Michael S.

Michael S.

Expert Agile Methodologies and Strong Leader

Hudson , United States

Experience: 13 Years

Michael

Hudson , United States

Expert Agile Methodologies and Strong Leader

153600 USD / Year

  • Immediate: Available

13 Years

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About Me

I have served as a Manager, Director and Vice President and look forward to new opprotunities in a position that allows me to work with various products, teams, individuals and projects across global companies delivering new software and/or hardwa...

I have partnered with internal and external stakeholders to develop customer and enterprise level solutions; optimized business processes; and achieved operational objectives while increasing profitability and shareholder value. Being chosen by corporate governance to lead high profile strategic efforts, in environments where deadlines are a priority, has characterized my success to date.

Setting a tone of enthusiasm and creating positive energy has allowed me to excel and thrive while enjoying the challenge of driving business objectives with innovative leadership. I bring a competitive and energetic spirit to the team, building, developing and implementing winning strategies. 

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Skills

Portfolio Projects

Design and generates systems specifications, functional requirements and working parameters.

Company

Design and generates systems specifications, functional requirements and working parameters.

Role

Scrum Master

Description

Worked on custom designs for customers IOT and existing products for production.  Introduced customers to using Agile Methodologies to help move project timelines along productivily, identify risks and mitigations plans early in the schedule.  

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Skills

Wireshark Jira

Release WFM V8 Application

Company

Release WFM V8 Application

Role

Project Manager (Team Lead)

Description

Define and direct the technical vision and lead all aspects of technology development on the system product application technology for the Workforce Central Applications and Mobile Applications and its  functional components, developing complex, enterprise products involving high-volume data processing to operate in Cloud environment and other Hosting Centers.

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Manufacturer of IoT and custom human interface systems

Company

Manufacturer of IoT and custom human interface systems

Description

Manufacturer of IoT and custom human interface systems including control panels, remote controls, keypads, and more. Industries served include: medical, industrial, appliances, mobile, recreational equipment and automotive. 

  • Hired to leverage vision, engineering and management skills to 1) develop new business; 2) design and implement scalable infrastructure; 3) institute advance design, engineering, project management and service systems, processes and controls with Agile; 4) foster knowledge transfer, customer focus, communication and collaboration. Oversee the operational performance of complex engineering-driven designs, development and production with IoT and Human to Machine Interface (HMI) projects. 
  • Defines and directs the technical vision for the company’s new technology roadmaps.
  • Improved project awards by 50%, in less than one year, by leveraging improved Statements of Work and innovative designs.
  • Brings new products to market faster while meeting budget targets by leveraging expertise and knowledge transfer to manage new electronics and embedded controllers with capacitive touch sensors and translucent conductive screens. The creation of new platforms of product and market expansion is enabling growth and differentiation, specifically new business in the UK and Europe.
  • As an Agile Consultant guided the management team to identify gaps in agile thinking and culture and organize continuous process improvement.
  • Coached struggling teams and individuals to become high performers
  • Product Owner who created epics and user stories that define what the product needs to accomplish.

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Tools

Agile

employee Time & Attendance data collection and integration solutions

Company

employee Time & Attendance data collection and integration solutions

Description

  • Provides employee Time & Attendance data collection and integration solutions for ERP and HCM Systems, including time clocks for Workday, Oracle Cloud, PeopleSoft, and MS Dynamics.
  • Led a global team in designing, developing, maintaining and manufacturing Time Clocks and Middleware Application within the AWS Cloud. Defined and directed the technical vision and lead all aspects of technology development along with the integration with third party Time and Labor Enterprise Applications.
  • Improved the integration with the parent company, AMANO, by enhancing the engineering three-year plan and roadmap to align with Parent company.
  • Agile Coach to introduce the agile practices outside of engineering teams.
  • Infused Agile development best practices and wisdom throughout the organization. Improved product go-to-market times and enabling cloud access for the customers.
  • Successfully led, directed and achieved SSAE16 SOC regulations compliance in areas of: Security, Availability, Confidentiality and Process Integrity.
  • Significantly improved customer escalation response time by creating/training Escalation Response Team with use of Kanban  
  • Experience coaching agile teams throughout the company.
  • Experience with use of tools and metrics using; JIRA and Confluence
  • Familiar with Salesforce tracking customer data and use case for application operation. 
  • Improved on Agile methodologies for rapid and frequent deliverables to meet customers’ needs and expectations. 
  • Solved timely product release challenges by establishing new roadmaps, training and new accountability metrics. 
  • Reduced the annual rental equipment costs by 50% in the Amazon Cloud.

 

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Accu-Time systems

Company

Accu-Time systems

Description


    Improved the integration with the parent company, AMANO, by enhancing the engineering three-year plan and roadmap to align with Parent company. 
    Introduce agile practices and methods to other company teams outside of engineering teams.
    Improved product go-to-market times and enabling cloud access for the customers. 
    Successfully led, directed and achieved SSAE16 SOC regulations compliance in areas of: Security, Availability, Confidentiality and Process Integrity. 
    Significantly improved customer escalation response time by creating/training Escalation Response Team with use of Kanban   
    Experience with use of tools and metrics using; Salesforce, JIRA and Confluence 
    Improved on Agile methodologies for rapid and frequent deliverables to meet customers’ needs and expectations.  
    Solved timely product release challenges by establishing new roadmaps, training and new accountability metrics.  
    Reduced the AWS Amazon Cloud annual rental equipment costs by 50%.   
 

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Tools

Git

Management Consultant Services

Company

Management Consultant Services

Description

    Experienced with providing training and coaching in Agile Development principles and practices to Development Teams, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Program-level leadership.
    Experienced with providing guidance on achieving high levels of Agile maturity while complying with of the release plans and coach to higher levels of maturity.
    Assist and guide teams on their overall health of agile practices and culture to identify opportunities to improve.
    Coach leadership and help facilitate the creation of new Agile Teams.
    Assess and evolve launch and backlog readiness.
    As a Project Manager, guided and managed teams to identify gaps in project / agile thinking and culture and organize continuous process improvement.
    Hands-on experience with Agile/Scrum/Lean software development methods, including the ability to lead and execute all software requirements/backlog management activities.
    Experience using/administering project management tools (Jira, SharePoint, Projects, etc.).
    Experienced in agile disciplines and/or agile product management, and ownership (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe) 

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Tools

Git
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