Vadim Arefiev

SNSV CORPORATION, NEW YORK, NY AGILE COACH & TECH LEAD APRIL 2002 – PRESENT PROJECTS: Macquarie Group, NY, NY (Australian Bank) TECHNICAL AGILE COACH NOVEMBER 2022 – PRESENT • Leaded Agile Transformation from Waterfall to Scrum/Kanban/Scaled Agile in Macquarie US. • Organized CoP for all Scrum Master Guild. • Conducted number of 1:1 and group sessions with 13 teams of Macquarie MAM • Helped teams to remove impediments on a daily basis to allow the team to deliver the sprint goals and deliverables. • Worked closely with leadership to improve progress, dependencies, impediments and to help achieve great client and team outcomes. • Helped the teammates with key motivations, career objectives and personal improvement needs. • Trained yang developers in Core Java, TDT and Continuous Testing & Integration Wells Fargo Bank, NY, NY TECHNICAL AGILE COACH FEBRUARY 2022 – NOVEMBER 2022 Actively participated on L1 (Team Level), L2 (Sub-Product Level) and L3 (Product Level) Training and Coaching in SAFe 5.1 to LeSS transformations. • Trained Engineering Managers, Delivery Coordinators, Scrum Masters and Kanban Leads in Team and Scaled Agility. • Organized Scrum Study Cohort, prepared participants to PSM-1 exam; • Conducted Kanban CoP for the organization. • Coaching developers on AWS concepts. • Encouraged and assisted teams with making continuous improvements. • Coached Dev. Teams in defining all their work in terms of a clear outcome and on good Dev. Pracises. Santander Bank, Boston, MA TECHNICAL AGILE COACH FEBRUARY 2021 – FEBRUARY 2022 Started company transformation to Agile/Scrum/SAFe 5.1 process by working as an Agile Coach for the Digital Division of the Santander Us Bank. • Launched two Agile Release Train: 1) Express Digital; 2) Self-Help ART. • Operated as the only SPC for the Santander US. Trained and certified: other Agile Coaches, Technical Directors, Scrum Masters, Advance Scrum Masters, Product Owners, Product Managers and Lead Developers in Agile/Scrum/Kanban and SAFe. • Lead the following Community of Practice: a. Agile SM/PO/Delivery Team; b. Agile Coaching; c. QA CoP; American Express, NEW YORK, NY TECHNICAL AGILE TRAINER & COACH FEBRUARY 2020 – FEBRUARY 2021 Helped company transformation to Agile/Scrum/Kanban process by working as a Agile Coach for the Domain Generation division of the company. • Improved, train the System Team, SMs, POs and facilitated PI Planning meetings & Inspect & Adapt. • Created and successfully conducted number of trainings: Leading SAFe®5.0, SAFe® SM, SAFe® Advance Scrum Master, SAFe® POPM, Successful Retrospective, Why Agile Training, Why SAFe Training. • Facilitated team workshops, and developed technology strategy recommendations. JP Morgan Chase, NEW YORK, NY TECHNICAL AGILE TRAINER & COACH JULY 2019 – NOVEMBER 2019 • Train software engineers, help developers to code, SMs, POs and business analysts. • Facilitate and coach all ART and Scrum ceremonies based on trading educational product • Build ART and teamwork. Promote technical excellence and Agile DevOps practices. AUDIBLE AN AMAZON COMPANY, NEWARK, NJ TECHNICAL AGILE COACH & Tech Lead AUGUST 2018 – JULY 2019 Worked as an Agile Coach for the Fulfillment Services of the company. • Transformed Leadership providing Lean-Agile consultancy, and training; • Coached AWS Java developers team to achieve their goals. • Developed and did DevOps work several parts of AWS Fulfillment Services (Java on TDD). WELLS FARGO BANK, NORTH BRUNSWICK, NJ TECHNICAL AGILE COACH JANUARY 2017-AUGUST 2018 • Converted several teams to Scrum; couched, trained, defined roles, conducted meeting, removed implications. Played role of Agile Coach for four teams and Scrum Master for three teams. • Together with Wells Fargo Jira Support provided Jira training for SMs, POs and Dev. Teams. • Created End-To-End Testing Planform for the Wells Reporting Engine. • Provided TDD training for Java Development Teams. JP MORGAN CHASE, NEW YORK, NY MARCH 2016 – DECEMBER 2016 AGILE COACH & TECH LEAD * Converted several divisions from Waterfall to Scrum. Developed Scrum Team. * Actively participated in Dr. Jeff Sutherland Scrum Training for SMs and POs. * Helped Coach Gene Gendal in LeSS educational sessions. * Provided Scrum Study Cohort and TDD Training NEW YORK & COMPANY, NEW YORK, NY AGILE COACH OCTOBER 2015 – FEBRUARY 2016 • Developed, supported one of the major applications for the business called OPPS. • Trained Mainframe Development Teams and Frond-end/Middle-tier Team in Scrum. • Trained Scrum Masters and Product Owners on Scrum practices. MORGAN STANLEY, NEW YORK, NY AGILE COACH JANUARY 2015 – AUGUST 2015 • Developed on a large-scale project involving two major Java-based applications. • Participated on Scrum Teaming. Created and trained Scrum Masters for several teams. • Trained Business Analysts to start Product Owner career path. • Trained teams on User Story writing and sizing and Conflict Management. WELLS FARGO, NEW YORK, NY AGILE COACH DECEMBER 2013 – OCTOBER 2014 • Introduced Agile Methodology to the team. Coached Scum Masters. • Created first Scrum Team in 51st St., NY, NY Development Center. • Introduced and trained teams how to build Jira Scrum Board and use it on daily base. • Train Java Backend/Frontend Teams on BDD and TDD approach. THOMSON REUTERS, NEW YORK, NY AGILE COACH APRIL 2013 – OCTOBER 2013 BANK OF AMERICA, NEW YORK, NY AGILE COACH, SCRUM MASTER & SR. JAVA DEVELOPER APRIL 2011 – APRIL 2013 Agile Coach and PM for several teams. Participated in the development of a JMS-based Fusion. Dow Johns, Merrill Lynch, AND OTHER CLIENTS, NEW YORK, NY SR. JAVA/SQL DEVELOPER/TECH LEAD APRIL 2002 – APRIL 2011 Full stack Java/JSP/Angular/SQL developer. Light & Graph, Inc. Edison, NJ FULL STACK SR. JAVA/SQL DEVELOPER/TECH LEAD 1999 – 2002 PROJECTS: DEPOSITORY TRUST & CLEARING CORPORATION; NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE; AND OTHER COMPANIES , NEW YORK, NY FULL STACK SR. JAVA/SQL DEVELOPER/TECH LEAD Completed many successful projects as a full stack developer. Education: MS in Animal Sciences, RUDN State University of Moscow, Russia Kanban University; Scaled Agile®, The LeSS Company B.V. Scrum Inc.; Scrum Alliance®; Hobby: Built and conduct Agile Coaching Meetup; Agile Coach at St. John Give Hope Foundation, helping the homeless of New York Brazilian Jiu Jitsu wrestling; Karate