Kok Ewe Siew

Kok Ewe ("KE") Siew is an Agile Coach & Certified Scrum Trainer(R) at Percipience Consulting Sdn. Bhd.  He is based in Penang, Malaysia. 

KE has been involved in many product development projects in the semiconductor industry since 1994.  He had a successful career as a product development engineering manager, but in 2009, he decided that he had had enough of the problems repeatedly encountered by product teams as a result of the waterfall approach to product development.  KE decided to join in on a mission by a small group of Agile champions to transform the mindset and culture of the semiconductor giant to Agile, one small team at a time.  He became a full-time ScrumMaster/Agile Coach, and started coaching Scrum teams.

KE was a recognized pioneer of the Agile community where he used to work - Intel Malaysia.  Agile adoption was gaining momentum in the company, and KE spent most of his time coaching product teams to help them with their Agile transition.  KE's journey as a Scrum trainer started when he saw the need for high quality Agile/Scrum education in the company.  Over the course of a few years, he taught Agile/Scrum to a few hundred people in the company.  He emphasized on the importance of the "Agile mindset" as this was sorely missing in many organisation's Scrum adoption.  Many of the teams he coached successfully embraced Agile thinking to achieve great business results.

KE enjoyed helping people learn about Scrum so much that he decided to become a Certified Scrum Trainer(R).  In 2015, he became a full-time trainer and has been actively delivering high quality Agile/Scrum education in the Asia Pacific region ever since.

KE has a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (1st Class Honours) from the University of Melbourne, Australia; a Master of Business Administration from the Heriot-Watt University, Scotland; and a Master of Science in Manufacturing Systems and Technology from the Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, under the Singapore-MIT Alliance programme.