Lavinia Simon

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Lavinia Simon

@laviniasimon

Product Owner and Senior Scrum Master with 10+ years’ Agile delivery success, turning requirements into high-value software.

What I'm looking for

I’m looking to own product outcomes end-to-end with strong Agile coaching—partnering with stakeholders to shape backlogs, deliver predictable increments, and balance feature work with technical NFRs in complex enterprise environments.

I’m a results-driven Product Owner and Senior Scrum Master with 10+ years of Agile experience and a strong technical foundation in software development. I maximize product and team value by managing and prioritizing product backlogs, defining acceptance criteria, writing user stories, and communicating product vision—delivering measurable improvements of 25–40% in sprint predictability, backlog readiness, and team delivery outcomes.

I’m hands-on as an acting Product Owner, including formal Technical Product Owner responsibilities, with expertise in backlog grooming, sprint planning, sprint review, and story splitting and estimation. With deep technical understanding from a Java/JEE background and experience in high-availability enterprise environments (SLA >99%), I balance feature development with technical (NFR) work, act as a change agent, and lead adoption of Large-Scale Scrum (LeSS), coaching cross-functional teams toward self-organization, ownership, and continuous improvement.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

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Current

Senior Scrum Master / PO

Current

Jan 2015 - Present (11 years 3 months)

Elevated backlog quality by partnering with stakeholders to define requirements and user stories, increasing backlog readiness by ~30% and cutting mid-sprint scope changes by ~30%. Led LeSS across 15–20 person distributed teams and coached teams toward self-organization, improving sprint goal achievement by ~30%.

Scrum Product Backlog Management User Stories Acceptance Criteria Jira Confluence Stakeholder Management NFR Prioritization

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Senior Java Dev & Technical PO

Oct 2010 - Dec 2014 (4 years 2 months)

Acted as Technical Product Owner for a critical infrastructure product (SLA >99%), shaping product direction by gathering stakeholder needs into technical requirements and prioritized user stories. Combined Scrum Master duties with technical ownership, facilitating Agile ceremonies and mentoring junior developers.

Technical Product Owner Requirements Definition User Story Development Java REST CI CD Jira Confluence

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Software Developer

Océ Software

Aug 2006 - Sep 2010 (4 years 1 month)

Designed, developed, and maintained software modules focused on reliability, performance, and maintainability, supporting team delivery with strong technical execution. Mentored junior team members through technical growth and onboarding.

Java Software Development Reliability Engineering Performance Optimization Maintain Mentoring Agile Collaboration SQL REST CI CD

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

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Politehnica University of Timisoara

Master's Degree, Advanced Computing Systems

2006 - 2008

Earned a Master's Degree in Advanced Computing Systems from Politehnica University of Timisoara.

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Politehnica University of Timisoara

Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science and Engineering

2001 - 2006

Earned a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from Politehnica University of Timisoara.

Tech stack

Software and tools used professionally

Gmail

Jira

Java

SQL

Elementary

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