Ethan Soo Email & Phone Number

Ethan graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Engineering. He had over 20 years of experience in software development, project management, and Agile rollout across large, multi-site organizations. In 2003, he learned Scrum and was inspired by its elegance and effectiveness. He spent the next 5 years working as a Development lead, Director of Engineering, and CTO that implements Scrum. In 2009, his successful experience led him to focus his career on enterprise Agile transformations.In 2011 he led his first commercial Agile transformation for about 200 developers at EF Labs with 16 Scrum and 2 Kanban implementations. The project was very successful, and EF Labs was one of the best Agile implementations in China then. The end-to-end effort needed only 3 months, and this has become one of the hallmark Agile adoption cases in China.Subsequently, Ethan led the Agile transformation effort at the Bank of China, Cisco China, ZTE, NIO, Mastercard, Meituan, and many business entities in Beijing and Shanghai. Within 3 months of working with Ethan, most large-scale Scrum systems gained 30-80% productivity, while small multi-team systems reported over 100% productivity boost.Over the past decade, Ethan has been one of China's most successful and celebrated Agile coaches. In addition, he also focused on delivering and enhancing Scrum and Kanban education in the Asia Pacific region. Ethan was able to leverage his extensive experience and real-life cases to create deeply engaging courses. Ethan is one of the best Agile trainers in East and Southeast Asia with over 200 deliveries, stellar 5-star feedback 95% of the time, and 4 fluent teaching languages (English, Chinese, Cantonese, Bahasa).In 2020, Scrum Inc. Agile Education Program entrusted Ethan to be a Scrum Fellow and the Asia Pacific (APAC) regional partner. Ethan will help to increase the accessibility of Dr. Jeff Sutherland's True Scrum knowledge and to mentor, coach, train, and certify next-generation Scrum Inc. trainers in the Asia Pacific.

Listed skills include Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Agile Project Management, Software Project Management, and 16 others.