Marco Toscano - Scrum Master for SAFe Transformations

Q: Where is Marco based?

Marco is based in Munich, Germany and can operate in on-site , hybrid , and remote work models.

Q: What languages does Marco speak?

Marco speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Advanced) .

Q: How many years of experience does Marco have?

Marco has at least 24 years of experience. During this time, Marco has worked in at least 10 different roles and for 29 different companies . The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 10 months . Note that Marco may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Q: What is Marco's latest experience?

Marco's most recent position is Scrum Master at Siemens Energy .

Q: What companies has Marco worked for in recent years?

In recent years, Marco has worked for Siemens Energy , Heidelberg Materials , ALDI Data & Analytics , Siemens Mobility / Yunex Traffic , and RWE .

Q: Which industries is Marco most experienced in?

Marco is most experienced in industries like Automotive , Transportation , and Information Technology . Marco also has some experience in Banking and Finance , Chemical , and Energy .

Q: Which business areas is Marco most experienced in?

Marco is most experienced in business areas like Project Management , Information Technology , and Product Development . Marco also has some experience in Human Resources , Business Intelligence , and Logistics .

Q: Which industries has Marco worked in recently?

Marco has recently worked in industries like Energy , Transportation , and Professional Services .

Q: Which business areas has Marco worked in recently?

Marco has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology , Project Management , and Human Resources .

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Munich, Germany

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Experience

Dec 2024 - Present

1 year 9 months

Scrum Master

Siemens Energy

Responsible for introducing agile methods within the Interface & Integration Team (2 Scrum Teams)
Planning and delivering trainings in agile methods
Facilitating workshops and Scrum events
Removing impediments
Increasing sprint performance

Oct 2024 - Feb 2025

5 months

Scrum Master

Heidelberg Materials

Introducing agile methods in an SAP S/4HANA migration within the Procurement Domain (3 Scrum Teams)
Planning and delivering trainings in agile methods
Coaching the Delivery Team
Helping build the Scrum Master Community of Practice

Jul 2023 - Sep 2024

1 year 3 months

Scrum Master

Siemens Energy

Responsible for the Scrum process in the Finance Capability Stream with more than 10 teams
Mentoring leaders in agile practices
Facilitating workshops and Scrum events
Removing impediments and increasing sprint performance
Helping build the Scrum Master Community
Trainings in SAP Solution Manager and Jira
Building a culture of continuous improvement and orchestrating cross-team dependencies

Oct 2022 - Jun 2023

9 months

Scrum Master

ALDI Data & Analytics

Responsible for the Scrum process in 2 teams and facilitating all Scrum events
Coaching teams in agile methods and encouraging agile ways of working
Removing blockers and managing team dependencies
Supporting the Product Owner with backlog prioritization and writing user stories
Creating dashboards for management reporting

Nov 2021 - Sep 2022

11 months

Munich, Germany

Scrum Master

Siemens Mobility / Yunex Traffic

Responsible for the Scrum process for 3 teams developing an intelligent traffic control system (SAFe)
Facilitating Scrum events and coaching the development team
Helping build the Scrum Master Community (Scrum of Scrum)
Building a culture of continuous improvement and mediating team conflicts
Preparing, running, and following up on Product Incremental Planning every 3 months

Jun 2021 - Oct 2021

5 months

Essen, Germany

Scrum Master

RWE

Responsible for the Scrum process for 2 teams in the SAP S/4HANA migration "TranS4mer" (SAFe)
Facilitated cross-functional team workshops and ran the Scrum events
Removed blockers and ensured sprint goals and milestones were met
Coached the development team

Jan 2021 - Dec 2022

2 years

Trainer in Scrum, Kanban, SAFe & LeSS

Deutsche Bahn AG

Built agile teams in IT and non-IT areas
Created training concepts and developed different training modules
Delivered (online) training sessions

Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

1 year

Munich, Germany

Trainer for Agile Project Management & Design Thinking

Digethic

Built agile teams in IT and non-IT areas
Created training concepts and developed different training modules
Delivered (online) training sessions

Jan 2020 - Jun 2021

1 year 6 months

Ingolstadt, Germany

Scrum Master

Audi (CARIAD)

Responsible for the Scrum process for 2 teams in the development of a cloud-based dealer platform (SAFe)
Facilitated the Scrum events and helped shape the Scrum Master community (Scrum of Scrum)
Built a culture of continuous improvement
Prepared, ran, and followed up on the Product Incremental Planning every 3 months

