Sr. Lead Agile Transformation Coach / CTO

Charles J. Keuper

Stockholm, Sweden +46-76-096-**-** ******.**@*******.*** Skype Id: c_keuper

IT Executive who draws upon an in-depth background, knowledge and a high degree of influence to setting the organizational direction, policies, targets, competence development, and talent transition for the improvement of the company. My abilities include re-architecting companies from older methodologies to Lean/Agile environments, project management with Lean/Agile, issue/risk management, time/budget management, release/build management, strategic planning and team leadership. I have overseen Agile Coaches, Product Owner/requirements, Scrum Masters and the object-oriented architecture/design/software development to increase the ROI, quality, flow/distribution and availability of information for organizations with E-Commerce markets in military/defense and commercial: aviation, oil&gas, gaming, telecommunications, health care, insurance, retail and financial.

Turnaround expert who utilizes Lean and Agile to optimize performance of the company, teams, organizational developments and code improvements on pure Agile environments and conversions from other environments.

•Spearheaded the use of Lean/Agile (Advanced Agile/Scrum/XP/Kanban) techniques and principles for the transformation and betterment of ROI, time/budget tracking, backlog, issue/risk management and coding techniques within companies.

•Oversaw the Scrum Masters on the implementation and incorporation of the Scrum principles (daily sprints, sprint review meetings, sprint retrospective meetings) for managing the projects.

•Successfully mentored, implemented and incorporated XP principles (TDD/JUnit, refactoring, continuous integration, collective code ownership, user stories, etc…) for the engineering teams that helped in productivity and management of their code.

•Oversaw the work of architects and engineers on the improvements to Continuous Integration to increase the turnaround for deployment of code to cut down on errors.

Critical thinker that is able to effectively synthesize deliverables for stakeholders to analyze and solve complex technical problems.

•Made improvements to architecture, coding and standards when requirements would change in mid stream of projects to keep the efforts on the projects advancing forward.

•Oversaw and mentored the Lean/Agile requirements management with the Product Owners.

•Oversaw and mentored Agile Coaches on implementing Agile technology into the transformation processes.

Managerial responsibilities

•Requirements Management through releases and Quality Assurance in communication with clients, stakeholders, partners and suppliers.

•Issue and Risk Management.

•Build and Test Management with automation in mind.

•Budgeting, Cost Tracking and Reporting.

•Resource Planning and Coordination.

•Staff Management, Recruitment and Salary Management

Education & Personal

Citizenship: USA, Swedish pending

Permanent Work/Residency Permit: Sweden 2009

Enterprise Agile Coach (ICP-ENT) 2018

Agile Certified Coach (ICP-ACC) & Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF) 2018

Software Tester Certification, ISTQB 2017

Certified Scrum Master, Scrum Alliance Inc. 2008

Bachelor of Science Degree Mathematics, University of La Verne, CA. USA

Associate of Science Degree Mathematics/Engineering, Allan Hancock College, CA. USA

Knowledge Base

Methodology: Lean/Agile(Advanced Agile/Scrum/XP/Kanban), Iterative, RUP, Waterfall

Agile: SAFe, Continuous Delivery, DevOps, Azure, Services, Advanced Agile, Scrum, XP, Kanban, Refactoring, TDD, BDD, Junit, VersionOne, ScrumDesk, Rally, Agile Craft, User Stories, Hudson, Jenkins

Databases: Oracle, PostgreSQL, MicrosoftSQL, MySQL, Informix SQL, SUPRA

OOP/OOA/OOD: C#/.Net, Java/J2EE, SmallTalk, C, Scripting

Knowledge: E-Commerce, SAP, iCloud, SOA, TFS, CMMI, Web 2.0, Master Content, XDoclet,.Net, Windows (3.x and greater), UNIX, Client/Server, Batik, Bugzilla, Jira, CVS, PVCS, Clearcase, Clearquest, Use Cases

Language Skills: English – Native, German – Basic

Career History

Keuper IT Solutions (IT/Consulting) Owner/CTO 03/2011 – Present Stockholm, Sweden

Huntington Ingalls Industires/Newport News Shipbuilding Project.

Sr. Enterprise Agile Coach/Transformation Lead Virginia, USA

Tracking, monitoring and updating the enterprise IT Lean/Agile practices for the US Navy.

•Member of the Agility Governance Board

•Set up plans and started scaling Enterprise Agile across the organization.

•Assess and maintain the Enterprise Maturity Advancement of the organizations agile maturity by managing and improving the current agile processes throughout the enterprise at the team, management and portfolio levels.

