Freyr Gudmundsson

Pivotal member of the executive team, a leader in all decisions regarding strategy. Responsible for dev team, IT, Office, HR. Restructured the company's internal processes, communication, and tools, and prepared the company for growth in 2015. Coached dev team in Agile. Structured processes between dev, support, and product. Setup recruitment processes and tools to deal with influx of candidates and positions. Created structures and documents for complex relationships with partners and customers.

Champion for Agile, Lean, XP, and Scrum. Scaled development from 18 to 60 people. Coached, taught, and mentored 60+ people during 4 years. Grew a beginner Scrum team into a world class Agile department. Coached senior and executives in Agile management principles. Coached and trained all positions, including Product Owners, Scrum Masters, Designers, Developers, and more. Consulted with many departments on management principles, project management skills, analytical methods.

Was a co-Product Owner. Took on 40% of the Product Owner responsibilities. Was the Lead Developer and Chief Architect. Designed and programmed a multi-tiered, distributed application from the ground up in .Net. The design included SQLServer, webservices, a desktop application and a website. Introduced Scrum into the company. Trained a team bringing them up from normal development practices to an efficient Scrum team. Estimated gain in efficiency was 150%.

Worked in a small team on their flagship product, the Men & Mice Suite. Spearheaded a successful radical change in the architecture of a multi-tiered, distributed application. Introduced Scrum into the company. Helped bring a team from normal development practices to a fledgeling Scrum team.