Experience

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  Freelance

  Jan 1995 - now

  Musician/recording engineer/composer/arranger

  I am an active trumpet player in Los Angeles and San Diego. I have a full recording studio of high end gear and am currently looking for a permanent space for said gear (it's currently in a spare room).

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  Syntrillium software corporation

  Jan 2002 - Jan 2003

  Qa engineer & technical support
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  Adobe

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2008

  Program manager
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  Adobe

  Aug 2008 - Feb 2015

  Agile transformation leader

  I led a grass roots agile transformation at Adobe from 2005 to 2015, starting with my own team (Adobe Audition), and then in 2008 moving into a full time role training and coaching nearly every Adobe creative product team, including such flagships as Photoshop, Acrobat, Flash, Dreamweaver and Premiere Pro, as well as dozens of internal IT and platform technology teams and groups like marketing, globalization, and even taxes . This hands on training and coaching was a major factor enabling Adobe's critical business transition from perpetual desktop products to subscription based services. The move from two year product cycles to frequent delivery of new features and improvements was critical to this transition, and Adobe's success in their transition to the cloud has been a rare one for a large, established software company. As Patrick Seitz wrote in Investor's Business Daily: "In terms of building up its cloud subscriber base, Adobe is hitting it out of the ballpark." Peter helped lay the groundwork for that shift by helping teams deliver working software and services frequently and at high quality.In recent years, I helped leaders address key issues that often arise when scaling scrum across an organization to multiple teams, and was the go-to person for facilitating large, cross-team planning meetings and Creative Cloud wide retrospectives. I helped large groups re-organize according to "anti-fragile" patterns, and created training for senior leaders in adopting an agile leadership mindset and practices.I also introduced key new approaches to customer and product discovery based on the Lean Startup framework. Barbara Spencer from my team originated an internal innovation program, teaming with VP of Creativity Mark Randall to develop the now open sourced Adobe KickBox program, described in Fast Company here: www.fastcodesign.com/3042128/adobes-kickbox-the-kit-to-launch-your-next-big-idea Show less

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  Agile for all, llc

  Mar 2015 - Sept 2020

  Leadership development coach, cst, organization researcher

  My purpose is to help people get deeply engaged in solving hard problems through connecting meaningfully with each other, their organization, and their customers.

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  Humanizing work

  Sept 2020 - now

  President

  Peter helps leaders discover how to create the outcomes they care about the most. He draws on a unique combination of deep empathy and keen insight developed by an almost stubborn insistence on staying actively involved in seemingly disconnected fields, including the creative arts, business, psychology, leadership, organizational design, and philosophy. Peter majored in music composition at Arizona State University. He is an in-demand trumpet player and recording engineer.At Adobe Systems, Peter led an Agile transformation that enabled the shift to a subscription business model. He co-developed the Certified Agile Leadership program for the Scrum Alliance. He has trained, coached, and advised dozens of organizations to create outcomes that range from leadership development, to creating vision and strategy, to creating a culture of innovation, to clarifying and validating customer segments and needs, to reinventing business models and products, to creating high performing, Agile teams.Peter is a Certified Scrum Trainer, a graduate of the ORSC coaching system, a certified Leadership Agility and Leadership Circle coach, a certified Innovation Games practitioner, and the co-founder of the Humanizing Work company. He is an avid reader and idea-combiner. He is a firm believer in the power of range and a growth mindset. He spends his working hours dedicated to nudging the world of work towards a more human-centric, meaningful, and prosperous future. He spends his other waking hours enjoying time with his wife and five kids, running, hiking, playing golf, and making music and visual arts. Show less