Jason Laxdal

Solution Manager at Unify Consulting
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Greater Seattle Area

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Steve Moore

Jason's most prominent strengths are in technical software development, where he has coached individuals and teams to practice technical excellence in design, coding, automated testing, and re-factoring, among other technical topics. Beyond technical coaching, Jason has an excellent sense of team collaboration and Agile maturity that make him an effective coach. Jason's dry sense of humor and his wide range of interests make him a joy to work with -- I'd jump at the chance to work with him again!

Jeff Weaver

I'm not sure where to start with Jason - his great skillset or his high integrity. He is one of those rarest of Agile coaches - one with high EQ and people skills, combined with a great coaching mindset, all built on top of a strong technical developer foundation; it's quite unusual to find all three. On top of this he has the highest integrity bar that I've come across, possibly ever. It is a deep pleasure to call Jason my co-worker as well as friend. It is my deep misfortune that we have never worked side by side at the same client, although we came close a few times. He excels at coaching in a number of Agile frameworks, and strongly supports asking 'why' before 'how' to get at the heart of how the client can most Be Agile before they Do Agile. I am proud to have worked alongside Jason at Unify Consulting for a number of years now.

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Credentials

  • Advanced Certified ScrumMaster (A-CSM)
    Scrum Alliance
    Dec, 2018
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certified Scrum Master
    Scrum Alliance
    Feb, 2013
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certified SAFe® 5 DevOps Practitioner
    Scaled Agile, Inc.
    Nov, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certified SAFe® 5 Product Owner/Product Manager
    Scaled Agile, Inc.
    Oct, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certified SAFe® 5 Release Train Engineer
    Scaled Agile, Inc.
    Oct, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certified SAFe® 4 Scrum Master
    Scaled Agile, Inc.
    May, 2022
    - Nov, 2024
  • Certified SAFe® 5 Practitioner
    Scaled Agile, Inc.
    May, 2022
    - Nov, 2024

Experience

  • Unify Consulting
    • United States
    • Business Consulting and Services
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Solution Manager
      • Apr 2023 - Present

      • Mentor, guide, and empower consultants in career development for higher retention and increased versatility for clients• Lead cross-functional teams to provide highest value product improvements first

    • Senior Consultant
      • Jul 2019 - Present

      • Clearly communicate responsibilities, expectations, and mediate when role confusion causes conflict enabling flow and reducing churn• Build team trust and unity through intentional interactions and behaviors yielding open communication through trust and mutual respect• Culturally sensitive management and communication

    • Practice Manager
      • Oct 2021 - Mar 2023

      • Increase staff retention rate through mentoring, developing community, and improving hiring practices• Interview candidates for ability to deliver Lean & Agile services, a consultative mindset, technical skills, and versatility• Manage 10+ direct reports to empower them in career development, assist with matching to engagements, and connect with account leaders• Lead quarterly in-person and/or on-line community building events for consultants from all accounts

  • T-Mobile
    • United States
    • Telecommunications
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Agile Coach, Data Science
      • Nov 2022 - Mar 2023

      • Coached five teams of Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Business Focused Product Owners in applying Agile methods within data hypothesis, data dictionary definition, and Databricks notebook development • Defined Quick Start curriculum for improving Daily Stand-ups across 80 teams • Metrics based assessment model based on feedback from key stakeholders and teams • Coached five teams of Data Scientists, Data Engineers and Business Focused Product Owners in applying Agile methods within data hypothesis, data dictionary definition, and Databricks notebook development • Defined Quick Start curriculum for improving Daily Stand-ups across 80 teams • Metrics based assessment model based on feedback from key stakeholders and teams

  • Bayer
    • Chemical Manufacturing
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Agile Program Manager, Security Remediation
      • Mar 2022 - Aug 2022

      • Responsible Epic Owner to deliver three high priority (“glass ball”) initiatives to address security audit findings for IoT Digital Farming SaaS provider • Provided delivery leadership across 5 agile teams, ultimately increasing velocity by 20%, and clarifying teams’ collective understanding of the path to remediation • Responsible Epic Owner to deliver three high priority (“glass ball”) initiatives to address security audit findings for IoT Digital Farming SaaS provider • Provided delivery leadership across 5 agile teams, ultimately increasing velocity by 20%, and clarifying teams’ collective understanding of the path to remediation

