Agile Coach, Project Manager, Six Sigma Master Black Belt, Team Coach

10/2016 – 7/2019

Managing :
2 Support teams
2 DevOps teams
5 Dev teams
75 Engineers in total
Job responsibilities:

• educate employees at all levels, including senior, and at times clients, on Agile principles, providing them with tools for implementing the process in their own work.
• provide training sessions and teach valuable skills that lead toward the organization-wide adoption of Agile methodologies.
• As a mentor responsible for guiding teams into the Agile methodology, providing employees with feedback and means of improvement, catalyzing organizational growth and answering questions.
• provide hands-on support to all employees, collaborating with people across widely varying levels and roles, leading teams toward further understanding and adoption of Agile as well as overall company growth and improvement.
• responsible for designing a strategy for adoption of Agile. Including every stage of adoption, from the introduction of Agile and employee education, to fostering teams and cultures that practice Agile, to sustaining Agile methodologies and continually offering strategies for improvement.
• implementing Agile process, principles and practices across different levels and departments in an organization.
• use techniques that increase collaboration, predictability, transparency and promote a culture of experimentation and innovation.

Agile Methodologie, Kanban (Softwareentwicklung), Scrum

9/2015 – 9/2016

Managing :
2 Support teams
8 Dev teams (Web, Android, iOS, hardware)
110 Engineers in total

Job Responsibilities:

• Manage projects in JIRA and Confluence;
• Find bottlenecks and potential improvements to optimize how the team works
• Lead monthly retrospectives with each team, following up on any action items
• Provide agile process improvements and coach our engineering team to be as efficient as possible
• communicate priorities of the business
• Drive accountability of all projects - removing barriers for the teams implementing them.
• Communicate and track the project plan to cross-functional teams, ensuring its overall success.
• Improve, manage, and grow the agile process.
• Track and monitor the movement of projects and effectively communicate the status to stakeholders within the business
• Communicate project risks, resolving issues, initiating corrective actions.
• Managing complex dependencies between internal cross functional teams and third parties
• Managing complex software development, architecture, and integration projects.
• Solving problems throughout the project life cycle.
• Defining plan for projects and aligning with stakeholders
• Quality management of the project, ensuring the overall integrity.

Agile Methodologie, Kanban (Softwareentwicklung), Scrum

10/2010 – 8/2015

Managing:
2 Support teams
1 QA team
31 Engineers in total
Job Responsibilities:

• Organized and facilitated sprint planning, daily stand-up meetings, reviews, retrospectives, release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings
• Enact change and continuous improvement increasing the productivity of Scrum teams by 16% and the quality of deliverables by 22%
• Empowered teams to self-organize and grow cross-functionality
• Protect team from over-commitment, manage backlog, prioritize resolution of defects/bugs as evidenced by the on-time delivery of 24 major initiatives
• Met goal of addressing and resolving issues within 24 hours
• Coordinate code releases with other IT groups
• Communicate with other management, engineers, product managers and support specialists on product issues
• Track and communicate team velocity and sprint/release progress
• Taught the team to create clear and concise epics/stories
• Instructed and modeled core Agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility;
• Worked with the engineering managers to identify cross-team dependencies and manage inter-team tasks
• Evangelized the benefits of Scrum to ensure its smooth adoption
• Assisted team with making appropriate commitments through story selection, sizing and task definition and participated proactively in developing and maintaining team standards, tools and best practices reducing workload time by 35%
• 24\7 application support and management for production systems: handling system issues, answering user queries and monitoring applications to ensure maximum system uptime.
• Building and maintaining the business applications Knowledge Base, and ensuring documentation, manuals and procedures are updated
• Training staff in existing business information applications
• Comply with Disaster Recovery and business continuity plans and procedures
• Incident and Problem management
• DBA for MS SQL 2005, 2008
• Configuring, Management and Monitoring Autosys
• Conduct platform monitoring and performance tuning
• Responsibility for capacity management and platform scaling
• Participating in the hiring process of reviewing resumes and interviewing potential employee candidates

Agile Methodologie, Kanban (Softwareentwicklung), Scrum, Six sigma