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Vugar Rustamli
Agile Coach and Project Expert
Experience
May 2024 - Aug 2025
1 year 4 monthsRemote
Enterprise Agile Coach
UNICEF
- Guided the team of 80+ in Agile Transformation from full traditional way of working
- Training delivered for more than 200+ hours on Leadership and Project Management
- Organized Agile ceremonies with the participation of cross-functional team members
- Coached 8 Product Owners and Scrum Masters
- Mentored Senior Sponsors of each squad on Servant Leadership, Agile Mindset and Project Delivery
Aug 2022 - Mar 2023
8 monthsAgile Coach
Pfizer
- Worked as a scrum master within SAFe framework and supported a team of 50+ people in becoming more efficient through scrum cadence, Jira, Jira Align, Confluence, weekly refinements, and effective retrospectives.
- Supported the team members, Product Owners, and Business Analyists in their day-to-day work and during PI planning, working in close cooperation with all the stakeholders.
- Integrated tasks with internal and external teams through weekly dependency reviews that supported velocity.
- Acted as a servant leader to the agile team by clearing obstacles, capturing key metrics, and coaching lead roles on improved ways of working.
Apr 2022 - Present
3 years 10 monthsAgile Transformation Consultant
PMWILL
- Agile Program Consulting for UNICEF Geneva office with 80+ team members across 8 squads.
- Delivered coaching and mentorship programs for more than 100 junior project managers and development team members.
- Lead Agile adoption across software teams, achieving a 20% reduction in delivery time and a 30% boost in efficiency.
- Initiated and implemented scrum framework processes and ceremonies for two teams with no previous experience in the scrum.
- Facilitated training courses in agile, hybrid project approaches, disciplined agile, risk management, citizen development, and change management.
- Guided over 200 team members on how to use and apply agile and scrum development practices, develop product roadmaps, and implement best-in-class agile approaches and practices.
Mar 2020 - Mar 2022
2 years 1 monthDoha, Qatar
Project Planner
Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy Qatar
- Delivered project management services for the business owner on an innovative and transformative product Workforce Management System Solution for FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022.
- Supported business users and ICT team to develop and deliver new software for Workforce Learning Management System Solution by using the Scrum framework.
- Delivered the product with the cross-functional team based on agile SDLC to cater to the needs of 10,000 users.
- Utilized Change Control tool, Operations Reporting Application (ORA), Quality Management System (QMS), Integrated Knowledge Library (IKL), and Smartsheet tools for planning and reporting tasks.
- Developed robust business process maps, assessing change readiness to plan readiness strategy across the organization.
Jul 2016 - Feb 2020
3 years 8 monthsFreelance Project Consultant
YES Management
- Coordinated technology programs and transformation projects in different business industries by fulfilling deliverables and clients’ expectations.
- Facilitated scrum events of sprint planning, daily stand-ups, retrospectives, backlog refinement and complemented user stories with technical requirements.
- Performed organizational change management and integrated change control process with $1.4m USD in saving by leading complex strategic initiatives.
- Delivered technological transition initiative for the hospitality company to secure services for the international event with a budget of $5m USD.
Aug 2011 - Jun 2016
4 years 11 monthsAzerbaijan
Project and Program Lead
Association of Football Federations of Azerbaijan
- Coordinated digital projects on different scales by managing scope, resources, quality, change, stakeholders, and risks within the organization.
- Coordinated between multiple workstreams to ensure key milestones are achieved within specific deadlines.
- Gathered and analyzed information on existing business processes to make change recommendations that seek to accelerate business performance during international projects.
Summary
Certified Agile Practitioner with over 12 years of expertise in project management, providing diversified knowledge within various industries and environments. Managed complex and strategical technological projects for government, telecommunications, oil & gas, UN, and international events’ entities. Servant leadership approach has improved team satisfaction by 15% while driving continuous improvement, innovation, and sustainable growth. Delivered 500 hours of training sessions on Agile Project Management across MENA and Centreal European countries. Facilitated complex PI Planning sessions and lead Agile Release Trains (ARTs) and Scrum of Scrums squads.
Skills
- Servant Leadership
- Risk Management
- Change Management
- Stakeholder Management
- Product Management
- Leadership
- Scrum Master
- Scaled Agile (Safe)
- Pmo
- Jira And Jira Align
- Data Analysis
- Monday.com
Languages
Azerbaijani
NativeEnglish
AdvancedTurkish
AdvancedRussian
IntermediateEducation
Sep 2018 - Jul 2019
Swansea University
Master of Arts (Merit) in Ethics and Integrity, Joint Degree Program · Ethics and Integrity · Swansea, United Kingdom
Sep 2008 - Jul 2012
Public Administration Academy
Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Administration, Management · Economics and Administration, Management · Baku, Azerbaijan
Certifications & licenses
P3.Express Practitioner Certificate
OMIMO
Citizen Developer Foundations
Project Management Institute
Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Project Management Institute
Microsoft Excel: Advanced Data Analysis & Interpretation
PwC's Academy ME
Change Management Certificate
Harvard Business School
Innovation Implementation Certificate
Harvard Business School
Project Management Professional (PMP Certificate)
Project Management Institute
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