Greg Mester Email & Phone Number

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Discover "The Art of Delivering IT Products" in our upcoming Tech-Social Master Class tailored for C-level executives and delivery managers. Dive deep into strategies, insights, and best practices with our expert Greg Mester, and gain valuable perspectives. Discussion with Gabriela Santander and Edgar Martinez on their Tech-Social program

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

New date Saturday 11/9/2024 Panel Discussion Announcement: Get ready to meet our inspiring panelists from around the globe at ACP24 - Islamabad, Join us as we delve into "The Future of Agile: Evolving or Fading? A Global Tech Perspective where esteemed experts will share their perspectives on critical transformations in Agile practices and what they mean for businesses globally.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

My Chapter: You Can Thrive in a Lifetime of Change Turning No's to Yes'sDedication: To all those who dedicate their life to helping others live a more fulfilled life.Each Chapter include a story from a different Change Agent and is a fascinating read.Get a free PDF version by signing up for 5amMesterScrum weekly newsletter. https://5ammesterscrum.com/free-the-change-volume-20-pdf-book-copy-for-joining-our-weekly-newsletter/

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

May Chapter Meeting: Big Dreams Made From Smaller Pieces, Turning No's into Yes's to Help along our Career JourneyThis in-person presentation is based on Greg Mester's new co-Authored Book "The Change: Insight's Into Self Empowerment." Greg will bring stories about bringing people to work together, certification journeys, saying Yes to Yourself, assembling the F/A-18E/F Low Rate Initial Production Specification one engineer at a time that can be used along our career journey's as Business Analysts. Greg's solution is about Breaking “No’s” into Smaller “Yes’s” with three self-applied concepts: Turning No’s into smaller easy Yes’s, Saying Yes to Our Own Growth and Transforming Our Own Mindset with small Yes’s to achieve bigger goals. Turning No’s into small Yes’s will open doors for years to come. https://ipc.wildapricot.org/event-5674225

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

LIVE SESSION AND SPECIAL GUEST 4/24/2024 8am EST https://productownersummit.org/Professional Product Owner Career. What Might That Look Like?With Greg MesterEver wondered what it takes to excel as a 'Professional' Product Owner in Agile? Join us for an enlightening session with Greg Mester, the Agile visionary transforming ideas into action. Discover the path to professional mastery and elevate your Agile game. Engage live and send your questions to Greg. Tune in, transform, and transcend your limits!Ever wondered what it takes to excel as a 'Professional' Product Owner in Agile? Join us for an enlightening session with Greg Mester, the Agile visionary transforming ideas into action. Discover the path to professional mastery and elevate your Agile game. Engage live and send your questions to Greg. Tune in, transform, and transcend your limits!About Greg Mester: Greg Mester is a Transformational Leader, expertly bridging the gap between complex ideas and actionable solutions, and driving teams towards unprecedented success in agile environments.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Princeton Agility Meetup Lightning Talk Presenter Wednesday 3/27/2024 virtually "Using OKRs as a Part of Coaching Sessions" - rather than asking, "What problem can we work on today?" Greg recommends using personal OKRs with coachees to establish goals and center the discussion on how the coachee is doing toward their goals. Reaching goals is always valuable and gives something to kick-start the conversation and motivate everyone. https://www.meetup.com/princetonagility/events/298874108/

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Performed in Dual Podcasts Part 1 with AI Today's show and Part 2 with 5amMesterScrum show talking Artificial Intelligence AI and Agile working together. AI Today Part1: https://www.cognilytica.com/2022/11/02/ai-today-podcast-bringing-ai-agile-together-interview-with-greg-mester-host-of-the-5am-mester-scrum-podcast/5amMesterScrum Part 2: https://youtu.be/zHmF-wm4vbg

