
Nicolas Caccaviello
Professional Scrum Master | Change Agent | Helping Organisations and Teams to Continuously Improve and Deliver Value
Salary / Daily rate
Barcelona, Spain
Freelance, open to permanent contract
Skills
Languages
About me
Intro
Professional Scrum Master (PSM I), Certified SAFe 4 Scrum Master, Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master. 6+ years working as a Scrum Master, 10+ years working under Agile Methodologies, 7+ years working as a Business Analyst, and 5+ years working as a Java Developer. Experienced in coaching, mentoring, facilitation, and conflict management, with expertise in various methodologies and tools.
Work experience
Strategic Practice Alignment Product Owner
Tech Mahindra
Jan 2026 - Present
10 months
Remote
– Helping to implement Agiles / Change Management best practices in an 80+ people engagement at a very well known company in the Pharmaceutical sector. – My tasks include helping to create the needed artifacts to foster better communication/collaboration/transparency/visibility amongst teams / team members and support the improvement of the service management in the vendor relationships, Coaching/Mentoring the different roles across the overall organization, contributing on Backlog Refinements, removing impediments, helping the team to properly manage dependencies and liaise risks, fostering mind and cultural change towards continuous improvement and self-organisation, conflict management, collaborating with the other Scrum Masters/CoP Leads/Governance Lead fostering a mindset change across the organisation. – I am working 100% remotely interacting with an 100% remote group of people across the globe distributed mainly between China, India, Japan, Malaysia, Poland, Romania, Spain, Switzerland, UK, etc.
Scrum Master
Huxley
May 2024 - Dec 2024
8 months
Remote
– Helping to implement Scrum/Agile's best practices in three product teams at the same time at a very well known company in the Pharmaceutical sector (Sanofi). – My tasks include running/supporting the execution of the Scrum Ceremonies, Coaching/Mentoring the different roles in the teams, contributing on Backlog Refinements, removing impediments, helping the team to properly manage dependencies and liaise risks, shortening the synchronisation/communication gaps between people, fostering mind and cultural change towards continuous improvement and self-organisation, conflict management, collaborating with the other Scrum Masters fostering a mindset change across the organisation. – I was working 100% remotely with team members distributed mainly between Spain, France, Germany and India.
Scrum Master / Agile Team Coach
Porsche Digital
Jun 2023 - Dec 2023
7 months
Remote
– Working as an Agile Team Coach / Scrum Master, helping to implement Scrum/Agile/SAFe's best practices in one of Porsche Digital's product teams. – My tasks included running/supporting the execution of the Scrum Ceremonies, Coaching/Mentoring, contributing on Backlog Refinements and PI Planning / I&A activities of an Agile Release Train that contains several teams and other Scrum Masters, removing impediments, helping the team to properly manage dependencies and liaise risks, shortening the synchronisation/communication gaps between people, fostering mind and cultural change towards continuous improvement and self-organisation, conflict management, collaborating with the other Scrum Masters and Agile Team Coaches at Porsche Digital's Agile Guild and fostering a mindset change across the organisation. – I travelled to Germany twice for different workshops: The first one I had the chance to facilitate a Mind Map activity with the rest of the Scrum Masters / Agile Team Coaches from the Agile Release Train I was in, and the second one I facilitated a problem solving activity during a Hackathon. – Hybrid mode, working remotely 4 times a week and once a week at the office. Also interacting with people from Germany online.
Scrum Master / Agile Coach
Strands
Apr 2021 - May 2023
2 years 2 months
Remote
– Working as a Scrum Master / Agile Coach at Strands, helping to implement Scrum/Agile best practices throughout the whole Product & Engineering department. This includes several teams and products in parallel (POs, Devs, QAs and Data Analysts) and the teams/departments they interact with. – The teams are distributed and not all members are collocated. – My tasks include running/supporting the execution of the Scrum Ceremonies, Coaching, contributing on driving changes across teams and the whole company, removing impediments, helping the teams and departments to properly manage dependencies and liaise risks, shortening the synchronisation/communication gaps between people, fostering mind and cultural change towards continuous improvement, conflict management, amongst others. – Working on a hybrid model (3 times per week remotely and twice a week at the office).
