Tom Cocotis
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Donna K.
Tom Cocotis and RTConfidence have revolutionized project management. They have created a new trademarked designation: Project Scientist. Because of the patent pending TriCoBi™ algorithm, managing projects with the science of the Monte Carlo method is now a reality for everyone and any project. Tom has cleared the path for project managers and teams to do the best work of their careers. He has elevated project management skills to a level that until recently, were only available to those working on $20M+ projects. Advantage Consulting is honored and inspired to be engaged as founders with Tom and RTConfidence. Thank-you Tom for changing this industry and the lives of all the people in it.
Donna K.
Tom Cocotis and RTConfidence have revolutionized project management. They have created a new trademarked designation: Project Scientist. Because of the patent pending TriCoBi™ algorithm, managing projects with the science of the Monte Carlo method is now a reality for everyone and any project. Tom has cleared the path for project managers and teams to do the best work of their careers. He has elevated project management skills to a level that until recently, were only available to those working on $20M+ projects. Advantage Consulting is honored and inspired to be engaged as founders with Tom and RTConfidence. Thank-you Tom for changing this industry and the lives of all the people in it.
Donna K.
Tom Cocotis and RTConfidence have revolutionized project management. They have created a new trademarked designation: Project Scientist. Because of the patent pending TriCoBi™ algorithm, managing projects with the science of the Monte Carlo method is now a reality for everyone and any project. Tom has cleared the path for project managers and teams to do the best work of their careers. He has elevated project management skills to a level that until recently, were only available to those working on $20M+ projects. Advantage Consulting is honored and inspired to be engaged as founders with Tom and RTConfidence. Thank-you Tom for changing this industry and the lives of all the people in it.
Donna K.
Tom Cocotis and RTConfidence have revolutionized project management. They have created a new trademarked designation: Project Scientist. Because of the patent pending TriCoBi™ algorithm, managing projects with the science of the Monte Carlo method is now a reality for everyone and any project. Tom has cleared the path for project managers and teams to do the best work of their careers. He has elevated project management skills to a level that until recently, were only available to those working on $20M+ projects. Advantage Consulting is honored and inspired to be engaged as founders with Tom and RTConfidence. Thank-you Tom for changing this industry and the lives of all the people in it.
Credentials
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Certified ScrumMaster® (CSM)
Scrum AllianceJul, 2017- Oct, 2024 -
PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Project Management Institute
Experience
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RTConfidence
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United States
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IT Services and IT Consulting
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1 - 100 Employee
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Consultant
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Apr 2017 - Present
• Providing Scrum Master and Agile Coaching for team members and engineering management. • Scrum Master/Software Project Management for Mobile app development • Coaches self-organizing highly productive schedule-driven product development teams • Works with remote site product owner and local development teams and management to provide project coordination and alignment and removes team impediments • Assisted multiple development teams in shipping four mobile SW releases, an on-prem SW system, and an Azure/cloud-based software technology demo of a data warehouse complete with data pipelines and a PowerBI dashboard. Show less
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Western Digital Corporation
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United States
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Computer Hardware
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1 - 100 Employee
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Agile Engineering Management
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Jul 2013 - Apr 2017
Agile Engineering Management • Helped to create Agile PMO to help guide, track, forecast delivery of Enterprise Solid-State Drive (SSD) products for a firmware group of 500 Engineers • Assisted in the hiring of 12 direct reports for the new Agile PMO group • Led initiatives to create Scrum of Scrums and self-organizing Agile leadership groups to address all communication, alignment, performance, and ownership issues found during the initial organizational analysis effort • Led the creation of an Agile Earned Value Management (Agile EVM) system to track project status across multiple concurrent Scrum teams showing overall health • Trained and emersed new team members in Agile processes • Facilitated Agile teams of more than 70 Developers and Software Engineers in Agile-based project estimation effort for new firmware platform for next family of Enterprise SSD products Senior Manager – Project Delivery Management July 2013 to August 2016 • Senior ScrumMaster and Delivery Manager services including facilitating Project Increment Planning sessions and Agile Estimation techniques using relative estimations and Planning Poker. Rolled up estimates of four (4) primary Software teams and integrated with the work of Hardware, ASIC, and New Product Introduction teams at the factories. • Facilitator for Sprint Retrospectives and Sprint Planning events. Facilitated Backlog Refinement activities including feature research and Backlog Item and dependency coordination across multiple teams working together on one product. Facilitated Sprint Demo and Reviews across multiple team projects • Managed & facilitated the Agile processes with Scrum Boards & JIRA for Product Backlog Management • Facilitator for DevOps team and Technical Leads to setup continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines Show less
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Director - Engineering / Integration / Product Management & Quality Assurance
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Apr 2004 - Dec 2012
• Assisted in building PMO for division wide projects • Managed firmware and hardware release processes • Managed regulatory testing activity including FCC and ETSI electronic emissions • Planned customer integration activity, including customer site surveys. • Managed deployment at customer sites. • Provided software and hardware product management support for development teams. • Directed QA team for testing integrated enterprise server software and combined RF/Ethernet router and switch hardware devices. Show less
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PEERLESS SYSTEMS CORPORATION
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Project Management / Program Management / Quality Assurance
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Apr 2001 - Apr 2004
• Provided vision and coaching to the team that ensured the hardware and software product met the company’s quality requirements. • Directly responsible for all project activities in product development, engineering, and test for high-end color MFP controller, for web-based n-tier network printing product. • Provided vision and coaching to the team that ensured the hardware and software product met the company’s quality requirements. • Directly responsible for all project activities in product development, engineering, and test for high-end color MFP controller, for web-based n-tier network printing product.
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ENCRYPTIX, INC.
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United States
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Computer and Network Security
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Director, Product Management / Co-director, Product Development
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Mar 2000 - Apr 2001
• Co-managed enterprise-class commercial software development project schedule for secure Internet online transaction processing system. Included all aspects of SDLC. • Facilitated daily standup meetings to check status, align leadership group, and resolve impediments – similar to the Agile and Scrum methodologies we use today. • Significant contributor to transaction manager architecture, and system security architecture. • Supported and taught use of the data model to development team members. Show less
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Product Planning Manager / Program Manager / Group Lead
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Sep 1995 - Apr 2000
Product Planning Manager (1999-2000) Developed leading edge Internet software strategies and market requirements to support printing in enterprise and Print-on-Demand market spaces. • Managed new development group that supported nine Engineers that brought value-added technologies to market 1-2 years ahead of schedule. Program Manager / Group Lead (1995-1998) Managed and launched multiple releases of NW software for imaging devices. Product Planning Manager (1999-2000) Developed leading edge Internet software strategies and market requirements to support printing in enterprise and Print-on-Demand market spaces. • Managed new development group that supported nine Engineers that brought value-added technologies to market 1-2 years ahead of schedule. Program Manager / Group Lead (1995-1998) Managed and launched multiple releases of NW software for imaging devices.
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Education
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2016 - 2018
Pepperdine Graziadio School of Business and Management
Master of Science (MS), Management and Leadership -
University of California, Irvine
Bachelor of Science (BS), Information and Computer Science
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