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Education
TALENT SCRUM MASTER
JAN 2020 - SEP 2020
IEBS | Innovation & Entrepreneurship Business School
Postgraduate degree
Executive MBA in Digital Transformation / MBA IN DIGITAL BUSINESS
NOV 2018 - SEP 2019
IEBS | Innovation & Entrepreneurship Business School & UCAM | Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia
Dual MBA
COMPUTER SCIENCE BACHELOR DEGREE
SEP 2000 - SEP 2006
UDA - Universitat d'Andorra
Work experience
SIVALL TECNOLOGIES (WWW.SIVALLTECH.COM)
NOV 2018 - NOW
Founder & CEO
One man company whose mission is to be an strategic partner helping achieve Agile Transformation and leverage the  digital capabilities of its customers. Some of them are:

- Avatel Telecom
- E. Leclerc
- Evenia Hotels
- Andbank
- ABB Robotics
- SATEC, Sistemas Avanzados de Tecnología
- wefox Insurance AG
- Volkswagen AG

SEAT CODE / VOLSKWAGEN DIGITAL HUB
APR 2023 - NOW
Product Owner (Freelance)
Product Ownership, team and Stakeholder management for a core product of the Volskwagen Group (an IAM Solution).
WEFOX Insurance AG
JAN 2023 - APR 2023
Agile Coach / Scrum Master (Freelance)
Coached 4 teams from the IT area, managed stakeholders including the CIO, helped the Organization start their Agile transformation.
alvatross by satec
SEP 2022 - FEB 2023
Senior Product Owner & Enterprise Agile Coach (Freelance)
- Agile Product Owner for a telco BSS/OSS solution.
- Mentoring the Delivery Teams to achieve its  Agile transition process.
- Active participation in  Product Definition and Refinement.
- Coaching the teams and the management  in adopting the  Lean Product Management & Agile mindset.
ABB Robotics digital hub
APR 2021 - AUG 2022
Senior Product Owner & Enterprise Agile Coach (Freelance)
- Helping ABB Robotics Digital Hub  defining, building and rolling out its Digital Portfolio.
- Agile Product Owner for 2 Dev Teams  (Industry 4.0, Big Data, IoT, Cloud).
- Mentoring the Delivery Teams to achieve its  Agile transition process.
- Managed a 7 months collaboration with consultants from Microsoft, who were integrated within the team. 
- Active participation in  Product Definition and Refinement.
- Roadmap and release planning.
- Delivering continuous, incremental value to customers and gathering their feedback.
- Coaching the teams, the management and other stakeholders  in adopting the  Lean Product Management & Agile mindset .
BETTER CONSULTANTS / ANDBANK
MAR 2020 - MAR 2021
Digital & Mobility Delivery Manager (Freelance)
- Responsible for delivering the new  Andbank Wealth App  for Android and iOS and the new Homebanking website (biggest project that year).
- Acted as a "proxy"  Product OwnerScrum Master and Project Manager.
- Nexus between the Customer/Business and the Team.
BETTER CONSULTANTS / ANDBANK
OCT 2018 - MAR 2021
Senior Agile Delivery Manager (Freelance)
Better Consultants is a mid-sized company from Barcelona, which among other customers is nowadays the main software provider for Andbank. My roles, as the senior officer for the Andorra division, were as follows:

- Leading the team working for Andbank , both in Andorra and Spain, in areas such as Digital Banking, Financial Markets, Risk Management and Compliance.
- Continuous follow-up with the customers (bank's Business and IT Directors), reporting and providing support for issues, requests and projects.
- Helping analize, organize, implement and execute  new projects in an Agile way
- Ensuring the quality of all provided IT services and deliveries.
- Also involved in staffing processes and  managing the budget (about 2M € anual turnover).
ANDORRA TELECOM
AUG 2009 - AUG 2018
IT BSS/OSS Team Manager / Scrum Master
- I started as IT Engineer, focused on the applications involving the core of the Business of Andorra Telecom, working as a DevOps group both delivering new functionalities to the software and maintaining the whole, end-to-end lifecycle of the applications and services.
- In 2013 I was promoted to  Coordinator, helping to manage the team and later acting both as a Scrum Master and Product Owner.
- From 2014 onwards I took an active part of the  Agile Transformation of the company and started focusing on the Agile mindset eversince.

