Christina Keogh

Christina Keogh

RTE & Agile Transformation

 

Special Sauce

  • Deep Agile expertise with global experience

  • Strong influence and education competency

  • Swedish, English, German, Japanese and Spanish language competencies

Education

  • 2019, ProgressLead, Certified SAFe®4.6 Scrum master Trainer (SSM)                                 

  • 2019, Radtac, Certified SAFe®4 Program Consultant (SPC4) (using 5.0 and currently upgrading to 5.0 certificate)

  • 2019, International MBA Institute, Certified in MBA Leadership

  • 2018, International Scrum Institute, Certified Scrum master

  • 2016, Sahlgrenska Science Park & Business, Sales for non-sales people

  • 2014, Swedish Transport Administration, Training in process control tools Qualiware/Barium live

  • 2013, Swedish Transport Administration, Common Safety Method and Risk Analyses

  • 2010, Chalmers Technical University, Lean Production/Scrum 

  • 2010, Intuitive leadership, Human skills for Project Managers, PROPS for Project Managers, Presentation skills

  • 2009-2011, KY-Akademien, Technical Project Management including PMI-test 

  • 2001-2002, IBS, International Business School, International coordinator  

  • 1995-1998; 2004-2005Gothenburg University,Japanese- and German studies

Availability

Immediately

Languages

  • Swedish

  • English

Preferred Locations

Stockholm

Leadership

As a pragmatic leader, I find it easy to get individuals and teams at all levels to agree on the common goal and unpretentiously and joyfully focus on getting there. I will as always put great focus on all parties understanding the connection between their efforts and IT development, business and customer benefits and serve and support so that they deliver as efficiently and correctly as possible.

Release Train Engineer

I will teach, serve, coach and facilitate Lean-Agile values, principles and practices to
your individuals and teams at all levels. With first-hand experience from Japan and as an expert link between Japanese experts and Swedish companies, I can provide with more understandable background thoughts than if I was only trained in the West, which for many is the norm. This leads to the individuals, teams and management not only understand, but also embrace the Agile mindset and contribute with great deliveries along the value stream. I was thanked by teams at Ericsson Group IT for being very patient with their maturity progress and for regardless of the situation always talking to them in a nice, friendly way and with humour. And for facilitating PI-Plannings that were extremely well coordinated and coached so that everyone could participate with great outcome, although remotely.

Lean Agile Coaching

With training and various project management methods, from traditional to Lean-Agile     and experience from various Agile roles, I will look for training and mentoring needs and take people from where they are today all the way to the agreed future Agila status. At Ericsson, up to 340% improvement in agility was demonstrated in 11 months. I am a certified SAFe SPC (Scaled Agile Framework® Program Consultant) and a certified Scrum Master and Scrum Master Trainer.

Lean Agile Transformation

I have led and been involved in several Agile transformations in large as well as smaller organization from where I bring does and don´ts. At the Swedish Transport Administration, I amongst other led an own initiative approved by the top management, which contributed to the line operations and large projects started to work agile. In later assignments at ProgressLead, I was part of the training department with the task of transforming the entire Jambiz Group into an Agile/SAFe organization. In my most recent assignment at Ericsson Group IT, I was responsible for the Agile transformation at Public Cloud and was part of the LACE team for Group IT and CoP. Both assignments included providing basic and specific training at all levels, as well as helping to restructure the organizations so that management and production work together agile to achieve Business Agility, ie that the entire organization moves in the same direction. In all assignment, this is one of my main focus areas.

RTE, Agile Coach & Scrum Master | Ericsson

2020 - Current

Training and coaching at all levels and maturity stages. Also part of GIT´s LACE team and support for Ericsson Group IT´s Agile-program. Public Cloud took me in to lead and speed up the transformation and we were seen as for runners and great example in the Agile journey. Also Scrum master in two teams. Used SAFe5.0. The agile improvements where up to 340% during the 11-month period. Was offered a permanent position.

Lean-Agile Coach & Trainer | Progress Lead

2019 - 2020

Part of the training team for the Lean-Agile (SAFe) -transformation at Jambiz Enterprises AB as agile coach and trainer for the whole organization and coach for employees out on assignments. Much appreciated for the ability to explain and inspire in a simple, logical and passionate way.

