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Koki Shimizu

Tokyo, Japan

My certifications

Certified Team Coach™ badge
Certified Team Coach™
Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster badge
Certified Scrum Professional® - ScrumMaster
Advanced Certified ScrumMaster® badge
Advanced Certified ScrumMaster®
Certified ScrumMaster® badge
Certified ScrumMaster®
Certified Scrum Product Owner® badge
Certified Scrum Product Owner®

About

Title: Agile/Scrum Coach

Koki Shimizu is an agile coach at Red Hat, working primarily with enterprise companies in Japan. He was certified as a Certified Team Coach(CTC) in September 2021.

He is a true coach and is well versed in CoActive Coaching, ORSC (System Coaching). His way of being a coach and facilitator attracts people to work with him. And everyone around him becomes more energetic. In agile coaching, he incorporates various ideas and methods such as CoAcitve, ORSC, Facilitator's Guide to Participatory Decision-Making, Six Trumps, Training from the back of the room, Visual Meeting and many other ideas and methods to make the workplace more enjoyable.

He is also the co-founder and operator of the "Scrum実験室(Lab)", an expert Scrum community in Japan. He is also the co-founder and operator of Open MIX UP, a volunteer organization that facilitates social issues.

He has been practicing agile for more than 7 years. He also has experience in agile adaptation in the hardware field. He is an agile coach with over 17 years of experience as a programmer, systems engineer, architect, development leader, project manager, ScrumMaster. He has helped organizations on their agile journey to adopt or improve Scrum and other agile frameworks in troubled projects, organizations and new product development.

Experience and services

  • Career history

    • 2019-10-01 - present - Red Hat K.K (Agile Coach/DevOps Leads)
    • 2013-02-01 - 2014-11-30 - Olympus Software Technology Corporation
    • 2014-12-01 - 2016-01-31 - Olympus Software Technology Corporation
    • 2016-02-01 - 2016-09-30 - Olympus Software Technology Corporation (Scrum Master)
    • 2016-10-01 - 2017-03-31 - Olympus Software Technology Corporation (Scrum Master)
    • 2017-04-01 - 2018-04-30 - Olympus (Scrum Master)
    • 2018-05-01 - 2019-06-30 - Groove-X (Scrum Master)