Manager Sales
Resume:
Pete Schneider
P.O. Box ***
Carnation, WA *****
Professional Objective:
Secure a role where I can apply my years of experience in agile development and my SPC training to help teams build great products
Skill/Experience Summary:
Industry and Project Experience
Skills & Attributes
Leadership Traits
* 15+ years in software testing and quality assurance
* 15 years agile implementation experience including scrum, Kanban, scaled agile and DevOps
* 15 years in leadership roles
* Effective interpersonal relationships
* Excellent oral and written communication
* Demonstrated ability implementing new development and PM methodologies
* Excellent analytical skills
* Explaining complex concepts to people who lack background
* Create clarity in ambiguous situations
* Build an environment of trust and safety
* Lead with and without authority
* Trustworthy and reliable
Certifications and Awards:
* Scaled Agile Program Consultation (2019 to present)
* Scaled Agile Scrum Master (2019 to present)
* Scaled Agile Product Owner (2019 to present)
* Certified Scrum Product Owner (2008 to present)
* Execution Excellence Award (Q4 FY2016)
* Presenter at Google Test Automation Conference (2008)
Education:
Bachelor of Music, Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
Work Experience:
October 2014 to Present
Sr. Program Manager, Business Operations
Microsoft Corporation, Seattle, Washington
Consolidated seven (7) separate FTE vendors teams into a single unified team
o Reduced vendor team from 125 to 50 by changing focus from verification to validation and shifting attention upstream to the requirements analysis phase
o Brought IP from vendor to FTE team, reducing dependence on vendors
ncorporated Agile methodologies into team
o Introduced Kanban for managing vendor work
o Introduced Scaled Agile for managing transformational work
Partnered with Director to shift validation and quality work upstream into design
o Introduced ATDD methodology and helped design and launch leads understand how to design systems that can easily be validated
November 2006 to October 2014
Test Automation Manager
F5 Networks, Seattle, Washington
Took 3 semi-autonomous developers and grew an integrated team
o Hired and managed developers, DevOps and lab Support roles
o Created a federated approach that allowed testers and developers from other teams to contribute new capabilities
Implemented agile practices including TDD, Scrum, and Kanban
Built DevOps team to rapidly deploy and configure test environments
Created "BVT Info" web site that consolidated test information
o Provided single pane of glass view for automated test results from 6 different test automation systems
o Automatically ran BVT from 6 test automation systems on new builds of multiple products
o Grew to include the ability to request runs of arbitrary sets of test cases
Surveyed test automation systems used in various teams to identify commonality and overlap; directed development of new tooling that could be used by multiple systems
July 2004 to July 2007
Director of Quality Assurance
Qualifacts Systems Inc., Nashville, Tennessee
Owned all aspects of software QA for health and human services clinical and billing systems
Built and led multi-site team
Evaluated and canceled automation projects that had low ROI; created new automation resources that were more cost effective
A comprehensive list of work experience from April 1990 to February 2020 can be offered upon request
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