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TRAINER BIO - PAUL
Paul Kok
Paul has over 30+ years of technology working experience in various positions from application development, infrastructure technology, portfolio, program & project management, service management, security & risk management, leadership coaching, innovation design thinking facilitation, employment engagement & HR people operations, and agile & digital transformation. He has worked for both financial, manufacturing and retail industries for multi-national companies, two are components of the Dow Jones Industrial Index and Fortune 100 Best Companies.
Paul is now an independent consultant. Most recently, he has worked as an Agile Transformation Coach for Digital Transformation programs in different companies, across gaming, hospitality, fintech, retail and manufacturing industries. He was previously the Director of Program and Service Management for Asia Technology Operations at Nike.
Prior to that, he served as the Head of Strategic Initiatives and covered portfolio, program and project management for Asia Technology Infrastructure Services at Goldman Sachs. He was also an entrepreneur co-founded a startup company in the hospitality & gaming industry. Throughout those years, he had been particularly keen on delivering internal training and coaching to staffs covering portfolio, program, project, risk, service, people management, and agile & digital transformation. Over the years, he has acquired a board range of body of knowledge on both soft skills and technical skills with the certifications below.
Paul is enthusiastic about community building and is currently the president of Macau Project Management Professional Association.
Professional Experiences
2018 June – Now Agilizing
Principal Agile Coach
2018 June – Sept AT Solution
Agile Transformation Coach
2018 June – Sept NewType Limited
Agile Transformation Coach (IT Consultant)
2013 Jul – 2018 May Nike Inc.
Asia Pac Lean Agile Transformation Leader
Asia Pac Latin America Portfolio, Program Director
Asia Employee Engagement Champion
2011 –2013 Jun Jong Kim Teng Junket (new startup company)
Founder and Head of IT
1993-2011 Goldman Sachs Asia LLC
Executive Director
1989-1993 Bank of China HK
Deputy Manager, Computing Department
Community and Volunteer Experience
President of Macau Project Management Professional Association (Current)
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TRAINER BIO - RICO
Rico Chiang
Mr. Chiang is a veteran IT professional with over 20 years of IT experience. He has assumed senior and head of IT positions for renowned NGO, public organization and listed companies in Hong Kong and Macau, of which industries span across properties & real estate, gaming, hospitality, retail and leisure & entertainment. Mr. Chiang specializes in Data Management; Agile Enterprise Data Model & Data Management Solution; Data Management and Governance Consulting Services; IT Management Consulting Services etc.
Data Management is a must to address the digital challenge! McKinsey said Data Management is one of the four core activities to cope with the digital challenge: Can IT Rise to the Digital Challenge?
Agile Data Management approach: Using Agile to Accelerate Your Data Transformation
Data Management and Governance Consulting Services:§ Data Management and Governance Processes Implementation§ Data Management Maturity Assessment§ Data Architecture, Modeling and Design§ Master Data and Metadata Management§ Data Management Related Organizational Change Management
IT Management Consulting Services:
- IT Governance & Management
- IT Strategy Formulation & Planning
- IT Governance Review
- IT Organizational Design
- Technology Portfolio Management
- Performance Monitoring
- IT Project Management
- PMO (Project Management Office) set-up
- IT Project & Program Management
- Solutions Implementation
- Enterprise, Information & Application Architecture
- Maturity Assessment
- Strategic Road-map and Implementation Planning
- Enterprise Architecture Training
Trainer Bio - John
John Sang
John has over 30 years of Information Technology (IT) experience with his last 18 years in the role as Project Manager and Agile Coach Master. He managed projects of different scale, project size from dozen man-days to hundred man-years, for Government/Public Utilities/FSI sectors. In particular, John proactively adopted SCRUM/Lean/Kanban techniques to problematic projects and successfully turning them from red to green.
He worked for Hong Kong Government Information Technology Service Department’s (renamed as Office of Government Chief Information Officer) Methodology Support team and developed various standards and guidelines for project management and software development life cycle. He conducted trainings to end users at various Government departments/bureaus on system development life cycle, and also provide regular trainings to system managers and analyst/programmers on the Government standards and system analysis/design techniques. He also worked with external consultants to implement and pilot Rapid Application Development method for Hong Kong Government.
On top for agile coaching and project management, John profile also covered roles as quality assurance manager, release manager, resources manager and oversee the operation for offshore development center in mainland china.
Over the course of last 4 years, John worked as Engagement Manager for software vendor to manage implementation of software products using SCRUM for various customers throughout Asia Pacific.
Trainer Bio - Daniel
Daniel Li
Daniel has 10 years of Information Technology (IT) experience with his recent 2+ years in the role as Scrum Master covering digital transformation.
