Roberto Sciascia, Agile Product Manager

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Current job
Orchestrating the intersection of technology and luxury, my current role at Lotus Tech focuses on tailoring digital experiences for all markets outside China. With a keen eye for integration, I manage supplier coordination and define innovative features, leveraging my recent stint as Integration Manager at BMW Group.
 
Agile-focused team leader seeking opportunities to deliver exceptional products. Proven ability to lead and mentor teams, optimize agile methodologies, and drive process improvement. Available for business travel and relocation.​
Profile
Results-oriented Agile leader with 25+ years of SDLC expertise. Successfully transitioned from technical roles to product ownership, leveraging deep domain knowledge to drive business value. Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) and Scrum Master (CSM), adept at orchestrating high-performing teams in both Waterfall and Agile environments.
Key Strengths:
 
  • Product Vision & Delivery: Drive product success through clear vision, on-time delivery, and focus on team dynamics.
  • Stakeholder Management: Align customer needs with business goals, considering dependencies, strategy, and organizational structure.
  • Team Management: Direct internal and external developer teams and coordinate their effort to deliver on time on in quality, with an eye on “flow”.
  • Agile Champion: Experienced in leading and motivating both internal and remote, multi-cultural teams using Agile methodologies.
Current skills
Automotive, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, ScrumMaster, Product Owner, User Stories writing, lean, Software Life Cycle Management, Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), eXtreme programming, pair programming, code reviews and pair reviews, Test Driven Development (TDD), Continuous Integration; requirement engineering, Atlassian Confluence and Jira, Agile coaching, people recruiting.
Organization skills, Time management, Team management.

