Wade Shelton

Leading provider of K-12 educational resources, curriculum, and assessment

• Led agile program management team of Delivery Leads and Agile Coaches driving Agile maturity and delivering customer value across HMH’s broad product portfolio—from curriculum content to AI and analytics
• Collaboratively built and executed essential evergreen and cadence-based operational and product planning and roadmapping exercises that created visible backlogs, plans and progress/performance metrics against strategic objectives
• Managed multi-million dollar budget
• Led portfolio execution and operations for HMH’s product development division, ensuring a leading-practices approach to investment selection, execution, progress reporting, risk management and agile development, release and launch
• Led Ways of Working team and Lean-Agile Center of Excellence: cross-functional, cross-organization teams responsible for the continuous improvement of effective practices across the enterprise
• Spearheaded two major acquisition integration workstreams for combined organization (acquired NWEA 4/23)

Nonprofit providing assessment, customized learning and research in K-12 education

• Acquired by HMH in 4/23
• Pioneered enterprise-wide business agility activities to become completely agile organization and serve educational partners better while strengthening competitive advantage
• Led team of interdisciplinary managers and technicians
• Leveraged Scrum@Scale in the enterprise
• Built analytics to showcase achievements against strategic goals at all levels of organization
• Headed quarterly portfolio roadmapping, collaborating with leaders across product management, development, user experience and architecture
• Produced agile, capacity-based roadmaps spanning three quarters, aligning with overarching company strategies and objectives
• Oversaw multi-million dollar budget and multiple departments including agile program managers and coaches, product owners, business analysts, release management
• Rapidly promoted through leadership ranks, maintaining core responsibilities while accepting increased authority and accountability in each position
• Generated tens of millions in annual revenue by ensuring on-time delivery of new cloud-based platform, which became foundation for entirely new business line and division
• Implemented Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Increased throughput by 5–20% annually, reflecting significant productivity growth in product teams
• Improved performance by 10–30% (increased throughput, reduced cycle time, and enhanced morale) after initiating and leading enterprise business agility transformation leveraging Agile methodologies
• Grew engagement scores by 50% in first year following implementation of Scaled Agile Framework
• Drove human-centered design and design thinking into new product value workflow uniting teams with users
• Refocused organization to OKRs ensuring delivery of valuable outcomes beyond just outputs

Leading business and technology consulting firm

• Agile product delivery expert leading complex portfolio, program, and product management actions, transformations across diverse client environments, from education to retail, most recently at NWEA
• Hit aggressive business development targets to drive millions of dollars in revenue

Provides market-leading solutions to empower higher education administration and research teams

• Oversaw development and implementation of methodologies that streamlined product development processes
• Trained teams in methodologies, optimized tools for efficiency, and continuously refined practices based on feedback and performance metrics
• Enhanced collaboration, improved product quality, and accelerated delivery timelines
• Leading program management team, increased throughput in product teams by applying Scrum and Kanban methodologies
• Produced predictable product portfolio and roadmap by fostering advanced collaboration among product management and engineering leaders
• Delivered next-generation SaaS platform and products ahead of aggressive milestone dates
• Established modern continuous delivery pipeline for SaaS products with DevOps and QA automation

Innovative software solution provider to global construction and capital project industries

• Directed work of international team of eight Agile program and project managers (OR, PA, and UK) with multi-million dollar budget
• Developed scaled Agile product delivery model based on SAFe and other inputs
• Coached model in satellite offices and new acquisitions in US and UK
• Achieved say/do ratio exceeding 90% and improved on-time delivery, up from 40–60%, by introducing advanced Kanban delivery method and developing capacity-based planning model
• Unified all business and technical stakeholders, enabling creation of dependable quarterly roadmap
• Ensured 100% of portfolio adopted repeatable planning processes
• Collaborated with HR to establish definitive career ladder for roles within new Agile PMO

Multinational brand specializing in footwear, apparel, equipment, accessories, and services

• Led teams of program and project managers, Scrum Masters, and product owners to deliver entire Nike digital Sport product portfolio
• Budget accountability $36M+
• Built and scaled Agile practices and accountability models to achieve continuous, consistent product delivery success measured through consumer engagement

Product launches included:

• Nike+ GPS Running App for iOS: First-generation, top-rated running app
• Nike+ SportWatch: GPS running watch and groundbreaking web-based mapping software
• Multi-Sport Platform: SOA backbone built in Java on Oracle Coherence and Exadata to maximize speed and scale
• FuelBand: Award-winning fitness wearable enhancing user experiences across mobile, web, and social media
• Nikeplus.com: All-new web experience rolled out to 4M+ Nike+ users at time of deployment