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Cambridge, United Kingdom

Playing the Agile Coach at CCDC, a non-profit, charity organisation enabled me to both coach and lead highly successful improvements throughout the organisation. This involved all aspects of both Agile and non-Agile coaching and helping to deliver value-focussed implementations of Scrum, Kanban, SAFe and Scrum@Scale within and outside of Software Development teams. Alongside this was been driving several key aspects of our remote and hybrid working environment during the pandemic. Active member of several cross-functional teams including Culture Evolution, Knowledge Management, Change Champions and Wellbeing. Has a key focus on "making work visible" to improve data-driven coaching and decision making.

Cambridge

Played a key role in the Agile Transformation, supported by peer Agile consultants to bring together global parts of the business to use industry standard Agile tools and practices. A mixture of line management and Agile Coaching, the role allowed use of a drive for continuous improvement alongside teaching, mentoring and coaching skills with both teams and individuals.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Development Team Manager for the Cambridge team at Brady PLC having previously had proven success in the position of ScrumMaster for several teams including the Concorde, CTRM and then Aquarius product teams. This role utilised my skills in leadership, mentoring and coaching of software developers using Agile and Scrum techniques alongside complex project dependencies across globally distributed teams. This led to a focus on dramatically improving the coherence and collaboration using Agile/Scrum approaches to change meeting formats, structures and timings within Scrum and Project iterations.Previous roles were taken on to bring to teams detailed knowledge and experience of transitioning to Agile. These included pushing the change to the use of industry standard Continuous Integration tools, code reviews, distributed source control using Git and GitHub and unit testing. This resulted in a move away from manual build processes to fully automated build and deployment environments.Specialising in team and process development has been key with expert skills in advanced retrospectivs to identify and propose improvements both within teams and between teams while ensuring the key buy-in to changes. This soft skill set includes accomplished conflict resolution and management at both team and individual levels.Highly self-motivated approach and the willingness to work extra on personally suggested proposals to improve Agile/Scrum desire and use. This has included self-started projects on the encouragement to use User Stories throughout Brady, online global Improvement Communities to bring teams together and skills analysis and management. This has been done alongside continual personal blogging internally on Agile and Scrum subjects - sharing knowledge throughout the company.An active member of the Brady Social Committee with the goal of taking on this role being to also look at employee motivation outside of project/team related scenarios.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Knowledge Genes Ltd was created to continue development of a new business model, built on the product implemented by Hyperknowledge, into a successful online web application.The role enabled me to work alongside other C’level company members on the strategy of the product while keeping a hands-on approach to the implementation of the project to ensure an excellent understanding of the architecture and code. Accountability for the operation of the website warranted knowledge of the right hardware and platforms to use to meet the required expectations for performance and scalability.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

The team leader role allowed me to complement my development skills with the management of the Internet Development Team. With many projects being entirely customer focussed, I was actively involved in meetings with major clients to discuss requirements and expectations of both the product and team.As an integral part of my management role I had responsibility for the recruitment, interviewing and appraisal of software development candidates, which also led to the provision of induction training in the software development process and code-base.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

My initial role at Hyperknowledge enabled me to achieve a high level of understanding and excellent practical knowledge of all aspects of software development throughout the commercial product lifecycle.

Icf Coach Training

Certified Agile Leadership (Cal)

Leading Safe 5.0

Coaching Agile Teams 3.0

Agilepm (2014) - Agile Projection Management - Practitioner

Certified Scrum Professional

Succeeding With Agile And Agile Estimation And Planning

Certified Scrummaster And Advanced Scrummaster

Bsc Honours, Computer Science, 2:1

4 A'Levels - Maths, Further Maths, Physics And Geography