Agile Coach Scrum Master

VADIM AREFIEV

TECHNICAL AGILE COACH IN COMPANY TRANSFORMATION

Unique Value as TECHNICAL AGILE COACH with Development and DevOps Background

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Summary

Agile Coach and Agile Transformation Leadership at supporting Finance/Banking domain, E-commerce and others. Providing expert level knowledge on Scrum, Kanban, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). Collaborated with Senior Leadership, Management Teams, PMO, Service Delivery and Business Units presenting the opportunities and advantages of Lean-Agile, especially in developing and delivering products and services. Technical management implementing, validation and operational readiness of network solutions and software services for Enterprise Customers. Shown project management and psychology of team coaching skills.

Core Competencies

Over 15 years of Agile Coach experience.

Over 25 years of experience in software development & project management;

Created a popular public Meetup “Agile Coaching. Let’s think outside of the box”.

Many successfully completed software projects;

Exceptional focus and follow through abilities, with a track record of efficiency and productivity;

Excellent professional and interpersonal communication skills.

Certifications:

Certified Scrum Professional-Scrum Master (CSP-SM®)

Advance Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM )

Certified Scrum Master (CSM ®)

Certified Scrum Product Owner (SPO ®)

Kanban Management Professional (KMP-I)

Team Kanban Practitioner (TKP)

Certified LeSS - Large Scale Scrum Basics (CLB)

SAFe® Program Consultant (SPC SAFe®4.0/5.0/6.0)

Enablement to teach and certify:

Leading SAFe®, SAFe® SM, SAFe® Advanced Scrum Master, SAFe® POPM, SAFe® for Teams

Professional Experience:

SNSV Corporation, New York, NY

Agile Coach & Tech Lead

April 2002 – present

PROJECTS:

Bank of America, NY, NY

Agile Coach/ Agile Advocate

March 2023 - present

Participated in Agile Transformation of six Agile Trains of Global Banking Technology (GBT) Division of The Bank.

Participated in tactical and strategical Agile development of the ORG.

Conducted Mindset Coaching ICF-based classes for the Agile Leaders of the Bank.

Conducted certification and bank-specific general Agile, role-based and SAFe classes.

Presented and trained administrative of the ORG Metrics Which Metter for six ARTs.

Created and presented personal assessment of all Agile Coaches, RTEs, SMs, PMs, POs and Mangers.

Coached and mentored number of Scrum Masters, RTEs and Technical Managers.

Started Mindset Coaching Training for the team of Agile Coaches.

Organized Agile Study Cohort for beginners and professionals on Lean, Scrum and Kanban.

Encouraged and assisted teams with making continuous improvements by applying Kanban “Metrics Which Metter” and Lean techniques to eliminate waste and focus on the outcome.

Macquarie Group, NY, NY (Australian Bank)

Technical Agile Coach

November 2022 – March 2023

Leaded Agile Transformation from Waterfall to Scrum/Kanban/Scaled Agile in Macquarie US.

Organized CoP for all Scrum Master and Kanban Team Coaches.

Conducted number of 1:1 and group sessions with 13 teams of Macquarie MAM

Worked closely with leadership to improve progress, dependencies, impediments and to help achieve great client and team outcomes based on Lean approach.

Helped the teammates with key motivations, career objectives and personal improvement needs.

Trained yang developers in Lean, Kanban, Scum, Core Java, TDT and Continuous Testing & Integration

Wells Fargo Bank, NY, NY

Technical Agile Coach

February 2022 – November 2022

Actively participated on L1 (Team Level), L2 (Sub-Product Level) and L3 (Product Level) Training and Coaching in SAFe 5.1 to LeSS transformations.

Trained Engineering Managers, Delivery Coordinators, Scrum Masters and Kanban Leads in Team and Scaled Agility, Lean and Kanban.

Organized Scrum Study Cohort, prepared participants to PSM-1 exam;

Conducted Kanban CoP for the organization.

Coaching developers on AWS concepts.

Coached Dev. Teams in defining all their work in terms of a clear outcome and on good Dev. Pracises.

Santander Bank, Boston, MA

Technical Agile Coach

February 2021 – February 2022

Started company’s transformation to Agile/Scrum/SAFe 5.1 process by working as an Agile Coach

for the Digital Division of the Santander Us Bank.

Launched two Agile Release Train: 1) Express Digital; 2) Self-Help ART.

Operated as the only SPC for the Santander US. Trained and certified: other Agile Coaches, Technical Directors, Scrum Masters, Advance Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Product Managers and Lead Developers in Agile/Scrum/Kanban/Lean and SAFe.

