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
Email : scott.wachtler@gmail.com
Address : I like to say the Frozen Tundra
Twitter : schweettweet
Career : Agilist, Connector
Interests : Writing, Composition and People

Employment

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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.

  • 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.

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Skills

Continuing to build and hone my technical skills while refining my personal leadership and team building proficiency.

AWS Solutions Architect Certification
Solidity
Scrummaster Certification
Python
ML - Data Course

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.

  • f

    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.

  • p

    Papers

    The story of a family told through the documents the all have to sign.

  • m

    Solo Pieces

    A mish-mash of various songs, recordings and compositions.

Writing Progress

Looking for updates on various stories?

The Bard of Armageddon II : The Emerald City 1.0
Frankenstein Legacies III : Shattered Heart (1.0)
Young Mr. Scrooge (1.0)
The Next Best Thing to a Side Kick (2.0)
The Next Best Thing to a Villian(1.0)
The Blessed Cursed (1.0)
The Review
Alchemy 101
Confessions of a Not So Great SuperHero (1.0)
Jonathon Heale
The Third Act

Community

It takes a village....boy does it ever.

  • 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!

  • 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.

  • Junior Achievement

    Teacher

    2014-2015


    Lead classrooms through the middle-school curriculum teaching the youth about budgeting, financial investments and fiscal responsibility.

  • C1Coders

    Class Assistant

    2016 - 2017


    Starting a Capital One Coders to teach middle-schoolers and teenagers basic mobile coding skills using MIT Scratch.

Blog

Notes on Family, Work, Music and Writing

blog-1

09/01/2017

Team Building - For Nerds

How to Build your Team up when they know far more than you do?

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7/7/2017

Geographically Distributed Teams

Some Pros to having your team scattered around the country.

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3/1/2023

Another Hump Day

Trying to find motivation when you've been knocked back on your heels.

blog2

2/21/2023

Disconnect to Reconnect

The art of being still and what does that mean in times of transition.

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02/11/2023

Change Pathways

Re-imaging my path forward

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.