ROBBIE REPOLA AGILIST

AGILIST

ROBBIE REPOLA

Product Management – Continuous Integration – Cross Functional

Data Analysis (SQL) – Amazon Web Server (AWS) - Servant Leadership – Scrum

Rapid Release Planning – Jira – SDLC – Training & Mentoring- Telecommuting

Agile Coach/Scrum Master

VI Marketing & Branding, Oklahoma City, OK September 2012 to Present

Behavioral Change based campaign product management across multiple marketing platforms. Agency brand management including vision alignment, creation and refinement of personas and story writing, Agile event facilitation and delivery. Focused efforts on Design Planning and Kanban Coaching in cross-team communication and LEAN asset management.

Achievement Highlights:

Conducted story mapping for several state clients and managed interdependencies between multiple teams

Identified impediment pattern and facilitated cross functional training to create T shaped teams and minimize down time.

Lesson Learned: Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.

Scrum Master II

WeKnow.biz (Startup), Remote August 2018 to December 2019

Agile Coach to a self-organized, cross-functional DevTeam, while assisting both the PO and DevTeam with marketing and design personas, story writing, Epic breakdowns, CI/CD, vision alignment, and scrum events. Focused efforts on building team specific continuous planning during [Pre-]Planning Ceremonies, fixed & war-room Tech Refinement for time-boxed, predictable velocity sprints.

Achievement Highlights:

Organized and implemented a Scrum of Scrum meeting to minimize product dependency blockers.

Strengthened team through an integrated learning process guaranteeing the simplest design needed be built. Combined with TDD practices, smoothing integration and increasing client satisfaction

Mentored teams in Agile SDLC and RAD best practices.

Lesson Learned: The Agile mindset over tools and processes.

Scrum Master

Catalyst, Asheville, NC March 2015 to July 2018

Social media platform designed for non-profits to connect users and raise funds for mission-based projects. Work included infrastructure, security and funds processing with bitcoin commerce RDP.

Achievement Highlights:

Worked to align remote teams with enterprise philosophy and establish effective work and communication flow.

Supported 2 teams (10 persons) and facilitated shifts from component teams to feature teams when needed.

Worked with Product Owner to implement Rapid Release planning saving hundreds of man hours every quarter.

Lesson Learned: Progress from planning, plans fall apart, adapt quickly.

CEO/Product Owner

IMS Productions, Colorado Springs April 1997 to September 2008

Agile Coach optimizing company performance by imparting vision and passion with solid planning and quality products. Direct all daily operations, produce film/video projects, and market company services. Managed teams across the globe ranging from several members to hundreds.

Achievement Highlights:

Developed and implemented Agile type project development and management systems based on Disney University/Institute concepts.

Guided multiple clients from concept to reality with a focus on time to market and quality.

Produced on 5 continents, raising over a billion dollars for companies like Embraer, Kurdistan Development Corp, Al Jazeera, Cessna, Rockwell Collins, Beechcraft, Compassion Int’l, and more.

Lesson Learned: Frequent stakeholder discussions keep the project on track.

managing stakeholders, setting scope, setting kips, setting up the product roadmap. define/measure product success metrics. knowledgeable of user testing, customer personas, and/or user journey mapping. experience facilitating requirements gathering workshops from customers and stakeholders. managing and refining a product backlog. continually refine and manage the backlog with input from the cross functional team, security and its stakeholders. understand the implications of technology on projects. Scrum Master, scrum master supporting and educating the product owner, especially on refining and maintaining the product and team backlog. assisting with internal and external communication, improving transparency and radiating information. encourages collaboration removing impediments for the team with tenacity and urgency. comply and align with software development professionalism standards within the team (processes and methodologies, quality of requirements, design, coding and testing). make sure the team write clean, high quality, solid, readable code that scales. Jira, Web vantage, Workiva, Basecamp, Adobe Cloud, Microsoft Office, Smartsheet, AWS, SQL, Slack, Asana, Trello, AWS, SQL, Google Analytics, Slack, Wrike, Kanban, XP Programming, Jira, Servant Leader, Technology

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Colorado Springs, 80906

Innovative Agilist with a progressive understanding of general agility, Scrum and Product Ownership. Strong technical work experience through Project Management - from product initiation through WIP flow to release, publication or delivery.

Experienced working in the ever-changing startup environment and more structured in change, scaled-Agile–environments requiring inter-product or asset dependency management.

University of San Francisco

Masters Certificate Digital Marketing

03-2011 to 12-2012

Western Governors University

Bachelor’s - Business Administration

8-2019 to 9-2021

Skills

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Tools

ScrumMaster (CSM)

Badge ID: 1212023

Instructor: V. Lee Henson CST

AWS Certified

Cloud Practitioner.

Product Owner (CSPO)

Badge ID: 1208556

Instructor: V. Lee Henson CST

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