SUMMARY

• A delivery focused technology professional and strategist - Who has successfully helped world class organizations lead their digital transformation in Cloud Strategy, cloud implementation and Scrum, Agile, DevOps adoption.
• Proven track record of leading Technical operations teams delivering enterprise technical and business change for digital projects and programmes
• Experience of managing and delivering enterprise and strategic level system Implements & enhancements e.g. AFPAA/JPA (MoD / Confidential Armed forces (Tri services))
• Proven experience leading and growing a DevOps team
• A deep understanding of technology with an advance specialisation in OSI model levels 4 -7 with a general appreciation of OSI model levels 1-3
• A deep understanding of DevOps culture, Continuous Integration & Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) practices & life cycles.
• A proven track record of helping teams with process improvement work to increase our software delivery quality & time-to-market performance
• Understanding Test-Driven Development (TDD), Behaviour Driven Development (BDD) and Test pipeline management
• Experience of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) in a complex multinational organisation
• Proven track record of ability to delegate while maintaining accountability
• Extensive experience of managing an assortment of business & technology relationships, facilitating notification and coordination between teams & proactively identifying and addressing any operational risks and then taking appropriate actions
• Proficient in across the board collaboration, including breaking down complex requirements, breaking them into digestible tasks, capturing detailed acceptance criteria, developing release plans and maintaining ownership to completion
• Extensive experience of grasping and embracing new technology and adopting them to enhance productivity efficiency and delivering e.g. Infrastructure & virtualisation, Oracle, AWS, Azure, Salesforce and SAP.
• Experience of application delivery within Service Oriented Architecture and Microservices environments
• Experience of managing and developing resourcing pools and setting-up programme and project resource organizations including staff development, performance management and appraisals
• Knowledge of Business Process Management tools

TECHNICAL SKILLS

Configuration Management / Deployment / Orchestration: Jenkins, Puppet, OpenShift, Ansible, Vagrant, Docker, Terraform, Docker Swarm, Kubernetes. Implement / Team management

SCM: GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, SVN, Jenkins, TeamCity. Hands on /Team management

DevOps / SRE / Migration: AWS, GCP, Oracle, CI/CD pipeline Implement /Architect / Team management

Tools: JIRA, JIRA Agile, Confluence, VSC, VSTS (Azure DevOps), Slack Hands on / Team management

IaaS, SaaS, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Oracle and Google: Object stores; file stores; Data store (e.g. EC2, S3, Glacier, NFS, NTFS, SMB, Red Hat Global File System (GFS, GFS2), Amazon EFS, ACFS, OCFS, ASM) Hands on / Implement /Architect / Team management

DB & APPS: Oracle, J2EE, ADF, AWS DynamoDB, Redshift, AWS Aurora, MongoDB, Ingres, PostgreSQL, Informix, Hadoop, RDS, NoSQL, D365, Power BI

Network/Infrastructure: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, ROUTE53, Linux, Unix, SSH, LDAP, AD Management

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Confidential

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Successfully achieved Alpha phase delivery and readiness for user pilot
• Successfully outlined the roadmap for discovery phase and presented it to senior stakeholders
• I facilitated DevOps culture sessions (including agile coaching) with the Product Owner, Programme Manager and Director and Dev & Ops teams, I was able to achieve effective collaborative teamwork
• I successfully enhanced continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) for automation of system components.
• I worked with the OPS and Dev teams and successfully established efficient resource monitoring built around clear SLOs and identified areas of improvement
• Arranged daily stand-up meetings, facilitate meetings, schedule meetings, demo and decision-making processes in order to ensure quick inspection and proper use of adaptation process.
• Collaborate with the Product Owner to define the business Minimum Viable Product (MvP) Produce cumulative burn down chart including ART performance scorecards
• Responsible for managing the scrum process with the coordination of the scrum team
• Responsible for removing impediments for the scrum team and shield the team from outside distractions and interferences

Confidential

Senior Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

• Managed one of the first Confidential technical delivery teams to achieve DevOps and Middleware delivery including test automation
• Managed the successful migration of Operational Deploy ability Record (OD) system from legacy to the MoD Oracle Consolidated Platform (OCP)
• I managed the scrum team that was responsible for the development, establishment, and enforcement of quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications, products
• Facilitating daily scrum, sprint planning, sprint demo and retrospective meetings
• Working with Product owners from the Defence Planning & Demand Service on digital solutions delivery and product backlog refinement
• Managed multiple DevOps and development teams delivering Digital change management as cascaded from the programme.