Marcus Schakowski Email & Phone Number

Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa

Scrum Master for multiple remote development teams at Platform45.

Randburg

Red Oxygen maximises the strengths of an international award-winning production house and Africa’s first game development company. As pioneers of innovative broadcast and gaming formats, we’re always looking for what’s next. Our repertoire explores novel, as well as tried and tested, forms of storytelling as we continue to blur the lines between digital and real, opening gaming and geek culture up to a broader audience.Founded by international award-winning production company, Combined Artistic Productions, and Africa’s long-standing videogame development company, Celestial Games, Red Oxygen is currently producing content for several international broadcasters as we trail blaze creative ways to celebrate and highlight this space.

Midrand

Agile Project Manager for 2 to 4 internal development teams ensuring that Sprint Deliverables are met and that the Scrum-process is adhered to on all levels. Manage and conduct daily burndowns, planning sessions, reviews, retrospectives and demos. Report to Head of Technology on status and health of all software projects which includes: next generation national VoIP network, Virtual PBX solution, new Product Provisioning system and Customer Management platform. Also responsible for technical recruitment and the development and implementation of a bespoke performance assessment program.

Sandton

Management of outsourced development teams and software deliverables. Active involvement in the design and development of major solutions deployed by the Innovation Centre.End-to-end management of Community Power & Refugees United Product Port-folio (SMS, WAP and Android platforms)Technical Responsible for Ericsson Education Suite

Sandton

Technical Design lead on MVP related projects with responsibility for QA and UAT Testing. Implemented the Scrum as a software development methodology. Specific projects included Mobile Survey Tool (MST) and Universal Messaging Gateway (UMG) for MVP.

Sandton

Functions include designing customer solutions, responding to RFQ’s, supporting the sales team and participating in projects as a technical manager. Solution areas are focused on multimedia telecoms products such as MIEP, MMC, SMS-C, IPTV, RBT and MSDP.

Randburg

Technical lead on all Commerce related projects and management of small de-velopment teams that were set up for specific projects. Major Achievements in-clude: Development of a content ingestion and management system for MTN South Africa, MTN Cameroon and Virgin Vibe (Australia) web portals as well as distribution of content via a variety of bearers.

Sandton

Main job function was the design, development and implementation of software solutions and client liaison.

Alton, England

The primary responsibility was the management of major business projects that require both dedicated planning and close monitoring.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Duties included customer technical support (both telephonically and on-site), consulting, and a Visual Basic database project.

Weltevreden Park

Duties included managing sales, stock-orders, and marketing for the company, as well as the regular day-to-day operation of the Johannesburg shop. I was a company shareholder.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.) Honours, Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology & Sociology

Activities and Societies: Chairman of Wits Gaming Society

Matric, Secondary School, Hg

Activities and Societies: Captain of Chess ClubEnglish, Afrikaans, German, Mathematics, Science, Geography All subjects on Higher Grade..