Shirley Santiago

Shirley is an accomplished Professional Scrum coach having trained over 400 consultants. She has been practicing professional Scrum for over 10 years.

As the Chief Architect at RCG Global Services Offshore Delivery Center in Manila, she is influential in the adoption of Scrum within the organization. Her aim is to develop Scrum Teams to be self-organizing and to succeed in complex environments in software development.

As Chief Architect, she collaborates with the delivery directors to ensure success in different projects. She concurrently heads the Research and Development team at RCG with deep involvement in product assessment for pursuits and potential opportunities.

Being a Big Data Hadoop Developer and trainer, she is also instrumental in building Big Data capability within the organization.

She is also an Oracle Certified Enterprise Architect with eighteen years of extensive experience in information technology industry mainly in architecture, application integration, development and product support. She has vast experience in Enterprise Application Integration particularly in Java Enterprise Edition component technologies and distributed application systems.

She obtained her bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and master’s degree in Information Systems from the University of the Philippines.