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Agile Methodologies

Leesburg, Virginia 20176

$300.0/min N/A 0 $5/min

Founder and CEO of several startups, including manage the growth and sustainment of SMART Technology, Over 15 years, has been the recipient of several federal awards for vision/innovation.

Bjoern Waide

Hamburg Area, Germany

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Director Product Management @ Europes leading business social network XING.com, expert on social networks and agile product development.

Daniel Hindi

San Diego, Ca

$200.0/min N/A 4 $3.33/min

Successful serial entrepreneur, patent holder, CEO, CTO, coach, speaker, and technology guru. With over two decades of experience building technology stacks for leading companies across a wide variety of industries. In recent years, a focus has been put on building cutting-edge high tech startups. Taking a concept, developing the idea, architecting the technology, building the company, funding growth to success . Currently, I am building my 5th successful company https://BuildFire.com . Not only building a World-Class Mobile App building platform but a world-wide top performing team. Prior to BuildFire, I built a transportation platform Flywheel with my team, akin to Uber for Taxis. I bring my extensive experience to all my companies and the companies I consult. My work has been featured on CNN, Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Huffington Post, bussiness.com, TechCrunch, Inc. and many others In parallel, I've been putting together a series of videos to help upcoming startups learn the techniques that large successful companies employ, to accelerate their own growth by learning from others. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7v7e9AV2_HQv4ZNoIft8ww/videos For speaking opportunities or coaching, please email info@madaincorp.com

Matthieu Nicod

Paris, France

$120.0/min N/A 0 $2/min

Entrepreneur with a Product background. Also love to talk about sport (football especially), cook good meals and discuss what comes next in this world.

Jimmy Hua

San Francisco, CA

$120.0/min N/A 17 $2/min

Lead Engineer, Founder of WolfPak Labs doing technology consulting and talent incubation company designing and building great products and advising other companies in making the best technology decisions for their company. Full stack engineering working on mobile, front-end web development, back-end development, access control security, scalability, and more. I've worked for companies such as Intuit, CBS Interactive, Salesforce, and mentored companies such as Alumwire. Worked on products such as Quickbooks Desktop, Quickbooks Online, Quickbooks Online Mobile (iPhone, Android, Blackberry), CBSi Video Distribution Infrastructure and Streaming Infrastructure, Authorization / Access Control Security on the Salesforce Platform. Also have experience as a Real Estate Developer and investor building from beginning until end of custom built homes (50+ projects) in Southern California in cities such as San Marino, Arcadia, Huntington Beach, Newport Beach, and other locations.

Umar Akhtar

Leeds

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

I am an experienced Business Strategist who has gained over 15+ years within the IT and Financial Sectors providing solutions to reduce Business Costs through Technological Solutions. I have saved Companies 3m+ through lean thinking.

Pedram Mireftekhari

Oslo, Norway

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Expert in market research using interviews and surveys. Can lead you to better understand both your user and your industry.

Ahmet Tok

San Diego, CA

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

10 years of e-commerce software development and agile team leadership

Robert Shedd

San Francisco, CA

$150.0/min N/A 5 $2.5/min

Founder of RenoFi; previously, VP of Product at Grubhub, founder & CTO of @ZoomerDelivery (acquired, YCS14), @BetDash (acquired by @PaddyPower)

Travis Turney

Atlanta

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Co-founder, Data Science ATL Data Science ATL is Atlanta's data science community of professionals, students, and enthusiasts. We host monthly local events featuring experts speaking on novel topics in the discipline of data science. My day job is product manager for web portal platforms and mobile apps at a Fortune 51 company division focused on information security services, consulting, & research. Previously I was a leader and security specialist for a Fortune 20 company where I made my bones in the enterprise security industry serving the largest international brands' network security needs. Early on I co-founded Doctor's Desktop, an IT services startup serving office-based physicians needs for electronic health records, compliance, and security. I enjoy public speaking and do so as often as possible including leading a weekly Toastmasters club as immediate Past President and co-founder.

Jon White

Seattle, WA

$200.0/min N/A 0 $3.33/min

Product Architect @ Moz. Previously Product Manager @ WDS (aquired by Xerox). 10 years experience building, selling and shopping SaaS products.

Steve Zehngut

Huntington Beach, California

$300.0/min N/A 0 $5/min

Client Whisperer. Founder of Zeek Interactive. Never met a pop culture reference he didn't like.

