Ed Wisniowski ad2n8f@r.postjobfree.com 815-***-****

Edward Wisniowski

An experienced agile coach with a solid development background looking to deliver value to your organization.

Career Notes:

• Edward is a Scrum Master/Agile Coach who is a certified Scrum Master and Product Owner with 10+ years of experience leading/coaching the Agile Process. He also comes from a technical background as a developer in Microsoft tools.

• Experience turning around dysfunctional teams with a 50% reduction in defects, increased unit test coverage from 0% to 65%, and lowered turnover on development teams.

• He was the servant leader of seven scrum teams, averaging nine per team, working domestically and in India as a Release Train Engineer. He led big room planning and production integration sessions and was the principal facilitator for all agile activities.

• Advanced Skills using Azure DevOps for work item management, source control, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, and Continuous Regulatory Compliance. Complete understanding of source control with this tool.

• Strong Jira skills with the ability to manage a backlog with Kanban or Scrum techniques. Strong understanding of queries and how to customize the tool for a project. Able to work with Confluence tools. A precise knowledge of Git and GitHub.

• A solid understanding of metrics and how to give frank appraisals of project progress.

• As a coach, he actively trains product owners to improve their skills.

• As a coach, he led efforts to implement continuous integration, test-driven, and SOLID development.

• He has presented a white paper at the Agile 2018 conference, "Delivering Value and Defeating the Cobra Effect." His most recent presentation was "The Voice of Servant Leadership" at the 2023 AgileIndy conference.

• He understands how to use Midjourney Graphics AI, Dall-E, Bearily AI, and Bard AI tools.

• Authors a weekly blog on Agile and Leadership, "Dirty Fingers" - https://goeeethree.blogspot.com/

• He has experience with E-Commerce for Retail, Gift cards, Apparel, Logistics, Mail, Insurance, and Financial Applications.

CERTIFICATIONS:

• Certified Scrum Master

• Certified Scrum Product Owner

• Certified Scrum Professional – Scrum Master

• Certified Scrum Professional – Product Owner

• Scrum Alliance Foundations Educator

• SAFE 6.0 Lean Portfolio Management

• SAFE 6.0 Leading SAFe

• Certified Agile Coach – From Chicago State University

• ICAgile – Agile Team Facilitation

• ICAgile – Agile Coaching

• Generative AI Fundamentals from Google Cloud.

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Senior Consultant – Chicago, IL

CAPCO: May 2021 to Present: I am a product owner and servant leader in a large insurance company. We provide coaching and support for product owners at a large insurance company to help them write better stories and develop a clean and easy-to- understand backlog. He is involved with the training and development of product owners on writing better stories—engaged in the agile practice delivery team at CAPCO, authoring content for The Hive agile training tool. Experience with PI planning and working on a large agile release train to help mitigate dependencies between the API teams and third-party vendors. During his tenure, they have accomplished the organization's and client's goals, including turning around a dysfunctional team in six months and delivering software to production regularly. They helped to reduce defects by a factor of 50%. Collaboration Ed Wisniowski ad2n8f@r.postjobfree.com 815-***-**** between vendors and the client improved, helping improve productivity. Unit test coverage on the middleware API layer was enhanced from 0% to 65% in twelve months, reducing team turnover and helping maintain code consistency. 50% Product Ownership, 25% Coaching, 25% Leadership Environment: Jira, Jira Align, Confluence, Git.

Director of Delivery and Agile Coach – Chicago, IL CODAL: January 2020 to April 2021: I worked as an agile coach and servant leader for numerous scrum teams and provided coaching and support for scrum masters and product owners to improve product quality and delivery. Agile transformation efforts include lean coffee, improving Jira hygiene, and coaching and training others in story writing. Understands Agile maturity and how to evaluate others using SMART goals. Can create coaching plans and progress documents. Coached others to turn around troubled projects, helped grow the organizational revenue by 30%, and managed up to 53 projects spread over ten people.

50% Coaching, 50% Leadership

Environment: Jira, Confluence, Git.

Scrum Master and Agile Coach – Chicago, IL

Randstad Consulting: August 2019 to December 2019 Working as an agile coach and servant leader for seven scrum teams with Charles Schwab as they attempted to release financial trading software. They delivered software to the client on time, meeting customer expectations. They have led geographically distributed teams in the United States and India, coached product owners on managing a backlog, and led big room planning sessions and product increment planning using the SAFe framework, improving collaboration with the business and development cohort. They have Strong Scrum and Kanban knowledge.

