Asterios Chrysanthopoulos

Certified senior Agile practitioner with a 15+ years proven track record of driving large and complex digital transformation projects and managing cross-functional teams in the financial services, IT and NGO industries. International mindset, having lived and worked in over 10 countries across 3 continents (BEL, GRC, TUR, USA, CHN, POL, GBR, CZE, DEU, CHE)

PROJECT & STAKEHOLDER MANAGEMENT:
• At ease working in multinational environments and with senior leaders
• Agile methodologies practitioner (Certified: ScrumMaster CSM, Advanced ScrumMaster A-CSM, Scrum Product Owner CSPO, Agile Leader CAL)
• Bringing teams to an even higher level of performance
• Creating product concepts based on company strategy
• Breaking down concepts into user stories
• Prioritizing product backlogs
• Reviewing requirements and stories with the development and business teams
• Implementing risk management and issue escalation procedures
• Mentoring teams on processes/procedures
• Removing impediments and resolving conflicts

PEOPLE MANAGEMENT:
• Facilitating an atmosphere of team creativity to foster increased productivity
• Mentoring and coaching subordinates to improve their performance
• Identifying training needs to increase their competencies
• Resource and retention management
• Hiring new talent
• Knowledge transfer management
• Conducting reward and recognition initiatives

DELIVERY MANAGEMENT:
• Possessing a thorough understanding of: quality management, change management, expectation management, release management and testing processes
• Coordinating UAT, cutover and migration activities
• Planning contingency rollbacks
• Planning releases
• Establishing continuous deployment processes
• Leading technical teams through the software development lifecycle (vision, planning, implementation, successful release/deployment and maintenance)

TECHNICAL SKILLS:
• Extensive knowledge of: MS Project, MS Visio, Axure (wireframing, rapid prototyping, documentation and specification tool) and Qlik Sense + Tableau (business intelligence (BI) and visual analytics platform).
• System Admin knowledge of: Trello + JIRA (issue tracking and agile project management tools) and Confluence + MURAL (content collaboration tool used to help teams collaborate and share knowledge)