  • T-Mobile
    • United States
    • Telecommunications
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Technical Program Manager, Spectrum Management
      • Sep 2021 - Feb 2022

      • Empowered delivery of four Scrum Teams providing FCC licensing data for Spectrum Asset Management business/legal teams • Supported teams in Scrum methodology, continuous improvement, and backlog development • Clearly communicated of risks, impediments, and priorities between on-shore and off-shore team reducing inter-continental churn and reducing defects by 35% • Worked with Data Scientists and Data Engineers to make Jupyter notebooks useful in product demos without intermediary image manipulation or translation through Excel for streamlined work process reducing developer time preparing for demos by 50% Show less

  • Costco IT
    • United States
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 300 - 400 Employee
    • Quality Engineering Technical Coach
      • Apr 2021 - Aug 2021

      • Responsible to identify and select digital learning options for individual contributors to self-service upskill • Provided on-request Kata sessions to teams for practicing new skills with active feedback and assistance • Led Katas/Dojos for developers and quality analysts to learn TDD and CI/CD concepts • Responsible to identify and select digital learning options for individual contributors to self-service upskill • Provided on-request Kata sessions to teams for practicing new skills with active feedback and assistance • Led Katas/Dojos for developers and quality analysts to learn TDD and CI/CD concepts

  • Premera Blue Cross
    • United States
    • Insurance
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Technical and Agile Coach, Claims and Payements
      • Nov 2019 - Mar 2021

      • Improved agile technical practices within local Blue Cross affiliate Agile Release Train increasing velocity by 60% • Led SQL Testing, Mob Programming, Pre/Post PI Planning coaching, and PI Planning facilitation leading to increased value delivery • Coach team collaboration, self-organization, Feature/Story writing, WIP Limits, Agile product management, and value stream alignment • Scrum Master 1:1 coaching • Responsible for facilitating TDD practices within T-SQL/C# environment; led mob programming for four teams at local Blue Cross affiliate. Coach team collaboration, self-organization, Ci/CD and TDD for Claims & Payments group Show less

  • T-Mobile
    • United States
    • Telecommunications
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Technical Delivery Manager, Interactive Voice Recognition
      • Jul 2019 - Oct 2019

      • Led hybrid remote/in-office team to increase cross-functional skill, improve delivery predictability by 40%, and build culture of collaboration within team through Scrum events and methodologies • Coach delivery teams on maximizing flow, minimizing WIP, and iterative refinement of product backlogs • Led hybrid remote/in-office team to increase cross-functional skill, improve delivery predictability by 40%, and build culture of collaboration within team through Scrum events and methodologies • Coach delivery teams on maximizing flow, minimizing WIP, and iterative refinement of product backlogs

  • ACS Technologies
    • United States
    • Software Development
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • Senior Software Developer & Scrum Master
      • Mar 2012 - Jul 2019

      • Implemented Agile/Scrum processes for distributed and in-office teams of software developers, testers, designers, and SRE/DevOps• Coached scaled delivery across teams enabling successful delivery of work based on business value• Directly oversaw new teams with sprint 0 planning and implementation• Facilitate team workshops for teams to understand Agile and Lean principles, Scrum, Kanban, and individual and team roles/responsibilities• Outstanding communication, presentation, and facilitation skills• Track and analyze metrics to empirically determine and improve progress and performance• Mentor Delivery Team members in best practices and effective leadership skills• Facilitate conflict resolution and decision-making• Development of Church Management Systems using JavaScript, React, HTML, Ruby on Rails, and Node.js• DevOps/SRE Team, Native App Development Team, and Shared Service API team. • Mentored junior developers and improved teams’ agile processes Show less

    • Live Events Producer
      • Feb 2013 - Jun 2019

      • Budget forecasting & budget management for software user conference drawing 800-1200 guests annually• Vendor selection and contract negotiation• Pre-conference site visits, conference creative alignment, entertainment procurement, and venue relationship development• Partnered with Disney, Marriott, and Omni hotels’ event and hospitality staff• Coordinated production vendors (lighting, audio, video, graphics, videographers, photographers, and contract entertainment) to produce seamless event Show less