Senior Scrum Master | Passion Project

2018 - 2018

Purchased a property in the south of Spain and managed the total renovated of it using Agile/Scrum and built up a rental business. Challenging and demanding to work in a new country, yet a new culture, teach, lead and coach them in Agile/Scrum that was totally new to them. We landed the project on time and with very good result. All guests have been very pleased and has rated the property as well as our services to the highest 5.0.

Senior Scrum Master | Volvo

2016 - 2017

International multi-site IT-project within the complex field of Guided Fault Tracing, hence connect all car functions to an IT-system for ability to diagnose the electrical taxi, for Volvo IT-operations (DevOps). Volvo Cars´s first time as supplier and first electrical car. Semcon took me in as a wild card, since I had no experience in Guided Fault Tracing, and because I wanted to introduce Agile/Scrum as practical ways of working. With this the project almost immediately proved to be a success at Semcon, and internationally, which was highly appreciated at the client Volvo Cars and the end customer London Taxi. It led to me introducing agile/Scrum at all levels within Semcon and a little at VCC. All parties where surprised and highly satisfied with it and the project deliverables. We also made the budget last for another 10 weeks of service after our final delivery and got the following reference from a manager at Volvo Cars:”You have set a new standard and benchmark how to run a project like this within VCC”.

Senior Project Manager & Agile Lead | Swedish Transport

2011 - 2015

In project management for a 10-year 1.3 billion IT-project within the railway departments business development, the aim was to replace the IT-systems for train control and simulation, part of systems integration and overlooking the whole IT-infrastructure. Head hunted to the project. Multiple roles. Project manager and later Agile leader, due to agile transformation, for subprojects responsible for integration management of other departments/projects; gathering requirements along the process for train management, see to continuous cooperation during the development of the IT-systems, and get supplies from other departments crucial to the project’s effect repatriation. Led the overall scheduling, big room plannings, and risk management for the entire project, as well as with winning foreign suppliers. Led the pre-qualification process in the procurement. Two of the applicants who did not win the contract appealed up to the Supreme Court, the project won all instances. Also responsible for resource procurement, involved in various investigations etc. 

Project Manager & Trainer | Swedish Transport

2014 - 2015

Requested to this project for quick and efficient development and implementation. The aim of the project was to build internal capacity of support and management of future train control systems. Training and coaching in the new. In parallel led and participated in a large contract inquiry as a basis for negotiations with the current supplier. 

Agile Coach | Swedish Transport Administration

2014 - 2015

Initiated the project of value stream mapping for the whole business area Train management, budgeted by and reported directly to the top management. This included agile coaching along the value stream for everyone´s understanding of how their production is linked to the value flow, contractual agreements across interfaces, building agile joint work etc. The project met great resistance at times at all levels in the organisation, even total stops. With good communication, a talented team and persistence we managed to finalize the project. This contributed to the line operations and large projects started to work agile.

Lean Transformation Expert | Volvo

Nov 2012 - Mar 2014

Was the link of understanding between Volvo and Japanese experts in Lean Production from Toyota at Volvo's introduction.

Project Coordinator | Semcon

2007 - 2009

Scheduling and coordination of several 1-3 year projects in product development. Built up a service that initially met with great resistance. With strategic planning and good communication, managed to build up good internal cooperation and a more precise scheduling. Was offered a position in the purchasing department of the customer.

Transformation Lead | C.L Interpreting

2003 - 2005

Assignments as a link between Swedish companies and Japanese Lean/Agile-experts from Toyota when Volvo and SAAB implemented the efficiency system TPM (Total Productivity Maintenance). Project manager for the Japanese and US national teams in athletics, for example at the Olympic Games. Gave the teams the opportunity to drop everything and focus only on their performance.

OTHER APPOINTMENTS

  • 2007-2010 in Tibet; Project manager in own built up help organization to provide a small Tibetan village a new bridge. Collaboration with Chalmers, IHM Business School, building company in Tibet and related partners.                                                                                         

  • 1996-1998 in Europe and the USA; Project Manager for the Japanese national athletics team at World Championships. Interpretation and translations, Japanese-English-Swedish, mostly automotive

  • 1988-1994 in Japan; English and German teacher, Athletics Coordinator                                                              

  • 1987 in South Africa;  Restaurant, Study of apartheid system

  • 1981 & 1984-1985 in Germany; Farming, Attorneys office