Sterling Kroll

Letters of Recommendation for Sterling Kroll -,- Pallavi Kulkarni - Sterling is an outstanding Agile Coach who significantly improved the performance of his teams. He is an excellent facilitator, adept at navigating challenges, mentoring team members, and driving meaningful changes that enhance productivity and team morale. Sterling also brings great technical skills in JIRA and Confluence, making him a valuable resource for optimizing these tools to support Agile practices. It was a pleasure to work with him, he's a great team player with a positive attitude. I highly recommend Sterling for any organization looking to strengthen its Agile approach. Mircea Niculescu - I had the pleasure of working with Sterling at Avalara for the past two years, during which he served as an Agile Coach while I was the Director of Engineering for Cross Border. Sterling's expertise in Agile methodologies and coaching has been an excellent asset to my teams. He provided insightful guidance on all aspects of the software development life cycle (SDLC), helping us navigate challenges and improve our processes without disrupting our workflow. His approach is thoughtful and considerate, focusing on enhancing our capabilities without imposing unnecessary changes. Additionally, Sterling introduced us to several tools, including comprehensive dashboards, that allowed us to monitor the health of our organization from an Agile perspective. This visibility has been instrumental in driving continuous improvement and ensuring alignment with our goals. I highly recommend Sterling for any organization looking to elevate their Agile practices. His deep understanding of Agile principles, combined with his collaborative approach, makes him a valuable asset to any team. Claudio Baserga - I worked with Sterling very closely for over two years. As a Director of the Technical Program Management Team, I relied on Sterling to provide proper Agile practices to the various engineering teams that were under my area of responsibility. Through his oversight, the engineering teams all increased their planned delivery content, quality, and velocity. Sterling provided the needed metrics without overloading the teams to enable this improvement. When my Team was down two program managers, Sterling, without hesitation, stepped in and took over roles that were typical of the program management team to cover the gap. Sterling and I worked to split the roles and responsibilities clearly, and once replacements were hired, Sterling helped transfer knowledge to the new hires until they could take the program management role effectively. I highly recommend Sterling for his Agile practice knowledge, willingness to help the teams meet goals, eyes on quality improvement, and overall "let's get the job done" attitude. Sterling strongly exhibits organization, ownership, passion, adaptability, humility, fun, optimism, curiosity, urgency, and simplicity in addressing programs, projects, and all aspects of successful work. He is indeed an asset to any organization. Rajnish Ranjan - Sterling is a great professional in the team; he has all the skills and competencies to flourish in his role. He has in-depth technical skills in Atlassian tools like JIRA, Confluence, very few in the industry who have super command like sterling has on these tools. He has always always-ready-to-help attitude and is a perfect team player. Sterling has the right approach for any problem and goes deep in solving the most burning issues in an organization. Sterling is an asset to any team and organization. Lucky that I got an opportunity to work closely with him. Yogesh Kulkarni - I was fortunate enough to work with Sterling in the same group. I want to extend my deepest gratitude for his contributions to our Group. He successfully navigated multiple challenges and emerged stronger to deliver good performance month on month. His passion to strive to grow by focusing on continuous innovation was unparalleled. His consistency in responding to product expectations was always lauded. It was always talk among our group about his laser-sharp planning, technical expertise, and speed to respond. Thank you so much for your relentless support and help. Your contributions will always be remembered. Charisma Davasia - Sterling has been an outstanding partner to me and to my team, as we have worked together cross-functionally to improve the Quarterly planning process for the Cross Border team at Avalara. Sterling has approached everything he's done with a collaborative spirit and a "can-do" attitude. He maintains a level head and a positive outlook, working expeditiously to respond to urgent requests and applying his JIRA and tooling skills to help visualize and introduce efficiencies into the planning process. His efforts are focused on the best interests of our scrum teams and our business, and Sterling's JIRA, Confluence, and Agile process expertise have been of tremendous value to us. I am very, very thankful for our partnership, and look forward to opportunities to continue to work together in the future. Joe Rebman Jr. - I had the pleasure of working with Sterling for a couple of years. During that time, he supported multiple, separate business lines and products that I worked with. He did an exceptional job maintaining consistency across them, ensured our roadmap was complete and reportable from Jira, and was able to maintain currency when switching between multiple different products throughout the day. He allowed me and our team to focus, knowing he was on our projects, which allowed us to get a sense of comfort knowing that he would take care of what he needed to without requiring oversight. He is as dependable as they come. His knowledge and hands-on experience in Jira allowed us to maintain a clean backlog, ensure reporting out of our project was clean and truthful, and highlighted all dependencies across many teams. On top of that, he is a great person, a great partner to work with, and a truly great and dedicated employee.