He has been working in the hospitality industry for over 8 years, he led agile teams practicing scaled agile framework. He participated in forming Scrum of Scrums and KanBan team, both were very successful and received positive feedbacks. He held internal training classes and coaching his teams (team members 50+).
Daniel is a highly motivated, results oriented looking to secure a challenging position that applies his expertise, leadership, creative problem solving, system thinking and hands-on soft/technical skills, aiming to become a value asset for cooperates and he is a certified professional Scrum Master with in-depth Scaled Scrum implementations.
Daniel is a superb servant leader and helped teams to transform from waterfall projects into Agile Scrum.
-Successfully launched Melco Club in iOS/Android with major features released incrementally in 1 year+
- Ferry Booking microservices Integration with MuleSoft AnyPoint Platform and CotaiJet
- Table Promotion Chips Redemption in the Casino
- Hotel Booking Integration with Opera and ChinaOnline
- Continuously work with DevOps team for AWS Backend API Micro Services deployment
- Participated in GEMS (Gaming Enterprise Management System) on premise to AWS Cloud adoption and Migration
- Successfully launched Alliance Lite2 in 2 months on time for Finance Account Payable to transfer payments between corporates and banks
- Successfully launched NetDocuments with 2 phases migration in 5 months on time for Legal Department to manage legal counsel documents
- Utilized Salesforce CRM with customization for Business Development team to manage relationships with Japan Customers
Daniel is a successful self-made agile coach who crossed over himself from traditional project management to Agile. He reinvented himself through continuous learning and adaptation. His agile competencies were built on top of his strong soft skills and in-depth process management excellence that he accumulated from 5+ years of managerial experience in project planning and management, project governance, business analysis, business solutions delivery, applications management, infrastructure and IT operations.
He is quick to adapt multiple roles as leader, facilitator, problem solver and mentor, coupled by different type of process framework including Nexus, PMI-PMP and SDLC methodologies. In the past two years, he trained 4 Scrum Master and Product Owners and closely worked with UX/UI designer and developers. Dealt with 10+ vendors to deliver time-to-market products.
Trainer Bio - Sencho
Sencho Kong
Sencho is an Agile Evangelist, Trainer and Coach, specializes in Agile Transformation.
Professional Experiences
Apr 2019 - Now
Agilizing Senior Agile Coach, Agile Evangelist, Trainer and Coach
Agile Evangelist. Agile Coach, Organization and Relationship Systems Coach, Team Performance Coach, individual and systemic coaching, Team Leadership Development, Trainer and Consultant. Specialize in delivery of Scale Agile Transformation.
May 2012 -Mar 2019
China Southern Airlines Agile Coach
Led agile transformation program. Recruited to build and maintain agile teams(SM, PO, QA, Architect, Software Engineering, DevOps), perform multiple agile methods focusing on the delivery of transformation products.
Jul 2001 - Oct 2011
China Telecom Corporation Limited
System Administrator and Software Developer
Education
Computer Programming, Specific Applications
Guangdong Industry Technical College
Trainer Bio - Wand
林偉丹（Wand Lin）
林老师
• 曾任某大型金融集團研發管理部門負責人，質量技術人才發展管理委員會會長。主持企業級產品研發體系、項目辦公室、敏捷教練專家服務、Devops工具鏈產品設計等工作。作為首席敏捷教練，多年主導設計和推進8000+人規模的企業級敏捷與DevOps轉型工作，成效斐然
• 在軟件開發、測試、運維、產品管理、項目管理、架構治理、流程規劃、敏捷轉型等領域，都有豐富的實踐經驗
• 多年從事敏捷/精益/DevOps培訓與諮詢工作，服務過的企業涵蓋互聯網、保險、銀行、證券、醫療、教育等多個行業
• 《2018全球DevOps現狀調研報告》《SAFe4.0精粹：運用規模化敏捷框架實現精益軟件與系統工程》《DevOps最佳實踐》翻譯與審校委員會委員；《管理智慧——成功研發團隊的18條管理啟示》案例作者；《Scrum精髓》《SAFe4.0參考指南》校譯者
• 曾在DevOpsDays、TOP100 Summit、GAIC、TID、MPD、PMI Congress、台灣Agile Summit、各地Agile Tour等業界大會上發表演講，主題涵蓋企業級精益敏捷變革、規模化敏捷、DevOps轉型、PMO管理演進、創新金融產品的敏捷項目管理實踐、設計思維工作坊、看板沙盤工作坊、欣賞式探詢工作坊等；任2018 北京/上海MPD工作坊、2017 GAIC全球互聯網架構師大會出品人
Trainer bio - Altaf
Altaf Rehmani
Mr. Rehmani is a dynamic professional with passion for technology training and enabling enterprises through Training, Project Management, Program and Portfolio Planning, Digital Transformation, Software Delivery, Mobile Architect, Enterprise Development, Business Intelligence and Analytics with Technology.