COMPETITIVE STRATEGY INSURANCE
AUG 2007 - AUG 2009
Senior Java Developer
Worked in iAxis, an Insurance Management Suite, for several important customers from Andorra (being Crèdit Andorrà the most well-known) and from around the world. Also responsible for a GIS Project for the Andorran Police (Police Unit Geo-localisation).
IN2 INGENIERÍA DE LA INFORMACIÓN
JAN 2007 - AUG 2007
Java Developer
Developed the http://www.cass.ad Portal for the Andorran Social Security. Worked with J2EE, Liferay, Alfresco, Spring, Struts, Hibernate, JSF, Ajax, among others.
ALTRAN
SEP 2006 - JAN 2007
Mainframe Developer
Worked in Barcelona, performing a  training to work for a bank in Andorra and work for the customer Nissan. Mainframe development in a CICS / Natural / ADABAS environment.
accenture
SEP 2003 - AUG 2006
System and Applications Administrator at BI/BM (now Morabanc)
I managed infrastructures and corporate applications and systems  (Lotus Notes, Active Directory domain, Corporate Portal and other websites, Financial Terminal, as well as specific finance-related software). Some tasks developed were: integration between mainframe and Unix architectures, migration, installation and configuration of a large variety of software, support and troubleshooting of end-user problems, development of internal tools...
Languages
english
C1 level - Proficient speaker
CATALAN & SPANISH
Mother tongue - Native level
FRENCH
Medium level - Learned at scholarship
Can be easily read and understood, and written and spoken with someeffort.











Skills
Soft skills: Proactivity, Creativity, Adaptability, Continuous improvement, Empathy, Synergy, Win-win thinking, Customer centricity, Leadership, Communication, Inspiration, Charisma, Kindness, Delegation, Training and Coaching skills, Agile & Lean mindset
Agile frameworks and methodologies: Scrum, Kanban, XP, Lean, DevOps, Scrum@Scale, SAFe, LeSS, Nexus, OKRs... and tools: JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps, Trello, Teams, Slack...
Agile Product Management: Design Thinking, Product Vision / Strategy / Roadmap / Development, Release / Metrics, Digital Marketing, Stakeholder and Customer interaction
Traditional Project Management (Waterfall): Requirements definition, Planning Time and Budget, Risk management, Reporting, Stakeholder and Customer management
Technical skills: programming, DevOps, SysAdmin, Infra, UI/UX, Telecoms, Architecture & Design, Testing, functional and technical analysis
Operational skills: Problem solving, troubleshooting, coordination and prioritization in fast-paced and high-pressure environments
Business knowledge (specially telco, banking and insurance, but also industry, travel, health...)
Blockchain, crypto, web3, Smart Contracts, DeFi...
Certifications
Agile Coach Certification - Agile Coach Alliance
Credential ID: TLKGDVKQHL-TMWSQYYT-RHSRLDKHJL
2022
Certified Agile Coach - European Scrum
Credential ID: JLHLKTDFPK-BCQTTZWK-YDWYSJSRGT
2022
Scrum.org certifications profile
https://www.scrum.org/user/686272
2020 - 2022
Professional Agile Leadership I - Scrum.org
https://www.credly.com/badges/dc1c7f81-c2e1-4338-aca7-e258ef069310/public_url
Credential ID: 866223
2022
Professional Scrum Master II - Scrum.org
https://www.credly.com/badges/dd2511f1-9307-479d-9ac4-57c02c712366/public_url
Credential ID: 872137
2022
Professional Scrum Master I - Scrum.org
https://www.credly.com/badges/ae137641-7820-426d-9a0d-cec1a4272694/public_url
Credential ID: 583660
2020
Professional Scrum Product Owner I - Scrum.org
https://www.credly.com/badges/c663fb3c-c984-453b-b074-a4035cd8d4ac/public_url
Credential ID: 581511
2020
DevOps Foundamentals - DASA (DevOps Agile Skills Association)
2018
Certified Product Owner - Scrum Alliance
license 000610989
2017
Certified Scrum Master - Scrum Alliance
license 000610989
2017
Sun Certified Java Web Component Developer
2007
Sun Certified Java Programmer
2007
Cisco CCNA
2002
Please check more certifications and diplomas here: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mnije4xg0xqruem/AAA0k13s60oHSNhRCIn_IwmJa?dl=0

