- Agility consulting- Helping organisations define & execute new ways of working - Leadership, train & squad level coaching- Running tailored workshops & trainings

- Leading the Agile Transformation Roadmap for Insurance & Investments platform,- 6 tribes/sub-platforms. 40+ squads (500+ people),- Leading team of 3 coaches; part of a larger 10+ coaching group,- Platform and Tribe level coaching on large complex programs,- Providing training and workshops, - Using agile maturity assessment to track progress and create coaching plans for platforms & squads,- 1:1 coaching of platform/tribe leaders, product owners and scrum masters,-… Show more - Leading the Agile Transformation Roadmap for Insurance & Investments platform,- 6 tribes/sub-platforms. 40+ squads (500+ people),- Leading team of 3 coaches; part of a larger 10+ coaching group,- Platform and Tribe level coaching on large complex programs,- Providing training and workshops, - Using agile maturity assessment to track progress and create coaching plans for platforms & squads,- 1:1 coaching of platform/tribe leaders, product owners and scrum masters,- Fostering CoP (Communities of Practice). Guilds/Chapters and supporting Lunch&Learn sessions, Show less

(Consulted to Macquarie Bank during this time)- Working actively on the Agile Transformation Strategy for Banking Financial Services (BFS) division,- Supporting large Epics/programs as an agile coach involving multiple trains and teams,- Providing training and workshops, - Assessing agile maturity of teams to track progress and create coaching plans.- Leading a 6+ coaching team,- 1:1 Coaching of senior leaders on agile mindset/culture/leadership,- Team level… Show more (Consulted to Macquarie Bank during this time)- Working actively on the Agile Transformation Strategy for Banking Financial Services (BFS) division,- Supporting large Epics/programs as an agile coach involving multiple trains and teams,- Providing training and workshops, - Assessing agile maturity of teams to track progress and create coaching plans.- Leading a 6+ coaching team,- 1:1 Coaching of senior leaders on agile mindset/culture/leadership,- Team level coaching (15+ teams across Sydney, Manila and India - Fostering Guilds, Show less

Invigor Group has a number of B2B (and one B2C) products that are primarily aimed at providing detailed data and analysis to large retailers on where, how and at what price their products/brands are being advertised and consumed. Offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Germany and Chennai.- Responsible for the agile delivery of the 3 flagship products; Insights Retail, Insights Visitor and Shopping Ninja.- Working closely with senior management, product owners and scrum masters to ensure… Show more Invigor Group has a number of B2B (and one B2C) products that are primarily aimed at providing detailed data and analysis to large retailers on where, how and at what price their products/brands are being advertised and consumed. Offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Germany and Chennai.- Responsible for the agile delivery of the 3 flagship products; Insights Retail, Insights Visitor and Shopping Ninja.- Working closely with senior management, product owners and scrum masters to ensure teams are working on prioritised backlogs and are delivering quality releases on a weekly basis.- Change Leader/Instigator; Improving transparency, ownership, responsibility and focus. - Agile Coach,- Team of 20+ developers, testers, UX, scrum masters based Sydney, Melbourne and Chennai.- Scrum Master/Iteration Manager for the Visitor product, Show less

N11.com is one of the largest e-commerce companies in Europe based in Istanbul. It's a joint venture between Dogus Group and SK Group from Korea.- Responsible for educating senior members/head's of departments in Agile and Scrum as a way of delivery,- Creating processes for prioritisation of product backlog/schedule to bring visibility between business and IT thus ensure timely delivery of projects based on business priorities using Agile and SCRUM,- Working closely with… Show more N11.com is one of the largest e-commerce companies in Europe based in Istanbul. It's a joint venture between Dogus Group and SK Group from Korea.- Responsible for educating senior members/head's of departments in Agile and Scrum as a way of delivery,- Creating processes for prioritisation of product backlog/schedule to bring visibility between business and IT thus ensure timely delivery of projects based on business priorities using Agile and SCRUM,- Working closely with C-levels, directors, senior business stakeholders, UX and my product team to help the business achieve their sales/conversion/member acquisition targets,- Managing 4 teams; product owner/BA, testing, SEO and business support teams,- Online and mobile e-commerce applications,- Leading agile/lean thinking; promoting innovative thinking and creative new ideas,- Career development/mentoring of talent; Empowering teams Show less

