Alan Woods Email & Phone Number

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

Software Delivery Manager for the MCode (Pet) Group IT development team. I am accountable for the delivery of new features and product enhancements to our legacy in house order processing product and a portfolio of client facing partner brand websites. I handle any and all impediments that will potentially block the successful delivery of a shippable product increment.I co-ordinate software releases and manage stakeholder expectations of delivery dates focusing on delivering maximum business value, minimising risk operationally in production and ensuring a tight feedback loop for improvement.

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Scrum Master for the Markerstudy - Portsmouth eCommerce team. The team was made up of sixteen development staff across four sub-teams running Agile Scrum and Kanban. Three sub-teams focused on BAU work with the fourth creating a greenfield CRM product.I facilitated the Scrum events across our two-week sprint iterations, from the daily scrum stand-up to sprint planning, backlog refinement, sprint review and the iteration retrospective. I coached the team to self-organise and commit to the events and to their roles.

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Responsible for the provision of all IT goods and services across two personal lines insurance divisions of Markerstudy in Portsmouth. I was a direct report to the two divisional managing directors as well as to the Group IT Head of Development.

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Responsible for a team of fifteen full stack developers, designers and QA staff writing and maintaining in-house applications plus sixteen partner branded websites selling Motor, Home and Pet insurance products to our customer base of 350,000 policy holders.

Portsmouth

Responsible for a team of seven including C#.NET developers, an ITBA and a tester. The team wrote and maintained key strategic applications across the business. The team was self-organising and had licence to implement any and all initiatives that identified business value across the business unit.

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Created an application suite of tools to perform automated policy renewal processing using Delphi / C#.NET / ASP.NET. The implementation of the applications saved the company £200,000 per annum in FTE costs. The tools processed over 750,000 renewals per annum.Wrote a management Information suite of tools to perform overnight MI processing manipulating a COTS system to extract all data and create daily management reports.

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Created an in-house application suite of tools to perform automated policy cancellation processing using Delphi / ISAPI / SQL. The implementation of the applications saved the company £50,000 per annum in FTE costs.