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Mountain View, Ca, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Menlo Park, California, Us

Mountain View, Ca, Us

New York, Us

Converted from consultant to in-house to continue helping the organization scale by expanding Agile practices throughout the company to keep pace with their fast growth. Head of Sustaining Engineering with 70+ reports in 11 teams.- Developed 14 direct reports, building individual skills, growing the team and meeting the org’s full-stack engineering goals.- Lead organization wide initiatives improving product quality by creating fun, interactive and scalable product demos to gain early feedback and usage insights on new features.- Broke organizational silos with org wide cross-functional Retrospectives, sharing best practices and acting as an escalation point for impediments that could not be solved by the teams themselves.- Worked with Product Managers to prioritize and manage their requirement backlogs using Jira/Jira Portfolio allowing them to make accurate scope decisions based on different scenarios meeting planned release dates.- Scaled Agile coaching to all teams in the organization by automating daily Scrum reports using REST APIs and Webhooks to integrate Jira to Symphony using Google Script, allowing team members to focus on impediments during the stand-up.- Increased product adoption and team transparency by automating real-time reporting on all teams statuses in the Symphony client, so users do not leave the app to check the status of work.- Introduced a highly successful International Internship Program building a talent pipeline for Symphony’s European offices.

San Mateo, California, Us

Professional consultancy to help clients understand and apply Agile/Scrum practices appropriately to their businesses.- Implemented Jira Portfolio increasing Product Development transparency from CEO down by conveying real-time statuses of all work items..- Engaged management and development teams on Scrum and Agile concepts and best practices by holding workshops, running exercises and through day-to-day demonstration as a Scrum Master, enabling the teams to develop software more quickly, cope better with changing requirements and make better products.- Designed Jira workflows so that the status of work items was unambiguously understood by all without creating unnecessary processes. Automated workflows by integrating Jira with GitHub freeing team members to concentrate on work rather than think about updating issue statuses.- Influenced Product Owners and encouraged team members regarding how to breakdown requirements into Epics and User Stories ensuring the work could be completed within the appropriate timebox.Notable clients include:Fisher InvestmentsSymphony Communication Services

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Part of a large international Agile Software Development Unit developing features for Ericsson’s next-generation web-based Network Management System.- Agile/Scrum Master for 2 cross-functional teams. Led both teams to their first 100% successful Sprints and to feature completion by careful planning, motivating the team members and by removing blocking and potentially blocking issues.- Responsible for on-time and on-budget release of Product Licensing and Mediation Framework features allowing Ericsson to generate revenue from the product.- Streamlined Scrum Master reporting to Program and management by standardizing report templates and automating data collection from JIRA, Gerrit and Nexus using PHP scripts and the REST APIs.- Planned and secured onsite and offshore engineering resources with Third Party Vendors for the project so that features could be delivered to budget. Resolved numerous billing issues with the vendors and provided accurate expectations and worked with them to improve their invoice clarity. - Technical Lead, successfully establishing a virtual development and test environment as the first internal customer in Ericsson's Global Technology data centre, ensuring the project kept moving forward for my stakeholders whilst helping the hosts overcome future technical resource-sharing concerns.- Setup JIRA and worked with stakeholders to design an optimal workflow, ensuring consistency through 150 teams in 7 countries.- Eased communications between sites by producing UML diagrams and flowcharts to better illustrate complex concepts in lieu of white-boards.- Negotiated with IT to adopt a standard set of Agile tools company-wide, reducing software license costs by an estimated $7m across the company.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Designing initiatives and processes to make Ericsson’s delivery of products and services more consistent and efficient in the region. Driving Quality improvement programs across Region North East Asia. - Designed and implemented a Month Business Reporting tool using PHP/MySQL increasing efficiency and consistency in communication in the department, saving around 100 hours reporting each month.- Initiated hardware, software and service delivery quality improvement program ensuring customer projects were delivered on time, with the expected quality and reported accurately and consistently.- Worked with IT to ensure Windows upgrade was rolled out to all employee’s laptops in the department by personalising communication, offering incentives and through gentle persuasion.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Produced detailed design specifications for testers and developers to work from. Servant/leader Scrum Master, helping team overcome obstacles and promoting continuous Agile learning. FTTx (GPON) and EMS/NMS technology areas.- Supported, guided and coached a cross-functional team of 11 engineers in the transition from a water-fall software development model to Agile Scrum. - Brought a customer focus to the development teams after being personally requested by the Head of Broadband Access to take the long-term assignment to Beijing.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Technical Pre-sales Support. Delivering product demonstrations to customers on the EDA 1500 GPON and LG-Ericsson EA1100 WDM PON Fiber Access products. - Received Innova Award for an innovation idea that used a MySQL database and PHP scripts to generate customised node configurations and test plans for specific customer trials.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

Installation, configuration and administration of Solaris-based Network and Element Management Systems and OLT integration into more than 25 customers’ mobile and fixed-line networks globally. Customer support and training. Network Management Solutions Design. Technical Sales Support. EDA1500 GPON FTTx and EMS/NMS/OSS technology areas.- Worked with development teams to resolve complex technical problems. - Travelled extensively to both Tier 1/2 customer sites and other Ericsson offices world-wide, with projects lasting from a couple of weeks to several for months at a time. - Wrote PHP scripts to quickly generate large-network node configurations.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

(Year in Industry) Developed and supported web-apps for internal user access control, write PERL scripts for web server log file analysis, developed methods to correct and prevent xml errors for sun.com websites.

Bachelor’S Degree, Management Science With Computing With A Year In Industry

A-Levels In Chemistry, Physics And Mathematics (Pure And Mechanics)