Delivery Lead responsible for agile project delivery within ANZ's Institutional Banking.

Responsible for agile delivery across a number of digital teams on The Times Web and Replatforming.

Responsible for agile delivery across a number of cross-functional teams working on the Multi-Channel Digital Tax Platform.

As an Associate of Equal Experts, provided Delivery Lead services within their HMRC account.

Contracted to provide agile leadership and coaching for multiple Digital teams providing content and templates for The Times and The Sunday Times tablet applications, in addition to a separate team responsible for implementing and integrating a new CMS. Worked closely with both Product Owners to prioritise and refine the two separate product backlogs across three work streams. Responsible for facilitating the day to day activity of cross-functional software development teams using agile… Show more Contracted to provide agile leadership and coaching for multiple Digital teams providing content and templates for The Times and The Sunday Times tablet applications, in addition to a separate team responsible for implementing and integrating a new CMS. Worked closely with both Product Owners to prioritise and refine the two separate product backlogs across three work streams. Responsible for facilitating the day to day activity of cross-functional software development teams using agile working methodology to ensure the teams' delivery at expected pace and level of quality.Coached a number of additional smaller teams, including the System Engineers community of practice and the cross-platform Performance Testing team.In addition, formed a Community of Practice with the other ScrumMasters, to foster an agile mindset, to grow the adoption and understanding of Scrum and agile across the Digital teams, focusing on a culture of continuous improvement. Also, co-organised external meetup groups to host community events at News UK. Show less

Contracted to provide agile leadership for an eCommerce team planning to deliver the first online shop onto Pearson's new eCommerce platform. Using Lean Startup principles, worked with the busness to create the vision board and build a strong product backlog, while planning the team's agile process. The project is currently on hold. Additionally worked with the Online Sales team, providing BAU for the core eCommerce and Subscriptions applications. Facilitated the team’s kanban… Show more Contracted to provide agile leadership for an eCommerce team planning to deliver the first online shop onto Pearson's new eCommerce platform. Using Lean Startup principles, worked with the busness to create the vision board and build a strong product backlog, while planning the team's agile process. The project is currently on hold. Additionally worked with the Online Sales team, providing BAU for the core eCommerce and Subscriptions applications. Facilitated the team’s kanban process, working with Digital Marketing to prioritise and evaluate the backlog of enhancements and new features, while providing agile mentoring in kanban to the team.Also invited to work with Pearson's internal Agile Practitioners group, planning to support the wider agile transformation across the organisation, lean coffee meetings, meetups, etc Show less

Provided agile leadership for an online digital media team of 5 to deliver functional updates to the underlying CRM for the Nature News online website. Worked closely with the online editorial publishing team to capture and prioritise new requirements, to build a strong product backlog, document user stories and track progress using JIRA.Responsible for facilitating the Scrum agile ceremonies, from daily stand-ups, sprint planning, estimation, retrospectives and sprint reviews to the… Show more Provided agile leadership for an online digital media team of 5 to deliver functional updates to the underlying CRM for the Nature News online website. Worked closely with the online editorial publishing team to capture and prioritise new requirements, to build a strong product backlog, document user stories and track progress using JIRA.Responsible for facilitating the Scrum agile ceremonies, from daily stand-ups, sprint planning, estimation, retrospectives and sprint reviews to the business stakeholders. Worked closely with the online editorial team to bridge the gap while the team were without a Product Owner, planning releases and providing a product road map. Removed impediments for the team while also maintaining transparent tracking of progress using large information radiators and a team kanban wall. Provided agile coaching and mentoring for the team, particularly around limiting WIP, the flow of stories and cycle times. Additionally worked with a second team providing BAU support for core platform services within Nature.com. Responsible for working with the team to set-up the team’s kanban process, as suited to a BAU environment. Worked with Service Delivery Manager to prioritise support tickets, while providing agile mentoring in kanban to front and back-end developers.Also, actively participated in Macmillan's agile community, contributing articles, generating discussion based on my attendance at meetups and presenting on a number of agile topics. Show less

- Agile Leadership- Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) since 2008- Designer Developer Practice Lead- Agile Project Manager- Iteration Manager- Consultancy- Design / Development- Solution Design / Architecture- Mentoring

