1. Could you introduce yourself and tell us about you? Your current / recent jobs and employers? Previous companies and jobs?
He is coming from a Software background and is a COBOL Developer; later on, he moved to project management using Waterfall and Agile, Scrum as well. He has worked in different roles in multiple organizations for the past 15 years, including products from the banking, telecommunication, insurance, and even government. Most of his roles and responsibility include end-to-end project delivery, project management, release train engineering, and so on.
His last role was with XXXX as a Scrum Master/AC/RTE, the organization was controlled by the central government, and what they do are high-level plans for the citizens of Auckland; he was involved with small projects like noise control mobile application for local neighborhood to use, a dam-related application/project to help make precautionary way for citizens if anything happens to their dams, and a another one was for an animal RFID tag for benefit of pet owners. Since he was the Scrum Master that time, he handled two teams: community and implementation team; his specific tasks back then includes facilitating all scrum events, backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, and more.
Before this, he was with XXXX as a Scrum Master where they did product development for both web and mobile applications using Agile and Lean frameworks. He was having five different teams back then: two from offshore, one from TCS, and two more supporting the waterfront at the time. He used to collaborate with different time zones back then and was responsible for the whole delivery.
2. What skill(s) / experience would you self-describe as strongest or specialist in?
Strongest skill would be project management or being a Scrum Master since he considers himself good with understanding the scope, what needs to be delivered, what are the resources needed, how it’s going to be planned, how many members will it take to finish the project, and so on. Second thing would be team building, he’s good with making sure he works efficiently with different teams in multiple organization; also knows how to build a team with transparency and adaptation between team members. Lastly, he thinks one of his biggest strength would be time management and being able to delivery projects/products just in time; he’s good with planning his tasks and responsibilities as well.
He has been working with different industries and niche including government, telecommunication, insurance, banking, and more; he can join any industry in the market.
