Giora Morein

Current

Founder, Principal Agile Coach at BigVisible Solutions

Past

Agile Process Coach at Fidelity Investments
Director of Professional Services at Zanett Commercial Solutions (Formerly Back Bay Technologies)
Senior Project Manager at Zanett Commercial Solutions (Formerly Back Bay Technologies)

Architect/Technical Manager at Back Bay Technologies
QA Project Lead at CGI (Formally IMR Global)
Business Analyst at Texas Instruments (TI)

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Education

Northeastern University
Boston University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Information Technology and Services

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Giora Morein’s Summary

* Certified Scrum Trainer

* Primary Agile Coach and Trainer for 250+ person multi-system product development program.

* Agile Coach and Trainer for 70+ person distributed custom-development program. Responsible for ramping-up, training and mentoring multiple cross-functional teams as well overall program integration and communication framework

* Agile Coach for $40M+ Agile program for large east-coast financial services company. The program comprised of more than 85 people across multiple US, Canadian and India locations.

* Created a proven 90-day Agile Adoption model for new software development teams intended to rapidly ramp-up and mature new Agile teams.

* Experienced working with distributed on-shore, near-shore and off-shore Agile teams

* Created custom Agile project management, diagnostics and reporting tools

* Defined custom project execution methodologies for internal use as well as for external customers, designed to meet specific project objectives under varying constraint levels

Giora Morein’s Specialties:

* Specializes in ramping up and scaling Agile programs, projects and teams
* Experienced in scaling Agile within large enterprises
* Certified Scrum Master (CSM) and Scrum Practitioner (CSP)
* Holds PMP certification with extensive experience and expertise in project management processes and methodologies including Waterfall, RUP, Agile and Six Sigma

Giora Morein’s Experience

Founder, Principal Agile Coach

BigVisible Solutions

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2007 — Present (2 years 11 months)

Established premier Agile consultancy and innovation company. The firm focuses on delivering Agile Enablement Solutions

* Created the "0 to Agile in 90 Days" solution - a proven approach to ramp-up, mature, and scale Agile teams
* Created a comprehensive training program focusing on teaching Agile principles and in-depth practices
* Provide executive-level strategic consulting on how to adopt, enable and scale Agile within the enterprise
* Provide ongoing team auditing services for established Agile teams to ensure ongoing improvement and innovation
Agile Process Coach

Fidelity Investments

(Financial Services industry)

November 2005 — January 2007 (1 year 3 months)

Performed the role of Agile Evangelist and Enterprise Agile Coach. Responsible for ramping up and mentoring new Agile teams and programs to deliver quality driven solutions in significantly reduced timeframes.

* Succesfully ramped-up and coached multiple new Agile teams across multiple business groups
* Coached $40M+ program with over 85 team members. Helped scale the program to multiple international locations including Halifax and India.
* Conducted assessment of off-shore agile efforts and demonstrated higher success measures than traditional projects
* Created Agile training program to support enterprise enablement efforts. Agile courses ranged from beginner through advanced topics
* Introduced Quality Driven Development techniques emphasizing focus on test criteria rather than requirements
* Established new reporting and measurement standards more relevant to reporting progress on Agile projects
Director of Professional Services

Zanett Commercial Solutions (Formerly Back Bay Technologies)

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; ZANE; Information Technology and Services industry)

December 2002 — October 2005 (2 years 11 months)

Responsible for account-level program, project and relationship management
* Responsible for initiation, negotiation and delivery of engagement contracts
* Defined multiple contract models including a proven Agile fixed-fee model
* Responsible for recruitment and staff development as well meeting practice growth and profitability targets

Client Engagement Highlights
GE Healthcare (formally IDX)
* Managed the development of the first release of the company's Cardiovascular Imaging/Information product
* Successfully implemented a hybrid Agile/RUP and Six Sigma based project methodology

McKesson Health Solutions
* Managed the architecture and redesign of the company’s multi-platform payer and provider application suite
* Developed roadmap and business case to secure executive support for the next-generation Medical Platform

Textron, Inc
* Engagement Manager and Client Partner
* Worked directly with C-Level and VP-Level customers to ensure succesful delivery
Senior Project Manager

Zanett Commercial Solutions (Formerly Back Bay Technologies)

(Public Company; 201-500 employees; ZANE; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2001 — December 2002 (1 year 3 months)

Responsible for day-to-day service delivery, operations management and project execution at strategic customer accounts.

* Responsible for delivering on-time and on-budget fixed and variable fee projects
* Participated in the creation of an internal project management methodology
* Developed project tracking tool to streamline project performance reporting

- Client Engagement Highlights -
Textron, Inc
* Responsible for the successful and referenceable delivery and execution of multiple software development project teams
* Managed the elaboration, design and development of a centralized authentication engine to allow for secure, managed credential exchange with third-party applications. Project reduced integration costs by 70%
* Managed the design and development of he a J2EE/XML web-based data transformation and integration tool. Textron subsequently patented and productized the solution as the “Generic Adapter” (Patent Serial #: 76562156)
Architect/Technical Manager

Back Bay Technologies

(Public Company; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2000 — October 2001 (1 year 9 months)

Responsible for providing hands-on technical leadership as well as providing architecture and development services. Responsibilities included development standards definition, solution design and delivery, and technical team management

- Client Engagement Highlights -
State Street Global Advisors
* Managed a team of six engineers in the full lifecycle delivery of financial broker administration web application
* Responsibilities included the development of a J2EE Rapid Application Development framework that reduced development time by over 60%
* Activities included product design, development as testing as well as the initial training and rollout of the application to 100,000+ users

TNT Vacations - Boston, MA
* Managed a team of on-site and remote subcontractors
* Managed the design, development and implementation of an XML-centric B2B integration engine to provide access to the customer’s legacy inventory system.
QA Project Lead

CGI (Formally IMR Global)

(Public Company; Financial Services industry)

July 1999 — January 2000 (7 months)

Responsible for leading software QA teams during System and User-Acceptance testing. Responsibilities included defining testing standards and practices as well as developing processes and tools.

* Functioned as the testing lead for System and User-Acceptance Testing for a Variable Life Insurance administration application at John Hancock
* Developed a focused, light-weight, test-scripting methodology and testing process that reduced test script development time by 60%
* Created a semi-automated test verification tool that resulted in increased resource efficiency and more accurate result reporting
Business Analyst

Texas Instruments (TI)

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Semiconductors industry)

January 1998 — July 1998 (7 months)

Responsible for creating forecasting, pricing and risk analysis models for the Corporate Financial Planning office. Work products used by corporate executive as strategic financial decision-making tools.

* Develop a semiconductor Design-to-Cost ROI forecasting model improve microchip pricing and investment forecasting. Model improved forecasting accuracy by 30%.
* Created a product mix risk and sensitivity analysis model to predict the effect of volatile product portfolios on profitability
* Created a demand forecasting and capacity planning tool to help predict future emerging technologies and their investment viability

Giora Morein’s Education

Northeastern University

MBA , MIS & Finance , May 1997 — May 1999

Activities and Societies:

Beta Gamma Sigma
Boston University

BA , Biology , August 1994 — December 1996
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute