Michael Wolf Email & Phone Number

I am ready for a new adventure. If you are exploring these questions, let's connect:Tools & Processes -- How to include ARTIFICIAL Intelligence into flow of HUMAN Intelligence?Education-- How is HUMAN learning different in the age of MACHINE learning?Business-- What is the business value of IT, AI or Agile?Civilization & Civility-- How can we collaborate.

The Market Changed... Corporate caution triggered by: "Year of Efficiency", massive Tech RIF's, disruptive IRS rules for R&D finances, revaluation of Agile and IT.... I Responded to that Change Rather than trash, we found "safe harbor" by living lightly (in RV) and exploring the road less traveled - Myrtle Beach, Hudson Valley, Michigan's Upper Peninsula.

San Mateo, California, US

• [Fixed-length contract to huge international financial organization]Agile Coach -- Member of coaching team responsible for implementing POM (Product Operating Model) and installing Jira Align to support these new ways.
• Coached staff to coach other staff in agile ways of working
• Facilitated discovery sessions to identify gaps to POM adoption
• Awarded "Ready to Coach" from Dojo Academy to support Cprime's Dojo Challenge program

Chicago, IL, US

Scrum Master -- Built culture of highly productive "offshore team" to enhance legacy code of larger team in Germany, so that US & German team members built skills to * Develop collaboratively (Mob programming) * Explore together (Mob Learning) * Plan as a team * Trust each other sufficiently to critique designs and code * Establish and refine team.

London, GB

• [Fixed-length contract to huge international financial organization]Collaborated with 20 contract instructors, 70 adjunct technical staff, and a dozen course designers across 2 sites to induct 500 new engineers into.
• Technical Training: Agile/Scrum, git, Maven, Jenkins, Cloud Formation, TDD, Spring Boot, Java, Concurrency, Domain Modeling,
• Team Coaching and Individual Mentoring: Scrum ceremonies, technical presentations, team dynamics, customer focus, planning, estimation, testing.

Reading, MA, US

On assignment at Fidelity Investments.

Boston, MA, US

• Member of 40-coach team serving 5,000-person transformation across 4 countries
• Coached 7 teams, starting with Sprint 1, in team skills and technical practices
• Created workshops - user stories, Lean Coffee, Team Canvas, Agile Fluency Model
• Designed and facilitated retrospective for quarterly coaches summit
• Initiated relationship-building activities among coaches

• Supported promotion, delivery, and training of an agile fluency framework that leverages Lean and Agile values & principles, applied to the mechanics needed for iterative+incremental software development – in a very.
• Developed aspects of the framework
• Managed development of iPhone App
• Utilized framework in executing transformation for clients,and also to improve our own team.
• Served in roles as Scrum Master, Team Leader, Facilitator, Trainer and Coach

* Key team member in site-wide agile formation project.* Co-taught interactive 4-day learning events that blended training and coaching, starting with fundamentals of agile, and completing with a backlog for each team's real-world product. * Supplemented training with coaching at individual and team level.Continued on-site coaching to reinforce new team.

Nashville, Tennessee, US

Charter member of new field office, tasked with turning a recent acquisition's proposal into a product. Office was also a Proof of Concept for Cloud Computing and Agile Methodologies.Consciously and deliberately created an outstanding work culture; I have never heard so many team members say "This is the best team I've ever worked for!".In addition to.

* Developed custom operators, libraries, and test harnesses to support Enterprise Automation Technology team to integrate with work flows and automated server tasks at Disney's data centers.* Wrote custom course to fill gap in vendor training and documentation of CA ITPAM, including hands-on, test-driven design labs to highlight product’s control flow.

Seattle, WA, US

Introduced best process practices to increase collaboration between Team Members and with Product Owner: * Scrum: daily standup, kanban task board, Jira/Greenhopper issue tracker, sprint planning meeting, planning poker, sprint retrospective. * eXtreme Programming: TDD (Test-Driven Design), pair-wise programming. * Modern Perl: Moose (A postmodern object.