Cudo is a joint venture between Microsoft and Nine Entertainment Co and sits within the Mi9 group of companies, one of Australia’s largest and most innovative media company. Cudo owns cudo.com.au, getawaylounge.com.au and themeatmerchant.com.au group of e-commerce sites.Key Responsibilities;- Acting 'Head of Technology' for 6 months responsible for IT- Project management of a new e-commerce start up; themeatmerchant.com.au. Delivered on time and on budget against a very… Show more Cudo is a joint venture between Microsoft and Nine Entertainment Co and sits within the Mi9 group of companies, one of Australia’s largest and most innovative media company. Cudo owns cudo.com.au, getawaylounge.com.au and themeatmerchant.com.au group of e-commerce sites.Key Responsibilities;- Acting 'Head of Technology' for 6 months responsible for IT- Project management of a new e-commerce start up; themeatmerchant.com.au. Delivered on time and on budget against a very aggressive 8 week time frame.- Project management of the merger and acquisition of the Getawaylounge.com.au business.- Working closely with senior stakeholders fortnightly to define and prioritise the technology roadmap across all Cudo Group websites,- Concurrently running 8 streams of work including 3 e-commerce sites, mobile sites, CMS and back-office systems. - Working closely with heads of marketing, sales, account executives and customer service to identify revenue and customer experience improvement opportunities, - Agile Coach Show less

Sky Help Centre is part of a large program of work called 'Self Service Initiative' which aims to reduce customer calls to the call centres by improving Sky's online capability and offerings. Team of 5 developers and 1 test analyst. Fortnightly sprints - planning, showcase, retrospective and release to production. Our back log needed to be quite fluid and tactical at times to support the release of new products and a varied range of business stakeholders. Whilst my time in the… Show more Sky Help Centre is part of a large program of work called 'Self Service Initiative' which aims to reduce customer calls to the call centres by improving Sky's online capability and offerings. Team of 5 developers and 1 test analyst. Fortnightly sprints - planning, showcase, retrospective and release to production. Our back log needed to be quite fluid and tactical at times to support the release of new products and a varied range of business stakeholders. Whilst my time in the help centre we;- Replaced a legacy CMS system called Vignette with OpenCMS (Content Management System), to save costs and to provide a more flexible platform for our editorial team, - Introduced Live Chat (3rd party tool) capability as another form of communication for our customers,- Provided constant improvements to the site via real customer feedback, user testing, variant testing and innovative requirements from our stakeholders,- Introduced 'Fault Tracking' capability for our broadband and telephony customers to track faults raised, online,- Integrated with Lithium (3rd party tool) to release Sky Forums as another mean for our customer to educate/learn and troubleshoot any issues they may be having with Sky products. Show less

Project manager of the initial phase of a new greenfield initiative called 'Sky Smart Monitor'; - provide customers the ability to remotely monitor their electricity consumption using a smart monitor device. Responsibilities included;-Setting up and managing a team of 8 developers, 1 business analyst and a test analyst.- Working closely with the product director, marketing, R&D and Sky creative teams to come up with initial concept.- Managing the technical relationship… Show more Project manager of the initial phase of a new greenfield initiative called 'Sky Smart Monitor'; - provide customers the ability to remotely monitor their electricity consumption using a smart monitor device. Responsibilities included;-Setting up and managing a team of 8 developers, 1 business analyst and a test analyst.- Working closely with the product director, marketing, R&D and Sky creative teams to come up with initial concept.- Managing the technical relationship with three external parties including supporting the development of the energy monitor hardware. - Based on the initial wire frames, building an accompanying website (to the smart monitor) to allow customer's to view their electricity consumption live online,- Building capability to recommend customer's better energy deals that may be out there (ie, similar to uSwitch functionality).The Initial phase of the project was completed on time and budget. Show less

Took over the scrum master role at Sky Songs in addition to my product owner responsibilities.Primary challenge was to work closely with our third party supplier to ensure we are meeting the SLA and business targets. Whilst managing a demaning backlog to continously improve Sky's offerings.

Product owner on http://www.skysongs.com a new music streaming/download service unique to Sky. Working closely with various business stakeholders from product development, marketing to editors . Running planning games, stand ups, weekly showcases, design reviews. Defining api requirements inconjunction with the technical lead and working closely with third parties to ensure the successful integration of the newly formed music platform.

Biggest agile I.T project (2 year project) in the uk media industry with over 70 developers. Technologies; e-portal, java, javascript, continuous build, selenium, linux, visio (wireframes), UML

Colonial First State is a leading funds manager within Australasia with over $USD160 billion under management. Technology used; e-portal, Mainframe, Java

- Worked on a goverment project. RUP, functional specification, assisting UAT and functional testing.- 'SC' Clearance until 2011

Large (1+ year) project to redesign the back office (supply-chain order management) and retail front-end (POS) systems used by stores.Technologies used; java, agile, continous build

TestPro is a consultancy specialising in test strategy, management, training and test automation services to large blue-chip organisations.- Test Manager/Consultant at Department of Defence, managing the biggest Standard Operating Environment (SOE) development in Australia with over 80,000 user worldwide.- as lead consultant; defining scope, resource allocation, analysing business requirements and managing client expectations across multiple projects.