• Training, coaching, and advising OKRs and global product value stream rollouts for large multinationals. • Application of complex Product development principles and practices to Global Digital Marketing client (Vodafone and KFC)• Creation and rollout of Product-market fit optimisation course using Jobs-to-be-done for McKinsey Product and Engagement Managers

Product Advising, training, mentoring and executive coaching for McKinsey client service teams and their clients on elements mentioned in above summary.• Product Delivery Lead for fastest Digital Bank start-up, 400% increase in flow through visualisation, limiting WIP and fast customer feedback loops.• 85% feedback score for training Vodafone's 250 session• 90% satisfaction score for top 50 CEOs in Unicredit

• Training, coaching, and advising for 6 product marketing squad transformation• Highest feedback score across all marketing department for increasing value focus, speed to market and customer centricity• Implement state of the art quarterly product planning combining, Design thinking, DSDM, Lean-Agile to enable value maximization for given capacity and capability• Leading on driving implementation AI Marketing compliance tool to reduce lead times• Implemented low cost semi-automated product metrics tracking using by exporting MS Planner in shared Excel including Quarterly and sprint Supply demand management, Lead times distribution, Squad maturity, cumulative Flow Diagrams and Quarterly burn-up charts.

• Training, coaching, and advising global product value stream rollouts for large multinationals. • Application of complex Product development principles and practices to Global Digital Marketing client (Vodafone and KFC)• Creation and rollout of Product-market fit optimisation course using Jobs-to-be-done for McKinsey Product and Engagement Managers

• Successfully set up 3 subsurface investigation product teams in Scrum, one team successfully setup remotely• Extensive use of online tools for facilitation during COVID including MURAL, Teams, MS Planner, Azure DevOps• Executive consulting and coaching for ‘Reinvent BP' using product value streams.• Qualified as Agility Health Facilitator (100%) including product management

• Training and coaching of Executive Leadership Team on economics of Product delivery and fundamental principles underpinning Enterprise Agility• Adapting SAFe at product programme and portfolio level to deliver integrated platform solution to Bank of Bangkok (BBL)

• Reduced Digital Product Development Lifecycle cost of delay whilst improving quality and governance by establishing a corporate end-to-end workflow in JIRA• Improved quality and delivery speed for Call Centre Support, Commercial departments, MI reporting and HR by introducing workflow transparency, 'definition of done' policies and limiting work in progress (Kanban)

• Earned status as No1 Value-Flow-Quality Product delivery Trainer, lead Tesco Technology, Complex Product delivery Practitioner Programme Transformation Lead for 2500 staff UK and India• Won UK National award Best use of agile in Public Sector for High Speed 2 (HS2), Principal Consultant for Agile Porduct Transformation• Complex Product delivry Training & Coaching UK GOV Departments: Cabinet Office, DWP, HMRC, MCGA, DSA, DFID, ONS, BT, BBC, ROS, Lean-Agile Trainer >1000 Executives, Managers and Staff

o Leading Transformation of ICT, Digital Communication and Strategy, HR, Specification and Assurance, Learning and Development and Strategy and Analysis departments. o BCS ValueFlowQuality™ Training (n=80) - 85% average delegate satisfaction scoreo Product Coaching and mentoring of CIO, ICT Senior Management team, Department Heads, HS2 Board and Senior Management. o Product Training, coaching, mentoring and creating a community of practice for 4 Scrum teams and 9 Kanban teams (including ICT PMO)o Product Facilitation and discovery and reduction of impediment to improved value, flow and qualityo Product Coaching and mentoring teams in value, principles and practices including Cost of delay estimation, Cumulative Flow Diagramso Product Owner and Scrum Master coaching and mentoringo Won National award ‘ Best Use of Agile in Public Sector 2014’ (HS2 Project). Presented paper at Agile Business Conference 2014 with metrics and outcomes attached

o Setup two new Scrum Product Teams (n=15) using ValueFlowQuality™ principles and practices. o VFQ training and coaching on release and iteration planning, scrum ceremonies, Kanban, BDD, TDD, Burn Charts, Stakeholder User Story Mapping, Product Backlog organisation and prioritisation (ROI), velocity measurement, cost-of-delay prioritisation, various retrospective techniques, Cumulative Flow Analysis, Quality Assurance,o Product Owner training/coaching/mentoring, o Scrum Master Training/coaching, o Establishing Senior Manager Awareness/buy-in. o Outcome: Increment/Release 1 delivered 90% business value going live after 6 weeks, equating to an estimated €119k Cost of Delay saving against the original ‘big bang’ waterfall plan

