Elizabeth Axavidou
Verified Expert in Project Management
Project Manager
Nicosia, Cyprus
Toptal member since October 12, 2022
Elizabeth is passionate about building user-centric products created by empowered, high-performing teams. Her latest interest is neuroscience for facilitators and coaches. She has several areas of expertise in measuring outcomes over outputs and building roadmaps instead of feature releases. Elizabeth has excellent decision-making skills based on validation and feedback culture and empowered trusting teams instead of command and control-ism.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Coaching
- Backlog Management
- Conflict Resolution
- Facilitation
- Jira
- Kanban
- Scrum Master
- Sprint Retrospectives
Work Experience
Senior Scrum Master
Euroclear
- Led three teams that were successfully marked as "mature" in their Agile adoption after six months of the organization's digital transformation.
- Built fully self-organizing teams within six months—able to self-manage their backlog and conduct quarterly planning.
- Accomplished an increasing rate in my team's performance metrics.
Scrum Master and Agile Coach
Bank of Cyprus
- Supported teams to manage their flow as we increased our productivity by 30% in one year.
- Practiced the fundamental element of Scrum and empiricism as we released an MVP version of our product on time and within budget.
- Created a trustful and psychologically safe environment, and our team's happiness increased by 25%.
Agile Project Manager and Scrum Master
Freelance
- Organized and taught systems thinking to management and recreated the structure of the entire organization.
- Implemented a conflict management system which increased the team's overall performance.
- Identified team impediments and caused their removal, which increased the delivery frequency.
Embedded Software and Design Engineer
ASML
- Increased code coverage testing to 80% and implemented the CI/CD pipeline using the server Jenkins.
- Identified areas for modification and improvements within a short span of time to make the codes more efficient.
- Implemented a new Python framework and trained my team on how to use it.
Software Developer
Farelogix
- Participated as part of the initial core team that successfully wrote the MVP version of a new product. Due to this success, the company was acquired in 2018.
- Removed bugs from the software, making it more efficient than before.
- Worked closely with business analysts and members of the UAT team to increase quality and code coverage.
Project History
eCommerce B2C Platform
Supported the teams that designed, launched, and maintained an eCommerce platform.
Data App for Automotive Industry
Successfully launched and managed several releases of the application.
Workflow Digitalization of Public Sector Enterprises
Launched over 12 different projects for public sector enterprises.
Education
Master's Degree in Computer Science
University of Strathclyde, Glasgow - Glasgow, UK
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
Technological Educational Institute of Serres - Serres, Greece
Certifications
Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC)
ICAgile
Lean Six Sigma Management
Lean Six Sigma Institute
Kanban System Design (KMP I)
Kanban University
Professional Scrum Master Level II (PSM II)
Scrum.org
Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF)
ICAgile
Professional Scrum Product Owner I (PSPO I)
Scrum.org
Professional Scrum Master Level I (PSM I)
Scrum.org
Skills
Tools
Jira, Confluence, Trello, Miro, MURAL, SQL, SoapUI, Jenkins
Paradigms
Kanban, Servant Leadership, Agile Leadership, Agile Project Management, XP, Design Thinking, Test-driven Development (TDD), Scrum, Continuous Delivery (CD), Continuous Integration (CI), Agile, Lean, Azure DevOps, Key Performance Metrics
Industry Expertise
Lean Six Sigma
Platforms
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Other
Scrum Master, Agile Coaching, Facilitation, Backlog Management, User Stories, Estimation & Planning, Scrum@Scale, Feature Roadmaps, User Requirements, Technical Documentation, Sprint Retrospectives, Product Owner, Conflict Resolution, Feedback Review, Roadmaps, User Journeys, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Project Budget Management, Project Timelines, Timelines, Spotify, User Surveys, User Personas, Personas, Product Information Management (PIM), C++, Operating Systems, Networks, User Research, Lean UX, REST APIs, Python, Cross-functional Collaboration, Active Listening, Psychology, Empowerment, Manual QA, Metrics, Objectives & Key Results (OKRs), Communication, Adaptive Planning, Product Roadmaps, Feature Prioritization, Teaching, Scrumban, Transparency, Training, User Experience (UX), User Interface (UI), Market Research, Product Management, Net Promoter Score (NPS), Business Requirements, Client-side, Budgeting, QA Testing, Documentation, Requirements, Release Management, PI Planning, Business Process Refinement
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