US

* Advised Executive Director on marketing and communication campaigns, technology selection, and event planning.* Created Salesforce.com instance to handle all CRM functions of group. Trained users and administrators. Imported all existing data. Created outreach campaigns.* Helped organize and run 2 benefit auctions and 2 Walk-and-roll-a-thon fund raisers.

Renton, WA, US

Added LinkedIn extension to Erado's flagship product by integrating LinkedIn REST API into Erado's custom MIME-based archival format. Wrote Perl Moose (object oriented) modules. Used Test Driven Design to create test suite with 80-90% code coverage.

* Plan and produce yearly festivals, and monthly meetings. * Engage neighbors in community projects.

Created web crawler to scrape product data from consumer product websites into MySQL database. Became subject matter expert on crawling/scraping practices and tools to advise CEO on CTO-level issues. Created project tool infrastructure (Subversion, Wiki, BaseCamp) to support collaborative agile practices for dispersed team across 3 time zones.

Santa Monica, CA, US

Worked with CFO and CTO to maintain existing system while extending it to test new business model for web site parking application that generated thousands of web sites from meta data in MySQL databases. Made SOAP and REST calls to return JSON and XML data. Accessed MySQL through Perl Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) module.Wrote and enhanced Perl modules.

Seattle, WA, US

Ensured successful transition of abandoned, legacy Perl CMS (content management system) into new Plone system. Coordinated with PM (Product Manager) on product roadmap to analyze 90 KLOC (KiloLines Of Code) ad-hoc, volunteer-written (i.e. "spaghetti") system, use patterns, rearchitect working subsystems, refactor code, and decommission unused subsystems..

Arlington, VA, US

Reverse-engineered 20 KLOC collection of Perl programs that had accreted beyond group's ability to comprehend or maintain code. Became trusted advisor and SME (Subject Matter Expert) on Perl, Software Best Practices, and business rules. Created architecture to encapsulate business logic, accomodate change, increase robustness, and build new system.

Redmond, Washington, US

Rearchitected prototype system. Advised technical staff on use of Perl's Template Toolkit (Template::Tools) and standard modules for XML, HTML, HTTP, and XPATH. Refactored code to separate data content from XML structure.

Created hardware fixtures and tested Linux device drivers for HST (Hubble Space Telescope) ground station.

* Advised CEO of biotech staffing start-up on issues related to technology selection and vendor contracts.* Identified and tracked user stories, use cases, and product issues.* Refactored and rearchitected system to create SaaS (Software as a Service) product to manage work flow of disbursed HR staff, including dashboard with key performance indicators.*.

* Trained mid-career programmers in 2-20 person, 3-5 day training classes on programming languages, software development lifecycle, and Scrum: Perl, Unix Shell, C, C++, Unix/Linux, testing, Visual Basic, SQL, XML, ScrumMaster (CSM), Scrum Developer (CSD).* Developed course material, technology demos, and interactive, team-based exercises. * Managed.

Explored some of the wonderful areas of North America by bicycle, car, and RV. Rejuvenated in the age-old pattern of taking time in between. Finished tour in Seattle.

US

Assured clean data for factory automation and engineering analysis for ultra high quality undersea fiber optic repeaters. Technical resource and advisor to electro-mechanical and manufacturing engineers in design lab and factory. Shifted internal embedded and external advisory roles, as necessary. Perl and Korn shell data transformation, process.

US

Delivered billing system that allowed AT&T to re-enter the local NJcalling market. Extremely high visibility project with tight time schedule. Perl, C++, SQL, Oracle. Software developer, when needed.

Analyzed 100 KLOC of C code with CASE tools to create software complexity reports, function call diagrams, and cross-reference tables in support of a due diligence audit for a corporate acquisition.

Assured smooth CASE product introduction as post-sales technical account management. Worked with CTO's, managers and developers - both internal product developers and external product users. On-site visits for training, installation, customization, and configuration. Supported Northeast region's $1M revenue targets, which were always exceeded. Mentored.

Murray Hill, NJ, US

Full SDLC of CAD tools for PCBs (printed circuit board). Introducedbest practices and tools. Liaison to EDIF (Electronic DesignInterchange Format) standards group.

Ms, Ece (Electrical And Computer Engineering)

Bs, Computer Science + Physics (Double Major), Mathematics (Minor)