David Du Toit Email & Phone Number

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa

Pretoria Area, South Africa

I lead a great team of Scrum Masters and Agile Coaches. Together we support high performing, self-organising and cross-functional teams. Our responsibility is maintaining sustainable throughput and flow of deliverables through the ongoing application of the Agile methodology and related frameworks.As the senior Agile Coach, my responsibilities include, but are not limited to - the review and adaptation of our department processes that support software development - recruitment of new members to our department-specific roles for software development teams - the 'professional health' of dev teams and individualsSome of my achievements in this role have been - the implementation of a people-orientated recruitment process - assisted with defining a growth-plan for individuals within a flat structure(horizontal growth) - facilitated the MiWay Blink project

Pretoria Area, South Africa

Even though I officially took on the role of Scrum Master in 2017, I became certified in 2013 and have been part of Agile working environments since 2009.As a Scrum Master, my task was to support three development teams with the Agile methodology and SCRUM framework.My responsibilities included, but not limited to - promoting Agile thinking and processes throughout the department - supporting creative thinking and experimentation within our department - improving existing SCRUM related processesSome of my achievements in this role were - assisting with the research and introduction of new measuring metrics for flow, throughput, cycle-time, - - lead-time and basics for project forecasting - remodelling of performance measurements from task/achievement-oriented to being behaviour orientated

Midrand

I specialised in PHP and other web-related scripting languages. I worked in various project teams to support internal software applications for our call centre agents.As a senior developer, my responsibilities included but were not limited to - promote Agile development practices - such as TDD - maintenance of coding standards and code quality in various projects - onboarding and upskilling of new developersSome of my achievements in this role were - introduction of 24-hour innovation events like 'FedEx Days' - being part of the senior group to introduce Comunity of Practices for various skillsets - being part of the original developers who introduced 'opensource' style code review and a flat structure for development teams - obtaining Scrum Master certification with ScrumAliance

Pretoria Area, South Africa

My work was to develop large websites, applications, online games etc.My priorities also included:- Software engineering- Facilitating teams and projects as a technical lead- Generally building solutions using LAMP, JS (JQuery) and various other web orientated development tools.

My position involved doing web development as well as initial scripting and programming of internal systems. My responsibilities also included the role of an IT Manager, to some extent. This involved maintaining the SME server and network as well as basic maintenance of company PC and laptops.

Bacculaureus Scientiae Information Technology, Information And Knowledge Systems

Studies computer science, solution driven problem solving, development principles/practices and understanding the values of Rum.

Matric Certificate, Matric

Took Computer Science as seventh subject, matriculated with an 'A' grade for Technical Drawings (Higher Grade) and English (Second Language)