Imre Kollo
Years experience in Scrum Master role
Years leading IT teams and projects.
Over 15 years experience in IT product management and delivery, I enjoy shaping products that create real value for users and organizations.
I thrive in collaborative environments where freedom and responsibility go hand in hand.
Clear goals and defined roles, combined with the autonomy to make meaningful decisions, are essential to my motivation and productivity.
Work History
IT Team Lead / Scrum Master
2 Years 7 MonthsLead and coach people in Data analytics and engineering agile team.
Main focus is to create and maintain healthy, trustful team dynamics, helping to keep the team focused on delivering customer value. Through effective collaboration with team product owner and other internal parties.
Agile Release Train Engineer (Senior Scrum Master)
2 Years 1 MonthServant leader and coach for the software development teams (Agile Release Train, a virtual organization of multiple scrum teams).
Major responsibilities were to facilitate program level processes and execution, drive continuous development, manage risks and escalate impediments. Acting as a full-time chief Scrum Master for the team of scrum masters.
From scratch, learned myself and successfully implemented agile way of working (based on SAFe framework) in one area of IT delivery teams.
Agile Project Manager /Scrum Master
5 Years 2 MonthsMain role was to lead complex IT-projects, implement agile way of working in public sector, forming and coaching new scrum teams.
Greatest success was e-police project, funded by EU (~4 mln eur). 1st goLIVE (MVP) was done in six month, based on new IT-architecture platform, software and hardware (rugged tablets mounted in police vehicles). During the 4-year EU funding period, practiced successfully incremental and iterative development - implemented functionality in small chunks, based on end-users regular feedback.
In 2017, the e-police team was selected as the best development team in SMIT.
About e-police project in media:
- https://e-estonia.com/the-new-estonian-e-police-system-is-a-sight-to-behold/
- https://www.postimees.ee/3743991/politsei-votab-patrullsoidukites-kasutusele-uue-e-politsei-lahenduse
- https://disainikeskus.ee/uudised/e-politsei-paases-maineka-disainikonkursi-finaali
- Estonian ePOLICE – For a Safer Tomorrow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvNtkr3Fy9A)
IT Team Lead
2 Years 6 MonthsLeading cross-functional teams to develop, implement and maintain public sector IT solutions like Health Information System and Social Protection Information System.
Head of Information Assets Division
6 Years 2 MonthsDifferent IT and people leading roles. Product Manager/Main User and Product Owner, Team lead/Project Manager.
Area - IT-development of police core information systems (e-police for patrol officers, case and records management system for a justice procedures, command and control system for a police rescue center operators and patrols).
2003-2014 a guest lecturer in Estonian Academy of Security Sciences (Police College). Topics: "Community policing" and "IT-systems for the Law Enforcement Police".
Head of Police Education Division
13 Years 11 MonthsOver 15 years in line manager role, leading people in different police units. From Chief Constable to Head of Community Policing, and Head of Law Enforcement Division, and Head of Police Education Division.
Because of strong interest in IT systems development, beside manager role, moved more and more to IT-related roles (i.e. police information systems head user/tester, IT project manager).
Education
Bachelor of Science - Criminal Justice And Police Science
Skills
Certification
- Certified OKR foundation. OKR Institute.
- Agile Software Development: Creating an Agile Culture. LinkedIn.
- Certified Scrum Product Owner. Scrum Alliance.
- Certified Scrum Master. Scrum Alliance.
Music, dog training, learning spanish, sport activities like running, swimming, cycling.
Currently, as a dog handler, my main hobby is to train my dog (german chepherd). So far passed 2 levels of obedience exams.