Jun 2019 - Sep 2019

4 months

Munich, Germany

Agile Coach

Vodafone Kabel

Coached teams in their roles and responsibilities while developing a process for delivering GigaHFC
Worked out shared team agreements and encouraged an agile mindset
Coached the use of agile metrics and facilitated workshops to develop a product vision and story map
Coached the team in creating well-formed user stories incl. acceptance criteria and facilitated the Scrum events

Apr 2019 - Jan 2020

10 months

Munich, Germany

Scrum Master

MAN Truck & Bus

Responsible for the Scrum process for 2 distributed teams in the new development of the production program and the migration of a legacy system from Cobol to Java
Moderation of workshops to transfer knowledge to new Java developers
Moderation of Scrum events, removal of impediments, and coaching of the development team

Mar 2019 - Sep 2019

7 months

Munich, Germany

Agile Coach

Osram

Coaching of 3 teams in their roles and responsibilities in the development of a cloud-based IoT platform (Lightelligence)
Creation of team quality criteria (DoD, DoR) and moderation of workshops on product vision and story mapping
Coaching in the creation of user stories and conducting assessments to evaluate team maturity
Support in the introduction of LeSS

Feb 2019 - Apr 2019

3 months

Munich, Germany

Agile Coach & Trainer

O2/Telefonica

Introduction of the team to agile ways of working with initial training sessions for campaign planning
Coaching the team in roles and responsibilities and introduction of a workflow-based way of working (Kanban)
Shadowing and observing the teams for mentoring

Oct 2018 - Jan 2019

4 months

Weßling, Germany

Agile Coach

Ruag Aerospace

Transition of an SAP/S4 HANA team (IMPULSE) from waterfall to Agile (SAFe)
Introduction of agile ways of working with initial training sessions and moderation of knowledge-sharing workshops
Coaching of leaders and team members as well as introduction of a scaled Scrum process in SAFe

Apr 2018 - Apr 2019

1 year 1 month

Munich, Germany

Scrum Master

BMW Group

Responsible for the Scrum process for 2 teams in the development of a cloud-based bill of materials quantity system (SAFe)
Coaching the Scrum team in their roles and moderation of other workshops (e.g. Design Thinking)
Contributing to the Agile Community of Practice and supporting the establishment of SAFe

Jan 2018 - Sep 2018

9 months

Munich, Germany

Agile Coach & Trainer

BMW Group (Bildungsakademie)

Building agile teams in IT and non-IT areas with initial training sessions
Coaching on roles and responsibilities and introducing an agile workflow (Scrum and Kanban)
Shadowing and mentoring the teams and enabling self-organization

Oct 2017 - Jan 2018

4 months

Munich, Germany

Scrum Master

Allianz

Development of a central cloud-based administration system
Introduction of agile ways of working with training sessions and facilitation of events
Coaching the team, setting up a continuous improvement process, and enabling self-organization

Feb 2017 - Apr 2018

1 year 3 months

Munich, Germany

Scrum Master

Interhyp (ING Group)

Development of a web-based document manager for advisor and customer portal (LeSS)
Responsibility for the Scrum process for 2 teams and facilitation of Scrum events
Ensuring sprint goals are met and artifacts are kept up to date
Coaching the team and cross-team scaling with Scrum of Scrums
Jira project administration and Confluence maintenance as well as helping shape communities of practice

Sep 2015 - Jan 2017

1 year 5 months

Frankfurt, Germany

Scrum Master

Santander Bank

Development of cloud-based reports based on big data for sales & risk controlling
Responsibility for and proper implementation of the Scrum process
Ensuring effective meeting flow and removing obstacles
Supporting management in the agile transformation

Mar 2015 - Jan 2016

11 months

Darmstadt, Germany

Transition Manager / Roll-out Manager

Merck

Development of an HR service platform with rollout in the branches in Spain (Barcelona, Madrid)

Apr 2014 - Aug 2015

1 year 5 months

Ludwigshafen, Germany

Project Manager

BASF

Development of an electronic approval process for IT projects

Apr 2012 - Mar 2014

2 years

CEO, Co-Founder & Agile Coach

Tripobox

Concept, development, and rollout of an e-commerce platform for group travel (Silicon Valley)