Scrum Master
Gracia101 Talent Solutions
Nov 2020 - Apr 2021
6 months
Remote
– Working as a Scrum Master in Bacardi's Digital Factory (but hired through Gracia101), implementing Scrum in a distributed team (Devs/QAs in Spain, Product Owner in Philippines and Stakeholders in Italy/USA) helping them to be continuously delivering value and improving as a team itself. – The Product is an internal Web-App accessed through tablets and laptops that will replace manual processes that are currently being done in paper inside of Bacardi's plants globally. – Coaching Stakeholders, Product Owner and the Development team under Scrum best practices and working under an Agile mind-set. Also collaborating in Bacardi's Agile Transformation with the rest of the Scrum Masters and the Agile Coach in different initiatives.
Scrum Master
K-LAGAN
Sep 2019 - Jul 2020
11 months
Remote
– Working as a Scrum Master in one of Pasiona's clients (but hired through K-Lagan), implementing Scrum/SAFe in two distributed teams simultaneously (Devs/QAs in Spain, India and US - Product Owners in UK and Poland) helping them to be continuously delivering value and improving as a team itself. – The client is currently implementing SAFe in many areas and teams and my job is to work directly with the teams and the Release Train Engineer of a newly launched Agile Train to help achieve the Program's vision and goals. – Contributing to the Agile Transformation process within the organisation through coaching Agile Teams with Scrum/SAFe and Agile best practices. – The client is a very well known Travel services / GDS company (Travelport) and the product delivery requires interaction with people in the UK, United States, France, Poland, Spain and India (mainly in English/Spanish).
Scrum Master
K-LAGAN
Jan 2019 - Aug 2019
8 months
Barcelona Area, Spain
– Working as a Scrum Master in one of K-Lagan's clients, implementing Scrum in a multidisciplinary team helping them to continuously deliver value and improve as a team itself. – The main technology used by the team is Salesforce to build a Global Case Management System with roll outs in the UK, Spain and France. – Contributing to the digital transformation process within the organisation coaching Business and IT stakeholders with Scrum and Agile best practices. – The client is a very well-known insurance company (AXA Assistance) and the project requires interaction with people in the UK, France and Spain (mainly in English/Spanish).
Agile Team Facilitator
everis
Apr 2018 - Nov 2018
8 months
Barcelona Area, Spain
– Working as an Agile Team Facilitator and learning to be an Agile Coach in digital transformation services, training and helping to implement Agile Methodologies, creating operative models and documents related to Agiles (Scrum, Kanban, Lean, etc.) – Co-working and interacting with different areas of the company and participating in projects for internal and external clients such as eDreams. – Collaborating with Barcelona's Agile CoPs in Everis. – Helping with business proposals of new projects adding what is related to Agile methodologies (roles needed, transformations, bimodal strategies, tools, etc.) – Training performed in Management 3.0, Design Thinking and Leadership in company.
Senior Business Analyst
Tecsidel
Mar 2017 - Mar 2018
1 year 1 month
Barcelona Area, Spain
– Working as a Senior Business Analyst in multiple projects regarding the configuration and implementation of the Tecsidel Toll + software in different countries (Honduras, Sweden, Italy, Chile and more). – The tasks include requirements refinement, ownership of the product, use of Redmine as requirements tracking tool, helping to implement and define documentation templates and analysis best practices, documentation of the base software or configurations that are needed for each location among others.
Senior Business Analyst
Globant
Apr 2016 - Dec 2016
9 months
Dock Sud, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
– Working as a Senior Business Analyst in multiple projects for a global leader in financial services, offering solutions to the world's most important corporations, governments and institutions in more than 100 countries (JPMorgan Chase). – The tasks include requirements gathering and refinement, creation of the backlog populated with Epics and User Stories, ownership of the product, use and configuration of JIRA and Confluence, helping to implement Scrum / Agile best practices, Wireframes creation,etc. – Working with people in Argentina (Buenos Aires), the USA (New York and Dallas) and the UK.
