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Jim Damato

Washington DC

My credentials

Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster badge
Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster
Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner badge
Certified Scrum Professional® - Product Owner
Certified ScrumMaster® badge
Certified ScrumMaster®
Certified Scrum Product Owner® badge
Certified Scrum Product Owner®

About

Jim Damato is a senior technology leader with over 20 years of responsibility and accountability for taking enterprise initiatives from vision and strategy thru rollout and operations. He has been successful in environments like publicly traded companies, quick-growing startups, and federal agencies, starting as a software engineer in Silicon Valley in the heyday of the Internet where he was first exposed to early Agile techniques.

After the tech economy crash he landed in Washington DC leading large, technology-focused project teams as a federal contractor. He learned about a process called Waterfall and thought, “Hmm, why would you do it like that?” He never forgot his Agile roots and developed an ability to look at Agile through a Waterfall lens and Waterfall through an Agile lens.

More realist than purist in style, he now helps companies implement their Agile strategies. His current focus is applying Agile in non-software environments, supporting Manufacturing, Pharma, Biotech, Oil & Gas, Aviation and Beverage verticals. He is a participant in the Agile community, speaking publicly on Metrics, Complex Implementations, Agile in Hardware and Business Agility. 

Experience and services

  • Career history

    • 2019-03-18 - present - Eliassen Group (Agile Transformation Lead)
    • 2017-06-01 - 2019-01-28 - Scrum Inc (Transformation Advisor)