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Thornton, Gb

Thornton, Gb

Huddersfield, England, United Kingdom

Bridging gaps between multiple Agile frameworks such as SCRUM and Kanban, along with more traditional waterfall delivery, I have facilitated the strategic implementation of multiple mission critical and transformational projects, working in a servant leadership role across traditional Scrum Master, Project Manager and Product Owner responsibilities. I have consistently overcome complex challenges through building and owning robust roadmaps and product backlogs, establishing better practice project governance, and facilitating scrum ceremonies. Confident and effective use of Jira and Jira Align platforms, Trello, Smartsheet, and other work management tools.

Huddersfield, United Kingdom

Successfully orchestrated a pilot migration of the company’s financial systems from a legacy platform, acting as technical lead to a highly skilled team to collaboratively develop a high-quality and secure solution. I was a key asset to this process, combining my functional knowledge with my ability to understand the technical implications.This enhanced the system considerably - bringing new, much needed functionality into the business and establishing a proven method to total migration off an end-of-life legacy platform, significantly reducing enterprise risk.Whilst further developing as an SME within the business, utilising my in-depth knowledge of the many third-party solutions has allowed me to become a trusted and influential voice between the business stakeholders and technical teams. Responsibility for specification design and oversight of the cross-functional pillars of the system has given me invaluable experience of interfacing, including the use of API and ETL/middleware solutions.

Developed a full regression test suite to deliver improved quality of testing enabling higher levels of confidence in the release process. This is still the basis of the QA department regression testing used in the company to this day.Effected positive working changes within the team through training, enhancing use of the test management software being used and leading the introduction of SCRUM inspired management of team workload.

York, United Kingdom

Leading a small team of testers, providing and documenting testing services to ensure the integrity and quality of train planning software developed in house.

Aided the successful roll out of handheld devices for task management services into one of the company’s sister elements, saving the business unit circa 200K in manual data entry costs.

Product Owner role within an Agile project team comprising both offshore and onshore members. Gaining strong experience of structured backlog management and stakeholder management helped me contribute to multiple implementations across projects, including a phased roll out of the main business unit SAP ERP upgrade.

Funtionally and Technically tested business requirements and user stories to ensure only the best product was delivered to the business. Raised defects and managed these to completion. Often worked in a test lead role looking after multiple testers through an Agile Project Lifecycle.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Primary Education, First Class With Honours

A Level, Biology, Physical Education, Psychology, Chemistry, General Studies

Activities and Societies: Sports, Art, Musical Theatre, Duke of Edinburgh - Gold, Discussion Group.