Mark Kettle

Background

About Mark Kettle

Security clearance level: Secret I am a successful technical s/w Project Mgr / Program Mgr / Dev Mgr / Scrum Master with over 21 years experience as a technical Development Manager and technical leader over the full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) Competencies: • 30+ years experience in the s/w development industry • Scrum Master, Scrum of Scrum Master, backlog writing and prioritization • Significant experience transitioning teams to Agile Scrum teams. Setting up the teams in Sprints and Kanban, using proper Standups, Demos, Continual integration, writing Stories / Tasks / Epics / Features / Spikes. Coaching the teams in Agile, and how to avoid a large number of pitfalls. • Leadership / Decisiveness / Self-motivated • Problem solver: Experience with making the larger problems go away. • Extensive experience with Risk Analysis identification, management and mitigation. Drove R&D Weekly meetings, Top Priority meetings and Defect Re-gate meetings. • Developed and maintained project management procedures: including Development Plan Process / Defect Management Process / Churn Management Process • Delivered large projects (with 250 team members) on time, with high quality, and full content or several smaller projects simultaneously (up to 7 at once) with team sizes ranging from 3 to 12 members. • Project Management using globally based teams (India, U.S, and Canada). • Budget scope / creep / risk analysis / customer interfacing and negotiating • Delivering high content complicated projects on time with high quality for all Stakeholders over the full project life cycle. • Extensive project and technical leader experience and mentoring Technical experience: o VxWorks, Linux, Unix, APIs, video/Browser/UX/driver development o Optical, L0, L1, L2: Traffic, Protection, Alarms, Performance Monitoring o C / C++, Java, API development, Browser Dev, Web Apps, Visual Studio, SAP, AWS o Large data systems. REST API, Java Script, Hybris, SAP, Hydrae, CAC-SS, PeopleSoft