About Johnny Hermann

Helping companies delivery valuable products to customers, building teams, and improving processes. Uncovering better ways by doing and helping, via humane Lea...

Johnny Hermann's Work History
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Product Development Lead, Lean-Agile Coach / Scrum Master

Two Hat
Dec 2018 - Aug 2020
Transforming product & innovation delivery pipeline, processes, team building, etc, for 6 teams (3 technical, 3 non-technical). Activities: • Facilitating Scrum events • Assisting with product backlog refinement • Radiating Lean-Agile metrics & forecasts • Planning product rollouts • Coaching employees & leadership on Agile, Lean, Scrum, Kanban, etc. • Running my Agile Workshop Advanced Analysis: • Monte Carlo simulated forecasts • Universal Scalability Law (USL) • Process flow efficiency * Aging work in progress
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Development Manager, Lean-Agile Coach

MediaValet Inc.
Apr 2016 - May 2018
Building the Lean-Agile teams building the Next Generation platform for enterprise Digital Asset Management (DAM) on Microsoft Azure Service Fabric. Bleeding-edge tech includes cloud-native, DDD, Actor Model, microservices, reactive systems, CQRS+ES, Azure Service Fabric. • Hiring, on-boarding, mentoring, coaching, enabling dev teams • Cultivating humanistic collaborative team culture, driven by autonomy, mastery, purpose, and peer feedback • Coordinating results-oriented product releases • Facilitating self-organized, dual-track, Lean-Agile processes • Established and running Internship Program
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iOS Developer, Lean-Agile Coach

Payso
May 2015 - Apr 2016
• Developed new mobile iPhone chat app for peer-to-peer (P2P) payments, with iOS, Objective-C • Collaborated on web service architecture and design, with REST, JSON, Parse, PubNub • Contributed to product management and user experience (UX) design • Facilitated Lean-Agile process for rapid product delivery releases
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Technical Analysis, Team Leadership, Process Improvement

Independent Consultant
Jun 2014 - Present
• Various consulting engagements on product & service delivery, development process, team structure, and QA recruitment • Speaker & workshop facilitator, for example: - Lighthouse Labs "Agile Workshop" https://youtu.be/IvSdZ21lsjQ?t=1m05s - Glass Half Fullstack podcast: "Agile Not Fragile" https://www.dropbox.com/s/az7aye6em9978nd/Podcast_GlassHalfFullstack_Agile_JohnnyHermann.mp3 - Agile Vancouver Meetup "Simulated Forecasts: The Monte Carlo Way" https://www.meetup.com/Agile-Vancouver/events/276391663 - Agile Cincinnati Meetup "Simulated Forecasts: The Monte Carlo Way" http://www.agilecincy.org/upcomingevents/2021/9/9/september-monthly-meeting-johnny-hermann.html - Statistical PERT "Simulated Forecasts: The Monte Carlo Way" https://mailchi.mp/86e027e248fe/statistical-pert-august-2021-newsletter-10318604 - PM Society "Agile vs. Project Management: Slapdown!" http://www.vcn.bc.ca/pmprof/SeminarN80.html - Agile Vancouver Meetup "Let's Talk About SAFe" https://www.meetup.com/Agile-Vancouver/events/165669602 - Okanagan co+Lab Coworking BizCamp "Agile Workshop": http://okcolab.com/coworking-bizcamp - City of Vancouver "Introduction to Agile" - Various companies • Participated on Advisory Committee at UBC Continuing Studies for "DevOps Adoption" program: https://cstudies.ubc.ca/programs/devops-adoption-award-achievement
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Director of Development, Lean-Agile Strategist

BroadbandTV
Apr 2014 - May 2014
• Functionally managed team of ~10 developers (org 150), contributed to recruitment • ScrumMaster for 2 teams, ~5 members per team, improved processes including Product Release • Collaborated on first SAFe Program Planning
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Senior Project Manager, Lean-Agile

TSO Logic Inc.
Aug 2012 - Apr 2014
• Startup • Drove continuous-improvement initiatives, including Lean-Agile, Continuous Delivery, Quality Assurance, and Escalation • Managed product-release projects via Lean-Agile methodology (Scrum, Kanban) • Facilitated hiring, orientation, and career development initiatives, growing R&D team three fold • Trained technical and business stakeholders on Atlassian tool suite (Jira, GreenHopper, Confluence, Bamboo) • Introduced Lean-Agile metrics including value delivery in scenario throughput, velocity in story points, lead-time probability distribution, workflow liquidity in issue-pull counts
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Independent Project Management Consultant

