Lavinia Simon
@laviniasimon
Product Owner and Senior Scrum Master with 10+ years’ Agile delivery success, turning requirements into high-value software.
RomaniaWhat I'm looking for
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
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%.
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.
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.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
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.
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.
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