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Examining some of the tips shared by Millionaires that make them so productive with their time and how they can be applied to our agile teams. Thoughts from Gary Vee, Grant Gardone, Bob Proctor, Price Pritchett and how they speak agile without knowing it.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Join us November 2nd to 4th, 2022. Online and Recorded at Agile Online Summit AOS 2022. My track Sharing from Coaches, Scrum Masters and thought Leaders on how they have worked to bring in Happiness into their Teams and Organizations and the benefits of doing so as it affects productivity, people retention, customer impact and overhaul fun that can come from working with others. Also including the combination of work in the office (including hybrid and remote) and time outside work to bring happiness as a whole for people. https://agileonlinesummit.com/aos22_get_your_vip_access

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Virtual/Hybrid October Meeting - Building the Million Dollar Agile TeamBuilding the Million Dollar Agile Teamhttp://ipc.wildapricot.org/event-4949678When: 19 Oct 2022, 5:30 PM - 8:00 PMLocation: 401 Plymouth Road, 1st Floor Conference Room, Plymouth Meeting, PA 19462Learning from what Millionaires share and how it could apply to your agile team.Join us to examine some of the tips shared by Millionaires that make them so productive with their time and how they can be applied to our agile teams. We will explore thoughts from Gary Vee, Grant Gardone, Bob Proctor, Price Pritchett and Leila Hormozi. Learn about how they speak agile without knowing it and use it to Build Million Dollar Teams.

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

https://www.linkedin.com/video/event/urn:li:ugcPost:6945751339180150784/About: We will be examining some of the tips shared by Millionaires that make them so productive with their time and how they can be applied to our agile teams. Thoughts from Gary Vee, Grant Gardone, Bob Proctor, Price Pritchett, Leila Hormozi, etc. and how they speak agile without knowing it.Guest Speaker: Greg Mester

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Dec20 to Dec20, 2021 VIRTUAL AgilePA User Group WebinarTitle: OKRs, Agile, Scrum and Scaling Working Together For Radical Change and Minimizing OKR Mistakes & Documentation1. What OKRs should be?2. OKR Common Mistakes3. Scaling Scrum &; OKR Cadence

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

Top 5 Interview Questions for Remote Scrum Master presented by Greg MesterEvent by Chinyere Iquo Oranugo at Learntor Meetuphttps://www.linkedin.com/events/top5interviewquestionsforremote6882744127415447552/about/

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

- Track Chair Enterprise and Scaled Agile for Agile Online Summit 2021 Oct 25, 26 & 27

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

• Mentoring emerging Founders in Philadelphia Metro area on Funding Pitch Deck creation, Product Development, Customer Growth, and Scaling Business.• Provided office hours and one-on-one coaching to support Founders in building successful businesses.• Utilized expertise to guide Founders in navigating the challenges of entrepreneurship and achieving their business goals.

Currently Certified to teach the ICAgile Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF) and Agile Fundamentals (ICP) and soon Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)

Wayne, Pa, Us

- Agile Transformational Coach at Vanguard's IT Marketing Division, Enterprise Coaching across 16 teams while balancing individual coaching w/ Scrum Masters and Product Owners on OKRs, Scrum, & Jira. Supporting Teams on their Agile Journey. - Wins - Teams held 15 min Sprint Planning; - quasi PI Planning; - Reduction in Commit & Done Gap

Atlanta, Ga, Us

Full Stack Agile Coach in support of Large Pharma IT Transformation. Coaching at the People, Team, Organization and Enterprise levels as needed. Coaching roles such as: Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Team members, Managers and Executives on the Agile Mindset as it applies to Scrum, Kanban, scaling operations and creating Business Objectives including OKRs.- Wins - Teams transformed from waterfall or nothing to scrum; - Teams held 30min Sprint Planning

