Dave Hab

Experience

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  Zephyr Music

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2010

  Founder

  • As music technology consultant, designed and implemented hardware and software solutions for media companies.• Oversaw the end-to-end management of projects throughout their life cycles, maintaining high quality standards while ensuring on-time delivery within budget.• Trained clients in the adoption of new technologies.• Skilled troubleshooter, identifying root causes of failure and finding practical solutions.• Composed, arranged, and produced music as well as sound design/sonic branding for advertisers, corporate clients, theater companies, songwriters, and recording artists. Show less

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  Omnimusic

  Jan 2010 - Jun 2020

  • Guided teams through all phases of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) in the development and support of the Content Management System (CMS) and related products, as well as new web applications and enterprise solutions for the music and media industries.• Identified and communicated to management problems concerning schedule, risk, quality, and dependencies.• Well-versed in Scrum, Kanban, DevOps, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Large Scale Scrum (LeSS), Lean, CI/CD, SaaS, and Jira. Show less

  • Agile Coach/Scrum Master

    Jan 2014 - Jun 2020

  • Project Manager

    Jan 2010 - Jan 2014
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  DistroKid

  Jun 2020 - now

  • Grow Agile practices, environment, relationships and mindset.• In addition to coaching multiple teams, work across the organization to build one unified Agile process. • Increase speed to market and adaptability by focusing not only on optimizing team performance, but also on the interactions throughout the entire value stream.• Develop agile processes with organizational scaling in mind.• Work with Product Development to optimize their process and coordinate it with the rest of the organization. Show less • Work with Agile teams across SysOps, Engineering / QA, Product Owners, and company-wide stakeholders.• Grow Agile practices, environment, relationships and mindset.• Establish and continuously improve existing Scrum & Kanban frameworks, utilizing other Agile practices as appropriate.• Help teams work at a sustainable pace to produce consistent and predictable outcomes• Facilitate all Scrum/Kanban ceremonies (Estimation, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Backlog Refinement, Reviews, and Retrospectives.)• Coach teams in self-organization and cross-functionality, helping them optimize workflow to reduce idle work and increase velocity while leveraging “failure” to achieve higher performance. • Work closely with Product Owners on developing and grooming product backlogs to keep their focus on delivering the best business value.• Coach Product Owners and teams on writing and appropriately sizing user stories.• Create safe environment for teams to foster true collaboration and innovation, guiding them toward functioning as a single unit instead of a mere collection of individuals.• Help with conflict navigation and remove impediments to teams’ progress. Show less

  • Agile Coach

    Sept 2022 - now

  • Scrum Master

    Jun 2020 - now