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CURT DILON

CURT DILON

LOS ANGELES,CA

Summary

Independent IT and Agile Consultant, Certified Scrum Master (PSM-I). Experienced Scrum Master with over 20+ years of experience in IT. Excellent reputation for resolving problems and improving customer satisfaction. Organized Scrum Master with 10 years of team building and coaching experience. Expert in Agile and Scrum training with extensive knowledge of Software/web development use and IT industry procedures. Proven leader ready to make hard decisions and counsel companies to long-term success.

Attention recruiters! Interested only in C2C contracts 3+ months long. Please do not contact me regarding W2 positions! Remote preferred!

Overview

29
29
years of professional experience

Work History

Scrum Master Coach

ALVARIN
LOS ANGELES, CA
02.2016 - Current
  • Agile and Technology Consultant for customers like Dole, Viking River Cruises Global Spade, Dolce Foglia, Sophus Group, Da Vinci Development.
  • Devised, deployed and monitored processes to boost long-term business success and increase profit levels.
  • Led corrective action plans, procedure development, staff performance reviews and training programs.
  • Provided personalized business consulting and overhauled services to strengthen client success.
  • Applied interpersonal and motivational skills to facilitate program engagement and promote adherence to principles taught during training.
  • Used advanced software skills to produce high-quality documents, reports and presentations.
  • Applied advanced IT and analytical skills and economic trend, business and industrial sector research to impact corporate decision making.

Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master

GLOBAL SPADE, INC, LOS ANGELES
, CA
02.2013 - 01.2016
  • Define and drive the project management approach for each project.
  • Promote empowerment of the team, ensure that each team member is fully engaged in the project and making a meaningful contribution.
  • Help teams deliver on their commitments and remove roadblocks to their work.
  • Support the Product Owner in managing expectations for project deliverables, schedule, budget and helping to implement an effective system of project governance.
  • Ensure all dependencies between projects are understood and managed.
  • Facilitate effective team meetings: stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and demos.
  • Manage support activities that require the product team's inputs.
  • Continually identify, prioritize and mitigate project risks.
  • Proactively identify opportunities for improvement to current process and tools.
  • Participate in the creation and improvement of tools and reports to show project status across all teams.

PM Engineer

PERFORMANCE FILMWORKS
OXNARD, CA,
07.2011 - 07.2013
  • Built program and troubleshoot custom electro-mechanical equipment.
  • Provide support for field technicians and emergency repairs on the movie sets.
  • Assisted in the lead Engineer for new product development.
  • Managed local IT infrastructure.

Founder/CEO

Amant Ltd
04.2006 - 12.2009
  • Founded first accredited ISO/IEC 27001 - Information security management and audit consulting practice in the Central Asia region.
  • Conducted the first ISO/IEC 27001 certification for the state's oil conglomerate.
  • Build a team of the best Information Security consultants in the region.
  • Successfully compete with "Big 4", winning bids for information security audit contracts.

Account Manager / Country Manager

CISCO
09.2001 - 04.2006
  • Hired to open regional office and grow account base with financial institutions and regional energy conglomerates.
  • Managed over 30 simultaneous projects in collaboration with internal Cisco resources, channel partners, and key enterprise accounts.
  • Produced sales growth of 11% year-over-year with the development of the top 20 key accounts in the region.
  • Developed routing and switching solutions for the top 5 accounts that increased sales by 50% in 2005.
  • Sell to clients like: Chevron, BP, RepsOil, Agip and many other international conglomerates.

Telecommunication Engineer

SPINT PCS, NTAC
IRVINE, CA
09.1999 - 03.2001
  • Managed implementation of new features for 70 nationwide 5ESS (Lucent) cell nodes.
  • Developed power outage diagram and recover procedure.

Founder/CEO

ABS LTD
05.1993 - 02.1999
  • Developed first in Central Asia market system integration services, partner with AT&T, Cisco, and other brands.
  • Managed implementation projects for customers like Philipp Morris Tobacco, Chevron, RJ Reynolds Tobacco, National Bank of Kazakhstan, Kazakhtelecom and other enterprises.

Project Manager

NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION MINISTRY
09.1991 - 09.1993
  • Managed first satellite TV implementation for remote areas.
  • Participated in the development of the first X.25 data network, cellular network (AMPS) and satellite commercial network.

Head of Telecommunication Node

RUSSIAN AIR FORCE, RUSSIA
09.1989 - 09.1991
  • Managed telecommunication node to support uninterrupted voice and data communications for live air force practices and routines on a daily basis.

Education

B.S - Engineering

Kemerovo Telecommunications Military University

Skills

Waterfall, Agile (SCRUM, Kanban, Lean, XP, Pair Programming), SLDC, ISO 27001, ITILundefined

Affiliations

Professional Scrum Master I (PSM I) Scrum.org. Black Belt (Shodan/1Dan) Japan style Jujitsu.

Work Availability

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Wresting coach, Internet Marketing, Ice Hockey, Golf

Organize people into music bands, companies and sport teams since I was 15, I am 52 now. 15 years of amateur ice hockey Organized 2 teams, 2 years of martial arts coaching for kids and adults

Quote

Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire

Timeline

Scrum Master Coach

ALVARIN
02.2016 - Current

Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master

GLOBAL SPADE, INC, LOS ANGELES
02.2013 - 01.2016

PM Engineer

PERFORMANCE FILMWORKS
07.2011 - 07.2013

Founder/CEO

Amant Ltd
04.2006 - 12.2009

Account Manager / Country Manager

CISCO
09.2001 - 04.2006

Telecommunication Engineer

SPINT PCS, NTAC
09.1999 - 03.2001

Founder/CEO

ABS LTD
05.1993 - 02.1999

Project Manager

NATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATION MINISTRY
09.1991 - 09.1993

Head of Telecommunication Node

RUSSIAN AIR FORCE, RUSSIA
09.1989 - 09.1991

B.S - Engineering

Kemerovo Telecommunications Military University
CURT DILON