James W. Kies

James Kies is an experienced IT manager and agile program manager who has focused extensively on remote work, agile adoption, technical upskilling, cloud migration, DevOps, test automation, BDD Gherkin, C#, .NET, Angular, and Agile Dojos. He is passionate about helping businesses develop talent through internal Communities of Practice and has a background in computer programming, digital communications, and microprocessors.

James has worked for organizations such as Wabato, Inc., Verizon, Pulse8 Inc., OPIE Software, Nielsen, and 3M Health Care, contributing his leadership skills to remote ceremonies, agile lean, Scrum, XP, Kanban, and agile framework at scale-related concepts. He also specializes in digital training and operations management for remote first companies using a component team-based business services delivery model.

Other professional experiences of James include custom software business consulting, classroom training, Scrum training, .Net training, AngularJS training, and technology advisement. His expertise has helped businesses in areas like full-stack development, community organization, leadership training, organization transformation, agile coaching, culture work, development coordination, programming, architecture, DBA, and application analysis.

In addition, he has worked with numerous organizations including The John Maxwell Company, NorthWrite, SurePoint Medical, 352 Media Group, WIKISPEED, and Westside Baptist Church during his successful career.