SUMMARY

Focus on:

• Implementation of lean

startup best practices to

create tech products

customers love.

• Design of product

development pipelines and

flow optimization.

• Creation of balanced

product portfolios for

innovation, growth, and

profitability.

• Leadership, coaching, and

motivation by autonomy,

mastery, and a sense of

purpose.

ANDRE BARENTZ

Accelerating business outcomes through lean

product innovation.

WORK EXPERIENCE

Your Lean Company, Founder

Nov 2019 – present

Thought leadership and management consulting in lean operating models for long term growth through consistent sustainable digital innovation.

Allstate, Director of CompoZed Labs.

July 2017 – Nov 2019

A newly created role to lead a network of corporate startup studios tasked with transforming the approach to software product development. Led nine global innovation labs in digital transformation, driving strategies in lean startup practices, extreme programming, cloud technology, and human-centered design.

• Provided thought leadership in lean product management practices, including effective governance at a product, portfolio, and enterprise levels using a common product development life cycle and KPIs.

• Created and championed comprehensive processes for scaling agility and upskilling of employees in product discovery and innovation.

• Streamlined the operating model across all nine labs, driving outcomes, and supporting the dynamic culture.

• Mapped and analyzed the internal innovation ecosystem.

• Partnered with senior management to (re)define the mission, the strategy, and the operating model of CompoZed labs. Expedia Inc (former Orbitz), Director of Software Development. Jan 2015 – May 2017

Led five teams of software developers responsible for a custom eCommerce platform for all Orbitz brands. It processed $10B payments annually and 30K booking transactions daily. The platform also settled payments with air, hotel, and car rental suppliers, integrated with the internal accounting system, detected e-commerce fraud, and converted multiple foreign currencies.

• Created outcome measurements and goals for the teams.

• Recommended and led improvements in software

development processes and technologies, such as Behavior Driven Development, Lean/Kanban transformation, Micro Services, and adoption of several open-source products. The global platform leveraged Java and Oracle.

• Reduced lead time of teams’ software development from inception to production by 50%.

• Reduced e-commerce fraud by 80% YOY.

Nokia HERE (former Navteq), Manager of Engineering. Nov 2002 – Jan 2015

Joined Navteq at a startup stage, grew with it through the IPO and the Nokia acquisition. Earned three promotions. Started as a developer in the consulting organization, moved to R&D, advanced to management.

• Assumed director’s responsibilities, including a P&L, for a multinational R&D organization focused on a custom spatial ETL platform. The system expanded map coverage in Asia, Africa, and South America, and also expand cartographic and public transit attribution. Traveled extensively to Asia and CONTACT

MOBILE:

312-***-****

LOCATION:

Greater Chicago Area

EMAIL:

adlmzv@r.postjobfree.com

LINKEDIN PROFILE:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/andre-

barentz/

WEB SITE

www.yourleancompany.com

CERTIFICATIONS

Certified Practitioner of Human-

Centered Design (LUMA Institute).

Leading with Advanced Analytics and

Artificial Intelligence (Northwestern

University).

Certified JAVA programmer (Sun

Microsystems).

Certified Oracle DBA (DePaul

University).

AWARDS:

Winner of a SparkTank competition of

innovative ideas (Allstate, 2018).

PATENTS

“Processing System Using Surety Bonds

for Educational Organizations", patent

pending (Allstate, 2018).

Europe for product planning, quality reviews, negotiations with the joint venture partners, and customer meetings.

• Improved and optimized multiple software development processes and complex programs. Devised meaningful KPIs for the China program, which led to the highest quality among all R&D units. Stabilized the team during multiple reorganizations and mergers, achieved the lowest attrition in the department.

• Led a successful transition from a legacy map creation system of an acquired company in S. Korea to the global mapping platform. The project had a very complex schedule, involving multiple geographic locations, organizations, and parallel deliveries of S. Korean maps using old and new platforms.

• Achieved clarity, alignment, and results on multiple projects despite the challenges of international travel, cross-cultural communications, multiple time zones, and locations.

• Devised a methodology for knowledge transfers to offshore. Managed on-and offshore consultants.

• Drove adoption of agile software development methodology in the R&D department of 300 people, piloted and scaled agile to the enterprise level (SAFe). Facilitated internal cultural and organizational changes. Contributed to quarterly SAFe planning and alignment. Achieved the highest team agility ratings in the R&D department.

• Over the years, designed and developed multiple custom applications for internal geographers and external customers in the GIS and GPS navigation domains.

Rivoli Technologies, Independent software developer and owner. Sept 2001 – Oct 2002

Developed a complex web browser-based framework and applications, led a team of client's developers.

Oracle, Senior Consultant.

Jan 1999 – Sept 2001

Designed and developed custom software using Oracle database, web, and emerging Java technologies for companies of various sizes and industries all over the United States. 100% travel.

• Took part in development of several commercial Oracle products and frameworks. Earned a promotion and a transfer offer to Oracle HQ in the Silicon Valley.

Zacks Investment Research, Web Developer

April 1998 – Jan 1999

Developed database-driven web applications at the dawn of the internet.

EDUCATION

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.

Bachelor of Science (B.S.), University of Illinois at Chicago.

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