Agile Deep Dive Conference

Bhaskar is an Certified Agile Coach,Practitioner having 12+ years of experience in IT industry with technical expertise using Microsoft Technologies viz, VB 6.0, Microsoft .Net, Silverlight, VBA transformed myself from technical support executive, Programmer to Program Manager.

From past 6 years having the zeal to learn and excel in Agile Methodology and Mind-set delivered good amount of projects using Scrum and played a vital role as a good Leader. With his strong interpersonal skills and with leadership qualities influenced many teams and their mind-sets.

Apart from his regular Project activities he has been a person to contact for guidance and help in Agile.

Carlos "Arlie" Codina is a Certified Scrum Master and has more than 7 years’ experience in coaching and project management using Agile. He has managed medium and large mobile (iOS/Android), desktop, SOA and web applications projects with development teams of different cultures both offshore and onshore.

Carlos has also experienced in planning, scheduling, monitoring, and directing software projects and/or implementing solutions meeting client requirements and delivering expected business results using tools like Scrumwise, Trello, JIRA, Confluence and MS Project.

He has operational leadership experience and comfortable with leadership responsibility while remaining hands on. He is very experienced in working with clients and other departments using DevOps.

He has more than 10 years’ experience in all aspects of Software Development Life Cycle including but not limited to architecting solutions, designing applications, coding, testing and implementing utilizing variety of tools and technologies. He is experienced in building scalable platforms from scratch.

Chris was first introduced to Agile during its relative infancy years in the Philippines back in 2006. He was initially able to experience Agile firsthand as a Software Developer of almost 10 years before jumping into Project Management and being a Scrum Master since 2008. He has been a Scrum and Agile Coach since 2013 -- mentoring & training teams, fellow Scrum Masters and companies become more Lean and Agile.

He has Scrum Coaching experience in the following countries: Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Indonesia. Furthermore, he also has experience on helping transform companies and teams, both big and small, from traditional hierarchies and structure into truly Agile ones.

His project portfolio includes past work for Microsoft, Intel, Nokia, Japan Airlines, KFC and Burger King.

Don has over 20 years of Technology Leadership experience in software engineering, systems integration, and business consulting. He heads software development (Dev & QA) and services groups and leads multi-site operations and globally-distributed teams. He started as a C++ and Java developer, performed several technology roles and assignments, and currently serves teams in a senior-level capacity. Don is a pragmatic Agile advocate who welcomes everyday challenges in technology and life. Certifications: SAFe Program Consultant v3/v4, PSM (since 2011), PMP (since 2007).

A Certified Scrum Master with 7+ years experience. Able to lead effectively a distributed team of software developers and QA. A Sun Certified Java Programmer and B.S. Computer Science graduate with 7 years of professional Software Engineering experience which mainly involves Java programming, developing with open source relational databases such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, and using various technologies such as Eclipse, Hibernate, JPA, Vaadin, Apache Tomcat, Spring, Maven, SVN, CVS, Ant, and UML. Has experience in the development of both front-end and back-end project modules using Java technologies such as Vaadin, Servlets, JSP, and Eclipse RCP for front-end development, and Hibernate and JPA for back-end development.

Specialties: Agile Project Management using Scrum, Java programming, software engineering, Crop research data management, crop breeding workflows and software tools

For the past 5 years, Pradeep has been leading managed services engagements at IBM Philippines and he has been assuming larger responsibilities in successive assignments.

Prior to IBM, He was based in India and was working in the technology development division of Standard Chartered Bank where he managed development of complex enterprise solutions.

Pradeep  completed a 2 year, full time MBA from India’s reputed management institute (Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta) and post my MBA, He worked with a strategy consulting firm, until he realized his passion was really in IT (and building technology solutions)

He has an engineering degree (Bachelors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering) from National Institute of Technology, Trichy – a premier institute in India.

Rajesh Kumar is an Agile practitioner, Full stack developer and an experienced technology consultant who has extensive knowledge in implementing software development projects. Talented & technically-astute, with expertise in designing solutions, code reviews for best optimization of code. Experienced in Agile Engineering practices and DevOps implementation. He has academic degree in Engineering, Business Administration and Psychology. He is a strong promoter of happiness at work. He is interested in Agile leadership & scaling up scrum to cater the needs of large organizations. He is a geek and strongly believes in best engineering practices for software development. He strives to create a happy work place where the people can enjoy doing their job.

Shirley is an accomplished Professional Scrum coach having trained and mentored over 400 consultants and helped them achieve globally renowned certifications such as Certified Scrum Master qualification. She has been practising professional Scrum for over 10 years and has been associated with top-notch organizations.
As the Chief Architect at RCG Global Services Offshore Delivery Center in Manila, she is influential in the adoption of Scrum within the organization. Her aim is to develop Scrum Teams to be self-organizing and to succeed in complex environments in software development. In this capacity, she fulfils the role of trainer, counsellor, advisor and Scrum expert to her teams.
As Chief Architect, she collaborates with the delivery directors to ensure success in different projects. She concurrently heads the Research and Development team at RCG with deep involvement in product assessment for pursuits and potential opportunities.
Being a Big Data Hadoop Developer and trainer, she is also instrumental in building Big Data capability within the organization.
She is also an Oracle Certified Enterprise Architect with eighteen years of extensive experience in information technology industry mainly in architecture, application integration, development and product support. She has a vast experience in Enterprise Application Integration particularly in Java Enterprise Edition component technologies and distributed application systems.
She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Master’s degree in Information Systems from the University of the Philippines.

Teofilo Ted Flores II is a Certified Scrum Product Owner, scrum master and a systems development business analyst for Infor M3 product suites, Infor Mobility products and Infor EAM/ CMMS product line for the past 14 years coupled with an extensive and verifiable experience in handling complex projects in product development, product maintenance, product implementation and product administration.