Qingchun(Owen) Chen Email & Phone Number

Toronto, ON, CA

• Spearheaded the bank's first cloud data modernization initiative using Azure Databricks, through data landing, ingestion, transformation and reporting process, and achieving 20% cost savings
• Enhanced team productivity through effective implementation of Scrum practices, resulting in a 30% increase in delivery efficiency
• Exemplified leadership by engaging with diverse stakeholders and establishing strategic committees, eliminating compliance risks and driving stakeholder alignment to achieve program momentum
• Revitalized the data modernization program in response to a 40% budget cut by creatively restructuring priorities and descoping tasks, ensuring seamless execution and timely delivery

• Head of quality and engineering productivity division (100+ team members)
• Established the engineering productivity team from scratch, creating a high-performing division within six months
• Designed the roadmap of AI-based productivity platform and delivered first version of product, resulting in 30% productivity increase and transparency improvement
• Rolled out enterprise-wide agile transformation, gaining executive buy-in and embedding best practices across the organization with 1,000+ developers
• Transformed quality, PMO, and engineering productivity divisions, overseeing 100+ team members and multiple high-impact projects

Shanghai, China

• Led and delivered agile/lean transformation for several key accounts in multiple industries and transformed consulting success into a customizable Agile framework and engineering tool, successfully deployed across.
• PingAn Property Insurance Company R&D Center “Agile Transformation” – Led scaled Agile Transformation involving 2000+ team members; Coached 3 teams from product definition to product release and gained improvement on.
• Pufa Bank Credit Card Center “Building Agile measurement” – Designed the measure and metrics, evaluated in 10 teams and optimized the measurement framework
• PingAn Bank Credit Card Business Unit “Business Agile Transformation” – Redefined the organization which focuses more on value delivery, cultivated new “test & learn” ecosystem and coached 4 groups (150+ team members).
• PingAn Bank Credit Card R&D Center “Agile Transformation” – Coached executive team for organization transformation and development team on key agile practices, achieved organization level transformation (500+ members).
• Commercial and Merchant bank of China “Lean/Kanban implementation” – Defined the Kanban maturity model and guide, delivered Kanban training for teams and coached them on Kanban implementation.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Managed digital banking credit card projects from conception to production, ensuring timely delivery with high quality
• Collaborate between business and development team, leveraging agile framework and tool to significantly enhancing project efficiency

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

• Led the first Hadoop big-data migration project for Scotiabank using agile method, cutting lead time 30%
• Established the company's Agile framework and tool environment, significantly enhancing project efficiency and collaboration
• Optimized ETL processes in Hadoop, leading cross-functional teams to deliver seamless data integration and transformation
• Resolved complex infrastructure issues in collaboration with development and Hadoop COE teams, ensuring project success

Greater Toronto Area, Canada

• Led Agile transformation and new product development for encryption & cloud security products, achieving over 50% productivity improvement
• Enabled five Scrum teams and 40+ members, facilitating a seamless transition to Agile practices.
• Collaborated with product managers to set release goals, ensuring high-quality product delivery
• Managed daily Scrum activities, continuously enhancing development practices for optimal outcomes

Beijing, China

• Deliver software engineering consulting for clients. Work out customized solution for local clients. Lead consulting projects. Build and manage consultant team in China. Develop and manage customer relationship..
• Grow business in China ~ developed several key clients and achieved profitable target in 2 years.
• Lead change of way of working ~ improved clients’ software development environments on both organization and project/product level and achieve 30% productivity increasing for some clients.
• Manage multiple projects ~ ensured resources’ well allocation & projects on track and obtained high customers’ satisfaction.
• Agile software development expertise ~ delivered strategic consulting services, managing effective Agile transition on the organizational level and implementing various Agile practices on product/project level with.
• Steer Architecture direction ~ Define telecom platform strategy based on “open specification for service availability” to increase robustness of architecture.

Beijing, China

• Build Rational services team in China. Lead Rational software services projects. Work out Statement of Work and implementation plan of proposed solutions. Deliver services solutions, customize and deploy related tools..
• Built and managed Rational brand service team ~ tripling team size across 3 cities in 2 years, and increasing services revenue to $1.5 M per year
• Managed and delivered service projects~ optimizing application lifecycle management with customized IBM Rational software in various business contexts; resulted in high client satisfaction and retention.
• Leverage project and portfolio management expertise ~Led consultant team to deploy portfolio management solution and tool for both telecom equipment providers and Internet companies, involving multi-sites and 2000+.
• Build bank test center ~ Defined and implemented test center solution for banks, developing an automation test framework based on Rational Robot and customizing test management tool; resulted in improved test efficiency.
• Optimize existing process ~Led client’s first “iterative development” project on the Business Application Division, integrating Rational Unified Process (RUP) with existing IPD framework; resulted in high quality of.

Beijing, China

• Build the Rational China branch. Lead technical team. Work out solutions for local customers. Support sales from technical part. Present products and solutions to customers. Deliver training and services for.
• Promoted and implemented software engineering management practices ~ leading 20+ major clients to adopt related practices and tools, enabling large-scale development and improving quality of software.
• Leverage software analysis & design expertise ~ defined analysis and design specification for the China National Tax Bureau and also participated in the analysis and design of the “Golden Tax” project, resulting in.
• Tool expertise ~ customized SDLC tools, including requirement management, change and configuration management, testing management and others, to support the proposed solutions for different customers; resulted in.
• Created innovative product solutions to support sales ~ winning key clients and building the dominant position in China market with over 60% market share.
• Well-recognized instructor on software engineering methodology and related tools courses ~ training 1000+ attendees and gain high return rate.

• Manage software projects. Develop application for different industries. Support sales on selling tools and integrated solutions. ACCOMPLISHMENTS ~
• Manage system integrated projects ~ Led and developed IC Card project for the Agriculture Bank of China, which was the first commercialized product of IC Card in China, building the bank’s reputation.
• Pioneer on adopting Object Analysis & Design method and Unified Modeling Language (UML) in commercial products in the banks ~ improving the quality of design.
• Expertise on Banking ~ Participated in developing systems for several banks, including Agriculture Bank of China and China Construction Bank.
• Software Engineering expertise ~ Directed and developed the Object-Oriented Analysis and Design tool, the most popular software engineering aid tool in China at that time.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Global Management

Activities and Societies: Vice president of outdoor club.Beta Gamma Sigma Honor

Master, Computer Software Engineering

Activities and Societies: - president, Peking University Mountaineering Club

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: - Member of leadership team, Peking University Mountaineering Club