Brad Berdan

Brad Berdan

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  • About me

    Scrum Master / Project Manager at Honeywell

  • Education

    • The University of Western Ontario

      1981 - 1986
      BSc Applied Math

      Activities and Societies: Varsity Track & Field

  • Experience

    • Honeywell

      Feb 1988 - Jul 2006

      In the Team Lead role I was responsible for resource and activity planning for the Shadow Plant product. This included running team meetings as well as representing the team to the Shadow Plant engineering manager for roll up activities such as product planning, software defect triage and resolution. Additionally, acted as a lead software developer while performing this role. Senior software developer for the Operator Training System (OTS) business - the product being called UniSim Competency Suite, UniSim Operations, Shadow Plant, XTrainer and Trainer over the years. Responsible for designing and developing all aspects of a chemical process training simulation package, including the user interface (both GUI and text based), business layers and reactor modelling. Proficient in these Computer Programming Languages: C#, C/C++, Fortran, Visual Basic, Powershell.

      • Team Lead, Software Development

        Apr 1997 - Jul 2006
      • Software Developer

        Feb 1988 - Jul 2006
    • Honeywell

      Jan 2007 - now

      As a Scrum Master I am responsible for leading the team through sprint execution, managing the scrum process, clearing obstacles to the team's focused development, protecting the team from outside interruptions, and creating an environment where the team can be effective. I chair daily stand-up meetings, facilitate and schedule meetings including demos, sprint review, and sprint planning meetings. Facilitated product backlog grooming to ensure a healthy backlog ready for the next sprint.Also conducted retrospective meetings to increase efficiency of our team's development culture. Show less In this role I was the UniSim Competency Suite development team project manager. Responsible for performing activity and resource planning, scheduling project releases, organizing and motivating the UCS development team, performing cost estimation, analyzing and managing project risks as well as monitoring progress on the various developments for UCS. These developments included new version releases of the entire product as well as more targeted functionality enhancements to support sales pursuits. Show less

      • Scrum Master

        Sept 2016 - now
      • Project Manager

        Jan 2007 - now
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • Machine Learning

      Coursera
      Apr 2020
      View certificate certificate
    • Project Management Professional (PMP)

      Project Management Institute
      Jun 2009