David Slaten

David Slaten is an experienced Scrum Master and Scrum Coach who specializes in Scrum outside of software-centric developments. David has nearly 20 years experience as a digital hardware design engineer, having worked in the fields of instrumentation, fiber-optic communications and public safety radio systems. His embedded systems and FPGA coding skills were the starting point for working with Scrum in early 2012. After a more formal introduction to Scrum by Joe Justice later that year and CSM training in February 2013, David began serving as a Scrum Master for a core product development team. The team included members with mechanical design and test, electronics design, PCB layout, FPGA and embedded software specialties. The notable success of that product, in terms of speed and quality of delivery, led David to start coaching other groups within the company to use Scrum for their development and operational efforts. His background in technology merged with a love of teaching as David began consulting for other tech companies in New Zealand. David is currently a partner coach for corporate clients and public class co-teacher with Scrum Inc.