•Active participant in devising Lean/Agile strategic and tactical business improvement initiatives for the teams and the company as a whole.

•Mentor Jr. Agile Coaches with the NNS Agile process. Coach Jr. Coaches, Agile Project Managers and Product Owners for multiple teams. Instruct Agile presentations for the SCRUM, Kanban and the business.

•Drove and supported the projects SCRUM/Kanban/DevOps activities, issue & risk management, time & budget tracking and proper testing/verification toward satisfaction of the customer requirements.

Emirates Project. Sr. Enterprise Agile Coach/Transformation Lead Dubai, UAE

Real time booking and monitoring of the flights for the Emirates airlines.

•Worked with the executives and management on the implementation of the Lean/Agile transformation through SAFe across the business as a whole. The Lean/Agile techniques enhanced the Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI) processes across the three dimensions of Process Deployment. Worked on Gap Analysis, Tool Assessments, Design Framework, Coaching and Support.

•Implemented changes for continuous improvements that will lead to higher quality in productivity.

•Oversaw the Project Managers, Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Scrum teams processes.

Statoil Project. Enterprise Agile Coach/Transformation Lead Stavanger, Norway

Real time monitoring of the transportation, exchange, buying and selling of oil and gas products between nations.

•Member of the Steering Committee that resolved the problems with the companies and engineering teams procedures encountered within the combination of Lean/Agile principles implemented from SAFe, Kanban, Scrum and XP from the conversion away from the waterfall process.

•Implemented Scrum of Scrum with multiple teams.

•Implemented changes for continuous improvements that led to higher quality in productivity for the company as a whole.

•Active participant in devising Lean/Agile strategic and tactical business improvement initiatives for the teams and the company as a whole.

•Oversaw and mentored the Lean/Agile requirements management.

•Drove and supported the projects SCRUM activities, issue & risk management, time & budget tracking and proper testing /verification toward the satisfaction of the customer requirements from the IT Factory.

Blue Agility Project. Sr. Agile Coach New York, USA

•Worked on the pre-game (Sprint 0) with the company to set the areas for the appropriate training for the different levels of the organization: executive, management, team.

•Planned for delivery dates, number of functional releases, project team structure, necessary tools and risk control.

•Reviewed the backlog, analysis and re-define of the old product to solve problems with the implementing SAFe, Agile and Scrum.

KnowledgeHut Project. Lean/Agile Instructor Stockholm,Sweden

Berlin, Germany

•Instruction on Agile Estimating and Planning workshops.

Informator Project. Lean/Agile Instructor Stockholm, Sweden

•Instruction on Agile, DevOps, Continuous Delivery, Advanced Scrum, Scrum, XP and senior Product Owner workshops.

Swedish Embassy 02/2009 – 10/2009 Sweden

Waited for approval from the Swedish Embassy in New York for the permanent work permit and was thus prevented from accepting positions in the USA. I received the permit and attained residency soon after.

Entraction - ProV International (IT/Gaming/Consulting)

Enterprise Agile Coach/Agile PM (Poker Team) 09/2008 – 12/2008 Stockholm, Sweden

Real time monitoring and creation of online gaming sites.

•Poker revenue increased from: 44.2 million (Swedish krona) in 2007 to: 58.7 million in 2008.

•Member of Steering Committee that opened the flow of communication between the executive management and the engineers on the implementing SAFe, the Agile Scrum processes and implemented changes for continuous improvements that led to higher quality in productivity for the company as a whole.

•Active participant in devising strategic and tactical business improvement initiatives.

•Drove and supported the projects SCRUM activities, issue & risk management, time & budget tracking and proper testing/verification toward satisfaction of the customer requirements.

•Reviews with Java/J2EE engineers and C#/.Net engineers on progress of their efforts for the sprints.

AIG (IT/Insurance)

Enterprise Agile Coach/Transformation Lead/sse 08/2005 - 08/2008 Illinois, USA

Synesis7 (IT/Business/Government/Health Care)

Agile Coach/Agile PM/sse 11/2003 - 03/2005 Montana, USA

Keuper IT Solutions (IT/Consulting/Retail) CEO 09/2001 – 03/2003 Ohio, USA

Lockheed Martin - IBS (IT/Bus/Government/Aviation/Consulting)

Agile Coach/Agile PM/sse 02/2001 - 09/2001 Ohio, USA

Lucent - Protec (IT/Telecom/Consulting)

Sr. Software Engineer 08/2000 - 02/2001 Ohio, USA

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