YOSH KASHIMA, PSM

408-915-8773 | ykashima64@gmail.com | Sunnyvale, CA

www.linkedin.com/in/yoshkashima

Objective: Program Manager, Business Analyst, Web Platforms (SaaS, PaaS, IaaS)

Technical Solutions Architect/Agile Coach– Flawless Execution - Scrum Master

Go-to-Market Strategist – Customer Focused – Cross-functional Leadership –Team Builder

Over 10 years designing, building, and managing software development projects involving highly complex

features/components. Enabling fast track development by recommending methodologies and directing the

multiple groups and external partners. Spearheaded cross-functional teams to define priorities and resource

allocation to initiatives or programs by defining scope, success criteria, plan schedules, drive work efforts

(including cost & quality), and monitor project/program from inception through delivery (integrating them into

“business as usual”, company project development model). Scrum Master with diverse experience to develop

project plans and schedule. Able to manage tasks and teams through project critical path by identifying and

resolving issues to achieve overall success of the project. Well respected for ability to translate complex issues

to achievable actions and communicate well with technology, executive and business audiences.

• Drove Monta Vista (MV) $10M Open Stack (Cloud Apps) partnering model with offshore OEMs by

prioritizing feature development, plan implementation and drive to execution to date using Scrum.

• Drove multiple contracts with OEMs by initiating, costing proposal, performed risk analysis,

managed change control, and service solutions of complex software platform using Agile

methodologies without additional development resources.

Areas of Expertise

• Incremental Application Releases (Scrum)

• Proactive Issue Tracking and Resolution

• Innovative Project Documentation (SOW, RFP)

• Third Party Project Evaluation and Integration

• Onboarding and Enablement Process

•

Leadership, Mentoring, and Team Building

Agile Methodology Development Manager

• Developed Scrum and Kanban board based on prioritization from customers and key internal stakeholders

culminating in faster delivery on average by 50% and profitability by 20% per year.

Career Highlights

• Adapted Scrum framework (Product/Sprint Backlog) for Test Driving Development (TDD) reducing the

complexity of key deliverable criteria and promoting Transparency, Inspection, and Adaptation principals.

• Drove multiple teams (Scrum of Scrum). Scrum Master with servant leader role transforming teams from

waterfall to self-driven Agile team. Translating Product Backlog (advising Product Owner) into Sprint Backlogs

(Tasks), initiating Scrum ceremonies (daily standup, sprint reviews, sprint retrospectives), scoping the project

(Product Backlog/Sprint Backlog grooming, sprint velocity, burn down charts, story points), and delivering

feature rich high quality solutions for complex software platform.

Technical Development/Business Operations

•

•

•

Grew virtual teams (15+) including EU and APAC regional teams to ensure MV partners were up to date on

latest services of MV technologies, ensuring complete customer satisfaction.

Designed customer centric design framework to “best fit” product development resulting desired delivery

ecosystem able to broaden the features/components selection and increasing the reliability of the product.

Created innovative scaling delivery service (blended) and deployment strategies based on demand

forecasting deferring customer’s initial sales cost until complete integration of new product ensuring

complete customer satisfaction and retention – all while remaining in full compliance to signed agreement.

Professional Experience

FMFA, Sunnyvale, CA

Project Manager/Scrum Master

Currently at stealth-mode startup researching medical use device and cloud application.

Nidec Seimitsu America Corporation, San Jose, CA

Sales Manager, Business Project Development / Product Owner

Lead point of contact for high-volume vibration motor sales to mobile phone manufacturers.

• Review written (Japanese and English) redlines contracts and verbally negotiated changes in (Japanese and

English) cumulating in over $90 million of revenue from Apple, Fitbit, Immersion and others by showcasing

expertise in engineering and manufacturing.

• Achieved 100% increase of sales pipeline activities in two fiscal quarter cultivating, developing, and

launching new cloud deployments to attract and retain customers.

• Managed customer relationships with Japan and US-based customer to develop delivery plans and launch

timeframe in order to meet customers launch plans using Scrum framework.

Monta Vista Software, San Jose, CA

Technical Sales Delivery Manager/Customer Engagement

Lead point of contact for Monta Vista (MV) Android Saas platform.

• Tripled the OpenStack opportunities for MV by leading Mobile Cloud Platform (APIs) initiatives.

