Working with the staff at LaunchCode, I was able to secure an apprenticeship with Boeing. My first workload was involved in the Engineering Product LifeCycle of F/A18 training systems including contract, hardware, and software. I participated in cold starts, customer meetings, and internal tool development including developing and testing a persistent software database. for maintenance procedures using MDART.

In addition to using my coding and building skills, I was humbled to participate in presenting during CDRLs, PDRs, and Risk Management Meetings with the US Government, the Department of Defense (DOD), and NAVAIR. Through these relationships I was able to develop comfortability with using government-required contract formatting, requirement sources, and risk management tools on the program management side of the business.

Working with a team in Business Operations, I was able to implement Agile working practices in solving the internal struggle of US Government services related to On Time Delivery Delinquencies. Through identifying unresolved paperwork, contract submission errors, and submitting proper resolution documents including DD250s, hundreds of millions of dollars were recovered by our team related to delivered items that were unpaid.

Through working with this team, I solely captured the backlog for this process improvement initiative and 21 other initiatives in the government services sector of Boeing Global services. By running training in Agile through lunch and learns, workshops, and creating online training pathways in Degreed, I worked to move the function of the Business Operations team from Waterfall to Agile. I also. completed a step-by-step 400-page Agile portfolio roll-out that could be repeated and scaled in any vertical at Boeing.

Working with a team of 10 Agile professionals, we set the tone for Agile integration into the Boeing Global Services business unit. By working directly with the Program Management section of BGS, our team of embedded coaches train, develop, and trouble-shoot business practices that were once part of a waterfall workflow and integrated those activities into a new Agile structure.

My work focused on Business Operations and the sections of Government Services including Vertical Lift, F/A 18 training systems, and Government Training systems as a whole. Through developing training pathways and tool migrations plans in union with the employees in those programs/platforms, Agile has become a daily working practices for many of Boeing’s business units.