Entrepreneur, Product Owner, Agile Project Manager, Developer: Development (C++, Windows, Vega Prime) of advanced decision support s/w for the marine sector. Fund raising £60k VC Investment from NSEI and £11k from Business Link. Developed 4 prototypes Feb-June 2009. Negotiated exclusive licence with Newcastle University for background IP. Utilised Knowledge House CIP scheme to develop version 1.0 SaaS prototype with RCID. Filed patent application for Real-time hydrodynamics simulation product. Partnering with Ink Spot Science for back-end workflow system for version 2.0. Short-listed for Carbon Trust Incubation programme for ship route optimisation concept.

Digital Cluster Development Director Sunderland Software City: (1-2 days/month) Joint initiative with Sunderland Council, BiC and Sunderland University. ONE NE/ERDF funded project. All aspects of strategic planning for membership engagement for clustering NE software companies. Instigated regional Agile PM Awareness raising Seminars with 90+ delegates attending. Achieved all income targets. Board member responsibilities.

o Product Programme Director of Codeworks DEV, innovative software acceleration service for North East of England designed using Agile principles. o Won national award for ‘Best Use of Agile in the Public Sector 2010’ (Agile Business Awards) for this work.o Planned, organised and secured £1.9m public sector funding (ONE NE/ERDF). o Innovative recruitment and management of senior team: 2 x agile s/w project managers, s/w architect, s/w developer and project support. o Technical and business evaluation of over 120 applications from SMEs across the region. o Programme direction for 2 in-house and 17 external projects. o Directed supplier panel creation (6 Lots) under OJEU tendering. o Creative direction of our own SDLC ‘Agile with Rigour 4D Innovation Process’ supported by custom-built programme management and output software reporting tool. o Software development strategies presenter on Sunderland Software City Software Ventures course.

Agile Programme Manager Digital Media Technology (DMT): Agile Project Managing pipeline of 29 early stage concepts, 5 businesses created, 15 jobs created & 20 businesses supported. Successfully designed software user experience testing (n=37) for framerush DTi funded community based archived video annotation SaaS. Designed and implemented Media Wiki structure to capture, monitor and report programme data. Agile Project Managed user experience testing coordinating with Enigma Interactive, Newcastle University and Sunderland University.

Product Owner, Agile Project Manager, s/w Developer: Aidept ‘CardioGaming’ exercise video gaming project. Built relationships and partnered with Technogym and Teesside University. Successfully designed, help build (C++, VC++, TCIP/IP) and testing version 1.0 of CardioGaming for older adults (50+) for 4 week randomised control trial (n=23). Design supported by Teesside University Sport Science, Computer Science and Psychology Departments (see published paper in Journal of Cyberpsychology). Raised €30k funding from Technogym to design and test version 2.0. Raised match-funding via Knowledge House CIP scheme with Teesside University, helped build 6 CardioGames (2D and 3D, C++, DirectX, TCP/IP, .lib API). Directed and managed 12 week randomised control trial (n=87 4 groups) in a working gym in Sunderland. Tested five types of CardioGames using a webcam as HMI retrofitted into 4 Technogym recline bikes. Developed wireless data communication layer for system to transmitted (TCP/IP), stored (MS SQL server) and managed via custom built ASP.net C# instructor station.

Programme Managing £210k public sector R&D initiative with North East Universities including Northumbria, Newcastle (IAH), Sunderland, Teesside and Durham Universities investigating 'technologies to support and ageing world'.

Technical Project Development Manager: VR Centre rated in the top 3 UK in its class. Project Management/Lead Developer (C, C++, Visual Studio, MP Vega, MP Lynx) of a £1m world first commercial subsea cabling laying simulator for CTC Marine. Catenary modelling and development interfacing to physics engine developed by Thales Geosciences and SMD plough h/w control system. Headed-up R&D (C/C++) projects under HEIF 1

Senior Developer: C/C++ Software development of various commercial real-time software development projects, C, IRIX, GNU, Visual Studio, Vega, Multigen Creator 3D modelling, IRIX and Windows based programming. Developer and project manager on world's first advanced subsea fibre optic cable laying simulator