Fort Lauderdale, Fl, Us

Agile Coach working with multiple Agile Release Trains following SAFe. Signature Consultants Contractor currently on assignment at major financial company. Work varies from coaching individual leads, team members, managers, whole teams, trains and enterprise groups. Agile Coach for SAFe 6 teams, ART and Enterprise for over 40 teams and 400 plus people in US and India. Created Enterprise Agile Playbooks, Transition guides from Rally to Jira, built dashboards and metrics systems for Managers, PMO’s, RTEs. Scrum Masters, PO’s and BA’s as well as Daily Scrum boards. Coached 10 SAFe PI Planning Events with 1000’s of people and virtualized PI planning during COVID19.- Wins - Built dashboards and metrics systems for Managers, PMO’s, RTEs. Scrum Masters, PO’s; - Coached 10 SAFe PI Planning Events for 1000 people; - virtualized PI during COVID.

Wayne, Pa, Us

Agile Coach and Scrum Master transforming large Healthcare Industry corporation care from waterfall to agile. Conducting monthly day long Agile training sessions (10+) to over 180 people consisting of Business people, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Business Analysts, Developers, Testers and managers. Coached and coaching 15 teams with plans to transform another 5 plus teams as the Agile transformation catches hold. Coach and mentor Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Development Teams on their agile journey. Teaching all the Scrum ceremonies, inspiring teams to become DevOps like and implement automated testing and new infrastructure tools.- Wins - Inspired teams to become DevOps like and implement automated testing, new infrastructure tools and in metric dashboards; - Implementing SoS; - Developer learning the beauty of WIP & Done

Project Manager implementing Scrum as the Scrum Master and coaching the business and people in Agile thought processes and tools. Change agent and Agile Cheerleader. Scrum Master, Project Manager and Agile Coach helping the organization transform to an agile organization developing new software and IT tools to support the organization needs. Built and now coaching two scrum teams, training and coaching three other projects and production support operations into agile (Scrum and Kanban) operations using Jira and Confluence. Local and remote team New Jersey, Canada, Wilmington, Atlanta, Kentucky and other locations.- Helped 25 Developers, QA testers and Managers become CSMs and managed training for the Java DEV team to become Certified Scrum Developers (CSD). Coached the team to use three amigos development and transformed QA mindset from manual testing with Sprint +3 to automated testing in current Sprint.- Coaching Executive staff planning for kickoff on four new data development projects.- Created new retrospective and training sessions with, lean coffee, Legos and scavenger hunts.- Created Jira Dashboards and filters for managers and team member to monitor workloads and progress.- Wins - QA Coachee saying that you never know how great things were until one goes elsewhere

Project Manager implementing Agile and Scrum for Maiden RE in their IT Group. See MaidenRe for more information. Implementing Scrum as the Scrum Master and coaching the business and people in Agile thought processes and tools.

Norristown, Pa, Us

Scrum Master for AmerisourceBergen- Typical Duties: Scrum Master for Integration and Business Tools Team (USA, Ireland & India) transitioning from waterfall to Agile/Scrum. The team worked with SAP Hybris and integrated with a 7 year old SAP custom system. Created virtual, as well as, physical Sprint Boards.- Ran Daily Scrums, Retrospectives and Demos for three week Sprints/iterations. - Managed the teams using Jira and Zephyr Testing management software-- Created PO, Daily Scrum and Scrum Master Dashboards in Jira to help get things Done-- Built Kanban & Scrum Board in Jira to prioritize tasks toward to Story Completion- Used virtual LeanCoffees and brainstorming techniques for inclusive Retros across the world- Used virtual surveys to help increase the team’s knowledge of scrum.- Removed Team barriers and promoted communications and teamwork inside and outside the team- Wins - Delivered new Data Integration Service for new ABC Order Platform in 6 months