Marko Oksanen

Helsinki, Finland

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

11 years building digital products, twice co-founder, ~8 years in product management in 6 different startups.

Julie Bridgelal

Toronto, ON

$175.0/min N/A 0 $2.92/min

Founder of NJ Mackenzie Consulting Inc., Former Partner at JPx2 Consulting Inc. Expert in Project Management, Change Management, Process Improvement

Tristan King

Melbourne Area, Australia

$175.0/min N/A 14 $2.92/min

Founder & Chief Troublemaker at Shopify Ninjas, a web development firm specialising in the Shopify Ecommerce System. We're one of Shopify's top-rated experts, with over 60 reviews. Language-learning fanatic - Japanese, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese. Worked at IBM (5 years), Deloitte, Accenture, and smaller firms consulting to Australian top-tier companies. www.shopifyninjas.com

Libu Baby

Sydney,Australia

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Agile Project Manager with over 14 years of experience Certified Scrum Master - Can help in setting up a Scrum team, put processes in place, consultation in agile delivery JIRA expert - I can help in setting up boards, creating workflows, new issue type, reports and custom dashboard etc

Tim O'Brien

San Francisco, CA

$175.0/min N/A 0 $2.92/min

Core competencies: Strategic planning & Implementation, Revenue & Profit Growth, Sales & Business Development, Team Building & Leadership, Transformational Change Management, Business Process Optimization, Infrastructure Development. • Slalom Consulting: grew team from 5 to 70 and drove 6X growth: $2.5MM to $15MM • Accenture: Grew team from 3 to 30 and drove $25MM annual revenue • Stellar Labs: Grew from 0 to 113 Customers and $6MM/annual revenue • Salesforce.com: closed 6 services opportunities generating $7.5MM in revenue and increased platform adoption by 31%

Antoine Toulme

Palo Alto, CA

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

BPM expert, with a long time involvement in complex enterprise products, involving SOA and distributed systems. Now providing advice on building business applications centering around people, data and processes.

Yusuf Misdaq

Washington DC

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Creative Writing Tutor ( NYU, GWU, UC Irvine, University of Brighton, UK). Advanced-level Scrum Master & Product Owner. Internationally-exhibited artist / musician. Published novelist / poet.

Logan Volkers

British Columbia, Canada

$300.0/min N/A 0 $5/min

Chief Operating Squatch & Co-Founder at Referral SaaSquatch. Focused on development, sales, content marketing, customer happiness, brand building and project management.

Ehab Bandar

Oakland, CA

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

Designer. Builder. Curious. Problem Solver. Coffee Geek. I help clients make their UX and product designs great. I work with executives, product managers, lead design teams, coordinate user research, and create designs with impact. As the bridge between engineering and business, I play a leading role in shaping and delivering ux and product strategy for mobile and web applications. My specialty is fintech, complex enterprise applications (think payroll and CRM), and mobility tools for internal team members.

John Rossitter

Shreveport, Louisiana Area

$100.0/min N/A 7 $1.67/min

Software Engineer 20+ Years .NET, SQL, iOS, Code Generation, Entrepreneurial and Startup Let's face it, most software engineers are not well known for their social and people skills. This is what makes me very different than your average developer. Not only am I very knowledgable in a variety of frameworks and languages, but I have great communication and people skills. If you have novice questions and just want to know enough to be dangerous, or need counseling in very detailed code problems, I would love to talk to you.

Anardo Cuello

Orlando, Florida Area

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Hello! I am Anardo. I'm a UX Manager with 10 years of experience in: - Digital product design (web, mobile & SAAS) - User experience (UXA/UX/UI) I create products that simplify, delight and drive revenue. My passion is creating great experiences for people. My talents lie at the crossroads between business, psychology, and creativity. I believe that there are 4 steps to creating & marketing products that satisfy customers and drive profits: 1. Understand your customer better than anyone else. 2. Understand the strengths, needs, and goals of your business. 3. Bring new products to market quickly. 4. Test, refine and repeat. Using this formula, I have led User Experience, Product, and Design in the creation of incredibly high performing products. Some highlights include: - Research, architect, design, and launch a one of a kind Bot Store for chatbots - Optimizations of a conversion funnel resulting in $350K increase to the bottom line - Design, develop, and help ship a points reservation system for the Marriott Vacations Club - Lead a team of designers, client-side developers, and mobile UI developers to the creation, and delivery of a cross-platform privacy-first social network I am a passionate design leader. I love mentoring people and helping them to grow. I'm skilled at evangelizing UX throughout an organization and can forge strong relationships between marketing, creative, engineering, and business. My skills include website, mobile & software (SAAS) design, product ownership, usability testing, ethnography, eye tracking, wire-framing, prototyping, Agile, Lean Product Development, and Design Thinking.

