Ian Wedegartner

Experience

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  Pinball Productions

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2000

  Video Editor

  Video Editor•Performed as editor for The Body Invaders on Discover Health Network.•Demonstrated ability to work independently.•Managed multiple projects simultaneously.•Developed interdepartmental professional relationships.

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  WGBH

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2004

  Video Editor/Archivist

  • Assembled video segments into cohesive episodes of Emmy Award-winning, Zoom.• Catalogued and compiled media as an assistant editor on Emmy Award-winning, Antiques Road Show.• Demonstrated ability to work independently, completing work autonomously.• Managed multiple projects simultaneously.• Developed interdepartmental professional relationships.• Completed independent projects.

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  Avid Technology

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2018

  • Scrum Master on across multiple software releases for a 10-person team with both local and remote team members for full SDLC cycle.• Coordinated with Product Owner to develop user stories and prioritize product’s backlog.• Facilitated team meetings with daily stand ups and burndowns to track velocity.• Drove conversations about dependencies so they were visible and managed effectively.• Communicated team progress and metrics.• Identified impediments to team as well as dependencies with other internal teams as well as third party vendors.• Shielded team from interferences to ensure they could stay focused on Sprint goals.• Cross-team collaboration on Avid product infrastructure.• Experienced team migration from Waterfall to Agile in overall SDLC process.• Oversaw team migration from ClearQuest to Jira/Confluence for bug logging.• Acted as administrator for Google drive for Kanban style storyboarding of scrum goals, assigning privileges (read, write, delete) to team members.• Improved software release quality through comprehensive testing of all new software features.• Maintained QA lab hardware including, physical and VM servers (system updates, storage, hardware upgrades, etc.).• Partnered with multiple QA and development teams to ensure consistent quality control.• Delivered high quality customer support in the field. Show less

  • Lead QA/ Scrum Master

    Jan 2007 - Jan 2018

  • QA Engineer

    Jan 2005 - Dec 2007
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  AiRXOS

  Jul 2019 - May 2020

  Scrum Master

  • Responsible for managing multiple scrum teams for a set of UAV/drone operations management products.• Facilitate team meetings with daily stand ups and burndowns to track velocity.• Facilitate scrum meetings, including sprint planning, grooming, reviewing, retro, daily standup, et al.• Help the teams on how to use Agile/Scrum practices, in a servant leader capacity. • Act as on-site Agile coach.• Identify road-blocks and impediments and help the teams to remove them.• Serve the scrum teams with an emphasis on problem-solving and getting the work done.• Communicate with both internal and external stakeholders.• Manage multi-system projects and self-organized, cross-functional project teams.• Support the Product Owner, especially on grooming and maintaining the product backlog. Show less

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  Akamai Technologies

  Aug 2020 - now

  • Program Manager

    Aug 2020 - now

  • Scrum Master

    Aug 2020 - Sept 2022