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

- Typical Duties: Scrum Master and Delivery Manager for new Comcast TV and IP products. Program Manager for the Agile Transformation of the Comcast Business Services internal Information Technology (Business for Business). Promoted in Business-To-Business to Agile Transformation Program Lead tasked to transform 10 scrum team from waterfall to SAFeAgile and Scrum. • Ran Daily Scrums, Retrospectives and Demos every two weeks and, for some, monthly iterations. • Developed 6 month iteration plans as a PO and alongside other POs. Groomed Backlogs every two weeks and adjusted priorities weekly. Provided weekly status reports to POs and management directors and above• Developed Mockups with Balsamiq, MS Excel and Powerpoint• Removed barriers from the teams and • Used Scrum and agile tools to develop Oracle Business Intelligence (OBIEE) displays to provide business value to managers and their Agile Teams. • Formalized Feature completeness tracking to help managers prioritize Team focus to get product into the customer’s hand• Use OBIEE, Rally and Jira to manage my teams and others across the organization• Built story boards on the wall as well as in Rally and Jira.• Planned, managed and facilitated two SAFeAgile Release Train Program Increment (PI) sessions- Wins - Managed delivery of new Comcast Stream as written about in NYTimes.com on time and in 6 months; - Promoted to Agile Transformation Program Manager for SAFe Agile implementation; - Developed 15 new metric dashboards in 4 months and connected OBIEE to RallyDev, so managers could use the power of RallyDev without bringing the entire RallyDev product into the Oracle database.

Reston, Va, Us

- Typical Duties: Implementing new IT projects which utilize MicroStrategy Business Intelligence (BI) tools to analyze Oracle data into manageable Executive Decision Tools for a large customer in the Philadelphia area via a combination of agile and project management techniques. • Ran daily scrum meetings, • Created agile and waterfall schedules, • Developed charters and prioritized tasks and User Stories• Presented Demos to customer and management• Taught team members new techniques in report generation and documentation.Achievements: - Planned release of a 2,400 page report on 10 March 2014 via the new BI Tool.- Startup of the operations < 30 days, after the initial team assembled declined the positions.

London, Gb

- Typical Duties: Manage engineering, software and supporting functional areas with Earned Value Management, Risk Management, Agile and Scrum Methodologies where appropriate, Scheduling, communications internally and externally to ensure scope, budget, technical and schedule meet the contractual and customer expectations. Develop Value Engineering Change Proposals (VECP) to benefit the customer and employer for Win-Win strategies. Develop policies and procedures incorporating lessons learned for management, project managers, engineers and our customers.

- Applied Scrum Coaching to website designs & taught Scrum techniques to local govt.- Used Jira Agile (Grasshopper) and VersionOne to manage Agile projects.- Designed, developed and managed over 15 small business websites with Agile and Scrum practices.- Installed networks and designed and built point of sale touch screen databases for store fronts.- Supported Georgia Tech University in $200K win for Radio Frequency Identification (RFI) tracking.- Consulted on government acquisition and supply chain operations.- Managed and developed administrative and financial operations including financial reports.- American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) commercial specification chair 2002 to 2003.- Guest Speaker National Institute of Packaging, Handling and Logistic Engineers, on Radio Frequency Identification (RFI) I tracking devices, 9/17/2000- Speaker School of Military Packaging Technology, on RFI tracking devices, 11/19/2003

Volunteer and VP for the The Cruiser Olympia Historical Society. The Cruiser Olympia Historical Society, Inc.’s current mission is to support stewardship of the National Historical Landmark the USS Olympia and the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia as part of their Transfer Application Process (TAPP). Our activity shall be done to first protect the USS Olympia as the only remaining ship from the Spanish-American War and it must be preserved and made available to the General Public, so our history can be appreciated and remembered. The ship is also a National Mechanical Engineering Historical Landmark and must be preserved to demonstrate steam power technology.http://www.tcohs.org/

Philadelphia, Pa, Us

- Ran various projects as assigned the company President/Owner including installing, training and optimizing new factory equipment from England, operating fabrication shop, new inventory planning and management and implementing new bar code systems.- Proudest achievement: Redesigning factory coolant tank manufacturing operations in such a way that the supervisors could go home after 10 hours and not the 14 hours per day previously.- Activities routinely required receiving customer requirement sketches, designing, fabricating, producing, testing and delivering radiators in just a few days. These radiators and oil coolers were for a wide range from standard cars, corvettes, tractor trailers, industrial equipment, mining equipments and military vehicles. The company averaged approximately $16M in business, as an independent.

