Carol Kollm

Location: Boston, MA

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Certifications

Certified Scrum Professional

Certified Scrum Product Owner

Certified ScrumMaster

Groups I belong to

Agile Boston

Activity

Carol Kollm attended legacy event, "Scrum Coaching Retreat Raleigh, North Carolina"

Biography

Carol Kollm

I started my career working for the Department of Defense, both as a civilian in the Air Force and as a government contractor. While at Wright Patterson Air Force in the Electro-Optics branch, I managed in-house development programs and contracts to advance laser radar systems. I transitioned from DOD programs to web site development and web applications in early 2000.

It was during my masters program in 2005 that I studied software engineering processes and was introduced to agile methodologies. From 2007 through the present, I held various Product and Project Management roles in large organizations and startups organizations, using waterfall and agile methodologies.

I embrace agile because of the underlying team values and the commitment to delivering customer-focused products. I have found that although scrum is a simple framework it takes experience working directly as a team member and continual learning to understand scrum. Organizations are riddled with hidden impediments. Scrum is a brilliant framework to uncover and address organizational issues and empower teams.

Work experience

Contractor, Agile Product Development ,
January 2014 - Present,
Scrum Master for multiple agile teams at Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems

Endurance International Group, Senior Product Manager
January 2013 - August 2013, Burlington, Massachusetts
Enterprise Product Manager of consumer marketing products for web hosting consumers, across hosting brands, as organization transitioned to Scrum

Sedo.com, LLC, Product Manager / Product Owner, Consumer Sales
February 2012 - January 2013, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Product Owner, Consumer Sales of distributed scrum team (Germany) responsible for growing the direct shopping channel of international domain name marketplace. Participated in all aspects of agile development: backlog development, prioritization, sprint planning, release planning, daily scrum, acceptance, and retrospectives.

Entrepreneur, Founder
November 2010 - January 2012,
Created the product vision, market analysis, and requirements of a new, cloud-based, social media product to connect elderly on the web. Focus was on usability and simplicity. Launched MVP and brought to private beta.

SellMyTimeshare NOW, LLC,
August 2009 - November 2010, Dover, New Hampshire
Developed marketing backlog, developed and prioritized web enhancements by projected revenue and customer need. Optimized Google marketing campaigns. Introduced A/B testing.