Summary
Jaco De Villiers is an experienced Scrum Master with 11 years driving Agile transformation across finance and digital organisations, currently leading multiple teams at Fiserv in Auckland. He combines hands-on facilitation—standing up teams, running COPs, and protecting delivery—with measurable coaching using metrics, DoR/DoD practices and Lean Six Sigma thinking. Certified as a Scrum Master, Product Owner and Kanban practitioner, he has a track record of scaling value streams and mentoring junior Scrum Masters while working closely with product and platform leadership. His background in change management and hands-on implementation roles gives him a pragmatic edge in aligning people, process and tools to deliver predictable outcomes. Notably, his early career in implementation and maintenance management informs a practical, service-oriented approach to team enablement and stakeholder relationships.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
CSM - Certified Scrum Master, Information Technology Project Management, Certificate, CSM - Certified Scrum Master, Information Technology Project Management, Certificate at Scrum Alliance
Certified, Kanban, Certified, Kanban at DVT
Yellow Belt, Lean Six Sigma, Certificate, Yellow Belt, Lean Six Sigma, Certificate at Vector
KMP1, Information Technology Project Management, Agile, KMP1, Information Technology Project Management, Agile at Kanban University
Matric, Matric at Hoërskool Silverton
Agile Project & Delivery Management, Agile, Project Management, Agile Project & Delivery Management, Agile, Project Management at IC Agile
English, Afrikaans