Summary
• Experienced Instructor with industry experience ranging from startups to enterprises.
• Proven track record in the delivery of desktop, web and mobile solutions with hands-on experience in design, coding and software architecture
• An effective team player and a visionary leader with demonstrated excellence in directing geographically dispersed multi-functional teams to deliver successfully
• Strong Product Management skills and champion of the SCRUM framework for digital transformation projects.
• Excellent trainer, coach and mentor to colleagues and staff via various training and learning programs. Evangelist for a number of modern software best practices.
• Agile and Innovation Evangelist with a thorough grasp of Design Thinking and Lean Principles.
• Superior Client engagement experience at every stage of the project phase combined with consulting experience in various business domains.
• Solid understanding of Data science, Cloud Computing , Data analysis and Machine learning
Skills
• Python, Lua, C, VBA, Visual Basic, Java, MQ, vb.net, C#, Perl, Linux; SQL, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS, Web development, Agile, iOS, Android, Phonegap, Corona SDK, Parse, Drupal, Wordpress, Visual Studio; Microsoft SQL Server, Salesforce, JIRA, Confluence, Producteev, Git, Bitbucket, NodeJS, Actimise, SMARTS.
• Strong Applied knowledge of Machine Learning and Cloud Computing with a passion to help individuals, teams and companies succeed with their technology initiatives.
Professional Experiences
Sep 2018 – Present Xccelerate Technologies
Executive Director – Technology
May 2017 – Aug 2018 DFS Group Pvt Ltd.
Digital IT Project Manager – Mobile Solutions
Aug 2015 - April 2017 5AM Ventures Pvt Ltd
Aug 2015 - April 2017 Mentor and Advisor – Startup companies
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017 Technical Product Manager – Tinytapps software Ltd.
2009 - 2015 Redbytes Software Pvt. Ltd., India.
2009 - 2011 IT director and Delivery Lead.
2012 - 2013 Delivery Manager – Global Document Distribution App
Nov 2012 - Mar 2013 Technical Architect – Global Tax App
Apr 2014 - 2015 CTO and Agile Coach –Mobile Applications (various)
2001 - 2009 Morgan Stanley Hong Kong
2001 - 2005 Senior Developer – HK, Treasury funding and forecasting application
Jun 2005 - Feb 2006 Project Manager – Global dividends and Infusion system
Feb 2006 - Dec 2006 Senior Developer - Finance IT risk and regulatory reporting
Jan 2007 - Dec 2009 IT Manager - Compliance IT regional applications
1999 – 2001 ABN AMRO (Hong Kong)
IT Development – Equity Settlement Solutions
1996 -1998 Indosuez W.I Carr (Hong Kong)
IT Front End Development – Front Office Equity systems
Education
MCS (Computer Science) from Pune University, Pune
Trainer Bio - Kenneth
Kenneth Leung
Kenneth is an IT and Digital veteran with International experiences in various areas. He has worked across numerous industrial sectors as practitioner, strategist and leader.
Over a career spanning decade of services in some of the region’s highest level of regulatory enforcement, plus diverse geopolitical and cultural complexity in corporate enterprise, Kenneth has earned a stellar record of achievements globally in IT Compliance, Governance, Audit, and Cyber Security.
Most recently, Kenneth has been serving an operator of International Integrated Resorts and Casinos, to deliver strategies, policies, standards, solutions and services related to US Sarbanes-Oxley Act, EU General Data Protection Regulation, Macau Gaming Industry Minimum Internal Control Requirements, HK Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, ISO 20000 IT Service Management and ISO27001 Information Security Frameworks, Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard, etc.
Professional Experiences
Since Jun 2012
IT Compliance Professional who optimizes Governance, Risk Management and Compliance landscape across the globe.
Nov 2009 to Jun 2012
Senior Consultant who delivered Digital Transformation solutions primarily focusing on Customer Relationship Management, Marketing Effectiveness, Data Optimization and Enterprise Risk Management.
May 2008 to Aug 2009
Group IT Officer who governed Hong Kong Headquarter and 14 branch offices in Mainland.
Sept 2005 to Apr 2008
Various positions in Project Management, Application Development, System Design, Architecture Administration.
Education
BEng (Hons) Information Engineering, City University of Hong Kong
