Leader. Coach. Mentor.
As an Agile Coach and Consultant, I am dedicated to enhancing leadership effectiveness by employing strategic facilitation and comprehensive coaching methods.
I'm passionate for coaching, mentoring and leading individuals, teams and organizations. People-driven and leading by serving to enhance efficiency and effectiveness both within the team and bigger organization.
My focus is on transforming individuals into cohesive, self-managing and high-performing teams capable of delivering high-value products in the shortest time possible.
Partnering with executives and directors, I leverage Agile to maximize customer satisfaction while ensuring a clear and sustainable path toward organizational success.
Professional Experience
The Unlimited
Full-time – 2 yr 4 mo (current)
Durban, South Africa
Agile Coach
As an Agile coach, my journey began with transforming IT teams into self-managing, high-performance units achieving 30% in effectiveness and outcomes. That sets a foundation that expanded to encompass business department.
Collaborating closely with shareholders and C-level executives, I’ve been pivotal in fostering a company-wide culture of agility.
My current focus is with top-tier leadership emphasizing openness, courage, and respect, aligning our strategic objectives with dynamic market changes. This positions us to diligently adapt and increase ability to innovate, maintaining agility as a core competitive advantage.
Pzaz TV
Full-time – 8 mo
Guildford, England, United Kingdom
Scrum Master
In my eight-month journey as Scrum Master at Pzaz, my accountability was to orchestrate development team to collaborate smoothly with growth, marketing, and sales aligning them to business goals for maximum market impact.
Working closely with the founder on strategic goals implementation of Scrum was inevitable across multiple teams. By reducing non-value-added work we manage to enhance project management workflow and boosting value delivery by 15%.
Successfully increasing efficiency in processes, enhanced user satisfaction, and strengthened feedback mechanisms, ensured that organization remains agile as I move forward.
SimTec MD
Full-time – 1 yr
Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Scrum Master
Hired as a Scrum Master at SimTec MD my accountability was to help the organization transition from traditional way of work to Agile, implementing the Scrum framework effectively.
In less than 3 months team was educated to understand professional Scrum enabling them to deliver value quickly to investors. Besides that, I manage to build partnership with C-level executives to facilitate strategic decisions, resulting in a 15% increase in customer satisfaction.
This guidance and bigger picture set teams for success heading towards business objectives, deliver value rapidly, and adapt based on feedback from investors.
After a year of impactful contributions knowing that the team is well-established in Agile I moved forward ready to tackle new challenges.
Market Me Good
Freelance – 8 mo
Riga, Latvia
Agile Consultant
As an Agile consultant and coach, a seamless transition was facilitated from a strict plan-driven approach to a flexible, value-driven approach. In collaboration with the company’s founder, work processes have been optimized and transparency over tasks and challenges significantly enhanced.
Teams are taught to self-manage and collaborate effectively, emphasizing the importance of value delivery.
Additionally, I’m was consulting the team to quickly responding to market changes and identify pitfalls that prevents them from being adaptive to market needs. This approach not only meets client requirements but also positions the organization as forward-thinking and flexible.
KiWi
Full-time – 5 mo
Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Scrum Master
As a Scrum Master at KiWi, focus was on transition of teams in Switzerland and Mexico from traditional project management to Agile practices and Scrum.
This transformation involved implementing regular Sprints, significantly enhancing project delivery and efficiency. By introducing Sprints we achieved 25% improvement in process efficiency and value delivery within just 5 months.
The initiative not only streamlined workflows but also deeply involved coaching the teams, ensuring they grasped the full benefits of Agile. This coaching led to more engaged teams and quicker, more effective project outcomes.
Having successfully guided this Agile transformation and ensured the company’s sustained adoption of Agile principles, I moved forward another company, aiming to drive further Agile transformations.
Creative Studio Form
Full-time – 2 yr 3 mo
Banja Luka, Bosnia & Herzegovina
Scrum Master
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