SUMMARY:

• A highly resourceful driven Certified Agile practitioner, with substantial experience of delivering successful concurrent application development, business change and infrastructure projects across diverse business sectors.
• Confidential takes a structured and logical approach to tasks and has a proven track record of commitment to delivering products of the highest standards.
• An enthusiastic, delivery focussed, hands on individual possessing excellent communication and stakeholder management skills who takes pride in his work.
• Confidential is passionate about Agile methodologies and greatly enjoys coaching teams and business stakeholders to become more confident, self - organising and high performing.
• Confidential takes a pragmatic approach in the adoption of Agile working methods to allow projects & programmes to successfully deliver their products and outcomes.

SKILLS:

Agile Coach

Delivery Lead

Lead Scrum Master

Senior Project Manager

Management Consultant

Product Owner

Airports

Agricultural Engineering

Call Centre / CRM

BI/Data Analytics

Defence

Healthcare

Professional Services

Retail, Telecoms

CRM

CMS

DevOps

Data Quality

Data Migration

Patient Management

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

SAFe 4 Agilist

Emerging Programme Manager

Prince 2 Practitioner

Finance for Non-Financial Managers

Virtual Team Set-up

Change Management, Stakeholder Management

Coaching, Negotiating, Influencing

AWS/ Azure

Containers (Kubernetes,Docker)

Microsoft Project/Project Server

Citrix

Django/Python

Sharepoint /MS Dynamics, Salesforce

VB.Net, Java, JavaScript, C#

Team Foundation Server/Team City

Jira/Confluence

Data Centre, Networking, Cloud Infrastructure

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Agile Delivery Lead

Confidential, Virginia

Responsibilities:

• Assess the working practices and identify a strategy to improve across the board, including review of Development methods, customer support mechanism, requirements definition, communication tools, delivery capability planning and more
• Coaching team members in moving away from a mind-set of individual focus to collaborative team thinking
• Presented findings of how current tools were not being used affectively. Transitioned to Jira to bring clarity and function to a disjointed requirement handling process.
• Revamped Development pipeline to allow for features to be released and tested in a more autonomous way with better safeguards and procedures to identify breaking code.
• Constructed a plan to move legacy customers over to the latest version of the CRM which involved a GAP analysis of key missing functionality, creating a roadmap for feature development, creating user material and support plans
• Hands on system testing, support call handling, customer site visits. This immersion in the day to day was key to bringing success in all of the above.
• Manage transition from locally hosted to Azure Cloud

Project Methodology:Agile

Agile Delivery Lead / Agile Coach

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Understand the challenges of the working environment, team dynamics and propose a working Agile methodology that would encourage collaboration and efficient communication
• Rapidly translate workshop discussions into a clear and deliverable backlog broken into Epics by feature area
• Define roles and responsibilities across the Teams and coach a PO that was new to the role
• To quickly stabilise Team velocity to allow release planning at the earliest opportunity to produce a credible plan
• Introduce a reporting template to be used across Digital Technology that provided the pertinent data to allow stakeholders to make informed decisions
• Changed individual team mindset into one of knowledge sharing and collaboration by re-vamping the Scrum of Scrums. This was changed from a status meeting to one of pro-actively reaching out for support and discussing lessons learned
• Assess resource profile against the project demand and take corrective action by ensuring team makeup was linked to skillsets, capability and product features
• Lead by example in disciplined Agile application by bringing focus to ceremonies and coaching Teams how to self-organise, analyse requirements by thinking of inter-dependencies and being aware of the journey to “Done”
• Build a cohesive and lean delivery team with key resources being spread across USA, UK, Poland and India

Project Methodology:Scrum

Lead Scrum Master

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Initial remit as Scrum Master on Digital Workspace project to deliver dashboarding and advanced data analytics capability to be hosted on AWS Cloud. The successful framework set up in this project was used as a template for the Programme
• Define the Agile methodology to be used and coach Project Team members in roles and responsibilities
• Train teams in Agile estimation practices such as story pointing, to stabilise velocity across teams and facilitate release planning. Business need to forecast Programme MVP was a critical activity in a landscape of financial re-adjustment
• Overall responsibility for offshore Development supplier ITWorx based in Cairo. To on-board, coach and mentor and embed a culture of sharing and learning in isolated project teams using the centres of excellence and squads’ approach
• Report and present to Senior Leadership Team analysis for why the Agile process was not working, to adjust and tailor our approach and to coach the stakeholders and delivery teams in applying refined practices
• Create a unified way of reporting development progress across the Programme
• Set up a programme release pipeline showing flow of work and facilitation of a Programme daily stand-up
• Configure Jira workflows to enable real time view of bottlenecks in the story refinement process
• DevOps Team - Provide a business case highlighting benefits of setting up team, hiring the Tech Lead, and transitioning existing Platform Team to new DevOps model using Agile practices of TDD, CI, CD
• Programme delivery responsibility for all work being fed into the Dev Teams. To get items of work “Dev Ready” estimated and scheduled.
• Shield the team from interruptions during the sprint and remove obstacles that affect the team by dissolving conflicts in the team and maintain focus at all times
• Encourage openness by building trust and allowing supplier teams to challenge. This built a strong team identity with a “can do” attitude (positive morale)

Project Methodology:Agile Hybrid