Courses & Trainings
CryptoMaster Academy (1-year membership comprehensive blockchain & crypto-ecosystem course)
2023
Agile Coach Professional @ Xsfera (40h)
2022
Digital Product Management with Scrum @ Itnove (10h)
2022
Product Management Fundamentals @ Aktia Solutions (30h)
2021
IT Teams' Management & Direction @IEBS (20h)
2020
Dozens of online courses at Udemy.com and elsewhere -please check https://www.dropbox.com/sh/mnije4xg0xqruem/AAA0k13s60oHSNhRCIn_IwmJa?dl=0
2017-2022
ITSM KPI Foundation & Practitioner @ Ozona (check https://www.ozonaconsulting.com/en/kpis/)
2016
Dozens (hundreds?) of corporate and personal courses, trainings and coachings. I'm also eager to learn and always performing personal research for knowledge, comsuming content regarding state-of-the-art technology, Agile mindset and leadership, Digital Transformation, attending events...
2003-2022
SOCIAL NETWORKS
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/roger-villas-kirchner-17602b38
Web (company): https://www.sivalltech.com
LinkedIn (company): https://www.linkedin.com/company/sivall-tecnologies/
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/@sivalltech
REFERENCES
Oriol Solà, CISO at wefox

"Roger has all the ingredients that distinguish a great professional: honesty, clarity, transparency, effort, rigor, and discipline. My time together with him has been one of the most profitable in the field of Coaching and Agile. He is a person with clear ideas and who goes straight to the point. He brings out the best from everyone. I would definitely wish to meet him again professionally in the future. He has left a good mark on the team."




Adrien de la Tour, Head of Digital Product Management at ABB Robotics Digital Accelerator


"I have had the pleasure of having Roger join our digital product team and I gladly give him my highest recommendation [...]

Roger is a highly skilled Product Owner who brought structure, mentoring and guidance to his entire Scrum team and the wider product group. He refined complex technical products and features with very limited guidance and support.

Always looking to increase his outlook and facilitate conversations with his technical and business counterparts Roger is a constant advocate for the right tradeoff between technical reliability, speed and business value.

More importantly even when under high pressure Roger always brought calm to the conversation and looked for pragmatic solutions to the issues at hand which allowed him to successfully ship multiple MVP's, our first pilot project and two major releases."


Víctor Álvarez, Software Engineering Manager at ABB Robotics Digital Accelerator

"[...]  Roger has a very impressing sense of ownership with whatever relates with the Team's backlog, even sometimes being deep technical tasks to be executed, Roger has always tried to understand it using his technical expertise in order to help the team as much as possible to understand and execute it right.

Roger has been key piece during a full transformation of the team, including: restructuration of Development teams, external teams joining the workforce, intra-team communication and deep technical developments... He has been capable to overcome all this challenges with excellent outcomes and very good feedback from all the team members that have worked with him. In addition Roger has been a valuable back-up for the Scrum Master role while it was missing.

Definitely Roger is someone to have on any Agile team that will bring structure and clarity to your team backlog, but He will also act as glue by creating cohesion and making sure the team is focused on business/product requirements.
"

Javier Alarcia Mena, Software Developer at Andbank

"Roger is an Agile advocate and I had a great time working with him. He always clarified my tasks and lent a hand with the blockers. He ensured I was constantly aware of the global status of the project [...] Communication with the customer was fluid so that I could focus on my development tasks completely [...] "




Gabriel Monreal, Freelance Transformation Facilitator

"Roger's values and attitudes make him a great professional. More importantly, his professional prominency is overtaken by his personal's: he's an excellent person."

Sara Prieto Liderazgo. Coach and trainer expert in motivation, leardership and entrepeneurship

"Roger is a perfectionist, effective, compromised, analytical, and extremely smart person. He has a huge knownledge and experience in IT, Agile and Scrum [...] A teammate eager to improve, learn and help, with leadership skills but humble. Certainly someone to count on for management and decision taking situations."

Full references can be read on my LinkedIn Profile.
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Roger Villas Kirchner
Agile Coach, Scrum Master, Product Owner. Executive MBA In Digital Transformation & MBA in Digital Business. PSM I, PSM II, PSPO I, PAL I, Certified Agile Coach. 20 years of experience as IT professional
10/12/1980
Born in Barcelona, Spain
+34 644 91 32 87
Sant Julià de Lòria, Andorra
www.linkedin.com/in/roger-villas-kirchner-17602b38
INTRODUCTION
I would describe myself as a reliable, knowledgeable and versatile professional, with a high degree of expertise across a wide variety of businesses in the IT sector. For 20 years I always have strived hard to bring a high performance, valuable work to my employers and customers, and that's my career objective: to use of my skills to deliver the maximum value to them, while growing professionally in the process, as well as a human being.
Interests
  • To spend time with my family, playing with my 9-year-old son.
  • Basketball: I'm an enthusiastic follower of BC Morabanc Andorra and I also play it nonprofessionally.
  • Reading, podcast listening, and video watching about many subjects, specially those related with agility, digitalization and cryptocurrencies/blockchain.

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