Daniel Edwards Email & Phone Number

Cardiff, Gb

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

- Working with stakeholders to define requirements and deliver projects to tight deadlines. - Facilitator of scrum ceremonies; bi-weekly project planning and retrospective meetings as well as daily catch ups with the sprint team, consisting of developers, designers and testers to manage the smooth running of agile sprints.- Update agile tracking system (Jira) to provide transparency on current sprint.- Manage agile backlog in collaboration with the Product Owner, ensuring story descriptions are understandable and readable by all team members by creating story writing standards.- Experience as a Scrum Master & Project Manager in an Agile environment.- Coordination of all production releases.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Working within the Office of the First Minister departments Communication division I amresponsible for:-User Acceptance Testing of new and existing government websites to ensure websites arefit for purpose and adhere to specifications before they are released using agile methodologies. Identifying and logging any issue picked up while testing.-Managing the Welsh Governments Google marketing platform which includes; Analytics,Tag Manager & Data Studio. Using these tools to analyse and make/suggest improvementsto centrally managed Welsh Government websites.-Help and guide departmental web user from across the Welsh government with any queriesthey had regarding Google Analytics, as well as providing training for new users.-As well as my main roles I have also been involved in; creation and editing of digital contentusing the Alterian ACM & Drupal content management systems, User support andguidance for previously mentioned CMS’s, Domain/DNS management & mailboxmanagement.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

-Editorial control over the All Wales Convention multisite, Holtham commission website andpublic appointment area of the WAG corporate site. Meeting with policy colleagues todiscuss content and publishing it to these sites, managing my own work load.-Manipulation of imagery to conform with centralised web standards using AdobePhotoshop.-Carry out by-monthly quality assurance checks on the content of the website to ensure thatcontent conformed to QA guidelines;-Organised and responded to Central Web Teams generic mail box. Allocating emails to therelevant members of staff and responding to queries where I could.-Creating test scripts for testing of new functionality being created for the site andcompleting testing of the new functionality to ensure that the functionality was working asexpected and if not raising issues with the external supplier/developer to get corrected;-Production of web analysis reports to show visitor numbers for colleagues that requestthem.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

-Use of Alterian Content Management System.-Writing content for the education website.-Migration of content from external websites.-Amending, editing and creation of content for the Welsh Assembly Government educationwebpage’s in both Welsh and English.-Upholding web standards in compliance with central guidelines.-Use of Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat pdf distiller to create documents for the web.-Use of Adobe Photoshop

Cardiff, United Kingdom

-Providing new & upgrading existing ADSL lines to home and business users.-Installing ISDN lines for shops, offices, radio and sporting events.-Working with and advising external engineers on how to rectify faults.-Meeting strict deadlines promised to customer who had signed up BT internet package.-Organising staff workloads in order to get the best results for the team.-Worked flexible hours at short notice and even worked away around the UK when needed.-Was part of a team that turned the Cardiff central telephone exchange from the exchangewith the highest fault levels in the UK to the one with the lowest fault levels within 3 months.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

-Use of Mediasurface Morello Content Management System.-Writing content for the education website.-Amending, editing and creation of content for the Welsh assembly government educationwebpages in both Welsh and English.-Upholding web standards in compliance with central guidelines.-Use of Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat pdf distiller to create documents for the web.

Cardiff, United Kingdom

Sales and Customer service, working within a team dealing with the customer queries andenquiries as well as serving the general public.

Newport, United Kingdom

This placement was undertaken as part of my university course. Work I undertook as part of theplacement included:-Intranet Design-Help desk Support-Networking-PC set up and repair-PC Maintenance