Ken Werth Email & Phone Number

Maize, KS, US

United States

Wichita, Kansas, United States

• Servant leader for 3 globally diverse scrum product teams.
• Lead scrum master community of practice coaching scrum masters in agile best practices and leading enterprise agile initiatives.
• Coach scrum teams in swarming practices which boosted knowledge sharing of services public-API implementations while increasing velocity of teams by an average of 15%.
• Advised product managers on value, risks, and performance measurements achieving backlog prioritization that allowed the teams to meet an MLP goal for product launch.
• Coach business analysts on user story writing utilizing the who/what/why method to increase the knowledge of business requirements understanding with development teams.
• Collaborate daily with UX designers and engineers to ensure sprint goals are achievable and teams are creating valuable increments.

Wichita, Kansas Area

• Program manager for operations enterprise applications which included application such as asset management (Maximo) application, data historian (PI) application, planning and scheduling (Primavera and Maximo Scheduler).
• Created operations enterprise applications roadmap and presented to senior IT, Procurement, Operations, and Accounting leadership focusing on large projects.
• Collaborated with operations enterprise application customers to write user stories utilizing the who/what/why method for feature enhancements.
• Created communications to leadership and customers regarding new releases including product documentation and training guides.
• Planned and directed go-live activities with IT, business subject matter experts, and Maximo resources.
• Followed up with customers after go-live events to ensure functionality delivered met their needs and functioned properly.

Wichita, Kansas Area

• Product owner for enterprise asset management (Maximo) application with functionally diverse and globally diverse teams.
• Assisted product manager for Maximo with assembling Maximo Roadmap.
• Collaborated with Maximo customers to write user stories utilizing the who/what/why method.
• Collaborated with product manager to prioritize and maintain Maximo backlog.
• Assisted product manager with creating communications to leadership and customers regarding new releases including product documentation and training guides.Page 2 of 2
• Planned and directed go-live activities with IT, business subject matter experts, and Maximo resources

Wichita, Kansas Area

• Completed Scrum training in 2010.
• Collaborated with 5 BSAs to develop agile training for IT department.
• Coached co-workers in agile processes as they began their first agile projects.
• Achieved faster delivery of value, increased visibility of timelines, scope, value for project sponsors, and increased collaboration after implementation of agile practices.
• Project manager for integration project with Maximo and Ariba delivering on time and within budget creating a value of $5 MM to the company.
• Project manager for implementation of contractor cost management application delivering within scope and creating an annual savings of $1 MM to the company.

Wichita, Kansas Area

• Enhanced rent to own software utilizing COBOL, Java, and C++.
• Collaborated with clients on medium and large system enhancements for rent to own software utilizing waterfall methodology.
• Scheduled and managed technical resources to accomplish goals for medium and large system enhancements for rent to own software.
• Overhauled rental agreement process utilizing object-oriented programming principles allowing easier maintenance of the software.

Wichita, Kansas, United States

• Enhanced rent to own software utilizing COBOL and C++.
• Implemented forms software by integrating with rent to own software to enable use of laser printers.
• Re-created rental agreements for use with laser printers for 50 states.
• Collaborated with clients on small and medium system enhancements for rent to own software utilizing waterfall methodology.
• Provided 24/7/365 second level and technical support for nationwide clients and Guam for rent to own software.

Wichita, Kansas, United States

• Maintained rent to own software utilizing COBOL.
• Collaborated with clients on small system enhancements for rent to own software utilizing waterfall methodology.
• Provided 24/7/365 second level application and technical support for nationwide clients and Guam for rent to own software.

Wichita, Kansas, United States

• Provided 24/7/365 application support for nationwide clients and Guam for rent to own software.

Wichita, Kansas, United States

Adjunct Faculty in the College of Business teaching introduction to micro computers.

Wichita, Kansas Area

Design Engineer – Aug 1996 to Sept 1998Collaborated with small municipality councils and rural water district board members to design, budget, and obtain grant funding for water line projects.Inspector – May 1995 to Aug 1996Inspected water line construction, sanitary sewer construction, and road construction to ensure installed to designed specifications.

Manhattan, KS

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Information Systems

Architectural Engineering And Construction Science

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