Founder and Product Owner Resume

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE:

Colorado School of Mines: BS: Computer Science Minor: Economics ASI: Engineering Physics Student Body President Writer for campus paper

Interpersonal Skills: Conflict Resolution Building Consensus Leading Meetings Tracking Tasks Logistics

Management: Leadership Taking Initiative Flexible Analytical Team Work

Processes: Certified Scrum Master Scaled Agile Cert. Agile, XP, TDD, CD Lean Startup Github, Pivotal Tracker

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Ruby on Rails AWS, Heroku SQL and MongoDB Javascript, Coffeescript HTML, Haml, CSS, Sass

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Confidential

Founder and Product Owner

Responsibilities:

Offshored development of cloud based mobile solutions for the Mining industry
Met with developers for standup, sprint planning, and retrospective
Wrote stories in an unambiguous and empowering way
Managed workflow on a Kanban board in Trello
Met with beta testers in the field and applying Lean Startup best practices
Made sure we had contracts in place
Met with prospective partners and investors
Pursued sales and managed our CRM
Managed the rest of the founders

Confidential

Scrum Master then Product Owner

Responsibilities:

Implemented a rollout and training of Scaled Agile (SAFe) for two scrum teams
Converted a few smaller waterfall projects to Kanban
Became a big fan of GTD to keep myself sane and on top of things
Acted as a product owner for a number of smaller/medium sized client projects out of Mysore
Learned how to write stories in an unambiguous and empowering way
Streamlined Jira to work with accounting for billing clients
Setup project monitoring dashboards
Participated in development process rework process

Confidential

Developer & Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Began introducing XP and Agile concepts from Pivotal learned at Portico Club
Took on a Scrum Master role facilitating stand - up, iteration planning meetings, and retrospectives
Cut a four hour iteration planning meeting down to just thirty minutes while increasing transparency
Introduced regular retrospective meetings bringing issues out into the open enabling them to be resolved
Managed the backlog and served as the primary interface with our offshore resource
Created QA and Deployment processes and refined them through team meetings before adoption

Confidential

Product Owner

Responsibilities:

Assembled a local team and started a company to engage in part-time consultancy work
Offshored the web development to cut costs and organized development using Kanban
Met with clients and took charge of estimate and contracts

Confidential

Rails Developer

Responsibilities:

Learned XP and Agile by pairing with developers at Pivotal Labs
Experienced the transition from local development to a distributed international team
Practiced Continuous Delivery

Confidential

.Net Developer

Responsibilities:

Worked toward a change to TDD and added unit tests refactoring areas of legacy C# code
Designed reports on development trends for managers and developers
Automated parts of the installation process to reduce support overhead

KEYWORDS:

CSM, Planning, Implementation Team-Oriented, Problem-Solving, Analytical, Flexible, Persuasive, Encouraging, Interpersonal Skills, Customer Service Skills, Quick Learner, Prioritization, Database Administration, Field Support, Customer Support, Systems Development, Project Lifecycle, Strategic Planning, Vendor Management, Quality Control, team player, Git, Java, .NET, C#, Linux, AWS (Amazon Web Services), SQL, MongoDB, Troubleshooting, Research, Debugging, Continuous Release, Pivotal Tracker, Lean Startup Methodology, Minimum Viable Product, Test Driven Development, SAAS.

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