Roberto Sciascia, Agile Product Manager

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Current job
I currently work as Product Owner at a leading automotive manufacturer. My job is to collect requirements, prioritize them according to my stakeholders' and business needs and my personal take on the product and its development challenges, keep communication flowing and make my team engaged and productive.
I'm the main responsible person of the product backlog and the source of delivery plans for the development teams and the suppliers, but I’m also a technical person who can contribute to process improvement as well as product design decisions.
Profile
I am a Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO) who had a development-to-management career progression, starting from a hands-on software developer role with increasing responsibility and then moving my focus to the process first (I am a Certified ScrumMaster - CSM) and eventually to the product. I’m an enthusiastic Agilist, with experience in waterfall and Agile working methodologies gained working for nearly 20 years in many roles, companies and businesses over the entire Software Development Life Cycle (from requirements collection to deployment).
As a product person I strive to bridge the gap between the developers and the customers by acting and thinking as the latter, trying to understand what they want, what they don’t and what the pain points are.
As an agilist I believe that quality can be achieved by a creative and autonomous group of people working together with the right process, aimed at delivering often and regularly and getting qualified feedback in order to continuously adjust the product and the process.
Current skills
Automotive, Agile, Scrum, Kanban, ScrumMaster, Product Owner, lean, SDLC, eXtreme programming, pair programming, code review, TDD, Continuous Integration;
Confluence, Jira.

Work experience
Product Owner, BMW Car IT​, Ulm
2019.09 - present
  • Role: undisclosed project for BMW's current software platform.
2019.03 - present
  • Role: directing development and integration of Apple CarPlay and other projected modes.
2015.02 - present
  • Role: in charge of the Touch Command Team’s backlog, liaising with internal and external partners; Agile coach; part of the recruiting team. Delivery plan provided to synchronize internal development with external suppliers and contributors.
  • A​chievements: 2nd generation of the product delivered on time and on budget.
2015.02 - 2016.01
  • Role: in charge of the HMI/Speech Team’s backlog, liaising with internal and external partners; Agile coach; part of the recruiting team.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Role: consultant Scrum Master, 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
  • 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
  • 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
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).