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.• Identified a need for scaled agile practices with 10+ scrum teams for the TMS application and spearheaded efforts with 4 scrum masters to evaluate scaled frameworks and create an implementation proposal for senior/executive leadership. Proposal implemented beginning of 2022 increasing collaboration, identification of dependencies, and reducing overall meetings for scrum product teams. • Collaborated with senior leadership to enhance the CI/CD approach to implement the use of release flags increasing continuous delivery timelines while allowing for a/b and canary testing. • Utilize Aha! daily with an integration to Azure DevOps to create product roadmaps for the master data services provided to senior/executive leadership for evaluation of product direction. • Create product metrics and KPIs within Aha! for senior leadership.

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) applications, and inspection (MAINTelligence) application each with functionally diverse and globally diverse teams. • 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.• Prioritized and maintained Maximo backlog to deliver system features and enhancements utilizing 1-month sprints to deliver value exceeding $10 MM to the company.• Coached PI resources and external 3rd party resources on agile scrum methodology to implement 2-week sprints delivering 20+ small to medium enhancements to PI application within a 5-month period. • Guided PI resources on Kanban best practices and implementation of LeanKit to prioritize and track product backlog. • Managed internal and external resources while collaborating with 4 different business functions utilizing a blended agile/waterfall framework to deliver an integration between the Maximo application and the Ariba network creating automation of several business processes between KAES and our vendors to create $13 MM in value to the company.

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• Followed up with customers after go-live events to ensure functionality delivered met their needs and functioned properly.• Coached credit and IT resources through the scrum framework to implement a credit application to track credit applications and information regarding enterprise vendors.• Managed technical resources while collaborating with credit resources creating a mitigation database to monitor required credit specifications and capabilities of KAES third party vendors. • Directed technical resources while working with accounts payable to automate invoices with vendors utilizing an integration between Maximo and Inspyrus creating $3 MM in value within 3 months. • Lead technical resources while working with lab managers across 5 sites to gather requirements, define functional requirements and implement Sample Manager. With the increased scope of integrating Sample Manager with the PI application the team completed the project within the original 3-month schedule. • Analyzed business processes and spearheaded improvements with the plant accounting and plant operations teams to the purchase order and work order process for the Maximo and Track integration saving plant operations team 1 hour of work per day.

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. • Project manager for implementation of NESHAPS program allowing company to create automated reporting for compliance of national standards. • Managed technical resources while collaborating with procurement center of excellence using scrum agile methodology to automate the item requisition process and deliver a savings of $5MM. • Developed demand management process for NESHAPS working with leak detection and repair SMEs across 6 sites.

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 and location.

Manhattan, Ks

Bachelor’S Degree, Computer Information Systems

Architectural Engineering And Construction Science

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