Patrick Zahnd

» Transformed an R&D department of over 1000 people into SAFe » Coached and mentored 5 Release Train Engineers (RTE) and 40+ Team Coaches to ensure their successful onboarding » Designed and led the PI Planning workshops of 2 ARTs and co-or ganised remote PI Planning workshops of 3 ARTs » Designed and implemented a unified planning system and tracking dashboards in Jira, Confluence, and Lucid, improving dependency visibility and enabling more predictable PI execution » Trained and coached Agile leaders and team members in SAFe and tools (Jira, Confluence, Lucid) to ensure consistent practices

» Led 2 Human Resources (HR) SAFe Scrum teams and integrated them into the HR PI Planning » Enabled SAFe maturity across POs and team members » Designed and implemented Jira workflows for optimised planning » Restructured MS Teams and SharePoint for better organisation

» Led Finance, Investor Relations, Product, HR, and Communications » Successfully secured pre-seed investments » Scaled team to over 20 people using Agile ways of working » Led strategy and planning workshops (including Advisors) » Established our operational systems using Jira, Trello, and Miro » Represented the company at conferences as a public speaker