Chris Lynam Email & Phone Number

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

• Working for IBM’s Industry Platforms Unit, I led the development and delivery of Insurance solutions on the IBM Cloud. Reporting to the Insurance Development CTO, my responsibilities included,
• Building a set of autonomous development squads to deliver end to end Cloud solutions for the Insurance Industry.
• Adopting Scrum and Agile development practices, leading projects from inception through to delivery into production and support.
• Leveraging a broad set of modern web development technologies to deliver leading edge solutions to delight our customers.
• Working with the Insurance CTO, Business Analysts, Architects, UX Design and Insurance SME’s to set the strategic direction for the team.
• The planning and definition of project schedules, ensuring incremental delivery of feature/function into production.

• Leading the delivery of IBM Watson Content Hub, a cloud based Content Management System enabling the creation and delivery of exceptional web experiences to businesses across multiple channels. Reporting to the VP of.
• The leadership of an agile development organisation of over 40 engineers, part of a globally distributed development organisation,
• Assembling a set of co-located, multi-disciplined, cross-functional Agile squads to develop a microservice based solution using state of the art web development technologies.
• Driving an ethos of Scrum and Agile methodologies to ensure autonomous squads delivered end to end mission into production.
• Interfacing with the global team – Management, Senior Technical Leads, Offering Management, Design and Development Squads to define and deliver iteratively on priorities.
• Complete ownership of recruitment, career development, mentoring and coaching of the team.

• Websphere Portal is an enterprise software application used to build web experiences. delivering personalised solutions to users. Part of a global development organisation of 250 engineers and reporting to the VP of.
• Leading a 50 person organisation on the development and delivery of the JEE application with annual revenues in excess of $300m.
• Working with the development, design and offering management leadership in the definition of priorities and translating that into deliverables for my direct organisation.
• Complete ownership for the delivery of significant components of the offering leveraging Scrum and Agile methodologies.
• Managing the transition of the organisation from a waterfall model to Scrum/Agile approach building a number of co-located, cross functional agile squads.
• Reporting of status and progress to executive stakeholders

• LotusLive was IBM’s initial journey into the SaaS market. In my role as Development Manager, I was responsible for a team of 25 engineers working on the development and delivery of the offering
• An online collaboration and networking solution, Lotuslive offered tools to host web conferences, share desktops, create social networks with activity streams and more
• Coordinating across a globally distributed organisation, I was responsible for the development and delivery of major releases of the product to production

• As Development Manager on the Learning products involved coordinating the development and delivery of IBM Learning Management System. My responsibility was for the delivery of these J2EE applications to market as per.