Kevin Sivic

Senior Consultant
Industral Logic
November 2021 - February 2025

• As a player coach at one Fortune 50 client I coached a group of 30 new college graduates. I transformed this group into high-performing product development teams owning real products across the business.
• In order to accelerate learning I developed and delivered custom bootcamp-style training workshops introducing Kanban, eXtreme Programming, and Design Thinking practices.
• To enable the success of these teams I coached leaders both within the group and in the business areas these teams would be collaborating with towards management styles consistent with modern agile product delivery.
• Acting as a player coach, I introduced and strengthened Extreme Programming practices such as pair and mob programming, Test Driven Development, and Refactoring to individuals and teams.
• As a result of this work one of the teams delivered a pilot solution ultimately used by a network of 3000 businesses 4 months earlier than anticipated creating additional revenue of $25 million in the most recent month on record.

Agile Coach at M&T Bank
LeanDog
April 2019 - November 2021

• Led an Enterprise Center of Excellence, with 12 Agile Coaches, designing and implementing a strategy to train and coach 250 teams impacting 18,000 employees through their agile transformation.
• Actively coached 20 teams, introducing an agile mindset, metrics, and technical practices blending back-of-the-room tactics with hands-on tactics as required to achieve higher quality, reduced cycle times, increased employee engagement, and improved stakeholder expectations.
• Created an effective scaling strategy blending practices from SAFe, DAD, LeSS, and other frameworks to create the right insights to improve organizational design resulting in reduced dependencies across teams, improved predictability, and a reduction in delivery cycle times.
• Developed and delivered custom training workshops, including the introduction of Kanban, Scrum, and eXtreme Programming practices along with activities to improve and accelerate team formation and performance.

Manager, Application Development
Fidelis Care
April 2017 - April 2019

• Provided strategic direction and coaching through organizational agile transformation.
• Guided senior leaders in understanding how to interact with agile teams to improve business outcomes and employee satisfaction.
• Led efforts to enable improved insight into organizational and team health.
• Led reorganization of Enrollment and Eligibility teams to improve collaboration across all parts of the SDLC from Opportunity Identification through Production Deployment and Maintenance.

Agile Coach and Team Lead
M&T Bank
September 2015 - April 2017

• Led the Agile Transformation Council to provide executive support for the transformation.
• Coached teams new to agile in how to effectively perform ceremonies and execute on their product’s roadmap.
• Created agile training for teams and individuals not familiar with agile methodologies and philosophies.
• Led training sessions with groups of up to 50 people to introduce agile concepts.
• Managed application development team leading them through various process improvements including improved testing practices, software
  versioning, retrospectives.
• Provided technical coaching to application development teams on topics such as branching strategies and estimation exercises.
• Created Job Descriptions for Agile Coach and Scrum Master roles.

Agile Coach, Technical Lead, and Program Manager
Synacor
September 2015 - April 2017 Buffalo, NY

• Implemented new practices supporting the system development life cycle while maintaining an agile development philosophy resulting in a decrease in average ticket resolution time of 18 days.
• Improved teamwork both within the immediate Engineering team and across related groups through understanding and socializing the company’s overall goals in the market as well as the role of individual teams in supporting those goals.
• Created technical guidelines for Test Automation across a 100 person engineering organization.
• Created easily maintained and consumed dashboards to improve executive visibility into team activities and project progress.
• Implemented measurable performance metrics using Scrum.org’s Agility Path framework across Synacor in order to track and improve performance.
• Assisted teams and individuals in their agile transformation by providing expertise on agile tools and processes as well as general coaching and mentoring support.
• Utilized strong technical knowledge of Synacor and the clients’ systems to ensure high quality support across all customers.

Senior Manager
Synacor
March 2011 - September 2015

• Established a culture of continuous learning and improvement through various efforts including creating a Scrum Master community of practice, encouraging cross-training on new practices in the organization including automated acceptance testing, launching a monthly Leadership Article Review for all managers, team leads, and aspiring managers to improve their craft as leaders and encouraging regular team retrospectives to encourage team ownership of improvements.
• Led a group of about 45 engineers, project managers, client representatives, and QA Engineers in a re-organization from functional work groups to three cross-functional Agile teams increasing collaboration, quality, and effectiveness as a result.
• Orchestrated architecture discussions within cross-functional Agile teams to enhance technical alignment, resulting in a 20% improvement in project delivery timelines over 12 months.

Engineer
Synacor
January 2008 - March 2011

• Engaged with clients on both a product and technical level in order to accurately document project requirements.
• Created and maintained integrations with over 30 client billing systems using various methods to provide a customized start page experience and enable TV Everywhere access to multiple content providers.
• Conducted code reviews to ensure quality and compliance, resulting in a 20% reduction in post-deployment defects over 12 months.

Professional Kanban I
ProKanban • 2021

Professional Applied Metrics
ProKanban • 2021

Secretary
Board Member - Clarence DI Boosters • March 2019 - Present

Ski Racing Coach
Buffalo Ski Center • January 2025 - Present