Joe Pizzino

About Joe Pizzino

Highly motivated digital transformation professional delivering product features on iOS, Android and Browser cloud based digital applications. Joe Pizzino is a Certified SAFe® 5 Scrum Master leading teams to exceed their potential, deliver quality features monthly, evangelizing Agile benefits. A problem solver and catalyst that removes impediments quickly and making things happen. Passion for client focused, customer journey and user experience product improvement. Continuous learning, agile/scrum delivery and course correcting based on retrospective feedback.5. Core competencies include solid servant style leadership and proven ability to negotiate with colleagues, stakeholders and customers. Ensure compliance to budgets, service-level agreements (SLA), release requirements, delivery time lines, and MVP deliverable while achieving high levels of productivity.7. Expert at project planning, foreseeing project issues, develop and execute plans to eliminate risks, reallocating resources, and meeting schedules.8. Leading technical strategy, functional road-map, and drive application architecture discussions with business and vendors.9. Managed application development Center of Excellence (COE) with onshore/offshore teams. Dev Ops know-how for CI/CD, TDD, BDD,(Test automation) and Splunk service monitoring.11. Expertise in Software Development Life cycle (SDLC) – Agile/Scrum, Waterfall, program and project management. Team progress supported and monitored with the tracking of sprint related metrics. Current sprint tools include JIRA, Rational Team Concert (RTC) and Plan View.13. Expert in managing multiple large and small teams in various time zones. Managed successful product launches, on-time, within budget, and actively participated in implementing products from conception to market delivery. Responsible for delivery management, application maintenance, L3 production support and application governance.

Experience

1. Lead Scale Scrum Master

   Prudential Financial

   Mar 2022 — Present · Newark, NJ, US

   Scrum Master for three PODS in the Global Technology CTO organization. I bring to the teams and colleagues experience from past Agile scrum master roles at Citi Bank, Bank of America, Silicon Valley Bank and from the contracting work with Prudential prior to being hired into the same role. This includes, mentoring, training, coaching and listening to the challenges during a company transition to a new way of working.

Education

• De Anza College

  Initial college studies, Information Technology Project Management

• Heald College

  AASE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering

• Empire State University

  Information Technology Project Management

  2007

Skills

• Requirements Gathering
• Sdlc
• Risk Management
• Integration
• Strategy
• Analysis
• IT Management
• Business Analysis
• Software Development Life Cycle (Sdlc)
• Vendor Management
• Project Management Office (Pmo)
• Project Management
• Disaster Recovery
• Management
• IT Strategy
• Program Management
• Information Technology
• Pmo
• Pmp
• Leadership
• Requirements Analysis
• Software Project Management
• Financial Services
• Customer Service
• Fixed Income