Agile Coach & Scrum Master

Der Kandidat ist ein ehemaliger Java-Entwickler, der derzeit als Scrum Master arbeitet. Er hat 6 Jahre Erfahrung mit Java und seine Schlüsseltechnologien umfassen Spring, Hibernate, Spring Cloud, Maven, Git und Versionierungssysteme. Sein Englisch ist auf einem kommunikativen Niveau, Deutsch hat er an der Universität Wien studiert, müsste es aber auffrischen. Er würde sich gerne auf das Finanzwesen konzentrieren, da dies der Sektor ist, dem er im Moment am nächsten ist, ist aber auch offen für Projekte in anderen Sektoren.

03/2018 - Present

Lead Agile Coach

EGS sector

• Helping teams and the organization realize and act on their potential by providing visibility and transparency of processes, preparation and facilitation of key ceremonies and coaching and training of people by hands on exercises that form a deep Agile understanding with the aim of enabling the highest possible value delivery to all company customers and stakeholders.

10/2017 - 02/2018

Agile Coach

Marketing sector

• Helping teams and the organization realize and act on their potential by providing visibility and transparency of processes, preparation and facilitation of key ceremonies and coaching and training of people by hands on exercises that form a deep Agile understanding with the aim of enabling the highest possible value delivery to all company customers and stakeholders.

08/2017 - 09/2017

Agile Coach

Construction sector

• Helping to lead the transition towards an Agile delivery of their software solutions and assisting the management in understanding and removing the organizational impediments and constraints.
• Co-leading the formation of the company's Agile scaling model.

08/2014 - 07/2017

Scrum Master

Finance sector

To Teams

• Helping teams to perform better by acquiring new skills, adopting new practices, refining the way of working, promoting collaboration
• Ensuring teams and stakeholders understand which interactions are productive, promoting helpful ones and disposing of others
• Coaching teams to become self-organized and cross-functional
• Facilitating teams activities and ceremonies with focus on outcome, helping to manage conflicts, enabling effective group decisions
• Promoting technical excellence and best practices such as pair programming, clean code, simple design, refactoring, CI / CD, paying of technical debt
• Helping team design the scrum board to improve transparency and promote cooperation

To Product Owner:

• Helping to improve product backlog, improving utilization of online tools to match team and product needs
• Working with PO(s) to help understand agile values and ensuring their adaptation inside the team and product backlog
• Promoting improvements to story definition, ensuring added value of such improvements
• Helping design and improve tools for automated delivery and deployments, improving transparency
• Coaching team in understanding of DOD to maximize quality

To Organization:

• Coaching through workshops, exercises and facilitated discussions with the focus on improving skills, practices and understanding of agile principles
• Communicating organizational impediments to management and HR to promote change
• Working with other scrum masters and facilitating the agile community to increase the effectiveness of the application of lean, agile and scrum principles
• Enabling others to learn, grow and become better professionals, helping them to utilize personal strengths and interests in the current workplace to fight challenges and recognize opportunities
• Promote innovations by attending conferences and leading knowledge sharing sessions and facilitated discussions
• Designing and organizing the hiring process for new scrum master candidates

05/2014 - 07/2014

Senior Java Developer / Analyst

Finance sector

• Responsible for the development of a green-field restful application based on Spring MVC and Knockout and Durandal JS frameworks.
• Technologies: Spring, Spring MVC, Spring Security, Knockout JS, Durandal JS, MyBatis, Liquibase, TeamCity, Stash, Git

06/2011 - 05/2014

Java Developer / Analyst

Banking sector

• Developer for Middle Office, Equities Trading
• Lead developer for Netting EMEA
• Go-to person for business related Netting information
• Responsible for the full software development cycle:
• Analysis and communication of business requirements
• Estimation of effort based on communicated requirements
• Implementation, Unit and Development testing
• QA support and on-the-go fixing of issues during testing
• Deployment and critical support of production systems
• Training other team members of Middle Office to understand Netting specific technological and business requirements with the aim of including them in the full development cycle of Netting EMEA
• Recruiting new Middle Office team members
• Technologies: Spring, Hibernate, JSP, ExtJS, Weblogic, Coherence Cache, JMS, MQ, Tibco and Solace messaging, Oracle and DB2 databases, Maven2 and Ant project management, SVN versioning system, Linux bash and csh scripting, JUnit testing, Mockito

06/2008 - 05/2011

Java developer / Scrum Master

Retail sector

• Communication with the customers and product managers to specify the requirements
• Analysis and estimation of effort based on communicated requirements
• Planning of work and estimation of the tasks on a monthly basis
• Preparation and coordination of the planning meetings
• Cooperation, coordination and reporting of work on a daily basis
• Removing of the impediments to ensure an effective team work
• Implementation, Unit and Development testing
• QA support and on-the-go fixing of issues during testing
• Deployment and critical support of large customer systems across Europe and USA
• Presentation of the functionality in the review meetings
• Used technologies: Spring, Hibernate, JSF, JSP, IceFaces, JMS messaging, Tomcat servlet container and Websphere application server, Flux job scheduler, Atomikos transaction manager, Development upon DB2 and MSSQL databases, Maven2 project management, SVN versioning system, Linux bash and ksh scripting, Windows scripting, JUnit testing, Selenium testing

EDUCATION

Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration

Mag., Information Technology, International Financ