About Gonzalo Schwindt:
'm an Agile Delivery Lead relocating from Berlin 🥨 to New York 🗽 I am authorized to work in the U.S. (E2 visa). With more than 10 years of experience I am a certified Agile Coach, that had been in the trenches: I began my career as Unix system admin at IBM, then become a QA manager and Scrum Master and currently serve as Agile Delivery Lead at Civey, an opinion tech company. My focus for the past few years has been building teams and scaling Agile in fast growing startups. Working from the outside in, I setup structures and processes that enable teams to deliver customer value more effectively.
Experience
Civey, Berlin, Germany — Agile Delivery Lead FEB 2022 - PRESENT
● Responsibilities:LedtheAgiletransitionofallproductdevelopmentand data science teams (40+ people in 6 teams) into working within squads and tribes aligned with business goals. In particular:
○ ReporteddirectlytotheVPProductandCTO
○ Coachedproductmanagers,techleadsandQAmanagersonAgilebest
- practices working towards goals aligned with the roadmap
○ Introduced&ledteambuildingworkshopsandagileceremonies
○ LedtheinitiativetoredefinetheKPIsfortheproduct
- development teams and introduced Agile metrics for all teams
● Achievements:
○ Releasefrequencyfrom~2xmonthtoweekly
○ Velocity25%byintroducingbi-weeklygoalsthatcouldbereached
sustainably
○ Employeeengagementby20%,whileachieving0%voluntaryemployee
- churn in the product development teams
Civey, Berlin, Germany — QA Manager / SCRUM Master AUG 2018 - FEB 2022
● Responsibilities:DevelopedandintroducedaneffectiveQAprocessand led Agile ceremonies, in particular:
○ ReportedtotheCTOdirectlyandbrokeredtherelationshipbetween business stakeholders and engineers
○ IntroducedKanbanandlaterSCRUMandsetupJIRA
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○ Introducedautomatedend-to-endtesting
○ CoachedandmentoredthedevelopersonAgilebestpractices
- (including writing user stories and acceptance criteria) and best
practices for manual testing and automated end-to-end tests
○ Onboardednewteammembers
○ AmbassadorforallthingsAgileintheproductdevelopmentteam
● Achievements:
○ DesignedandestablishedtheQAprocessfromscratch
○ Designedandcodedtheend-to-endtestsuiteonCypressJS(over
- 2000 contributions on GitHub)
○ Reducedtheamountofescapedcriticalbugstoalmost0permonth
Dynamedion, Berlin, Germany — QA / Technical Audio Designer APR 2017 - AUG 2018
● Responsibilities:ProducedmusicandaudioeffectsforGermanTV,adsand video games and managed the QA process for the company’s new audio integration software
○ DesignedandestablishedtheQAprocessfromscratch
○ Managedtheintegrationofnewteammembersandprocessofanewly
acquired company into Dynamedion, post-acquisition
● Achievements:
○ Developedandimplementedthetestingstrategyforthenewaudio
- integration software
○ Designedandcodedtheend-to-endtestsuiteonSelenium(Java)
Audibene, Berlin, Germany — QA JAN 2017 - APR 2017
● Responsibilities: 3 month project to quickly help the team test new hearing aid device from Siemens and its interaction with the mobile app
○ Set up tests for hardware and mobile integration ● Achievements:
○ Implemented all tests necessary to successfully release the app ZenGuard, Berlin, Germany — QA
APR 2017 - AUG 2018
● Responsibilities: Designed the QA process from scratch with the QA lead for a consumer app with 22+ millions of users (Zenmate)
○ Led the testing efforts for mobile and desktop products ● Achievements:
○ Designed and coded the end-to-end test suite on Selenium (Java)
○ Documented all test cases for the mobile and desktop apps
Toroleo, Berlin, Germany — QA APR 2017 - AUG 2018
● Responsibilities: Testing E-commerce web application and writing end to end automated tests
○ Led the testing efforts for the web app
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● Achievements:
○ Designed and coded the end-to-end test suite on Selenium (Java)
○ Documented all test cases for the web app
Outfittery, Berlin, Germany — System Admin APR 2017 - AUG 2018
● Responsibilities: Provided on-site coverage for all computer systems and made sure that they meet the needs of the organization, including support, troubleshooting, and maintaining of servers and networks.
○ Troubleshooting and providing technical support to employees
○ Creating and managing system permissions and user accounts
○ Performing regular security tests and security monitoring
● Achievements:
○ Installed and configured software, hardware and networks for the
company while scaling from 30 to 100+ employees
IBM, Buenos Aires, Argentina — Unix Administration Analyst APR 2017 - AUG 2018
● Responsibilities: Analyzed, detected and fixed UNIX and Linux related problems on customers’ servers.
○ Setting up and maintaining UNIX user accounts and access management system
○ Detecting and troubleshooting software and hardware issues
○ Responding to customer requests and software errors, including
- monitoring the performance of the system and server
● Achievements:
○ Smooth running of IBM’s client Novartis computer system and part
of the fastest team to respond to breakdowns and server issues
Education
EDUCATION
ICAgile, Certification, Agile Coaching (ICP-AAC)
MAR 2022, NYC, USA SCRUM Alliance, Certification, SCRUM Master certified (SMC) JAN 2021, BERLIN, GERMANY
ICAgile, Certification, Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)
Feb 2020, BERLIN, GERMANY
SRH - University of applied sciences, Bachelor Degree, Music Production
2014 - 2018, BERLIN, GERMANY
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