- This business managed Boeing Vertols 3rd party logistics warehouse (200K Sq. Ft.) operation for the V-22 and H-47 rotor wing military aircraft produced in the Philadelphia plant. Accomplishments:- Completed 3 Start-up Operations: Production, Spares and Government Property Units.- Including packaging, containerization, warehousing operations and ISO 9001 certifications- Oversaw of a flat organization of 30-45 warehousing and back office personnel- Size Metrics: Delivering 1000 to 5000 military and commercial spares orders per week- Delivering 4000 to 8000 parts and kits per week directly to the Boeing Production Line- Data technology efforts included Data mining and statistical techniques to establish worker performance and future performance.- Repaired RF equipment as needed and developing ways to prevent future damage to $2.5K RF guns. Saved thousands in projected RF repair costs because employees kept dropping them.- Developed web and SQL programs to data mine and supply operational statistics and traceability.

- Planned all landscaping projects and advised President and owner on operational, financial, sub-contractor and business issues. Developed spreadsheets to help manage financials and job cost estimating operations.

- General project engineer for Packaging Handling Storage and Transportation systems for the Navy. Support all Spares and Retrograde activities for the US Navy Aviation Supply System and functioned as Contracts Technical Representative (COTR) for 8 years.- Typically managed over 25 to 30 design and special projects concurrently, while working with contractors, engineers, and logistical managers. Managed contracts over $2M spanning 10 design/build projects protecting thousands of assets valued over $1M each.- Reviewed technical data packages, manufacturing procedures, quality plans, conducted site visits and audits regarding new and current suppliers for contracting officers.- Acted as Engineering Team lead for 2 years.- Won funding for and managed a $705K Radio Frequency Identification (RFI) AIT Design and Implementation Project. Delivered deployable product in 9 months. Presented RFI project to the Under Secretary of the US Navy, The Honorable Susan Morrisey Livingstone.- Developed 1st container project cost database to monitor progress and to predict future acquisition costs, actual savings $200,000 of a $1.3M contract, projected another $200,000 savings.

- Worked directly under the System Engineer for the New F/A-18E/F model Fighter/Attack Jet Aircraft multi-billion dollar program under development with Boeing/McDonnell Douglas Aircraft as part of a 6 month rotation.- Coordinated the $8B, F/A-18E/F Low Rate Initial Production Specification development for 8 new aircraft between over 100 lead engineers for the U.S. Navy and Boeing/McDonnell Douglas Aircraft.- Developed specification update tracking database to manage the input from 100 engineers and to highlight critical date milestones.- Monitored and analyzed the $4B F/A-18E/F Engineering, Manufacturing and Demonstration Contract from a project engineering/management point of view using Cost Performance Reports and Cost and Schedule Performance Indexes and studied the effectiveness of such tools.- Helped prepare for and coordinate efforts for Roll-out and First Fight of the F/A-18E/F Fighter/Attack Jet Aircraft.

- Developed new sources for aircraft rotorwing spares including rotor blades and gearboxes as part of the Competition Advocate. Reviewed technical data packages, manufacturing procedures, quality plans and conducted site visits regarding new and current suppliers for contracting officers.- Saved over $20M on new acquisitions because of new qualified vendors.- Developed interactive and proactive proposal tracking software that would alert managers as proposals went through the approval process across the country if the proposals were time critical.- Developed 1st Fatigue database to track fatigue components eliminating.- Helped to document activities at the Naval aviation Depots before they closed operation as a part of the BRAC, including gear boxes and large mechanical systems.

Certification, Financial Management Certification

Master'S Degree, Masters In Business Management

Bs, Mechnaical Engineering

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