David Chong

Delivery & High Performance Coach | Iteration Manager | Scrum Master | Agile Consultant

Greater Melbourne Area

About

An adaptable Agile Coach with over 17 years of experience across the retail, telecommunications, property, education, banking, and financial industries; with a strong technical and business background in enterprise-level projects/programs. Skilled at working with disparate teams, challenging stakeholders, external parties/vendors to achieve goals/targets, and instilling delivery confidence in senior management. I have a strong track record of consistently delivering success in complex IT platforms, API & micro-services, B2B customer/client experience uplift and high-performance/agile team uplift. Having recently completed an Agile coaching transformation engagement at Coles Group, I am now seeking a more challenging and delivery-focused opportunity. I am available for immediate employment and interested in working either in a permanent or contracting capacity.

Experience

  • Coles (Melbourne, Victoria, Australia)
    • Agile Coach
      Apr 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 3 mos

      This transformation program focused on increasing “speed to value” for customers. It was rolled out across Coles Technology Domains (areas with Coles ranging between 100-250 people) with a formal launch program, leadership coaching, training and enablement of team(s), supported by standards and tools. Achievements: Agile coach for the Fintech & Payment Service domain. • Helped shape the Domain design, incl. Domain & Squad level operating rhythm, Domain leadership workshops, and set up the JIRA/Confluence instance (i.e. structure, advance roadmaps, automated dashboards & Atlassian Analytics). • Prepared & co-facilitated Domain prioritisation workshops, capacity & capability planning, and the quarterly planning event. • 1:1 coach & mentor for 5 Iteration Managers and led the IM Chapter. • Successfully uplifted 5 teams (over 50 people) - through an Iteration 0 kick-off, Scrum events, used Value Stream Mapping to identify and address bottlenecks, and designed as well as implemented new front door processes. • Facilitated agile foundation & role specific (BA, Iteration Manager, Product Manager) 1-day training sessions across Coles Technology. • Rolled out Agile maturity assessment for Domains, Crews and squads that included maturity metrics for continuous improvement. • Created a knowledge bank (with the Coles agile playbook) to support teams and coaches with the transformation.

    • Iteration Manager / Scrum Master
      Apr 2021 - Apr 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Coles Group eCommerce is creating an omnichannel online channel that takes the time and effort out of grocery shopping. Services include Home Delivery, Click & Collect, and smart lockers. Achievements: The eCommerce domain is currently going through an exciting period of growth and transformation. • Successfully led 2 squads (22 people) delivering 5 features for the new E2E online ordering platform. I.e. the Order to Fulfilment home delivery process, redesign of delivery time slot management, E2E order & payment status integration, billing rejection process, and Flypay integration & support. • Set up and supported the squads with TDD user stories, DevOps practices, and a CICD pipeline with automated regression testing. • Set up and established the program operating rhythm, delivery approach, and team structures based on customer/user centricity, good engineering practices, QA automation, and psychological safety. • Set up and facilitated the program board, scrum of scrum, prioritisation, capacity planning, and quarterly planning for the stream.

  • Principal Consultant - Agility Practice at CXD Labs
    May 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 2 mos

    CXD Labs is a consultancy dedicated to helping its clients create customer value through experience design. Client engagement: Data Action (Leadership team) Engaged as an agile consultant to deliver a workflow management system replacement/upgrade discovery piece. • Worked with the project team and their stakeholders to document the current state of their workflow management tool across their entire organisation, provide an assessment of their options, and deliver a high-level program backlog to kick-off the project.

  • Senior Product Consultant at Fenergo
    Sep 2020 - Apr 2021 · 8 mos

    Fenergo is the digital enabler of client and regulatory technology for financial services. It provides Client Lifecycle Management (CLM) software solutions for Financial Institutions including; Corporate & Institutional Banking, Commercial & Retail Banking, Asset Management, Private Banking & Wealth Management. Client engagement: ANZ Engaged as a senior product consultant to work with ANZ to overcome operational and regulatory challenges and design the optimum solution in line with Fenergo’s product offering.

  • RMIT Future Skills Mentor at RMIT Online
    Jul 2019 - Sep 2020 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Engaged by RMIT to mentor Future Skills students in the following Online courses: • Digital Delivery with Agile (https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/levels-of-study/short-courses/digital-delivery-with-agile---djpr) • Agile for Project Management (https://www.rmit.edu.au/study-with-us/levels-of-study/short-courses/agile-for-project-management)

  • Senior Consultant - Agile Coach at Hypothesis
    Oct 2019 - Feb 2020 · 5 mos

    Hypothesis unlocks digital advantage by designing, delivering and entrenching human-centric technology solutions and agile environments. We focus our energy on understanding people and meeting customer needs, so we can help businesses gain a competitive advantage.