Matthias Caryn

Well organized, creative, and certified scrum master and team coach. 5+ years of agile work experience with a multitude of teams across the globe on a scaled level. Servant leader in making high-performance teams. Love to make repeating tasks automated due to my technical background and experience. Next to work, loves to play board games, hiking with his dogs or tweaking a 3D Printer.

SAFe Scrum MasterSAFe Scrum Master

Pfizer · FreelancePfizer · FreelanceFeb 2023 - Present · 4 mosFeb 2023 - Present · 4 mosPuurs, Vlaanderen, België · HybridPuurs, Vlaanderen, België · Hybrid

Pfizer wants to be a digital leader and has created 6 different workstreams to create the manufacturing of the future who create solution for sites across the globe. As a Scrum Master I was involved with 2 workstreams. 

I coached and facilitated 2 POs and 2 development teams (8 and 15 persons) in creating improvements within a new SAFe environment. During this time, I also completed my SAFe training and now I am a Certified SAFe Scrum Master (v6.0). 

I got to work with projects that involved innovation and augmented reality. Each team had 6+ projects running in parallel in very different stages. From POC to development.

As a Scrum Master I facilitated the following meetings for each team in a sprint iteration of 2 weeks within a PI of 6 iterations:
- A daily stand-up 
- Every week a backlog refinement meeting
- Every 2 weeks a system demo to the stakeholders
- Every week a prioritization meeting with PO and technical lead
- Weekly calls about the running projects with stakeholders
- Every 2 weeks a sprint review and planning
- Every 2 weeks a retrospective
- Every 12 weeks preparation for PI planning with breakout sessions

What I achieved as a Scrum Master:
- Explained the purpose of the Scrum and SAFe meetings to the team members
- Explained the use of JIRA and drawing out the JIRA Workflows
- Made the team more self-sufficient
- Set up better ways of communication with stakeholders
- Coached the PO and business analyst to capture proper requirements and improved the creation of user stories and acceptance criteria
- Coached an agile team with the transition from Kanban to sprints
- Proposed optimization with JIRA, JIRA Align, Confluence and Miro
- Proposed automation for working with JIRA and JIRA Align
- Onboarded new members

Additionally, I also did business analysis for a different workstream. It is about transforming an on-the-job training paper flow into a digital solution.Pfizer wants to be a digital leader and has created 6 different workstreams to create the manufacturing of the future who create solution for sites across the globe. As a Scrum Master I was involved with 2 workstreams. I coached and facilitated 2 POs and 2 development teams (8 and 15 persons) in creating improvements within a new SAFe environment. During this time, I also completed my SAFe training and now I am a Certified SAFe Scrum Master (v6.0). I got to work with projects that involved innovation and augmented reality. Each team had 6+ projects running in parallel in very different stages. From POC to development. As a Scrum Master I facilitated the following meetings for each team in a sprint iteration of 2 weeks within a PI of 6 iterations: - A daily stand-up - Every week a backlog refinement meeting - Every 2 weeks a system demo to the stakeholders - Every week a prioritization meeting with PO and technical lead - Weekly calls about the running projects with stakeholders - Every 2 weeks a sprint review and planning - Every 2 weeks a retrospective - Every 12 weeks preparation for PI planning with breakout sessions What I achieved as a Scrum Master: - Explained the purpose of the Scrum and SAFe meetings to the team members - Explained the use of JIRA and drawing out the JIRA Workflows - Made the team more self-sufficient - Set up better ways of communication with stakeholders - Coached the PO and business analyst to capture proper requirements and improved the creation of user stories and acceptance criteria - Coached an agile team with the transition from Kanban to sprints - Proposed optimization with JIRA, JIRA Align, Confluence and Miro - Proposed automation for working with JIRA and JIRA Align - Onboarded new members Additionally, I also did business analysis for a different workstream. It is about transforming an on-the-job training paper flow into a digital solution.

Skills: Servent Leader · Program Management · Confluence · Agile Methodologies · Jira Align · Scaled Agile Framework · Jira · Business Analysis · Scrum

Scrum MasterScrum Master

BASF · FreelanceBASF · FreelanceSep 2019 - Feb 2023 · 3 yrs 6 mosSep 2019 - Feb 2023 · 3 yrs 6 mosGhent, BelgiumGhent, Belgium

It all started with a small team of about 8 people developing an application for BASF. We were all working on our own little space but that was not very performant. From my experience I investigated creating a proper team that is communicating instead of individuals. We changed the workflow to soothe the organization better. 

In the end I was Scrum Master for 4 different teams with about 30 people that were all working on full stack applications (Java, Angular, Mongo, SQL). 

The 4 teams consisted of: 2 POs, 4 technical leads, 20+ developers, 3 testers, 3 project managers and 1 resource manager. Every team has a 2-week sprint where I facilitated in:
- Every day a daily stand-up 
- Every week refinements that use a poker planning
- Every 2 weeks a demo done by developers to the stakeholders
- Every 2 weeks a Prioritization meeting with PO and technical leads
- Every 2 weeks a sprint review and planning
- Every month a retrospective

Here are some highlights of improvements I did to create these high performant teams:
- Coached waterfall development individuals using Kanban to 4 agile teams using sprints
- Set-up remote work for the team during COVID
- Set-up optimized JIRA Workflow
- Proper documentation in Confluence
- Introduced JIRA Automations
- Created Renovate bot for automatic dependency upgrades of PRs
- Configured BitBucket Workzone plugin
- Complex ScriptRunner executions to create reporting dashboards
- Custom Charts for JIRA to expose more metrics
- Set-Up automation of TestComplete software with Bamboo Spec configurations
- Brainstorming workshops about the usage of common BASF libraries
- Evaluation of DynaTrace processes

Originally, I started as a developer on VESTA (Angular, Java, Mongo) and helped refactor fundamental systems in CERES (Java, SQL).It all started with a small team of about 8 people developing an application for BASF. We were all working on our own little space but that was not very performant. From my experience I investigated creating a proper team that is communicating instead of individuals. We changed the workflow to soothe the organization better. In the end I was Scrum Master for 4 different teams with about 30 people that were all working on full stack applications (Java, Angular, Mongo, SQL). The 4 teams consisted of: 2 POs, 4 technical leads, 20+ developers, 3 testers, 3 project managers and 1 resource manager. Every team has a 2-week sprint where I facilitated in: - Every day a daily stand-up - Every week refinements that use a poker planning - Every 2 weeks a demo done by developers to the stakeholders - Every 2 weeks a Prioritization meeting with PO and technical leads - Every 2 weeks a sprint review and planning - Every month a retrospective Here are some highlights of improvements I did to create these high performant teams: - Coached waterfall development individuals using Kanban to 4 agile teams using sprints - Set-up remote work for the team during COVID - Set-up optimized JIRA Workflow - Proper documentation in Confluence - Introduced JIRA Automations - Created Renovate bot for automatic dependency upgrades of PRs - Configured BitBucket Workzone plugin - Complex ScriptRunner executions to create reporting dashboards - Custom Charts for JIRA to expose more metrics - Set-Up automation of TestComplete software with Bamboo Spec configurations - Brainstorming workshops about the usage of common BASF libraries - Evaluation of DynaTrace processes Originally, I started as a developer on VESTA (Angular, Java, Mongo) and helped refactor fundamental systems in CERES (Java, SQL).

Skills: Servent Leader · Program Management · Confluence · Agile Methodologies · Coaching · Test Automation · Jira · Sprints · Agile Methodologies · Scrum