Michael Westermann Email & Phone Number

Scottsdale, AZ, US

US

Converted from contractor to FTE.

Columbus, Ohio, US

• Contractor with Nationwide Insurance
• Facilitates high performing, self-organized Scrum Team.
• Guides software delivery from user story creation to implementation.
• Leverages appropriate software delivery practices to continuously improve software delivery, efficiency and quality.
• Performs peer-to-peer coaching and metrics reporting.
• Strong Scrum Master with a strong technical, testing and requirements background.

London, England, GB

• Mentors and coaches teams (including the Product Owner) in Agile practices and mindset.
• Facilitates collaboration and maximizes team performance by driving continuous improvement within assigned technical and/or non-technical team
• Removes impediments to team progress whether internal to the team or organizational in nature. When necessary, escalates impediments to facilitate rapid resolution.
• Ensures effective communication within and across teams.
• Influences and facilitates the empowerment of a self-organizing team.
• Schedules and facilitates cross-functional meetings.

• Create and update Requirements.
• Support customer UX storyboard and prototyping requirements, review, and updates.
• Support pre-sales, sales, customer support, services and other teams to ensure client success
• Align cross-product stakeholders with roadmaps, functional specs product strategy and strategic positioning
• Interface with customers, prospects, analysts and other internal and external stakeholders
• Decompose functional requirements into user stories tied to UX storyboards and prototypes.

Toronto, ON, CA

• Contractor with American Express
• Create and update Functional Requirements.
• Support customer UX storyboard and prototyping requirements, review, and updates.
• Define and manage long-term roadmap for strategic integrations
• Support services and other teams to ensure client success
• Align cross-product stakeholders with roadmaps, functional specs and strategic positioning

Scottsdale, AZ, US

Create and update Functional Requirements.Support customer UX storyboard and prototyping requirements, review, and updates.Decompose functional requirements into user stories tied to UX storyboards and prototypes.Manage all sprint and task planning with and between Product Management, Project Management, Development, and User Experience.Improve sprint.

• Facilitate requirements meetings, conduct interviews, and workshops
• Acts as primary resource for enterprise business analysis including Confirming Current and future Processes and the planning and scoping of several inter-related initiatives
• Gathers and documents business requirements
• Translates requirements into business, functional, use case documents and wire-frames
• Supports the organization’s key business processes and applications and recommends business process redesign where applicable
• Provides functional expertise to developers during the design and construction phases of projects

Plano, TX, US

• Facilitated the compilation of technical specifications and monitor progress throughout the project.
• Facilitated positive change to requirements, and ensure changes and specifications are communicated to clients.
• Tested on-site applications to ensure the software adhered to the client specified business rules.
• Identified functional and aesthetic defects and security issues.
• Managed subordinates schedules and work with team members at all levels to ensure event success.
• Set-up and configured applications used at client events, (on-site applications).

London, England, GB

• Write and run automated tests for Extend Health website to ensure that features and tool sets function correctly. Utilize Visual Studio 2008, SQL Server 2008, Excel, OneNote, WatIn, MBUnit, and Gallio.
• Identify functional and aesthetic defects and security issues.
• Perform regression testing on “fixed” defects and establish that the fix does not adversely affect other functionality of the web site.

Managing a five person team of software developers/designers/testers to create a retail product using open source and proprietary technology. I'm responsible for managing the team production schedule, team productivity and client relations as well as Foster communication and translating technical terms into business requirements, facilitate Agile.

London, England, GB

Reverse engineered Extend Health’s existing database using SQL Server 2008 and creating an updated ORM diagram using Visual Studio 2008 with the NORMA (Neumont ORM Architecture) plug in.