Christopher provided Iteration Management for a project team of 10+ to deliver a key strategic IT/Change initiative for the Lead & Opportunity Management project. This project involved building and deploying a core CRM system and associated change framework into the Sales, Underwriting and Workers Compensation areas.As Iteration Manager, Christopher was responsible for facilitating the iterative development process, including running daily stand-ups, retrospectives and Business… Show more Christopher provided Iteration Management for a project team of 10+ to deliver a key strategic IT/Change initiative for the Lead & Opportunity Management project. This project involved building and deploying a core CRM system and associated change framework into the Sales, Underwriting and Workers Compensation areas.As Iteration Manager, Christopher was responsible for facilitating the iterative development process, including running daily stand-ups, retrospectives and Business showcases, in addition to maintaining the flow of User Stories across the team Kanban wall, managing risks and issues for the development stream and providing daily tracking and weekly reporting to the project PM, using JIRA / Greenhopper.As Development Lead, he was responsible for running the project development stream, comprised of BAU Salesforce Developers, consultants and third party vendor Developers, from ensuring best practice use of TDD, CI and peer programming, to maintaining coding standards, test coverage and overseeing regular production maintenance releases. Show less

Provided Agile Leadership in coaching and mentoring a project team of ten to deliver feature enhancements to existing Telstra Business Online Ordering Tool web applications.By defining and growing the team's agile process, Christopher was directly responsible for enabling the team to deliver multiple production deployments across two separate products. Close collaboration and a culture of inspect and adapt bridged the distance between the team in Melbourne and a Product Owner and… Show more Provided Agile Leadership in coaching and mentoring a project team of ten to deliver feature enhancements to existing Telstra Business Online Ordering Tool web applications.By defining and growing the team's agile process, Christopher was directly responsible for enabling the team to deliver multiple production deployments across two separate products. Close collaboration and a culture of inspect and adapt bridged the distance between the team in Melbourne and a Product Owner and Development Lead in Sydney. Facilitated agile ceremonies with a focus on developing a deeper understanding of agile principles and practices throughout the wider delivery program. Maintained large information radiators, including flow of User Stories across the team Kanban wall and reporting through Mingle. Show less

As Telstra Engagement Manager at Object Consulting, Christopher was responsible for producing a number of proposals for work within Telstra, including Telstra Digital, Telstra Wholesale and Emerging Engineering Solutions.As Agile Project Manager across a number of concurrent projects, he ensured that the Telstra ACTIVE agile process was followed, ran agile ceremonies, provided tracking, reporting, resourcing and capacity planning.

As ScrumMaster / Agile Project Manager, Christopher was responsible for resourcing, adapting and implementing the Telstra ACTIVE agile process used to deliver the project, for a large team of 27 Producers, Graphic Designers, Copywriters, BA’s, Developers and Testers in the redesign and rebuild of the Telstra Business, Enterprise and Government public web site.On a daily basis, he was responsible for mentoring the team and ensuring that the agile principles and ceremonies were adhered… Show more As ScrumMaster / Agile Project Manager, Christopher was responsible for resourcing, adapting and implementing the Telstra ACTIVE agile process used to deliver the project, for a large team of 27 Producers, Graphic Designers, Copywriters, BA’s, Developers and Testers in the redesign and rebuild of the Telstra Business, Enterprise and Government public web site.On a daily basis, he was responsible for mentoring the team and ensuring that the agile principles and ceremonies were adhered to, in addition to tracking the flow of User Stories across the team Kanban wall, with User Story and defect management maintained using JIRA / Greenhopper.Additional responsibilities involved tracking, reporting, change control, risk/issue management and facilitating showcases to the Project Stakeholders and Executive Leadership Team. Show less

Responsible for implementing and managing the Telstra ACTIVE agile process used to deliver the redesign and rebuild of the Telstra Consumer public web site for a large team of 22 Producers, Graphic Designers, BA’s, Developers and Testers. Ran the agile Discover workshops, mentoring the team and ensuring that the agile principles and ceremonies were adhered to. Other responsibilities involved tracking, reporting, managing scope and priorities with the Product Owner and facilitating… Show more Responsible for implementing and managing the Telstra ACTIVE agile process used to deliver the redesign and rebuild of the Telstra Consumer public web site for a large team of 22 Producers, Graphic Designers, BA’s, Developers and Testers. Ran the agile Discover workshops, mentoring the team and ensuring that the agile principles and ceremonies were adhered to. Other responsibilities involved tracking, reporting, managing scope and priorities with the Product Owner and facilitating showcases to the Project Stakeholders.On a daily basis, he was responsible for mentoring the team and ensuring that the agile principles and ceremonies were adhered to, in addition to tracking the flow of User Stories across the team Kanban wall, with User Story and defect management maintained using JIRA / Greenhopper. Show less

As Development Team Lead, Christopher was responsible for the design and delivery of both Technical and Functional Change Requests into the existing production environment. With responsibility for the overall organisation and output of the development team as well as the technical architecture of the product, he was involved in all parts of the lifecycle from CR inception all the way through to production deployment.