Lead the following Community of Practice: a. Agile SM/PO/Delivery Team; b. Agile Coaching; c. QA CoP;

American Express, NEW YORK, NY

Technical Agile Trainer & Coach

February 2020 – February 2021

Helped company transformation to Agile/Scrum/Kanban/Lean process by working as a Agile Coach for the Demand Generation division of the company.

•Improved, train the System Team, SMs, POs and facilitated PI Planning meetings & Inspect & Adapt.

Created and successfully conducted number of trainings: Leading SAFe®5.0, SAFe® SM, SAFe® Advance Scrum Master, SAFe® POPM, Successful Retrospective, Why Agile Training, Why SAFe Training.

•Facilitated team workshops, and developed technology strategy recommendations.

JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY

Technical Agile Trainer & Coach

July 2019 – November 2019

Train software engineers, help developers to code, SMs, POs and business analysts to practice Lean, Kanban and Scrum.

Facilitate and coach all ART, Kanban and Scrum ceremonies based on trading educational product

Build ART and teamwork. Promote technical excellence and Agile DevOps practices.

Audible an Amazon Company, Newark, NJ

Technical Agile Coach & Tech Lead

August 2018 – July 2019

Worked as an Agile Coach for the Fulfillment Services of the company.

•Transformed Leadership providing Lean-Agile consultancy, and training;

•Coached AWS Java developers team to achieve their goals by implementing Scrum, Kanban and Lean principles and techniques;

•Developed and did DevOps work several parts of AWS Fulfillment Services (Java on TDD).

Wells Fargo Bank, North Brunswick, NJ

Technical Agile Coach

January 2017-August 2018

Converted several teams to Scrum; couched, trained, defined roles, conducted meeting, removed implications. Played role of Agile Coach for four teams and Scrum Master and Kanban Coache for three teams.

Together with Wells Fargo Jira Support provided Jira training for SMs, POs and Dev. Teams.

Created End-To-End Testing Planform for the Wells Reporting Engine based on Lean principles.

Provided TDD training for Java Development Teams.

JP Morgan Chase, New York, NY

Agile Coach & Tech Lead

March 2016 – December 2016

* Converted several divisions from Waterfall to Scrum. Developed Scrum Team.

* Actively participated in Dr. Jeff Sutherland Scrum Training for SMs and POs.

* Helped Coach Gene Gendal in LeSS educational sessions.

* Provided Scrum Study Cohort and TDD Training

New York & Company, New York, NY

Agile Coach

October 2015 – February 2016

Developed, supported one of the major applications for the business called OPPS.

Trained Mainframe Development Teams and Frond-end/Middle-tier Team in Scrum.

Trained Scrum Masters and Product Owners on Scrum practices.

Morgan Stanley, New York, NY

Agile Coach

January 2015 – August 2015

Developed on a large-scale project involving two major Java-based applications.

Participated on Scrum Teaming. Created and trained Scrum Masters for several teams.

Trained Business Analysts to start Product Owner career path.

Trained teams on User Story writing and sizing and Conflict Management.

Wells Fargo, New York, NY

Agile Coach

December 2013 – October 2014

Introduced Agile Methodology to the team. Coached Scum Masters.

Train Java Backend/Frontend Teams on BDD and TDD approach.

Thomson Reuters, New York, NY

Agile Coach

April 2013 – October 2013

Bank of America, New York, NY

Agile Coach, Scrum Master & Sr. Java Developer

April 2011 – April 2013

Agile Coach and PM for several teams. Participated in the development of a JMS-based Fusion.

Dow Johns, Merrill Lynch, and other clients,

New York, NY

Sr. Java/SQL Developer/Tech Lead

April 2002 – April 2011

Full stack Java/JSP/Angular/SQL developer.

Light & Graph, Inc. Edison, NJ

Full stack Sr. Java/SQL Developer/Tech Lead

1999 – 2002

PROJECTS:

Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation; New York Mercantile Exchange;

and other companies, New York, NY

Full stack Sr. Java/SQL Developer/Tech Lead

Completed many successful projects as a full stack developer.

Education:

MS in Animal Sciences, RUDN State University of Moscow, Russia

Kanban University; Scaled Agile®, The LeSS Company B.V.

Scrum Inc.; Scrum Alliance®;

Hobby:

Built and conduct Agile Coaching Meetup;

Agile Coach at St. John Give Hope Foundation, helping the homeless of New York

Brazilian Jiu Jitsu wrestling; Karate

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