1. Kevin Dahlstedt, CCP, PMP, CSM
13848 Osage Court ▪ Westminster, CO 80023
720-220-4748 ▪ Kevin.Dahlstedt@gmail.com
www.linkedin.com/in/kevindahlstedt
Software Development/Project Manager
Software engineering, accounting, leadership, and business experience encourages an approach to complex projects
with an all encompassing point of view, defining risks, leading design decisions, and implementing effective solutions
within budget and deadline. Track record of development successes in software product development, storage,
federal DOD & DOE contracting, telecommunications, banking, and accounting environments.
Key Accomplishments:
² Simultaneously deployed 9 hardware platforms, leading development teams in India, Europe, China, and the US.
² Drove development as Scrum of Scrum master, coordinating up to 8 Scrum teams with 40+ team members.
² Scrum Master and Project manager using industry best practices and tools
² Comfortable using JIRA/Confluence for agile projects and process documentation/communication
² Directed teams in IT, Doc, QA, software support as 2nd
level manager with 40+ reports.
Areas of Impact:
Project Management: Agile, rapid prototyping, conventional waterfall, project controls, product support, disciplined
agile delivery, train model, JIRA, Confluence, NPI
Team Leadership: Scrum teams, functional development groups, cross-functional/virtual/international teams
Management: Risk/financial management, quality, process improvement, hiring/reviews, cross-team logistics
Professional Experience
NetApp/SolidFire
Senior Engineering Program Manager (2015 – present)
Provided project management and scrum master services to software development teams working on both the
primary OS as well as the supporting client applications. Organized 4 new development teams responsible for 6 new
products that were all delivered with within one year of initial project start. Maintained a quarterly cadence for these
products with on schedule/under budget deliveries. Contributed to corporate process hardening efforts with NPI,
waterfall (train model), and agile project managers.
Impact Snapshot: Operated as NPI Project Manager and Development Scrum-Master for multiple development
teams using various agile models.
² Organized 4 new development teams responsible for 6 new products that were all delivered within one year of
initial project start. Maintained a quarterly cadence for these products with on schedule/under budget
deliveries.
² Introduced a pre-allocated backlog approach to scrum teams that allowed for a predictable schedule while still
enabling the team to learn and use continuous planning in an agile fashion.
² Teams established a reputation for delivering releases predictably and with all committed features as well as
being agile enough to modify plans and schedules quickly.
² Achieved all project goals while still minimizing the overhead impact on the development teams.
2. Program Expertise: Agile development including Scrum and Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD), JIRA, multi-project
coordination, waterfall & train model projects, MS Project, New Product Introduction (NPI) (interfacing with
support, legal, marketing, development, build/release, and product management)
Management Scope: 15+ project engineers (development, automation, quality engineering), multiple team
coordination, managed NPI release teams.
SAP – Denver, CO
Senior Manager, S/W Engineering – Development, (1994 – 2014)
Direct software development team for database gateway and connection products, managing complete life cycle from
inception of product to delivery and testing. Work within project and functional teams and manage cross-functional
product team that interacts with documentation and numerous product group. Provide direction to cross-cultural
development/QA teams in China and participate in multiple virtual teams across the globe.
Impact Snapshot: Built team chosen to aid other product teams by providing access and utilization of 9 platforms,
teaching team to ask the right questions to determine alternative solutions and performance/functional impact.
² Opened the door for significant sales in Fortune 500 firms like JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs as lead manager
and primary architect for database gateway, overseeing development and QA teams in the U.S. and China.
² Increased platform support 50–100% and connectivity support for legacy products 300%, managing gateway/
connectivity product evolution; port to Solaris, Linux, and 5 other platforms; and creation of connection tools
to Oracle and HANA databases for data replication products.
² Reduced bugs for legacy products 90% and cut customer-reported bugs while delivering on time, shifting
engineer focus to finding/fixing real bugs by enhancing processes and working with QA to track false positives.
² Freed up 2 FTE in QA by building centralized framework in Java to interface across platforms and products,
enabling data filtering and streamlining of data type test comparisons through binary-level and fuzzy logic
comparison in one test suite.
² Minimized customer service issues while developing GUI tools to enable remote gateway management, using
Java to develop tools with flexibility for wide range of user base, including dynamic screens and information
wizards depending on user level.
² Selected to lead 18-month project to replicate ODBC drivers across 9 platforms to access multiple brands/
database versions. Provided architectural overview, served as Scrum Master for multiple scrum teams, and
performed in release architect role.
Technical Expertise: Product development/support, automated test, infrastructure, multi-platform development,
automated install/deployment; build controls (audit reporting/replication and legacy product support)
Management Scope: Up to 25 direct reports (development, infrastructure, quality engineering); hiring, reviews,
discipline; small, large, cross-cultural, and virtual team development; $1 million hardware/software budget
Education
COLORADO TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY
Master of Science – Computer Science
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO
Bachelor of Science – Business Administration (Accounting and Information Systems)
Certifications
CCP – Certified Computing Professional (http://iccp.org/certification/designations/ccp )
PMP – Project Management Professional (http://www.pmi.org/)
CSM – Certified Scrum Master (https://www.scrumalliance.org)
