Canada

UX Design

Generalist Product Management

Platform Product Management

Front-end

Back-end

Full stack

Interaction Design

Project Management

UX Engineering

Development Operations

Bachelor of Science - BS

Associate Degree

Strive Mazunga

Managing Director

Relationship management

Partnership

Product strategy

Communication

Collaboration

Problem-solving

Critical-thinking

Empathy

Organisation skills

Presentation skills

Stakeholder management

Leadership

Project management

Cloud computing

Integration Testing

React

Canva

ChatGPT

Figma

HTML

HubSpot

JavaScript

REST API

Confluence

Jira

Node.js

WordPress

Time management

Team player

Forecasting and reporting

Information architecture

Budget management

Unit Testing

Prototyping

Understand the process of training, motivating and directing your team members.

Managing people

How to create a positive workplace culture that drives collaboration and productivity?

Fostering a good team culture

Steps to building and maintaining a strong, cohesive and effective team.

Building an effective team

Learn the tips to successfully manage a team in a remote environment.

Managing a remote team

How to identify star candidates, evaluate technical ability, and close hires

Hiring software engineers

Decision making as a software engineer or lead - how to become better at making the right choices

Making better tech choices

Tips for transitioning into a new role or company.

Changing roles

How to ask for a promotion and negotiate for salary raise?

Negotiating a job offer

Talk to people who've broken into the tech industry and learn their stories.

Breaking into tech

Learn how to properly present your work and share ideas and opinions.

Presenting your work with impact

Tips on how to work and collaborate with designers.

Working with designers

How to work with team members with different skill sets but towards a common goal?

Working cross-functionally

Navigating the working relationship with PM's and engineers as a designer.

Working with product and engineering

Tips on how to work and collaborate with engineers and developers.

Working with engineers

Responsible for JobBliss’s Technology Strategy and Operations!

Program management and delivery of technical academies where we build skills from within as a strategy to address scarcity in technically skilled job applicants. Focus on key areas, business process management (PEGA), Salesforce, Quality Assurance, Cyber Security, Service Now, Full Stack Development. 
- Trained and graduated 60 college graduates into value contributing team members on 16 weeks.

- Assess product performance, and helps develop long-term strategy plans for over 400+ apps for rolling them out across Scotiabank's global footprint in 26 countries.
- Identify and implement cost saving opportunities to drive $4 Million annual savings
- Implemented a "build once deploy many" strategy that achieved cost avoidance of $6 Million in 2021

Oversaw the Scotia Digital Cloud Modernization Strategies for 6 Scotiabank geographies, Peru, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Central America, Caribbean and Uruguay.

- Lead a team in building and implementing a strategy to adopt agile in a 4000+ people IT&S organization and our business partners.
- Designed & Implemented a CoE Model in 8 CIO groups through 5 countries
- Redesigned and transformed IT operating models for 3 organizations of 600+ people each into full scale agile organizations using hybrids of frameworks (SAFe, LESS, Spotify Model etc)
- Designed and implemented an "Agile Delivery Framework" to satisfy OSFI Regulation
- Collaborated with enterprise IT Risk to implement a risk model for agile engagements

Leading a team that is building the next distractor, the Uber for international courier services! We are in the service of reducing courier fees while helping travellers earn money.

- Increase agile maturity across the bank
- Engaging Development Managers to establish trusted partnerships that enable commitment and buy-in to agile practices
- Leveraging and recommending agile team practices, tools and experience to help teams become more self-sufficient and sustainable
- Coaching and mentoring, proactively analyze and make recommendations for improvements to existing agile organizational practices and patterns at the team level
- Delivering presentations and workshops to educate all stakeholders on agile methodologies
- Worked with the executive to help bring agility to the executives huddles

- Advised executive leadership to become more effective working in a agile environment.
- Lead 10 Scrum Masters in the organization as my direct reports. 
- Coach and support cross-functional work teams in their efforts to become self-sustaining and high performing
- Facilitator for 4 communities of practice in the organization
- Worked with the CTO to put together a Global Agile Implementation Model
- Helped stand up 3 agile teams using Scrum & Kanban
- Designed a 2 day training curriculum for people outside the agile team to understand Agile/Scrum/Kanban and how to work with the agile teams
- Successfully mentored, coached and taught 2 lines of business to shift from being schedule driven to being value driven
- Designed a program to help Directors shift from being managers to being leaders
- Influenced at the enterprise level for the organization on how to work efficiently in an "matrix" org structure by advising the QMO and other operations teams
- Led the middle & senior management team in implementing and supporting the organizational agile/lean transformation to a sustainable state including continuous improvement YOY
- Responsible for identifying/clarifying roles and responsibilities for all stakeholders and the execution team pertaining Agile delivery and the SDLC

Results:

2013
Productivity TTM: 20% Improvement YOY
Quality: 15% Improvement YOY

2014
Productivity TTM: 8% Improvement YOY
Quality: 12% Improvement YOY

- Helped BMO adopt and transform through agile and lean principles and practices. 
- Built and executed full day trainings for their eBusiness & Marketing teams for Iterative development
- Coached and mentored Scrum Masters and team leads on the lean development processes
- Advised leadership on process gaps that affected team effectiveness and recommended solutions

- Developed superior CSS interfaces and master templates to be used by the development team
- Programmed and produced HTML5/ CSS3 micro sites
- Maintained and supported ongoing creative/ front end changes to existing sites
- Worked with teams to plan and execute strategically developed websites
- Worked closely with the art directors to ensure that pages being developed will attract repeat visitors.
- Provided analysis and design solutions for new web content requests/enhancements in order to identify specific tasks required for the initiative and provide time/cost estimates for web production
- Developed SPA application using AngularJS, Node.JS, Knockout etc
- Supported JAVA application integration with front-end templates
- Architected and developed an enterprise application that used Abode's AEM content management system (CMS) also known as Adobe CQ
- Rewrote several application to make them WCAG & W3 Accessibility compliant
- Designed and implemented improved user experience (UX) including wireframes and mockups on client website and mobile application
- Developed mobile applications using jQuery Mobile that were ported into native application

•	Project Management, Internet Marketing & Web Development/Designing
•	Designed and developed websites and graphics for clients from small business to corporate companies. Industries included security, transportation, retail, information technology, media and communication
•	Planning, design and implementation of complete applications development and deployment
•	Project management from inception to the end of the final project/product using different Agile Methodologies
•	Online Marketing and branding with Google, Bing/Microsoft and Yahoo - SEO: developed website with search engine optimization for generic traffic. Keyword research and meta tag optimization 
•	Social Media Internet Marketing with Facebook, Twitter, Digg, YouTube, Delicious etc. 
•	Client facing/meeting with clients for website projects 
•	Project evaluation: evaluated projects presented by clients for designing and feasibility including cost management for projects requisites from images to outsourcing of some parts of the project. 
•	Project Proposal: sent projects proposal to clients with a breakdown of what will be done 
•	Designed and presented prototypes(graphical user interface) to clients for their approval 
•	Developed and coded the websites/projects in HTML5, XHTML, Java, Vanilla Javascript, ASP.Net, Ajax, CSS3, PHP, JQuery, XML, SQL, Angular, React

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