Mitch Belding Email & Phone Number

Gothenburg, Sweden

Gothenburg, Sweden

• Recruited specifically for a long-term assignment with Ericsson (Lindholmen)
• Scrum master for two teams in Ericsson’s Packet Core
• Facilitates all scrum ceremonies including; stand-ups, backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, and sprint reviews
• Developed understanding and adherence to agile principles for two cross functional teams whose product is used by customers globally
• Leads organizational level Agile coaching sessions and an Agile professionals’ development and coaching group
• Leads Scrum Master and Product owner training courses for Ericsson employees

San Diego, California

• Dedicated scrum master for five teams in charge of foundational tax accuracy & compliance, security, and data stewardship of Turbo Tax
• Awarded a second subsequent contract in recognition of successful facilitation of the adoption and management of agile framework across multiple cross functional software engineering teams
• Excels in the decomposition of large conceptual IT goals into succinct client focused deliverable pieces of functionality through the facilitation of team story writing sessions
• Instills teams with a deeper understanding of the why behind the agile framework through ongoing training, resulting in effective self-organizing teams, rather than a group who superficially “goes through the motions”.
• Efficiently manages and tracks scope and schedule of IT projects to ensure on time delivery of business value through consistent use of best agile and business practices
• Creates and maintains information radiators including burndown charts and scrum boards

Greater San Diego Area

• Dedicated scrum master to three cross functional teams working onsite of the client, San Diego County Government, to overhaul the government’s online property tax system
• Successfully implemented agile framework through the facilitation of group and individual training sessions within the challenging environment of a project already deeply in the red and more than a year behind schedule.
• Acknowledged as an exceptional communicator and scrum evangelist able to tailor explanations of benefits appropriately to all stake holders
• Managed complex, high value application development projects that required the coordination of development work on multiple platforms to achieve client’s desired functionality
• Facilitated all ceremonies of scrum; Backlog Grooming, Story Writing Sessions, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Demos, and Retrospectives

San Diego

• Scrum Master for two development teams developing features for Turbo Tax Online
• Been recognized for successfully managing the adoption and enforcement of Scrum principles in a large enterprise environment
• Excels in translating broad feature objectives into clear decisions at the micro level
• Efficiently manages and tracks scope and schedule of IT projects to ensure the delivery of business value through consistent use of best business practices
• Leads all Scrum ceremonies including; Backlog Grooming, Story Writing Sessions, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, and Retrospectives
• Ensures clarity of requirements by facilitating of creation of quality user stories

Greater San Diego Area

• Responsibilities
• Partner with clients and manage the IT relationship, prioritizing and delivering business solutions
• Currently leading an 700k cross-functional project with both waterfall and agile components to provide customers with real-time order status information online
• Track and manage budget, scope, and schedule of IT projects to deliver stakeholder value
• Lead IT projects utilizing either the Scrum practice of Agile or Waterfall
• Gather, analyze, and document business requirements from stakeholders

San Diego

• Prepared Business Requirement Documentation and converted business needs into technical requirements and deliverables.
• Performed analysis on current and proposed service products across the full product lifecycle.
• Conducted interviews across technology, sales, senior management and clients of the organization to identify opportunities for business process and service offering improvements.
• Documented business processes and initiated collaboration with management to revise processes to make improvements.
• Performed gap analysis comparing current service offerings, with a proposed service packages.
• Generated and led presentations to prospective clients and to educate staff internally.

San Diego

• Co-founded a sales and marketing company to partner with a Solar Contractor.
• Developed, implemented, and evaluated operational procedures for the organization.
• Set up and customized a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) System (Sugar Professional).
• Designed reports with the Sugar CRM and Excel to track sales, productivity, and compile payroll.
• Conceptualized and implemented multiple marketing campaigns.
• Created and maintained a website, blogs, video, and social media accounts to develop the brand.

San Diego

• Designed and implemented a strategic marketing plan for a startup solar company.
• Designed reports with the Salesforce CRM to track employee productivity and client interactions.
• Was in charge of assembling and processing the payroll of over twenty employees.
• Worked without any direct supervision in a fast-paced customer oriented environment.

Worked abroad, independently or on occasion in conjunction with a partner, coordinating marketing efforts on Australian College Campuses. Regularly made announcements and informative presentations to large groups (300+) students.Consistently met recruitment and performance goals and successfully completed the season with an invitation to dofuture.

• Established and organized databases using Microsoft Suite.
• Assisted doing research and prepared documentation on cases and findings.

Annandale, New Jersey

• Completed a project in product component consolidation which is currently being implemented, and is projected to save the company $108K annually.
• Regularly used database management programs, such as Oracle.
• Conducted market research and analyzed data to uncover useful information.
• Contributed to a new product launch by assisting in the global sourcing, and created marketing materials that were circulated to authorized distributors worldwide
• Helped coordinate a global product recall with a cross functional team