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Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

As an Agile Coach I am providing thought leadership and hands-on guidance to Agile teams and stakeholders to drive a smooth transition into the Agile mindset. Utilising organisational and industry best practices, as Agile Coach I engage with Agile teams through observation/interaction, workshops and training as necessary to increase understanding and productivity improvements to foster a cohesive Agile approach within the teams and across products.- Works with the enterprise within the context of specific coaching engagements to support Agile goals and KPI’s for identified portfolios/programs - Working with enterprise portfolios to institute, practice, and adopt Scrum, XP, Kanban and Agile techniques. Identify and introduce opportunities for the team to improve through coaching and pertinent questioning. - Deliver training (virtually as well as classroom) to support delivery teams, scrum masters, product owners, digital product managers and leaders to better understand their roles and how they can best support Allstate’s transformation to lean-agile ways of working. - Conduct Scaled Agile training on a regular basis. - Conduct Agile Health Checks and Agile Maturity Assessments- Coaching / Mentoring the Scrum Masters, RTEs, Agile Coaches, Agile Teams- Collaborate to develop Agile training materials, newsletters, and support communities (CoP) as they relate to Agile practices. - Work with the teams to ensure the appropriate tools are being leveraged and enterprise practices are being followed to enable consistency and metrics where needed. - Assess the health and agility of teams, teams-of-teams (ARTs) to help them identify areas for further improvement and support them on their agile journey.

Belfast, United Kingdom

Scrum Master - Roles and Responsibility• Act as a Servant Leader that champions and encourages the rules of Scrum and protects the team from external influences while removing impediments to team progress to deliver Sprint goal.• Facilitate meetings, Agile ceremonies, and other group interactions• Serve as an Expert on the Scrum process and how best to use it to get a team to perform at its highest level• Enable the Team to keep the project progress transparent and updated• Track, Measure, and Guide the project progress to keep the project on track.• Coach the team and PO during estimation and backlog refinement to get appropriate sizing and acceptance criteria.• Coach & assist the team to become self organizing and empower the team to make decisions locally• Coach the team to achieve steady, sustainable, and predictable burn rate; and assisting the Product owner to manage cost and budget• Understand basic fundamentals of Agile• Understand other processes and methodologies and can speak intelligently about them and leverage other techniques to provide value to a team/enterprise• Understand basic fundamentals of software development processes and procedures• Understand incremental delivery and the value of metrics• Understand backlog tracking, burndown metrics, velocity, and task definition• Familiarity with common Agile practices, service-oriented environments, and better development practices

ATO PMO Project Managers are accountable for monitoring all aspects of a program/project, including pursuit and/or project delivery including scope, timelines, resources, budget, risks and issues, relationships, and communication. Furthermore, I am accountable for successful program/project delivery on time, within budget, and meet or exceed quality expectations.Manage multiple project deliveries from initiation through to deploy and close.Customize solutions for complex issues typically involving business or enterprise level considerations.Drive achievement of projects/program success factors Represent the projects/program and its objectives in all governance/compliance/regulatory forumsEngage appropriate stakeholders in risk identification and mitigation Assess and report health of all projects in an objective manner, maintaining project transparency and accurate status; keeping manager, delivery area and portfolio manager informed Proactively identify, resolve, and escalate (as needed) projects/program risks/issues to manager, portfolio manager and delivery area as needed Proactively plan staffing and make dynamic adjustments to maximize resource efficiencies and achieve project results Accountable for understanding business objectives and how the projects/program delivers them; driving adjustments in projects/program to more effectively achieve desired business results Ability to adapt and respond to changes both inside and outside the projects/program Ability to predict risk areas, design mitigation/contingency strategies and execute on these strategies to avoid issues Ability to lead across a wide variety of project types Live into the consistent processes, standards and methodologies designed by the ATO PMO. Carry out any other duties that may reasonably be required from time to time

Belfast, United Kingdom

Release management is utilized to create one, holistic picture of the work being delivered in order to make informed Go/No-Go decisions with more confidence in the quality and scope of the release. This includes participating in resolving risks and issues that are internal and external to the release process following the appropriate ITIL methodology.Key responsibilities include:* Release Planning* Single point of contact for knowledge about what is contained in area’s release* Monitor and validate phase gating activities* Communicate release-related information to area* Participate in defining, documenting, and implementing release process improvements* Provide expertise in a focused area of the business through analysis and understanding of business needs. Apply a fundamental knowledge of a business area''s processes and practices. * Provide business knowledge and support for resolving technology issues in their focused area of the business.* Use appropriate tools and techniques to elicit and define requirements that address relatively simple business processes or projects of low to moderate complexity.

Management of inventory levels, warehousing, and sales forecasting.Compiling weekly wastage, financial, and statistical reports to be sent to head office through in-house AS-400 Management Information Systems (MIS). Meeting HACCAP regulations Contributing to sales growth through liaising with suppliers and tailoring promotional cycles relevant to our store and annual foot-fall reports (in attempt to meet new 80/20 waste regulations as outlined by Dunnes head office).

Developing statistics to profile levels of awareness of the Black Box Belfast.Reshaping current marketing strategy to (re)target new and previous customers.Performing primary and secondary field research within the events industry, and amongst the general public.Collating industry wide statistics relating to the Events and Hospitality Venue Industry including a comparative analysis with the Black Box main competitors within Belfast and surrounding areas.Identify key market segments that have as of yet not been targeted by marketing strategies.Provide adjusted promotional and pricing strategies based on a competitor analysis.

To analyse of the service operation through customer interviews, questionnaires and providing quantitative data on customer flows throughout the shop over a month period. Congestion patterns, and reducing lead / sale times.To identify operational processes that was causing the shop problems. Eradicating bottlenecks, and throughput times.Provide recommendations concluded from the study including a change in layout of the store, alleviation of capacity constraints with regards to staffing levels, and the need to continuously improve service quality

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Business Management, 2.1

Bsc (Hons) Degree In Food Technology / Cmi Level 5, Project Management

Activities and Societies: Project management, HACCP, Auditing, HR, Finance, Marketing & Sales, Food Technology, Project Reporting.

Gcse / A Levels

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