(703) 939-4201

Barry Claessen

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Barry Claessen

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(703) 939-4201


 An entrepreneurial, productive, collaborative, and growth mindset leader, generating bottom-line results applying experience, innovation, and industry best practices to deliver business value via execution of complex initiatives for multiple business sectors.

Creative Agile and Digital Transformation Leadership establishing Strategy and Tactical Execution for Business Agility, enhancing Software Delivery, APMO Operations, IT Operations, Vendor Management, and Staff Development.

Collaborate with C-level and other leadership in building and executing strategic and tactical plans that deliver business value and maximize ROI and operational excellence.

 Passionate about aligning technology and business to deliver value and building high-performance teams.

 Certified Scrum Master (CSM), SAFe Program Consultant (SPC), Project Management Professional (PMP), and experienced with Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) implementations.

Washington, DC Metro Area

EMAIL:       BarryC@bridgility.com


LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/barryclaessen/

Core Competencies

STRATEGIC & TACTICAL DELIVERY 

MULTI-DEPARTMENTAL LEADERSHIP

STAFF DEVELOPMENT & RESOURCE PLANNING

 AGILE TRANSFORMATION & GUIDANCE

SOLUTIONS DEVELOPMENT & DELIVERY

PORTFOLIO, PROGRAM, & RISK MANAGEMENT 

BUSINESS PROCESS INNOVATION 

VENDOR NEGOTIATIONS & MANAGEMENT 

TECHNOLOGY INFRASTRUCTURE OPERATIONS

ACHIEVEMENTS

AGILE TRANSFORMATIONS & PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS

Strategic/Tactical Planning & Global Portfolio/Program/Risk Management

Business Process Innovation & Solution Design/Delivery

568 Healthcare education and teaching hospitals benefitted from a successful solution delivery by applying Agile Methodologies and implementing cadence to achieve positive results.

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37%+ quality increase generated by leading the development and integration of a customized Agile framework integrating general business practices and leadership expectations.

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Positioned the client organization to improve time to market by developing a custom Agile framework and a project execution strategy for the build and delivery of a customized COTS solution.


Facilitated meeting time to market objectives through training and coaching the marketing department in Agile methodology and practices, incorporating product vision boards, storyboarding, and utilizing value-based user stories.


Strengthened quality and accelerated software delivery for a major program via creating a project strategy and implementation of a custom framework anchored in the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) and by providing continual mentoring and coaching in Agile practices for the vendor and client.


Allayed resource transfer to high-need areas and decreased time needed to deliver completed solutions to market as an integral part of an advisory team developing PMO practices based on CMMI level three process and practices.

Business Process Innovation & Solution Design/Delivery

Strategic/Tactical Planning & Global Portfolio/Program/Risk Management

Business Process Innovation & Solution Design/Delivery

 24,000 identities / devices provisioned (identity management and single sign-on), synchronized across 13 location hubs enabling seamless network access across multiple locations and reducing provisioning time from days to hours.

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100%+ growth in current volumes of data supported through delivery of a solution modernizing the database management system (DBMS) of the loan servicing software application.


Championed optimum efficiency in the software deployment process by implementing a corporate release management process between software delivery and technology operations groups.


63% improvement in quality of solution packages gained by creating change and release management software product that reduced document rework and ensured implementation success for software and infrastructure changes.


Advocated consistency of information and improved back office operations efficiency by collaborating with business units to streamline current processes and form a strategy for a consolidated solution to integrate products.


39% decline in processing, print, and mail expenses recorded by architecting and spearheading the build and delivery of a document management solution working across multiple platforms and rendering documents on the web.


9% reduction in default rate and expense savings achieved by providing the technical leadership needed to design and implement a claims processing solution.

Strategic/Tactical Planning & Global Portfolio/Program/Risk Management

Strategic/Tactical Planning & Global Portfolio/Program/Risk Management

Strategic/Tactical Planning & Global Portfolio/Program/Risk Management

$37 billion portfolio growth facilitated by establishing a business strategy to deliver a web-based loan origination platform leading 60+ technical resources to work with product management on requirements definition, building, and deploying web services using Agile practices.

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$24.4 billion portfolio supported by guiding 27 resources to customize and implement a loan origination common off the shelf (COTS) product and assisting a data warehouse development team on reporting.


Zero impact to consumer systems while doubling the number of systems changes without altering team capacity accomplished by driving a multi-faceted modernization and re-platforming of a customer information system.


Outsourced loan origination support to an offshore entity in Southeast Asia by assessing and selecting from vendors competing for the contract and leading the transition.


$10 million equipment and licensing cost savings realized through the proposal, architecting, and implementation of a business continuity solution strategy to eliminate planned downtime and reduce unplanned outages.

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Elevated percentage of bid wins for a government vendor by partnering to install a process and methodology for Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) level-three certification and subsequent recertification.

Work Experience