Rob Curtis

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About Rob Curtis

For a more user-friendly overview of my profile, visit Rob Curtis is a coach and project management specialist and works as a consultant through his company. He has coached and led on multiple large-scale, complex development initiatives across F-Secure, Signant Health, ZenRobotics, Wärtsilä and WithSecure. Rob is a people-oriented, full-on pragmatist with a strong track record of achieving excellent results and exceeding customer expectations. Rob is an agile, lean native. Whilst he values experience from the trenches over certifications, he does have a bunch of those, including IPMA Senior Project Manager and SAFe Agilist. Keywords: Agile, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, IPMA, PMI, Prince 2. SPECIALITIES End-to-end management of first-of-a-kind, software development programs New initiatives, ramp-ups, crisis projects Leading teams Agile coaching, training and facilitation BACKGROUND SCALE:>10 years' experience leading cross-functional, cross-site, first of a kind software projects of up to 100 people and 12 development teams. Project business value typically well into the 10s of millions (€). VERSATILITY: Led a wide variety of large-scale, product development projects across multiple sectors - Cyber, Healthtech, Marine, Waste, Energy. Experienced across the project lifecycle - conception to production. FAMILIAR DOMAINS: Product management, service design, architecture, cloud computing, automation, continuous integration, continuous delivery, big data, data science, DevOps, sales and marketing. WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM ROB RESULTS: Excellent results, again and again – see recommendations. SPEED: Fast ramp-up with tangible results following soon afterwards. PRAGMATISM: A Project / program set-up and ways of working that makes sense for your organisation. VISIBILITY: Empowering stakeholders by providing them with insight into the actual status. IMPACT: Rob possesses the experience and discernment to tackle and resolve key issues. CONTACT rob@curtisconsulting.fi