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David Cole

Scrum Master, Agile Coach

David Cole
Grasbrunn, Germany

Experience

Jun 2016 - Present
9 years 8 months

Scrum Master, Agile Coach

Steadforce

  • Agile coaching at BMW – 8 coaching projects

  • Advising a BMW department on the introduction of agile software development

  • Coaching Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Managers and Teams

  • Trainer in Product Owner trainings

  • Project for consulting firm (Jan 2017 to present): Steadforce was the main partner in developing products used by consultants at client sites

  • As Scrum Master, supported the expansion of the project from six developers to three distributed Scrum teams with developers in Germany, Poland, Romania and Ukraine, and stakeholders in Germany, the USA and India

  • Agile values evangelist

  • Organizing Scrum meetings

  • Conducting retrospectives

  • Co-organizing workshops for the whole team

  • Contributing to code quality and test coverage for almost daily releases of new versions

  • UMS at BMW (Sept 2016 to present): Scrum Master for a team of 3 software developers

  • Organizing Scrum meetings and collaborating in Jira with the Product Owner at the client for billing under an agile fixed price (payment by T-shirt sizes)

  • Steadforce Campus: Redefined the software development processes at Steadforce with a focus on clean code, code reviews and Scrum

Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
7 months

Project Manager

Neos Ventures

  • Project manager for the go-live at Amadeus
  • Technologies: AEM 6.1, Ansible, Jenkins, Groovy
Jun 2015 - Aug 2015
3 months

Head of Networking Software Development

Ametras Rentconcept

  • Built a team for the federal government's Adaptive City Mobility - CITY eTAXI funding project
  • Technologies: Java, Postgres, Angular, Ionic, Wildfly
Jan 2015 - Apr 2015
4 months

Director of Development

Retarus

  • Cloud solutions for messaging
  • Software development
  • Personnel responsibility
  • Nearshore team in Romania
  • Introduced SCRUM
  • Technologies: Java, DB2, MongoDB, Tomcat
Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
1 year

Software Development Manager

Afb Application Services

  • Department head with personnel responsibility for 30 staff
  • Delivery of client projects
  • Personnel & budget
  • Introduced agile software development methods
  • Technologies: Java, DB2, PHP, JBoss, Glassfish
Apr 2007 - Dec 2013
6 years 9 months

Development Manager

CAM Systems GmbH

  • Responsible for ten employees
  • Flight Test Management System for COMAC, Shanghai: Software to control the entire flight test program, from defining requirements to generating certification documentation
  • Responsible for client communication, creating specifications, development, testing, and acceptance
  • CAM-RF: Product for emergency doctors to record emergencies once (Divi protocol) with print, email, web, and fax interfaces
  • Aerospace Requirement Tracking System (ARTS): Used by the German Armed Forces for compliance verification of the A400M military transport aircraft
  • Logistic Support Analysis: Intranet application to manage all logistic data for the CH53-GA helicopter project at Eurocopter
  • Test Management: Development of test management software for Eurocopter
  • SMMART: EU research project on systems to improve helicopter maintenance, overall responsibility for work package 5100 with five partner companies
  • Galileo: Implementation of the SNMP communication layer for ground stations
  • Technologies: Java, Oracle, JBoss, JQuery, Flex, C, C#, Cantata++, Coldfusion, SCRUM
Jan 2000 - Mar 2007
7 years 3 months

Project Manager

Msg Systems

  • Project manager for the concept and implementation of the Qsys-0km system: display and analysis of delivery quality in the BMW supplier internet portal
  • Participation and project management for the IBN, KFIS, TWEN, TWENB, MIS, TEWER, PQM, and SPQM systems
  • Sub-project manager for the feasibility study, high-level and detailed design of the SWS LS 2.0 (PPQ 8.4) system to identify faulty series parts and their suppliers in global warranty cases
  • Data modeling for the service data warehouse: responsible for the data model for all applications in the service data warehouse
  • Technologies: BEA WLS, Java, DB2, Oracle
Jul 1992 - Dec 1999
7 years 6 months

Project Manager

BMW Rolls Royce

  • Created the functional design for the Configuration Management System to define and control parts in the development, test, and build phases of aircraft engines
  • Project manager for the development and implementation of the system, including user documentation creation and user training
  • Project manager for the concept and implementation of the Configurator system to analyze CMS data and load it into the PPS system
  • Project manager for the implementation of the Change Control system
  • Technologies: INGRES, 4GL/ABF, ORACLE, ORACLE/FORMS
Sep 1991 - Jul 1992
11 months

Freelancer

Deutsche Bank

  • Design and implementation of the UBR reporting system
  • Compression of DB2 data onto a SAS database for the business department's analyses
  • Technologies: SAS, DB2, MVS/TSO
Sep 1989 - Jul 1990
11 months

Freelancer

BMW AG

  • Functional design and software development for the Obligo system for cost control and the Forecast system for fleet status prediction
  • Technologies: MVS/TSO, SAS
Dec 1988 - Sep 1989
10 months

Freelancer

DLR

  • Designed and programmed a system for selling satellite images
  • Technologies: ORACLE, SUN/OS, SQL-FORMS, PostScript
Feb 1988 - Jul 1988
6 months

Freelancer

BMW AG

  • Designed and implemented a graphics system to manage the vehicle fleet
  • Technologies: SAS, MVS/TSO
Oct 1987 - Jul 1989
1 year 10 months

Freelancer

Deutsche Bank

  • Conceived and programmed a menu-driven system to track costs, risks, profits, and losses in the trading department
  • Technologies: SAS, MVS/TSO
Nov 1985 - Jul 1987
1 year 9 months

Software Consultant

SPS

  • Implemented various client projects in SAS
  • Created training materials for the SAS product suite
  • Conducted on-site training at client locations
Nov 1981 - Nov 1984
3 years 1 month
Swindon, United Kingdom

Software Developer

Intel International

  • Developed in CULPRIT and SAS
  • Implemented the demand forecasting system in SAS

Languages

English
Native
German
Advanced
French
Advanced

Education

Cambridge University

BA in Mathematics · Mathematics · Cambridge, United Kingdom

Certifications & licenses

SAFe® 4 Agilist

LeSS Certified Practitioner

SCRUM Master

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