Joseph Mallia

Malta

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Manager software development office at The Central Bank of Malta; highly skilled in crafting business analysis and project management. Great experience in database administration on several platforms and database packages. Responsible for several projects, mentoring and training of staff in several skills; agile development, analysis techniques, enterprise architecture, database design, scheduling and IS management. Achieved MSc Specializing in Enterprise strategists, Software Project Management at University of Aberdeen, finalized doctorate with same university, focusing on enterprise architecture. Specialties: Agile, XP, Scrum, DSDM, Prince2

Steven Kramer

montreal, quebec

$300.0/min N/A 0 $5/min

For the past 20 years Steve has worked in the Software Industry building disruptive technologies under the belief that creative solutions change the world. A pioneer in omni-channel commerce technologies, Steve has a record of bringing industry changing innovation to market. Prior to WorkJam, Steve co-founded and served as President of iCongo, a global leader in Retail and B2B commerce solutions. In 2011, the company merged with Germany-based hybris Software to become the global leader in its ategory. The company was sold to SAP in 2013.

Hugo Therrien

Québec, Québec, Canada

$100.0/min N/A 2 $1.67/min

Fondateur d'interfaceB2TI inc., près de 20 ans d'expérience en gestion des services TI, participation active à plus de 35 projets en TI, a fait une différence et a été utile pour plus de 20 organisations gouvernementales et entreprises privées de toutes tailles, certifié ITIL® Directeur (Master).

Cliff Hazell

Johannesburg, South Africa

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Product and System Improvement | Complexity Assassin Curiosity and Continuous Learning Complexity and Systems Visual Control and Information Radiators

Tim Bott

Worldwide

$120.0/min N/A 0 $2/min

Business consultant, startup advisor, and angel investor with over twenty years of experience and a passion for disruptive innovation.

Steven Maguire

Chicago, IL

$120.0/min N/A 11 $2/min

Currently I am using my powers to help physical mail delivery suck a little bit less as Vice President of Technology at Earth Class Mail. The product technology stack includes C#/.NET, Ruby on Rails, client-side JavaScript, and a mixture of Amazon Web Services. For the better part of 2015 I was lending a helping hand to a few early and growth stage startups in Chicago; improving product development processes, recruiting and building product teams, and adding technical vision to strategic conversations. In the previous chapter of my life, I was redefining the textbook industry for both students and publishers at Packback as the Head of Engineering. Prior to joining the Packback team I helped transition the recently acquired TrainSignal into the trusting hands of Pluralsight. At TrainSignal I served four years as the technology team leader, product owner, and an engineer where I contributed a fair amount of C#, JavaScript & PHP code. I also flexed my UX muscles to design and build a game changing subscription based online learning platform for IT professionals.

Stephan Cheatham

Fort Lauderdale, FL

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Ford Motor Company – Coached 3 teams and 2 project managers as SME for SAFe and Jira practices. Established environment of accountability and data driven decision making with deeper institution of Jira and confluence dependence. Worked primarily with Dev Ops, Architects and full stack development NextEra Energy – Overseeing two Projects and two teams of 5. I reconciled a warn relationship with two separate business units to regain business buy in and responsibilities, which allowed the team to work on clear objectives and more comfortably fulfill Scrum practices. Saved/Created a total of $100 million dollars. In parallel, I reinstituted all ceremonies and refreshed our metrics to be admissible to upper management. Envision Healthcare – Overseeing 6 projects, three of which were 2 million or more acquisitions, I coordinated and reintroduced traditional ceremonies, resetting the team process easily identify issues and solutions. Was the primary liaison 4 CEOs and regularly coached Product and Program Owners on dealing with the team and level setting expectations. IPC - Projects include CRM development team and End User team, implementation of the company's first Work from Home and guidelines via proprietary applications, adoption of Kanban for our Helpdesk team, a team oriented disciplinary system. WBS - Primary Scrum Master for 3 infrastructure teams and 2 development team. Completed over 50 sprints, including moving a distribution center to a 10 bay RFID facility with 150 users, 10 servers and 3 hypervisors, as well as multiple domain, exchange and Platform migrations. Latest Projects Coaching over 35 team members on agile practices for a fast moving development process with Ford Motor Company. Instituted new Jira and Agile practices for Autonomous Driver Assistance Program Managing two parallel projects for NextEra Energy and FPL. We are developing a platform to accurately pricing land projects and analyze competitor activity to increase footprint in the renewable market. Facilitating Full Merger Acquistion Process for Envision Healthcare - 580 seat, AWS and coding driven, major ER hospital in Milwaukee - 300 Seat, 4 sites sharing domain and HR - 180 seat, 3 office Stand Alone centers for major Florida based hospital -