50% Coaching, 50% Scrum Mastery

Environment: Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo. Scrum Master and Agile Coach – Country Club Hills, IL International Code Council: January 2019 to March 2019 Worked as an agile coach and servant leader for two scrum teams. They began their agile implementation with team members scattered in India, Europe, and domestically. He Coached a cadre of product owners on managing a backlog and better collaboration between development and quality assurance professionals. They trained the organization to handle a Kanban process with Jira. Mentored a junior scrum master as a coach on how to be a servant leader for his team and give better retrospectives. 50% Coaching, 50% Scrum Mastery Environment: Jira, Confluence, PHP, WordPress.

Scrum Master and Agile Coach – Warrenville, IL

LSC Communications (Formerly an R.R. Donnelly Company): August 2016 to November 2018 The agile coach and servant leader of four scrum teams working domestically and in India. They implemented Team Foundation Server 2015 throughout the enterprise. Extensive coaching experience helps product owners improve their skills. He increased EBITA by $500,000 for the company as the Scrum Master of one of my teams. They have coached all teams to practice continuous integration, test-driven, and SOLID development. They led the transition from TFS 2015 to Azure Dev Ops for the organization, including automated builds, continuous integration, and dynamic deployments to production. Working closely with the company regulatory compliance to ensure we are SOX and PCI compliant. A scheduled presenter at the Agile Alliance Conference 2018. "Delivering Value and Defeating the Cobra Effect." Working with the Agile Coaching Exchange, discussing "Healthy Ownership." 60% Coaching, 30% Scrum Master,and 10% Development of DevOps Pipelines. Scrum Master – Bolingbrook, IL

(R.R. Donnelly Company): July 2013 to August 2016 He acted as the scrum master and servant leader of three teams. Helped train and spin up an off-shore agile team to work on projects. He helped reduce production bugs from 40 a month to an average of 14. He had twenty developers over two continents reporting to him. Have trained product owners to manage a backlog and develop products on time and within budget. Extensive experience in teaching others technical debt, agile best practices, and making code nimbler. Familiarity with SOLID programming techniques and test-driven development. Strong knowledge of working with non-collocated teams and using TFS to manage a backlog better. 10% Development, 60% Scrum Mastery, and 30% Coaching.

Environment: Visual Studio Visual Studio 2017, Visual Studio 2015, Visual Studio 2013 Visual Studio 2012, Azure DevOps, VSTS, TFS 2015, TFS 2013, TFS 2012, C#, SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2012, SQL Server 2016, CSS, Bootstrap, HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, T/SQL, WCF Services, ASP.NET 4.5, LINQ to Entities, LINQ to XML, MVC 5, Entity Framework 6. Ed Wisniowski ad2n8f@r.postjobfree.com 815-***-****

.NET Senior Developer – Naperville, IL

KeHe Foods: August 2011 to July 2013 He joined as a senior-level developer to help with Restful services for an online shopping application. They introduced agile methodologies to the business. He created numerous internal online applications with ASP.NET web forms and MVC 3. Mentored junior developers using the AJAX Control Toolkit to serialize XML objects and wrote multiple unit tests for applications—75% Development and 25% Project management. Environment: Visual Studio 2010, Visual Source Safe 2005, C#, SQL Server 2008, CSS, HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, T/SQL, XML Web Services, ASP.NET 4.0, LINQ to XML, MVC 3, Entity Framework 4.1, MySQL. EDUCATION:

Management, Master of Science

The University of St. Francis, Joliet, Illinois

He has extensive training in project management, team building, quality improvement, software management, leadership, agile project development, and Scrum. He was inducted into the Business School honor society Delta Mu Delta. Communications, Bachelor of Science

Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois

He has extensive experience writing news for print and broadcast media and mastering typography and graphics. He is a National Champion in Speech and has substantial expertise in speech education. Comfortable with leading presentations and discussion groups.

ACTIVITIES AND AWARDS:

• Presenter at the AgileIndy Conference, Indianapolis – "The Voice of Servant Leadership," 2023

• Presenter at Agile Coaching Exchange San Diego – "Healthy Ownership," 2018

• Presenter at Agile 2018 Conference – "Delivering Value and Defeating the Cobra Effect," 2018

• Illinois State University Forensics Alumni of the Year, 2005

• Who's Who of Information Technology Professionals, 2002

• NFA National Champion Impromptu Speaking

• Eagle Scout

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