadmap, vendor selection, and AI integration strategy. All without a full-time hire.
Best for
Series A and B startups · founder-led teams · AI-native products
Scrum & Agile training
As a Certified Scrum Trainer, I deliver CSM, CSPO, A-CSM, A-CSPO, and Scrum@Scale training across three channels: public courses through The Braintrust Group, private client engagements through Clearly Agile, and direct cohorts arranged with me one-on-one.
Best for
Enterprise L&D · in-house Agile rollouts · individual certification
Case studies
Three engagements worth telling you about.
Clearly Agile, Inc.
Since 2014
Co-founder · Chief Agile Officer · Certified Scrum Trainer
Co-founded a consulting and training firm, scaled it to $8M ARR and the Inc. 5000 in four years.
- Peak annual revenue
- $8M
- Inc. 5000 ranking
- Top 500
- Employees at peak
- 75
- Years to scale
- 4
Synuma, LLC
2017 to 2023
Co-founder · CEO · Fractional Chief Product Owner
Founded a B2B SaaS for tracking brick-and-mortar location development. Grew it from $0 to $1M ARR with zero debt. Sold to SiteZeus.
- Revenue at exit
- $1M ARR
- Debt at exit
- $0
- Sprint cadence
- 1 week
- Acquisition year
- 2023
SiteZeus
2023
Fractional Chief Agile Officer
Cut SaaS delivery cycles from six weeks to two by rebuilding the team's Scrum discipline from scratch.
- Delivery cycle before
- 6 weeks
- Delivery cycle after
- 2 weeks
- Engagement length
- 12 months
- Outcome
- Embedded long-term
Speaking & training
One of a small number of Certified Scrum Trainers in the country.
I teach Scrum the way I lived it. As a tool for shipping product, not a vocabulary test. Three channels for different kinds of engagement:
Public courses
The Braintrust Group
Open-enrollment Scrum certifications anyone can sign up for. CSM, CSPO, advanced courses, Scrum@Scale.
braintrustgroup.com ↗Private client training
Clearly Agile
Private cohorts and embedded training for enterprise teams. Customized to your organization, your tools, your real backlog.
clearlyagile.com ↗Direct cohorts
Booked with me
Small, focused cohorts arranged directly. Good fit for executive teams, founders, or specialty workshops that don't fit a public catalog.
Start the conversation →Courses I deliver
- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
- Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
- Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM)
- Advanced Certified Product Owner (A-CSPO)
- Certified Scrum Developer (CSD)
- Scrum@Scale
Speaking
Global Scrum Gathering, Tampa Bay PMI, Tampa Agile Meetup, Orlando Code Camp, TBTF events, and a guest lecture for the Game Design program at the University of Central Florida. Available for keynotes, workshops, university guest lectures, and corporate L&D.
Certifications I hold
- Certified Scrum Trainer (CST), Scrum Alliance
- Certified Scrum@Scale Trainer (CS@SP)
- Certified Agile Leader (CAL)
- PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
- Advanced CSM & CSPO
- Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer, MCSE (legacy)
Watch me teach
Years of recorded sessions on Scrum, Agile, and product delivery.
If you want to see how I teach before booking a call, start here. Playlists below, plus three webinars worth pulling out on their own.
The Scrum framework, basics first
A walkthrough of Scrum from the ground up: roles, events, artifacts, and how the pieces actually work together in a real team. Good starting point for anyone new to the framework.
Older Agile videos, still useful
Earlier videos covering practical Agile and Scrum topics. The terminology has drifted in places, but the underlying ideas are still right.
Featured webinars
You Get What You Measure
A conversation with Om Patel on the metrics worth tracking with Agile teams, and the ones that quietly steer behavior the wrong way.
Creating Actionable User Stories
Methods for writing and splitting user stories with purpose. How to keep them small, valuable, and ready to ship inside a single sprint.
Agile Estimation and Project Prediction
How to deliver projected dates, budget updates, and status reports with an Agile mindset. Replacing the Gantt chart with the Release Burn-Up.
If any of this looks like the help you need, let's talk.
Engagements range from a single half-day workshop to multi-quarter fractional embeds. The first call is always free and honest about whether we're a fit.
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