  • OnAir Entertainment
    • Malta
    • IT Services and IT Consulting
    • 200 - 300 Employee
    • Senior Software Developer
      • Jul 2011 - Mar 2012

      • Successfully navigated building customer facing access portal product in an Agile/Scrum methodology within an airline regulatory system using waterfall style requirements delivery • Ruby on Rails based site facilitating customer connectivity purchases, and providing in-flight news, information, etc. • Built internationalization/localization and branding schemes to support customization within brands and languages • Successfully navigated building customer facing access portal product in an Agile/Scrum methodology within an airline regulatory system using waterfall style requirements delivery • Ruby on Rails based site facilitating customer connectivity purchases, and providing in-flight news, information, etc. • Built internationalization/localization and branding schemes to support customization within brands and languages

  • Classmates
    • United States
    • Technology, Information and Internet
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Software Engineer (Client Technologies)
      • Mar 2011 - Jul 2011

      • Served on Core Framework team enabling release of new nostalgia based social networking brand Memory Lane • ScrumMaster for team with greater than 95% completion rate • JSP based markup, Apache Tiles XML configurations, CSS, HTML • Creation, maintenance, and dissemination of global style elements’ implementation (CSS & HTML) • Reduced complexity of Tomcat and Maven configurations across enterprise git repositories yielding more consistent quality and faster build/boot times • Served on Core Framework team enabling release of new nostalgia based social networking brand Memory Lane • ScrumMaster for team with greater than 95% completion rate • JSP based markup, Apache Tiles XML configurations, CSS, HTML • Creation, maintenance, and dissemination of global style elements’ implementation (CSS & HTML) • Reduced complexity of Tomcat and Maven configurations across enterprise git repositories yielding more consistent quality and faster build/boot times

  • The City by Zondervan
    • Seattle, Washington, United States
    • Web Designer
      • Jul 2009 - Jan 2011

      • Web designer and front-end developer for private community oriented social network service • Designed major UX revision using HAML and Sass for Ruby on Rails site • Semantic markup, separation of presentation from content, and adherence to MVC style of architecture • Ruby on Rails • Web designer and front-end developer for private community oriented social network service • Designed major UX revision using HAML and Sass for Ruby on Rails site • Semantic markup, separation of presentation from content, and adherence to MVC style of architecture • Ruby on Rails

  • Nokia
    • Finland
    • Telecommunications
    • 700 & Above Employee
    • UI / Front-End Developer [Filter Digital]
      • Nov 2008 - Mar 2009

      • Built shared components and templates in CSS, HTML, ASPX, C#, and Javascript enabling 300% team scaling for ground-up rewrite of web interface. • Guided database, middleware, and other non-front-end developers in all-hands re-write of web interface in under four months • Owned specific pages’ interface ensuring consistent interaction quality • Represented development team in user testing sessions and aided in analysis of results leading to refinement of product • Built shared components and templates in CSS, HTML, ASPX, C#, and Javascript enabling 300% team scaling for ground-up rewrite of web interface. • Guided database, middleware, and other non-front-end developers in all-hands re-write of web interface in under four months • Owned specific pages’ interface ensuring consistent interaction quality • Represented development team in user testing sessions and aided in analysis of results leading to refinement of product

  • Xeriton Corporation
    • Sammamish, Washington, United States
    • Designer III-Web
      • Feb 2006 - Oct 2008

      • Designed branding and identity system for multiple direct to consumer software brands • Implemented web analytics, A/B testing, and multivariate testing improving increasing average cart sales by twenty-seven percent • Analyzed advertising metrics to determine C-Net front page buyout reduced normal sales conversion by thirty percent • Designed branding and identity system for multiple direct to consumer software brands • Implemented web analytics, A/B testing, and multivariate testing improving increasing average cart sales by twenty-seven percent • Analyzed advertising metrics to determine C-Net front page buyout reduced normal sales conversion by thirty percent

Education

  • University of Washington
    BFA, Visual Communications Design
    1995 - 2001
  • University of Washington
    BA, Interdisciplinary Visual Arts
    1995 - 2001
  • Redmond High School
    1992 - 1995

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