Zak Taemur-Profile

Scrum Master and Agile Coach experience with over 20+ years of banking, insurance, pharmaceutical and public sector domain experience. 12 years of  strong project/program management and 6.5 years experience as a Scrum Master and Agile Coach.

Education and Certifications–

Education : BSc 1st class honours in Computing Science, MSc in Computing Science

Certifications: SAFe Scrum Master, SAFe Product Manager/Product Owner, SAFe  Practioner, Certified Scrum Master (Scrum Alliance)

Upcoming Certifications: Enterprise Agile Coach Bootcamp leading to ICP-ENT & ICP-CAT (Dec 2019), Prof Scrum Master I (Oct 2019)

Skills Summary

• Facilitating agile ceremonies, removing impediments, assisting teams to become self organising and advocate continuous improvements.
• Technology exposure to Java, MuleSoft/Apigee, mongoDB, Hadoop, CyberArk, Data Pipelines, Elastic Stack as a Service (ESaaS), Kibana, Checkmarx/SonarQube, Cucumber Selenium, SOAP UI for API testing, Jenkins, Maven/Gradle, GITHub, Docker/Kubernetes, JIRA, Confluence, Azure
• Coach and mentor team members on Agile practises
• Knowledge and experience with Agile techniques namely Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe 4.6), Scrum, Kanban, XP, User Stories, BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, Continuous Testing, DevOps, Pairing, Automated Testing and Agile Games.