Brian Bargmann
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Simsbury, CT, United States
Toptal member since May 13, 2020
Brian is a passionate technology leader with extensive experience in organizational, project, and program management. He has expertise in agile project management and software development. Brian is highly skilled at managing relationships between technology, product, and customers at startups and technology leaders that include Splunk, Rocana, ESPN, TomTom, and Microsoft.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile
- Agile Leadership
- Agile Project Management
- Kanban
- Management
- Program Management
- Project Management
- Scrum Master
Work Experience
Agile Consultant
HSB (Munich Reinsurance Company)
- Joined the team as an Agile consultant and developed a Kanban integration approach and tooling guidelines for the engineering teams.
- Increased the throughput and visibility of the engineering product team's application support workflow by leading application teams in the implementation of the Kanban methodology.
- Developed Azure DevOps Boards and Kanban methodology training material, slide presentations, and tutorials; coached team members and leadership on best practices and improvement opportunities.
Senior Engineering Manager | Scrum Master
Splunk
- Enabled customers to optimize machine data flow and get quick business insights by leading the platform engineering team to deliver Splunk’s Data Stream Processor (DSP) product in October 2019.
- Navigated engineering team through a challenging acquisition and transition to Splunk.
- Integrated both the Rocana team and technology into Splunk’s product organization.
- Grew the data streaming platform engineering team by 200% while maintaining a collaborative culture.
Engineering Project Manager | Engineering Manager
Rocana
- Improved the engineering team’s productivity and delivery by implementing an iterative development and project management methodology in a fully distributed startup company.
- Joined as engineering project manager and was promoted to engineering leader to supervise platform teams.
- Improved delivery timelines by driving process improvements in project and release management.
- Drove team best practices in the use of Atlassian Jira and acted as Jira administrator and coach.
Senior Project Manager | Associate Director of Program Management
ESPN (a Walt Disney Company)
- Delivered a portfolio of software projects to support ESPN’s consumer software and business intelligence solutions, while transforming development processes to Agile and Scrum methodologies.
- Managed a $6 million annual portfolio for ESPN's mobile and multi-platform teams. Directly managed key projects and relationships with executives, stakeholders, and vendors.
- Supervised and mentored project management staff who managed all initiatives within the program.
- Provided visibility for ESPN’s finance and ad sales teams by delivering the portfolio of business intelligence projects with a total annual budget of over $2 million.
- Improved the team's delivery and productivity by coaching the development teams and the management on Agile and the Scrum framework.
Senior Engineering Manager
TomTom Group
- Improved the core operational systems and products by directing global teams of software engineers, architects, and project managers in the development of critical geocoding and points of interest production systems.
- Improved the engineering delivery by leading teams in the adoption of Scrum and Agile techniques.
- Decreased development costs by defining and implementing a unified global geocoding strategy and dramatically reduced the production time and costs through a points-of-interest production system.
Project History
Splunk Data Stream Processor
Led the platform engineering team to deliver Splunk’s Data Stream Processor (DSP) product in October 2019. Successfully integrated both the Rocana team and technology into Splunk’s product organization.
Education
Master's Degree in Engineering Management
Dartmouth College - Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Master of Science Degree in Engineering
Dartmouth College - Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering
Messiah College - Grantham, Pennsylvania, United States
Certifications
Splunk Core Certified User
Splunk
Certified Scrum Professional - ScrumMaster (CSP-SM)
Scrum Alliance
Project Management Professional (PMP)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Certified Scrum Master (CSM)
Scrum Alliance
Skills
Tools
Jira, Confluence, Slack, Zoom, Trello, Google Workspace, Splunk
Paradigms
Agile, Agile Leadership, Management, Agile Project Management, Scrum, Kanban, Azure DevOps
Platforms
MacOS, Windows
Other
Scrum Master, Project Management, Program Management, Microsoft 365, Agile Coaching, Team Mentoring, Sprint Ceremonies, Technical Project Management, Knowledge Management, Jira Administrator, Engineering Management, Scrum Coaching
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