Scott Wachtler
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I'm searching for opportunities that are challenging and meaningful in companies comprised of passionate individuals.
My career began as a developer and I've wandered through Training, Sales and Support, but I have come to love being a Scrummaster. The Servant Leadership Model is an ideal that I strive to follow, as I've never regreted helping someone else.
I believe that building teams and connecting with, and to, people, deepens any work experience and can change the people, teams and organizations in powerful ways.
S. Wachtler
Name | : | Scott Wachtler |
Phone | : | upon request |
: | scott.wachtler@gmail.com | |
Address | : | I like to say the Frozen Tundra |
: | schweettweet | |
Career | : | Agilist, Connector |
Interests | : | Writing, Composition and People |
Employment
Click here for a PDF Version of my resume. [Note: This may not display fully on all Mobile Devices.]
I'm searching for opportunities that are challenging and meaningful with companies comprised of passionate individuals. I love being a Scrummaster and it fits my personality well. My background has ranged from programming to infrastructure and I have spent the last few years helping lead an Environments Team the collectively assisted hundreds of developers. I have received my AWS Solutions Architect Certification and am fluent enough with a variety of technologies to easily bridge the gap between business drivers and technical implementations.
I also love Tech, so if you wanna check out my Minnesota or Living Bingo IOS Game (or my very first app "Concert Pitch" scroll a little further.
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2021 - NOW
Agile Delivery Lead
Ceapital One
Responsible to lead development teams in forming, norming and storming best practices in the retail bank fraud space.
- Assisted three plus teams in developing and updating to become self-managing teams.
- Coordinated teams across different parts of the organization to implement improvements to our fraud determination systems.
- Worked with collegaues to improve our agility health and practices.
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2017 - 2021
Project Manager - CAPM Certified
Centracare Health
Responsible to lead business, medical and technical resources to scope, design and implement a variety of projects.
- Conducted a team of teams comprised of Business, Functional and Technial memebers to replace the Organization's legacy ERP - Financial (AP, AR, Expenses, Accounting, and GL Finance Accounting and Reporting alongside Supply Chain Contracting, Procurement and Logistics) and HCM Core (HR Core, Recruiting, Compensation, Performance and Education) Systems. The effort was a large scale team of teams that coordinated across several business organizations as well as newly aquired entities.
- Led cross-discplinary teams to implement a digital Expense Management Application and Contract Management System.
- Coordinated executive leadership in a process to evaluate and decide on a new ERP Solution through an RFP Process
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2010 - 2017
ScrumMaster
ING Direct
Led the Infrastructure Project Team working to deliver enterprise level applications for the customer.
- Obtained AWS Solutions Architect Certification and mentored others to obtain their Certifcation by EOY.
- Trained and onboarded dozens of new associates into Agile Practices and Team Engagment Processes.
- Established new Metrics to drive collaborative improvements and resource allocation tracking; including a "white glove" approach to development teams requiring extensive assistance.
- Onboarded new Shared Core Systems and ensured availability by helping the team develop an automation approach and measuring outages.
- Drove Development Teams' independece by creating self-service tools and processes.
- Improved Sprint Release Processes by providing leadership and driving teams through the continuous improvement process by holding regular Retrospectives, providing measurement and the tracking of follow-on tasks.
- Simplified the Environment Management Team's Engagemetn Process through standard ceremonies and meetings, allowing the team to ensure appropriate information was generated and passed to us for exectuion and implementation.
- Stood up and managed a second Agile Team for Delivery, focused on Production Implementations and established a hand-off process to ensure applications were sufficiently tested priorr to implementation.
- Stood up new Agile Teams, assisted with Product Owner Training and modifying Agile Scrum Methods to work with Production Support Teams.
- Led a Project Delivery Team in implementing a rebranding of the Corporate site from ING Direct to Capital One.
- Managed over 20 concurrent project implementations identifying impediments, conflicts and coordinating with dependent teams.
- Assisted with creation and transition of associates into a standardized System Integrator Role.
- Presented Infrastructure as Agile at the Annual ScrumMaster summit in front of hundreds of other ScrumMasters
- Acted ast Disaster Recovery Test Lead Coordinator on multiple DR Tests through-out the years providing support and execution planning and tracking to ensure Audit Requirements were met.
- Stood up the first Infrastructure ScrumMaster Community of Practice.
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2003 - 2010
Team Lead - Application Support
ING Direct
Led a Team of five in support of the Production IT Application Team for the Bank which included maintenance, upgrades and off-hours support.
- Executed Quarterly Disaster Recovery Testing for Critical Applications including the Core Banking systems and Customer Facing Web Site.