Senior Business Analyst
ITWarp Consulting
Oct 2015 - Apr 2016
7 months
Remote
– Working as a Business Analyst / UX Analyst for an american company called iSeatz based in New Orleans. – The work methodology was Agiles and my tasks included helping to improve the user experience by reviewing the designs, documenting existing and new functionality (Use Cases / User Stories), helping to create the JIRA tickets to populate the backlog and the development task workflow. – I was based in Buenos Aires so we use Google Hangout / Skype / Hipchat to interact amongst the Analysts group working in multiple projects.
GlobalLogic
Jun 2014 - Aug 2015
1 year 3 months
Dock Sud, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Senior Bussines Analyst
Oct 2014 - Aug 2015
11 months
Dock Sud, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
– Working as a Business Analyst / Product Owner in multiple projects for a very well-known Insurance company from Australia that recently acquire one of the biggest Insurance firms in Buenos Aires (QBE). – The work methodology was a mixed between Scrum and Agiles. – The tasks included requirements gathering from the client, documentation in use cases, testing of the functionalities, analysis of the solutions, perform DEMOS of each release with the client, definition of functionality and help with the coordination of a 4 people team (between Developers and Testers). – I was also working as the Scrum Master performing the Daily Status meetings, Retrospective meetings, assigning task to the team members, organizing the backlogs of the different projects and the release plans and JIRA administration of the projects.
Senior Business Analyst
Jun 2014 - Oct 2014
5 months
Dock Sud, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
– Working as a Product Owner Proxy in a project for a Spanish company, adding new features to a Sports ticket selling mobile app (Android / IOS) and website (Never Empty). – The work methodology was a mixed between Scrum and Agiles. – The tasks included requirements gathering, documentation of the user stories, testing of the releases, definition of functionality and the product backlog, requirements prioritization, help the UX expert to define the new Uls and help with the coordination of a seven people team (between Developers, Testers and UX).
Senior Business Analyst
GlobalLogic
May 2013 - May 2014
1 year 1 month
Dock Sud, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
– Working as a Business Analyst in multiple projects for a very well-known Insurance company from Australia that recently acquire one of the biggest Insurance firms in Buenos Aires (QBE). – The work methodology was a mixed between Scrum and Agiles. – The tasks included requirements gathering from the client, documentation in use cases, testing of the functionalities, analysis of the solutions, perform DEMOS of each release with the client, definition of functionality and help with the coordination of a ten people team (between Developers and Testers). – I was also working as the Scrum Master performing the Daily Status meetings, Retrospective meetings, assigning tasks to the team members, organizing the backlogs of the different projects and the release plans and JIRA administration of the projects. – The role had a big exposure to the client and I had to interact with several stakeholders from the different business lines.
Business Analyst
Zurich Insurance Company Ltd.
Oct 2012 - May 2013
8 months
Dock Sud, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
– Working on a project for Zurich Brazil as a Business Analyst. – My tasks included requirements gathering, analysis, documentation and address change requests for the different systems and services that Zurich International provides. – I was also in charge of every change request that was assigned to me. From the design itself (interacting with the Business Team in Brazil) to the transition of changes to the developers located in India. – I had to assist the Developers by answering all their doubts during the development cycle, validate the Test Cases that the Testing team will execute and answer to all the Defects that the development and testing team raises for each Change Request.
Java Developer Ssr.
Consultores en Desarrollos Tecnologicos SA
May 2012 - Oct 2012
6 months
Dock Sud, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
– Working in the development of Oracle Fusion as a Java Developer Ssr.
Java Developer Ssr.
Globant
Feb 2011 - Dec 2011
11 months
Dock Sud, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
– Working on a software project for Travelocity.com – As a member of the development team at Travelocity.com, my main responsibility was to fix bugs and develop new features on the maintenance team. My duties included Java development, analysis, estimation, interaction with people in other locations such as Dallas, Texas or Bangalore, India. – As a java developer I had to fix bugs in Java, HTML, Jsp, XML, XSD, etc. – We used versioning tools SVN and CVS, depending on the module we needed to make the changes and Hudson as a deployment tool. – Mainly the projects I worked in, where with the purpose of increase the annually money revenue, what made me had to be in contact with different areas of the company. – At the same time my biggest achievement was being in charge of Travelocity's WebApp and Emails area as the only developer in Buenos Aires. I worked under an agile methodology having daily meetings, 15 days releases (sprints), several standups a week, Bugzilla as requirements backlog and tracker, etc. – We also used jProfiler to perform aisle profiling tests to improve performances issues and detect bottlenecks.