Work experience
Product Owner, Lotus Tech Innovation Centre​, Raunheim
​2024.08 - today - PO Apps and 3rd-party Ecosystem of EE, AA and Dolby Atmos – Digital User Experience
  • Role: App Store, Android Auto and Dolby Atmos product owner responsible for features definitions and customization for all overseas markets, supplier coordination and integration management.
  • Achievements: I reshaped the app store experience in modern Lotus cars and dramatically improved the media player customer experience. Released app store refresh including the Dolby Experience demo app.
Product Owner, BMW Car IT​, Ulm
2023.08 - 2024.02 - PM Safety Platform
  • Role: Coordinating the integration of the required components into the safety platform for the upcoming Neue Klasse line of vehicles. Contribution to the process reshaping.
2019.09 - 2023.08 - PO Projected Modes
  • Role: Leading internal and external teams to deliver Projected Mode (Apple CarPlay and Google’s Android Auto) for the upcoming BMW’s Android platform for the next generation of BMW and MINI cars, liaising with many partners inside and outside BMW to deliver a seamless experience in the car.
  • Achievements: Delivered CP and AA on rectangular BMW and circular MINI screens with full integration with car’s hardware (HUD, steering wheel’s controls, media, telephony).
2019.03 - 2019.07 - PO Charging
  • Role: Requirement collection and backlog creation for BMW’s next generation’s SW for electric vehicles.
  • Achievements: Completed full backlog with high-level features, epics and stories delivered for actual implementation phase.
2016.02 - 2019.12 - PO TouchCommand
  • Role: Managing BMW's Touch Command releases through three commercial releases and one platform upgrade, prioritizing requirements, communicating both ways between stakeholders and the internal and offsite development teams; managing up to twenty-five people, including suppliers' developers, UI/UX and testing.
  • A​chievements: 2nd generation of the product delivered on time and on budget.
2015.02 - 2016.01 - PO Speech
  • Role: Delivered a component of the Speech software stack establishing a Scrum process and creating the backlog for my team, keeping the communication flowing and coordinating suppliers and my team’s efforts to seamless integrate my component into the finished product.
  • Achievements: Speech features delivered over 3 successive iterations of the platform, laid the ground for the upcoming project.
Product Owner, Agile Coach and Development Manager ad interim, SatProf Engineering​, Almere
2014.06 - 2015.01 - Development manager ad interim, Product Owner and Agile Coach
  • Role: Product Owner, responsible for the server-side application and tools for access control; Agile Coach, guiding the Agile transformation in the Dutch Office.
  • Achievements: Working out a feasible plan for existing project’s delivery and planning for new projects, coordinating design with multiple sites.
Scrum Master, Cognizant Technology Solutions - ASG Agile CoE​, Amsterdam
2014.02 - 2014.04 - Consultant Scrum Master
  • Role: member of the Agile Center of Excellence Benelux. Scrum Master for 3 teams onsite at a customer location.
  • Achievements: Presentation prepared for the ACoE; Scrum status analysis provided to management and formed internal Scrum Masters to take over.
Scrum/Kanban Product Owner, eVision Industry Software, Den Haag​
2013.05 - 2014.01 - Scrum/Kanban Product Owner
  • Role: PO in a Scrum/Kanban organization with responsibility over a number of customers in the oil & gas industry worldwide; requirements capture, backlog prioritization and maintenance, stories design, Agile coaching.
  • Achievements: Over half a dozen projects carried forward at various stages, having established good customer relationships.
Scrum Product Owner, Scrum Master, Sr SW Engineer, Irdeto Access, Hoofddorp
09.2008 - 04.2013
Scrum Product Owner
  • Role: Project management for two teams in the Irdeto Multi-Screen solutions. Day-by-day team guidance, backlog prioritization and maintenance, stories design, ceremonies facilitator, Agile coaching, new staff recruitment.
  • Achievements: Successfully handed-over Head-end applications to team in Beijing, gathered requirements for two teams on different projects and delivered feature increments to products.
Scrum Master
  • Role: Responsible to ensure Lean Scrum implementation in the Platform Team, ceremonies facilitator, team protection, Agile coach and evangelist.
  • Achievements: Managed cross-site relationships, led scrum ceremonies towards product improvement (company award for “going the extra mile”).
Senior Software engineer and Lead
  • Role: Responsible to ensure Lean Scrum implementation in the Platform Team, development, maintenance and documentation of IMW HE and STB products, technical mentoring, assistance for customer relations, architecture design.
  • Achievements: Delivered Head-end server applications for PushVOD and EPG.
Senior Software engineer
  • Role: System and component design, development and documentation of HE applications (PushVOD, EPG) in Agile.
  • Achievements: Designed Head-end server applications for a PushVOD service and a custom EPG carouseling, extended in-house middleware to support DVB-T2.
Software engineer
  • Role: C, C++, Python and SQL developer, components owner, release engineer.
  • Achievements: Designed, implemented and delivered Project Perso2009 (company award for “valuable deliverable”), designed and delivered 'Saturn' secure component, design, documentation and coding of various components in the Smart Card's Personalization and Secure Chip departments.
Software engineer, Motorola, Melbourn UK
11.2006 - 08.2008 - Software engineer
  • Role: Java developer for the potential alternative Motorola AJAR Platform.
  • Achievements: Took part in porting AJAR to Motorola handsets and launch to market; obtained Motorola Yellow Badge for quality in software production.
Software engineer, MBI Group Pisa, IT
02.2006 - 11.2006
  • Role: C++ programming on Linux-based STB MW and related activities for the Multimedia Department of the company, taking part in product meetings and contributing to design.
Lead software engineer, Università di Pisa, Pisa, IT
01.2005 - 01.2006.
  • Role: Responsible of UniPos product transition phase from experimental stage to production and PHP, C and SQL developer.
  • Achievements: Made UniPos a viable potential product, established a process in the product evolution, maintenance and support.
Principal Engineer, galaxis technology ag., Lübeck (DE)/Livorno (IT)
10.2000 - 01.2005
  • Role: STB firmware Embedded C and UI developer using OpenTV API (HPK + SDK).
  • Achievements: Overhauled architecture and performance of STB Graphic User Interface; improved middleware platform (performance, new applications); successfully coded, tested and delivered to acceptance of many customized middleware.

Certifications and education
2020 University of Cape Town (UCT), online
Project Management Foundation short course.

2016 Hood Group, Ulm, DE
IREB CPRE  Certified Professional for Requirement Engineering certification.

2016 Scrum Alliance
Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Professional certification.

2013 The Knowledge Academy, Amsterdam, NL
Prince2 Foundation certificate.

2013 Mountain Goat Software, London, UK
Scrum Alliance Certified Scrum Product Owner with Mike Cohn.

2011 Learning Tree International Hoofddorp, NL
Best practices in Java programming: hands-on.
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2011 Xebia, Amsterdam, NL
Scrum Alliance Scrum Master certification (#128662) with Jeff Sutherland.

2009 TUDelft, Hoofddorp, NL
Applied cryptography certificate.

2008 ISEB/ISTQB, Melbourn, UK
Software testing-for-quality foundation certificate.

2007-2008 Motorola, Melbourn, UK
Various training on quality software design, development and test (Motorola’s Quality Yellow Badge obtained).

2004 Università degli Studi, Pisa, IT
Bachelor Degree in Computer Engineering (BEng).
Languages
Italian - Mother tongue (ILR 5).
English - Full professional proficiency (ILR 4).
Dutch - No proficiency (ILR 0).
German - Elementary proficiency (ILR 1).