As Development Manager on this Scrum project, Christopher was responsible for a Development Team that grew to fifteen developers, running three development streams to deliver a series of change requests to the existing eGrants application.Responsible for the agile development process, including facilitating a scrum of scrums, daily stand-ups, agile estimation, retrospectives, showcases and maintaining the flow of User Stories across the team Kanban wall and reporting through JIRA… Show more As Development Manager on this Scrum project, Christopher was responsible for a Development Team that grew to fifteen developers, running three development streams to deliver a series of change requests to the existing eGrants application.Responsible for the agile development process, including facilitating a scrum of scrums, daily stand-ups, agile estimation, retrospectives, showcases and maintaining the flow of User Stories across the team Kanban wall and reporting through JIRA. Ensured best practices were in place, including the use of TDD, automated CI, peer programming and code coverage. Show less

The Search & Delivery Channel (SDC) is part of the Gold Undercover initiative, aiming to provide a new channel to industry for the search and delivery of new Geoscience data and information to aid discovery of concealed gold resources and to encourage mining investment within Victoria.As Development Team Lead, Christopher was responsible for the development team’s production of the deliverable design documentation, required to enable the team to commence the build phase. As such, he… Show more The Search & Delivery Channel (SDC) is part of the Gold Undercover initiative, aiming to provide a new channel to industry for the search and delivery of new Geoscience data and information to aid discovery of concealed gold resources and to encourage mining investment within Victoria.As Development Team Lead, Christopher was responsible for the development team’s production of the deliverable design documentation, required to enable the team to commence the build phase. As such, he was responsible for team estimates, task allocation, attending client workshops, tracking progress and delivering quality design documentation on time. Show less

Leadership for an agile development team of four, successfully delivering an internal Dynamic Pricing Calculator web application for business lending to enable bankers to determine and optimise comparative pricing.Beyond the go-live date, assumed Project Management responsibilities, co-ordinating between the business and the BAU team in order to plan the roadmap for future releases and resource planning, in addition to conducting training and handover with the BAU team.

The Mortgage Automation Project (MAP) provides a service request management system for mortgage business services. This is a web-based application to manage service request queues, work items and service request document generation.As Development Manager for the MAP Wave 1.1 development team, provided day-to-day management of a combined team of onshore/offshore developers. Tasks included assignment and monitoring of development activities, running estimation sessions, producing daily… Show more The Mortgage Automation Project (MAP) provides a service request management system for mortgage business services. This is a web-based application to manage service request queues, work items and service request document generation.As Development Manager for the MAP Wave 1.1 development team, provided day-to-day management of a combined team of onshore/offshore developers. Tasks included assignment and monitoring of development activities, running estimation sessions, producing daily status reports to the ANZ Project Manager. As the single point of contact for the dual development campuses in Melbourne and Bangalore, co-ordinated daily/ongoing communication with the Development Lead in Bangalore and the Project Manager in Melbourne, in order to report fully on the progress and status of each team. Show less

In order to comply with the latest Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Counter Terrorism Financing (CTF) legislation, NAB’s Technology and Business (T-BA) have been involved in ensuring NAB’s obligations in regard to the AML/CTF legislation.As Solution Designer within the T-BA Architecture team, designed the solution for capturing the required SWIFT electronic transaction data, to forward to the AML Engine as a part of a daily batch process.

The Business and Private Banking Australia (BPA) arm of NAB instigated the eDocs project, an electronic documentation engine for Business Lending and Security which utilises data intelligently to enable point of sale documentation preparation and printing.Leadership for a team of ten developers, managing task allocation, estimation, planning and tracking progress for the team on a daily basis, with significant involvement in the planning and design of the system architecture.

Component design and development for the Collateral Management EAI project, developed by the Institutional Markets and Services business as part of the BASEL II accreditation process, to manage financial securities, facilities and collateral in the process of approving institutional credit applications.

Component design and development for the IPSP Firewall project, a self-service portlet that enables Telstra staff and customers to configure their VPN/Firewalls on the Telstra network.

Component design and development for the Channel Services Layer (CSL), a common middleware layer, providing messaging within the EAI space within EnergyAustralia (previously TRUenergy). Also involved in the initial deployment and support, in addition to writing and presenting system training for the BAU team.

Component design and development predominately for the Intervoice Unified Messaging product. Also demonstrated strong consultancy skills, including on-site throughout Europe and Saudi Arabia.