Accenture
Jul 2008 - Feb 2011
2 years 8 months
Dock Sud, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
Java Developer Ssr
May 2010 - Feb 2011
10 months
Dock Sud, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
– Working on a software development project for First Data Latin America. – As a member of the development team at First Data Accenture, my responsibilities grew according to my progress inside the company. My duties included Java programming, analysis, documentation, estimation, helping with the team coordination. – We built a system based on Web Services in which I was in charge of the entire back end. – My biggest achievement was a grid card that I developed from scratch with J2SE that was inside of one of the Web Services. It could be parameterized and consumed for many different applications. – At the same time I used encryption libraries to make it safer and more secure and it was exportable to a PDF or Doc files. – While I worked in this project I helped managing a small team of 3 to 4 people coordinating them and helping them as knowledge back up. – Also during this project I had to perform a deeply cleaning of POM files in order to fix circular dependencies and many other problems presented in Maven's configuration of each module.
Java Developer Jr+
Jul 2008 - May 2010
1 year 11 months
Dock Sud, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
– Working on a software development project for the Swiss Medical Group. – As a member of the development team at Swiss Medical Group, Accenture, my responsibilities grew according to my progress inside the company. Today, my duties included Java, HTML, JavaScript programming, etc. errors solution, improvement and development estimations, documentation, instruction to new members of the team, technical leading and weekly participation with client meetings. – My biggest achievement was that during this project I learned how to use many technologies and frameworks until the point that I was handling myself a whole module of the system maintaining the builds deployed in the production environment, and at the same time working with the rest of the team members in the other modules that weren't still productive. – In this project we built webpages from scratch, using Apache Tapestry, HTML, JavaScript, CSS and Sybase as data base engine. – The module that I was managing was in charge of the digitalization of Swiss Medical's data. – An external provider sent us XML files, we process them, run multiple validations and if everything was fine, impact the information in the database to be used in the future for the rest of the modules. – The system was a migration of multiple small applications that Swiss Medical group was using. – I also had to build reports with iReports, run performance tests to fix punctual Hibernate issues with jProfiler, develop store procedures and suggest data base changes or Hibernate tuning. – We worked under an extreme programming methodology where the requirements change all the time and we had to adapt really fast.
Java Developer Jr
Conexia SA
Jun 2007 - Jun 2008
1 year 1 month
Dock Sud, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina
– Company that develops and maintains different applications, mainly related with transactions and validating business rules. – As a member of the development team, my duties were, developing in J2SE, documentation, instruction to new members of the team, interact with analysts in other locations of the country, and developing queries and stored procedures in PostgreSql . – My biggest achievement in this company was starting to understand how to start building applications from the ground. I developed a Swing application that basically used Sockets and displayed a jFreeChart graphic. – I was also in charge of a module that parsed XML files, validated them and generate XML responses. – In my time in the company I learned some PostgreSQL and I had daily access to the data bases. – I worked generating a lot of UML documentation using IBM Rose and Enterprise Architect and how to track requirements with Requisite Pro.
Education
Instituto Esba Villa Urquiza
Systems Analyst
2005 - 2008
3 years 1 month
Licenses & certifications
Sun Microsystems FJ310
Issued: –
Sun Microsystems SL275
Issued: –
UX Foundations: Usability Testing
Issued: –
UX Foundations: Content Strategy
Issued: –
Leading SAFe
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Fostering Belonging and Inclusion for Managers and Leaders
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Atlassian Agile Project Management Professional Certificate
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Certified SAFe 5 Scrum Master
Issued: Jan 2020
Professional Scrum Master (PSM I)
Issued: Jan 2019
Certified SAFe 4 Scrum Master
Issued: Jan 2019