• Worked with Carrier Grade (VoIP) communities’ development distributions to ensure optimum quality,

performance and customer experience for MV OpenStack Saas, thus saving MV internal resources.

• Drove Monta Vista (MV) $10M OpenStack partnering model with offshore OEMs by prioritizing feature

development, plan implementation (API/SDK) and drive to execution to date using Scrum.

• Optimized SW/HW integration process by working cross-functionally with internal stakeholder product

owner, developers, and management to decrease delivery time by 30%.

• Ran MV Professional Services (Cloud and Living Room), resulting in 100% new market opportunities for MV.

• Improved Salesforce CRM workflow process that reduced response time by 50% and increased data

accuracy by 80%, thereby slashing engineering engagement costs by 50%.

• Created innovative development initiatives shifting R&D costs to customer’s sales, thus deferring customer’s

initial startup cost but allowing more reliable revenue stream, while controlling intellectual property (IP)

right.

• Initiated and managed various projects that resulted in 100% customer satisfaction and renewals, such as:

o Embedded Android business projects with offshore OEMs (Samsung, Emerson, Ericsson, and

Continental). Performed implementation reviews, evangelized new product roadmap with customer

product and engineering teams, monitored progress of deliverables, reported project status,

resolved conflicts, and handled customer escalations with minimal impact to delivery schedule and

deliverables—all while remaining in full compliance to signed service agreements. Assured success

of the technical aspects of a partner’s integration by providing necessary documentation and

guidance. (Weekly meetings via Web Ex and QBR on site meetings)

o Created and managed qualitative and quantitative analysis reports of delivery against factory ramp

to ensure best possible client experience resulting in 100 %customer satisfaction and renewals.

o Created Cloud storage application using Google sites for more efficient workflow (RFP, RFQ, etc.)

system that delivered user-friendly experience. This system enabled metrics for accurately tracking

customer issues, providing quick and accurate responses as well as KPIs for continuous process

improvements.

2010 - 2013

2014 - 2015

2013 - 2014

NVIDIA, Santa Clara, CA

2005 - 2009

Customer Consultant /Engineering Developer

Lead point of contact for partner device integration with graphic card and applications.

• Responsible for project expenses and overall project success, including project budget and expenses.

• Gathered and prioritized product and customer requirements, defined product vision and roadmap,

oversaw the entire APAC design wins through completion (averaged 12 design wins per year).

• Developed new GPU chips micro code to incorporate “add in projects” for feature functions with OEMs

(Apple Japan, NEC, Sony,).

Independent Consultant/Contractor

Devicescape, South San Francisco - Program Manager/Scrum Developer, Consultant

•

Lead point of contact for printer software development using Open Stack RTOS.

Drove wireless (802.11 a/b/g) Access Point development for APAC customers.

Xerox International Partners (XIP)

Senior Product Manager/Process Engineer

Lead point of contact for process improvement (Software, Supply Chain, Logistic, Manufacturing)

• Led team of developers and implemented large scale customized HW/SW product with five large OEMs

(Xerox, Fuji Xerox, Apple, Dell and Gateway) resulting in 15 major design wins with additional cross sales

opportunity for XIP while standardizing the features/functions requirements.

• Redesigned XIP’s corporate demand supply process from Xerox legacy system to Oracle system for

operational excellence to maximize revenue and margin while minimizing supply shortage and cost.

• Re-architected XIP quality and product data reporting infrastructure to integrate multiple geographies into

global warehouse to support earning calls and financial reports.

• Saved millions of dollars spent in manpower, rework, and inventory cost while increasing reliability of supply

forecast by installing new automated manufacturing and inventory control system using modern automated

computerized manufacturing process (Robots, conveyor, autosensing, etc.).

EDUCATION: BS in Engineering, Minor in Business, San Jose State University

Licenses and Certification

• Professional Scrum Master – PSM I Certification by Scrum.org

• Program Management APIC Certification

• CCNA and CSSLP Training

Languages: Fluent in Japanese

Technology Skills

• Continuous Integration and Release

• Data Analytics, Trend Analysis

• Salesforce CRM and Analytics

• Software Development Life Cycle Process

• JIRA, C, Shell and Python Scripting

• Mobile Development (iOS and Android)

2000 - 2005

Electronics for Imaging, Foster City – Engineering Program Manager/Scrum Developer, Contractor

•

1995 - 2000