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Agile Training AllianceTrainer and Co-Founder
Jun. 2024City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Old Mutual LimitedEnterprise Agile Coach
Aug. 2022Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Think AgileHead of Agile Coaching
Aug. 2021 - Aug. 2022Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
Think AgileAgile Coach & Trainer
Jan. 2019 - Aug. 2022Cape Town Area, South Africa
TravelstartAgile Coach
Jan. 2018 - Jan. 2019Cape Town Area, South Africa• Providing feedback and advice to agile project teams and individuals
• Teach/Mentor/Coach/Advocate teams, individuals (and leaders)* a variety of Agile & Lean frameworks - including, but not limited to Scrum, Kanban, XP, RAD, etc
• Help drive team and company culture towards the Agile (experimentation/empirical) mindset.
• Ensure that all teams and individuals commit to the Agile mindset & are self organized with a clear commitment to their goals.
• Actively work with development team members and PO to effectively value and deliver their backlog where dedicated agile role is not available.
• Identify opportunities for continuous operational and/or team improvements
• Facilitate interactions between team members and stakeholders as needed to improve delivery.
• Work with rest of Management team and drive the implementation and maintenance of a results driven Team Health framework based on industry best practice.
TravelstartHead Of Mobile
Oct. 2015 - Dec. 2017As Head of Mobile development, I am responsible for the planning, development and delivery of the Travelstart app - Flapp. Together with a team of highly motivated and extremely talented, young professionals, we have grown our innovative app into a product worthy of the Travelstart brand of excellence. We strive to accomplish this always by using Lean and Agile methodologies. Our team uses a Scrum based framework to structure our development priorities and maximize our efficiency. * Encouraging a culture of technical excellence and learning. Vision to have fully integrated and constantly communicating (sync or async) teams across the Org that share knowledge freely and who love delivering great products to customers.
* Working with Head of Product and company founder to set and deliver a Product Roadmap that aligns our goals with that of the company vision.
* Project management and scheduling for the Android, iOS, and backend developers, as well as the designer and QA.
* Coaching the team on Agile methodology and the Scrum framework.
* Acting as a catalyst for improving overall communication between our team in Taipei, and our Head Office in Cape Town.
* Supporting our customer service agents with App related (and general tech) queries to better assist our customers. Responding to customer reviews on the Play Store and contacting customers for feedback.
* Working with our Marketing department to digitally drive installs, engagements and promotions for the App by researching and providing the correct integrations and frameworks.
* Developing new features for app exclusive functionality.
* Providing technical and industry mentorship to developers in both Taipei and Cape Town where needed.
* Liasing with local experts to provide relevant information for managing HR and Finance related matters between our Taiwan office and Head Office.
TravelstartSoftware Engineer & Scrum Master
Dec. 2012 - Oct. 2015Cape Town Area, South AfricaFull stack developer role which requires me to design, implement, test and maintain software solutions that benefit our customers in multiple regions. My role has me work on front-end features and styling changes using an array of frontend technologies(JSF, Bootstrap, Javascript, etc), to designing, creating and optimising our use of data using different storage solutions (MySql, PostgreSQL, Hazelcast, etc). As an Online Travel Agency we do a lot of integrations to different flight suppliers and payment gateways. I have been responsible for some of these integrations as well as optimizing our generic architecture to make these integrations quicker and easier to understand. As a more senior team member I also provide mentorship to some of the newer team members. I have provided basic integration inductions to key areas of my expertise in the system. I have been required to use my previous knowledge, and personal research, to taking part of making critical design changes to the overall system as well as for implementing brand new features. Technologies Used:
JSF
HTML
Javascript
Bootstrap
Java
SOAP
XML
REST
JSON
MySQL
Hazelcast
PostgreSQL
ActiveMQ
Camel
Gradle
Tomcat
Kineto MobileSoftware Developer
Apr. 2009 - Nov. 2012Use J2EE techniques to develop a banking switch platform, as well as, using technologies such as J2ME, Swing, GWT, to interface with it and through which a user can transact. Using business analysis skills to analyze problems and client specifications, such that they can be implemented in the specified time-frame efficiently and correctly. Use testing methods to minimize impact once in a production environment. Technologies Used:
GWT
HTML
JavaEE
SOAP
XML
Hibernate
JPA
IBM DB2
Glassfish
Tomcat
EMSSJunior Engineering Consultant
Dec. 2008 - Feb. 2009Document and measure signal strength of internal cellphone antennae such that radiation conforms to ICNERP standard of safety for people.
EDHPart-Time Scientist
Nov. 2008 - Dec. 2008Use digital image processing skills to analyze multiple corrected images taken of a tennis court, and merge them without distortion of quality and scale. Used these same techniques to track and analyze the motion of a golf club when striking a golf ball. Technologies Used:
Python
OpenCV
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