CHRISTOS MANOS

Scrum Master

AVAILABILITY

Immediately

SPONSHORSHIP

Need H1B VIsa Sponsorship

EDUCATION

MSc in Computer Science, Department of Computer Science, University of Wales, Swansea, UK, 2003

CERTIFICATION

SAFe Advanced Scrum Master (SASM)

Certfied LeSS Basics (CLB)

Advanced Certified Scrum Master (A-CSM)

Certified Agile Coach (ICP-ACC)

EXPERIENCE

Scrum Master

Kurt Geiger - Retail

08/2019 - 06/2020

* Scrum Master for a cross-functional team of up to 5 engineers and a Product Owner working on Magento and React projects.

* Mentored the team on a series of Agile tools and techniques including but not limited to Scrum, User Stories, Relative Size Estimates, DoD, DoR, Pull-System, TDD, CI etc.

* Coached the team on removing a major scope creep issue that was holding a project behind schedule for half a year.

* Coached a number of stakeholders on improving the flow of information that helped the team reduce the cycle time by 50%.

* Prepared and run training sessions to engineers and managers on Agile and Product Development topics.

Scrum Master

ClaimVantage - Insurance

12/2018 - 05/2019

* Scrum Master for 2 to 4 remotely distributed teams of up to 5 engineer, 2 Business Analysts and a Product Owner working on Salesforce projects.

* Configuring the Atlassian Jira and Confluence tools.

* Proposed extensive structure changes that reduced the service teams from 4 to 3 and at the same time improved communication by assigning 2 dedicated BAs and a PO per team.

* Coached the team on addressing a series of bottlenecks that allowed the team to on-board their latest and most important client.

Senior Software Developer

eShopworld - eCommerce

11/2016 - 11/2018

* Senior Software Developer for NIKE Scrum team consisted of 8 engineers working on various .NET projects, a Scrum Master and a Product Owner.

* Successfully delivered every feature request around duties & taxes, freight, retail price, promotions etc. on a global scale.

Senior Software Developer

Empora Group GmbH - Apparel & Fashion

11/2015 - 05/2016

* Analysed the existing application and identified the pitfalls that caused inconsistent performance.

* Designed a new architecture that allowed the system to consistently classify products with up to 95% successful prediction rate.

* Trained the team to the industry’s best practices in Artificial Intelligence.

Software Developer BNP Paribas - Banking 03/2011 - 12/2011

* Designed and built a new internal application for the administration of the Athens site general assets.

* Mentored the team members to their transition from COBOL to .NET stack.

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