- Upgraded critical systems like the Enterprise Scheduler (TIDAL) ensuring minimal impact to Regular Bank Processes.
- Provided Tier II support of Internal Web Applications, including Vendor Applicaitons like AWD (Workflow), SharePoint, SNAP Surveys and Summit Check 21.
- Developed IIS Web Reports to ensure daily Bank Operations met Audit Requirements, allowed business to measure work through-put and ensure depoistory regulations were met.
- Createdan Integrated Web Applicaitno to allow Management to view regulatory information, license status, change requests and open issues on each application.
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2000 - 2003
Application Developer & Trainer
Plumtree
Part of the Professional Services Organization I was responsible for the implementation, customization and development of the Plumtree Portal for multiple Customers.
- Implemented Plumtree Software at dozens of Corporate Sites.
- Provided assistance and guidance in Branding, Customization and Integration efforts of in-house applications into the Plumtree Portal
- Provided Taining for 20+ classes comprised of 20+ students in development techniques and ASP coding for additional feature development.
- Performed Integration and Development support for internal applications at Client sites.
Mobile Apps
My dad brought a computer home when I was in fourth grade, and I was hooked. Today, as a hobbiest, I'm back to tinkering around with various tech including Mobile apps and Alexa Skills.
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Challenge yourself and your friends to find, tast, or act the items on the Bingo Board and be the first to get Bingo! (Now with Fall Festivals and School Boards) Available in the App Store
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Concert Pitch
Put your pitches for acapella songs in Order for your concert(s). Available in the App Store
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A Bingo geared towards various activities (Make Chores a game for the Kids, and even the Adults.)
Skills
Continuing to build and hone my technical skills while refining my personal leadership and team building proficiency.
Writing
"There are only two things that will ever change the course of your life," my Professor intoned on our first day of class. "The people you meet and the books you read".
That has certainly proven to be the case.
Let me be clear, I don't think of myself as a writer. I'm not. I can 'write', but I'll be the first to admit that I don't write very well - though I am working on it.
No. I'm not a writer. I'm a story-teller. And I'm trying to get the stories, some that have bounced around in my head for decades, down on "paper".
Music
I begged my parents to learn Piano and finally wore them down in 4th grade. Once my fingers found those keys there was no turning back. While I love to sing, composition is where my heart lies.
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The Funnest Five Acapella Singers you'll ever meet. From chamber to pop this group is a joy to perform with.
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Peter Pan - A High Flying Musical
The story you know you love. The music you didn't know you would.
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A group of High School Student find their pre-conceived notions of one another are challenged when the old story comes to life. A tale of bullying, forgiveness and seeing people for who they really are. Demos.
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Jennie
Stranded on a deserted island Franklin encounters a mysterious woman. As she relates a story of how a young woman became the Genie of fables, Franklin will find a connection he never thought he'd find again.
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Papers
The story of a family told through the documents the all have to sign.
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Solo Pieces
A mish-mash of various songs, recordings and compositions.
- Summer Dreams
- Oh Minnesota
- It Isn't You - a take on a short story.
Writing Progress
Looking for updates on various stories?
Community
It takes a village....boy does it ever.
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GREAT Theatre
Music Director
2005-Now
Teaching kids, teens and adults what I can about music and musical creativity has been one of the best experiences of my life. Last year's James and the Giant Peach was a phenomenal experience. This year I will be Musical Directing Beauty and the Beast! I can't wait!
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Adoption Advocate
Speaker
2008-Now
I have spoken at several events about our experiences adopting an amazing kid. Our son is an unique individual and sharing our story, how we got here, is one that I hope challenges any misconceptions and stereotypes.
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Junior Achievement
Teacher
2014-2015
Lead classrooms through the middle-school curriculum teaching the youth about budgeting, financial investments and fiscal responsibility.
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C1Coders
Class Assistant
2016 - 2017
Starting a Capital One Coders to teach middle-schoolers and teenagers basic mobile coding skills using MIT Scratch.
My life if my Message.
- Mohandas Gandhi -
One does not regret having helped another.
- Kenyan Proverb -
A ScrumMaster who takes teams beyond getting agile practices up and running into their deliberate and joyful pursuit of high performance is an agile coach
- Lyssa Adkins -
Blog
Notes on Family, Work, Music and Writing
7/7/2017
Geographically Distributed Teams
Some Pros to having your team scattered around the country.
2/21/2023
Disconnect to Reconnect
The art of being still and what does that mean in times of transition.
Contact
Looking for more information about Agile? Contact me.
Looking for more writing samples, or info on side projects? Look here.
Looking for the family sites? TheWachtlers or TheBrions check out those links.