Summary
Joe Auslander is a Project Delivery Manager with 12 years of experience helping organisations build sustainable delivery cultures across banking, telco, government and startups from Auckland, New Zealand. He combines hands-on agile coaching, service design and backlog hygiene with measurable outcomes—examples include cutting epic lead time by 40% and reducing process lead times from 150 to 8 days. Joe has led transformation at scale (launching tribes, training dozens of facilitators) and applied generative AI to uplift workforce skills and improve delivery performance. He thrives on turning messy operational realities into transparent, data-driven practices that let teams self-manage and succeed. His background ranges from software development and production to first-mate seamanship, giving him a pragmatic, systems-minded approach and a knack for coaching diverse teams.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Yachtmaster, Navigation, Boat Operation, Provisioning and Planning, Yachtmaster, Navigation, Boat Operation, Provisioning and Planning at International Yachting Institute
BS, Film and Photography, BS, Film and Photography at Ithaca College
English