Tom Termini

Dublin, Ireland

$120.0/min N/A 0 $2/min

Tom Termini provides expertise in the areas of cloud computing and service-oriented architecture (SOA) strategy, enterprise architecture, cybersecurity, application/solution architecture, data modeling and analysis, integration analysis, and systems integration surrounding the suite of front-, middle-, and back-office applications, including CRM, Cloud infrastructure, portals, web services, and other technologies. He designs and blueprints cloud architectures and J2EE n-tier solutions. Tom creates architectural transitioning and sequencing plans to guide the transformation to SOA and assist in building private and public clouds. Tom takes the lead in delivering cyber security assessments for consulting engagements. He excels at working with stakeholders in defining and capturing the value from cloud solutions employing SOA-based strategies. Web Services with Java / WebObjects, architecture and prototyping of solutions, iPhone/Objective-C, iPad, portals. Seed and angel investor management, business and marketing plans, financial analysis for entrepreneurial ventures, E.U. / U.S. market penetration. Application of information technologies to support cybersecurity, macroeconomics, environmental issues, business process/intelligence, marketing, and production. See the company's website at http://www.bluedog.net

Travers Humble

New York

$120.0/min N/A 0 $2/min

Senior product leader @ Expedia. Launched products internationally products into 11 countries. Well versed at variety of product management methodologies.

Jim Jones

San Francisco, CA

$250.0/min N/A 0 $4.17/min

I'm a software engineer with over 15 years experience, specializing in Ruby on Rails and issues related to fast growing startups. I was a speaker at Railsconf 2013 and have large portfolio of open source work.

Brian Kessman

Raleigh, NC

$1000.0/min N/A 0 $16.67/min

Brian is the founder and principal consultant of Lodestar Digital (http://lodestardigital.com). Lodestar is a growth and operations consulting group that helps digital and creative agencies fix and build their digital services. Prior to founding Lodestar, Brian spent over 18 years managing large-scale digital and creative projects for brands such as: Lenovo, Nationwide Insurance, Travelocity, Burger King, California Pizza Kitchen, Cars.com, HP, HBO, NBC, USA Networks, UFC, San Diego Zoo, and a multitude of colleges and universities. Brian is also the Director of Product Management for inMotionNow where he leads the vision, strategy and development for their flagship product, inMotion (http://inmotionnow.com), a workflow management software suite for in-house marketing and creative teams. Brian is also an FWA (http://thefwa.com) jury member.

Ricardo Bastos

São Paulo, Brazil

$200.0/min N/A 3 $3.33/min

Country Manager @Accedo, IT / Software development company in Brazil. Senior manager with over 10 years of international experience (UK, Germany, Portugal and Brazil) in Mobile, Internet and Technology industries. Expert in General Management, Business Analysis, Strategic Planning and Partnerships, Value Proposition and Product development, Customer Development and Start-up Operations. MBA from Imperial College London (UK) and MSc in Computer Science from Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Ken Bergmann

Seattle, WA

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Built Visual Studio for Microsoft. 20 years consulting for Accenture and CapGemini. CIO for 1B transportation company.

Toby Rogers

Gateshead, UK

$120.0/min N/A 0 $2/min

I'm a Product Manager passionate about helping socially responsible organisations build innovative tech products. I want to prove you don't have to have a Silicon Valley background and a resume that includes giants like Facebook, Google and Amazon to create world-beating software.

John Wagner

Toronto

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

• Integrated a new $1B Line of Credit in order to replace funding now restricted due to regulatory changes. • Launched a $1B+ Mortgage Broker Channel. • Implemented a new $1M Data Warehouse and Reporting Tool. • Delivered an additional $100k per month in revenue and reduced costs by $10k per month. • Led the implementation of a new $10M Data Warehouse and Back-Office Conversion. • Captured $60 billion worth of equities & integrated more than 60 data sources from around the globe. • Managed a Canadian/US order flow and improved the average response time by 50%. • Launched a Peruvian restaurant with my brother-in-law.

