Biography
Gareth Davies has been in the IT industry since 1996 and has been working with agile practices since 2007. He has experience in various Agile/Lean frameworks such as Scrum, Kanban, Feature Driven Development (FDD), and Extreme Programming (XP).
Gareth is fortunate and happy to be one of the very few experienced Certified Scrum Professionals based in New Zealand.
Work experience
Xero, Agile Coach
March 2014 - Present, Wellington, New Zealand
Guiding the implementation of agile practices at Xero
Colossal, Agile Coach
October 2007 - Present, Wellington, New Zealand
Consulting with multiple organisations to implement and improve their agility.
Spendvision, Agile Coach
September 2012 - December 2013, Auckland, New Zealand
Asking the awkward questions that no one else wants to ask. Responsible for the agile transformation of the entire organisation, managing and coaching a growing team of Scrum Masters.
Air New Zealand, Agile Project Manager
November 2011 - May 2012, Auckland, New Zealand
Working in the Innovations & Ventures department.
IAG NZ, Scrum Master
March 2011 - September 2011, Auckland, New Zealand
Coaching multiple Scrum teams.
All Options, Agile Project Manager/Scrum Master
February 2009 - November 2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Implementing Scrum with multiple teams.