Eric Herr Email & Phone Number

Portland, Or, Us

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Beaverton, Oregon, United States

Beaverton, Or

As a Release Train Engineer I am tasked with facilitating Program Increments (PIs) for an Agile Release Train (ART) within the Nike Digital Engineering group. I work with multiple teams and the program to develop PI objectives, coordinate PI planning and ceremonies, track features and milestones throughout the PI, and lead bi-weekly train delivery meetings.Throughout the PI I also coach leaders and teams in the agile mindset and Lean-Agile practices, track and manage dependencies and escalate impediments and risks. Key to my position is a continuous encouraging of collaboration and leading relentless improvement through the inspect and adapt process.

Beaverton, Or

As a Scrum Master within Nike Digital Engineering, I serve two teams who build and maintain the nike.com consumer portal. I work with the teams to provide guidance to a deeper understanding of Agile so that their focus is on more than just the rituals and ceremonies and the team members gain a better understanding of what makes a good Agile team great.It is important that the teams I work with develop and embrace trust and collaboration in the work they deliver to the stakeholders and they understand that conflict is not a negative but provides greater insight into how we, as a team, can grow and evolve so that we all become greater contributors to the team's overall success.In this vein, I believe that the retrospective is the most critical of the ceremonies and teams should embrace the opportunity to evaluate where we are successful, where we are challenged, and what we can do to improve as a whole. I hope to be the catalyst to these discoveries on the teams I serve.

Portland, Oregon Area

Beaverton, Or

As the Web Service Manager I lead a team of software developers in custom application design and development in support of our clients' business needs. VTM Web Services provides the critical collaboration tools that allow high-tech, non-profit consortia and initiatives associations to work together in building standards internationally. I perform business analysis, draft technical specifications and requirements documents then translate these into functional tools that are built around our customers wants, needs and concerns. Bringing the vision of the stakeholders to reality is the challenge and the thrill of this job.We develop all applications using Agile Scrum.

Portland, Oregon Area

I started with Pavelcomm in the fall of 2004 to build up an outsourced IT division of a company that had set itself apart from the competition by providing exceptional customer service in the telecommunications market. Pavelcomm specializes in the programming, installation and ongoing support of business class phone systems in the Portland metropolitan area. They do this by truly listening to their customers. I carried the same philosophy to the Technical Services division.I was tasked with identifying the specific needs of our clients by analyzing business processes, understanding technical needs and staying abreast of advancements in technology so I could recommend, implement and support the technology infrastructure of many businesses with varied needs, budgets, and existing platforms. I often was called upon to assist our customers in building technology strategic plans and served in a consultant capacity as I would make recommendations for improvement that would meet their immediate needs but also serve the companies and organizations moving forward. I am most proud of the commitment that Pavelcomm had to working with many non-profits organizations throughout the area. Supporting these philanthropic endeavors was satisfying from a business perspective and also community building perspective.

Pacific Seafood purchased Northwest Staffing Resources in May of 2001. At the time of the acquisition I was the Technology Manager at NW Staffing but was asked by Pacific Seafood's Director of IT to move over to Pacific Seafood as their Network Manager.In this role I directed the activities of all staff responsible for network and telecommunications services supporting over 1,500 employees across 7 states. While Network Manager I was instrumental in directing several large scale projects including the implementation of a bio-metric timekeeping system and all the processing and distribution plants, all technology components of a new 65,000 sq. ft. distribution facility, moving all technology associated with three critical facilities into the new plant over one weekend while keeping operations up and running for the rest of the company, and selecting and implementing a new $120,000 communications systems.

Portland, Oregon Area

I started out at NW Staffing in the high tech recruiting department but within months of joining the company, realized that the new CRM software application was being underutilized. I recommended to the CFO that a Corporate University should be established to train the users on this application and others that were vital to the business. He asked me to draft up a business plan and after some additional discussion I was promoted to Corporate Technical Trainer. Within 18 months I was moved to Technology Manager where I directed all network and communications projects, planning and budgeting for the company. Major accomplishments included assisting the firm in expanding the operations into California and Idaho adding 5 new offices in San Diego, Sacramento and Boise, and migrating the company from a hybrid Novell/Groupwise network to a Windows.Exchange network. I was also responsible for developing, writing and testing the Disaster Recovery and Preparedness Plan.

Ms, Applied Information Management

Ba, Communications, Minor Business

Hs Diploma, College Preparatory

Beehive, Lower School & Middle School