Andrei Manea

Bucharest

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

Experienced sales professional with a demonstrated history in SaaS sales techniques and proven record of managing teams (from top 100 companies worldwide) through training, coaching and mentoring. Skilled in Business Development, Stakeholder Management, Data Analysis, Contract Negotiations Change Management and Agile Methodologies for Commercial & Operations Teams.

Joel Walsh

Seattle

$200.0/min N/A 0 $3.33/min

E-commerce, lead generation, and online advertising veteran with an ability to bridge and unite technologists, analysts, and business leaders to define conversion rate optimization and agile project management strategies that work.

David Antila

San Francisco Bay Area

$150.0/min N/A 4 $2.5/min

Serial entrepreneur (13 startups, 8 failures, 5 wins, 3 M&A exits) angel investor, pitchmaster and mentor. Experienced in jumping companies to and from the US market. Wannabe angel investor and PE advisor. Helping nextgen companies succeed by sharing my experiences.

David Quail

San Francisco, California

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Canadian Entrepreneur and programming geek. Currently founding Zenlike.me - Saving people time by automating mundane tasks using Artificial Intelligence, crowdsourced labor, and mobile phones. - Founded Attassa (Acquired by Yousendit). - Mobile product lead for Zumodrive (YC alum, acquired by Motorola) - C100 Charter member - Mobile (iOS) developer expertise - passion for giving back to young entrepreneurs.

Dave Hagler

$120.0/min N/A 2 $2/min

Software Architect at AOL. Entrepreneur on the side. Also blogger and father of four.

Bhanu Prasad Madala

Hyderabad Area, India

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Entrepreneur failed in previous startups and starting my third Product. Investor in a startup which is doing very well

Steve Kelly

Saint Peters, MO

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

As a Corporate Trainer, Adjunct Professor, and Coach, I help you achieve your PM and CM goals and objectives with simple, clear instructions. Training materials, tools, methods, and techniques cover topics in Project Management, Agile and Organizational Change Management. I also coach on Change Management, the people side of Project Management. The coaching sessions will provide an overview using the change management, Prosci (c) process, using ADKAR (r) methodology. I have many PM tools, tricks and techniques to share.

Marshall Gunter

$100.0/min N/A 0 $1.67/min

Dynamic technical strategist, manager, and a self proclaimed geek. I help align both technical and non-technical teams to meet company goals and vision. Specializing in: Technical team building, large scale web based systems, agile software development...

James Hollister

Nomad

$150.0/min N/A 0 $2.5/min

I create software tools that transforms businesses and industries.

Aidin Ziapour

Tehran, Iran

$200.0/min N/A 0 $3.33/min

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/aidinziapour/ - Scrum.org Advanced Professional Scrum Product Owner II Certified (PSPO II), IBM Enterprise Design Thinking Co-Creator Certified, Design Sprint Facilitator Certified - Specialist in an Agile Product Management, Design Thinking, Design Sprint, Human-Centered Research, Enterprise Innovation, and Requirement Engineering. - Expert-Level proficiency with major software project and product management methodologies and frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, PRINCE2, PRINCE2 Agile, FDD, and SPS Nexus.

Idris Mokhtarzada

$60.0/min N/A 0 $1/min

Co-Founder @ Webs (acquired 2011 by Vistaprint). Angel Investor (http://angel.co/idris)

Luca Ingianni

Munich, Germany

$350.0/min N/A 0 $5.83/min

Solo consultant with a decade of experience in embedded systems / IoT. I see many teams struggle needlessly with product creation, and I can't let them stay that way! I've consulted for a bunch of companies over the last decade, and observed many teams struggle to create products effectively and with a quality they can be proud of. I can't let them keep struggling like this! I'm a mechanical engineer who has been working in embedded software for the last decade or so. I've long pondered the technical, but even more the human side of efficient, effective and most importantly fun engineering work. As a self-employed consultant I now help teams from companies of all sizes: from fortune 100, to small, nimble five-person shops. My approach is people-centered and holistic: together, we take stock of where you are and where you'd like to be. Then we map out a path to get there, and walk it together. You get to do things your way, while benefiting from my experience.