Jun 2011 - Mar 2012

10 months

Project Manager

Bombardier

Rollout of a new transaction portal

Jan 2010 - May 2011

1 year 5 months

Project Manager

LIDL

Implementation of a freight system

Mar 2008 - Dec 2009

1 year 10 months

Project Manager

Degussa

Implementation and rollout of a nationwide printing system

Sep 2007 - Feb 2008

6 months

Project Manager

Pepecar

Implementation of a new e-commerce software

Jun 2006 - Jul 2007

1 year 2 months

Project Manager

SEAT

Rollout of a CRM system

Sep 2005 - May 2006

9 months

Project Manager

Novalia

Implementation of an e-commerce portal

Apr 2003 - Jun 2005

2 years 3 months

Project Manager / Consultant

Rail Consult

Various international infrastructure projects

Mar 2002 - Feb 2003

1 year

Management Consultant

Blue Value

Development and implementation of a banking sales portal

Industry Experience

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Experienced in Automotive, Information Technology, Transportation, Banking and Finance, Energy, and Chemical.

Automotive

Information Technology

Transportation

Banking and Finance

Energy

Chemical

Business Area Experience

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Experienced in Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development, Human Resources, Business Intelligence, and Logistics.

Project Management

Information Technology

Product Development

Human Resources

Business Intelligence

Logistics

Summary

Agile Coach, Scrum Master Professional (PMP) with over 20 years of experience in software development.

Expert in building cross-functional teams, scaled frameworks (SAFe, LeSS), and consulting for DAX companies such as Siemens Energy, RWE, Siemens Mobility, ALDI, BMW, VW, Audi, Allianz, SAP, and ING Group.

Co-founder of a startup in Silicon Valley and founder of Rocking Agile, with a focus on agile training and coaching.

Skills

Scrum & Kanban
Agile Coaching
Trainings & Workshops
Agile Transitions
Agile Scaling
Okr Facilitator
Design Thinking
Test Automation
Team Development
Story Mapping & User Journeys
Jira
Confluence
Trello
Azure Devops
Service Now
Data Warehouse
Business Intelligence
Sas
Behavior-Driven Development
Cucumber
Selenium
Sap S/4 Hana
Mysql
Postgresql
Microsoft Azure
Aws
Kibana
Grafana
Qlik
Sonarqube
Git
Bitbucket
Hybris
Webshere
Visio
Drawio
Sap Focused Build
Sap Solution Manager (Solman)

Languages

German

Native

English

Advanced

Spanish

Advanced

Education

Mar 1997 - Feb 2002

Cologne University of Applied Sciences

Diploma in Business Administration (University of Applied Sciences), focus on Business Informatics · Business Informatics · Cologne, Germany

Certifications & licenses

Scaled Agile

Scrum.org

Scrum Alliance

PMI

Statistics

Experience

Total positions 30

Experience in Automotive 5 y

Avg length 1 y

Longest experience 2 y 2 m

Global Experience

Countries worked in 1 (Germany)

Primary country Germany

Expertise

Recent roles Scrum Master, Trainer in Scrum, Kanban, SAFe & LeSS, Trainer for Agile Project Management & Design Thinking

Main industries Automotive, Information Technology, Transportation

Main business areas Project Management, Information Technology, Product Development

Qualifications

Certifications earned 4

Profile

Created

February 2025

Last Update

August 2026

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Marco is based in Munich, Germany and can operate in on-site, hybrid, and remote work models.

Marco speaks the following languages: German (Native), English (Advanced), Spanish (Advanced).

Marco has at least 24 years of experience. During this time, Marco has worked in at least 10 different roles and for 29 different companies. The average length of individual experience is 1 year and 10 months. Note that Marco may not have shared all experience and actually has more experience.

Based on recent experience, Marco would be well-suited for roles such as: Scrum Master, Trainer in Scrum, Kanban, SAFe & LeSS, Trainer for Agile Project Management & Design Thinking.

Marco's most recent position is Scrum Master at Siemens Energy.

In recent years, Marco has worked for Siemens Energy, Heidelberg Materials, ALDI Data & Analytics, Siemens Mobility / Yunex Traffic, and RWE.

Marco is most experienced in industries like Automotive, Transportation, and Information Technology. Marco also has some experience in Banking and Finance, Chemical, and Energy.

Marco is most experienced in business areas like Project Management, Information Technology, and Product Development. Marco also has some experience in Human Resources, Business Intelligence, and Logistics.

Marco has recently worked in industries like Energy, Transportation, and Professional Services.

Marco has recently worked in business areas like Information Technology, Project Management, and Human Resources.

Marco attended Cologne University of Applied Sciences for Business Informatics.

Marco has 4 certificates. Among them, these include: SAFe Practice Consultant (6.0), Professional Scrum Master (PSM I + II), and Certified Scrum Master (CSM).

Marco is immediately available full-time for suitable projects.

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