Independent Consultant
Mar 2012 - Jul 2012
Advising on continuous process improvement, methodology, team structure, etc., especially Lean-Agile.
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Senior Project Manager, Enterprise Apps

Vivonet
Jun 2011 - Feb 2012
• Consistently managed parallel project teams to deliver Vivonet’s SaaS Enterprise Apps products, including Item Harmony (IH), Enterprise Manager (EM) ERP, and EM Next Gen. • Initiated, championed, and collaborated numerous Continuous Improvement Process (CIP) initiatives, including Product Release Project Lifecycle, Customer Escalation Process, Lean-Agile adoption, and SDLC processes. (Layoff)
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Senior Project Manager, Lean-Agile / Scrum Master

Global Relay
May 2010 - Jun 2011
• Concurrently ramped up and managed two separate product teams as Lean-Agile via Scrum, Kanban, and traditional PM techniques – one enhancing the core revenue-driving Message Converters; the other developing “next generation” of Message Archiver platform • Mentored established and novice ScrumMasters, and initiated and realized numerous processes, tools, and techniques
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Project Coordinator

WebTech Wireless
Jul 2008 - Nov 2009
• Managed multiple simultaneous small- to medium-scale technology/process roll-out projects • Managed large-scale (500-unit) field beta test, brand new locator product • Coordinated contract negotiations and technical integrations for Distribution partnership with large US telecom (Layoff)
Johnny Hermann's Current Work Details
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Johnny Hermann's Expertise
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Helping companies delivery valuable products to customers, building teams, and improving processes. Uncovering better ways by doing and helping, via humane Lean-Agile approaches. All Lean-Agile initiatives are "on-time and on-budget". Ask me how! Check out: * My Agile Workshop (original): https://youtu.be/IvSdZ21lsjQ?t=1m5s * My guest spot on podcast "Agile Not Fragile": https://www.dropbox.com/s/az7aye6em9978nd/Podcast_GlassHalfFullstack_Agile_JohnnyHermann.mp3 * My webinar on Monte Carlo Simulated Forecasts: https://youtu.be/kYVSGpYbbzI I am a professional technical leader with 20 years in software engineering and leadership, facilitating employees from contributor to executive, and companies from startup to enterprise. I am action-oriented, detail-aware, and highly motivated to get things done. I excel in hybrid tech-biz roles involving product/project delivery, team leadership, and process transformation. I seek out challenging environments, with smart people and hard problem domains. Recent interests: • Child safety online via Blockchain & Self-Sovereign Identity (SSI) • Secure "unhackable" software via the Internet Computer (Dfinity) Domains: • Precision agriculture • Online community safety • Digital asset management (DAM) • Mobile payments • Data-center power management • Restaurant point of sale (POS) • Finance industry compliance • Wireless telematics fleet-management • Business intelligence (BI) • E-commerce Passion: • Deliver valuable product and service to customers. • Build successful technical teams and learning organizations. • Motivate and improve the working lives of employees. Specialties: • Building and leading teams in software and hardware technology development and rollout, especially via Lean-Agile methodologies • Continuous process improvement of product releases, SDLC, and support escalation "One Agilist is no Agilist. Agilists come in Teams." -- Me
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Software Analysis & Process Transformation | Lean-Agile Coach | Dev Manager | Scrum Master | Product Owner | Jira Admin & Automation | Kanban | Team Builder | Product & Service Delivery | Senior Tech Leader
Johnny Hermann's Current Industry
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Two Hat
Johnny Hermann's Prior Industry
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WebTech Wireless | Global Relay | Vivonet | Independent Consultant | TSO Logic Inc. | BroadbandTV | Payso | MediaValet Inc. | Two Hat
Johnny Hermann's Education
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The University of British Columbia

The University of British Columbia Certificate , Project Management, Strategic Leadership at Sauder School of Business
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University of Waterloo

University of Waterloo Bachelor of Mathematics , Computer Science, Honours

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