Gav Patel Email & Phone Number

Buckhurst Hill, Gb

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

IBM has spun out its Managed Infrastructure Services creating a global start up of 90,000 people. Global Agile Coach & Design Thinking Leader in Alliances and Partnerships Lead design thinking to create lean, effective business processes for implementation of Workspan.Lead the implementation of a scaled Agile framework across multiple squads & disciplines (across the UK, Ireland, Norway, Spain, France, Brussels, Mexico. Costa Rica, and America). Manage the Agile development process to successfully implement the chosen digital platform.Mentor program SMEs and Product Owners on Agile best practices, create and improve Agile processes within squads.Creating a framework and process to ensure value is delivered early and often Ensuring Squad leads are effective when delivering their processes for Microsoft, Google, AWS, Redhat, IBM, Cisco, Dell and all the other Hyperscalers and Partners.

London, United Kingdom

Co Founder of a successful software consultancy specialising in Agile and DevOps implementations. A selection of assignments and initiatives my teams have delivered includeBlueBay Asset Management - Agile Assessments and Coaching. Commissioned by COO and Head of PMO to bring agility to BlueBay. Anglo American - Health Assessment and Azure best practices consultancy M&G Prudential - Agile journey, taking a team then whole organisation to a Scrum based approach of software delivery;Microservices implementation, breaking down monolithic codebase into APIs in the cloud;Moving to an off prem Azure platform;Moving to and using Azure DB and Cosmos;DevOps projects including implementing an internal Cloud/PaaS solution to support the internal development;and other internal projects Prudential Plc - Coaching one of their data science teams, working alongside scrum master and trainingOther operational daily duties include :• Sourcing new clients, managing and maintaining relationships• Client list includes M&G Asset Management, The Prudential, Anglo American, Janus Henderson, Redburn Partners, BlueBay Asset Management, Man Investments and Legal & General• Responsible for all project delivery, client liaison, and all operations on a day to day basis • Sourcing and onboarding consultants to complete projects• Responsible for all Financial, Legal, HR and Marketing of the business

London, England, United Kingdom

Programme Iteration Manager Leading a tribe of 25 full time resources (made up of IBM, SalesForce, Bluewolf / IBM SF Consulting arm, and contractors) delivering DevOps, Quoting (CPQ) Sharing Rules in Salesforce and SalesForce Administration. Cross functional team of Engineers, Architects, Business Analysts, Designers and SF Admins. In addition leading 13 other squads (~70 people) as programme scrum master across India, Mexico and America to deliver Deal Registration within SalesForce. Facilitating scaled Agile ceremonies, Scrum of Scrums, Showcases, Planning and workshops. Secretary of the Architectural Review BoardIteration Manager for the Platform Assurance and Architectural TeamRecruitment (interviewed 80% of new hires at interview stage and all cv vetting) and onboarding of new joiners to the programmeDaily standup for the leadership team and ensuring their Trello board is accurate and clear, and retrospectives to capture learnings Creation of the Agile Centre for Excellence within the sub-domainBridge between CRM (US and India) and PRM Development Release management of the first deployment to production Bring joy, humour and laughter along with music to everyone on the programme Iteration Manager for PRM MVP vendor selection (March 2020 - September 2021) Scrum Master for small highly experience and highly functioning team to asses the feasibility of PRM offerings from three vendors

London, United Kingdom

Status Page:Servant / Leader for a squad building dashboard to show health and maintenance of Business Partner Applications. Became first squad in the sub domain to achieve all 5 ratings in an internal Agile maturity assessment across 13 dimensions Increased teams velocity by 20%

London, United Kingdom

Formed strategic partnership with successful medium sized recruitment organisation to be consultancy arm. Account managing clients including Shell, Centrica, TP-ICAP, Redburn Partners. Running operations from Legal, Financial, HR and Marketing. Held lunch and learns attended by CTOs of financial organisations on key subjects in Microservices and Distributed Ledger Technology and its affects on Financial OrganisationsWe specialise in agile transformation, agile project delivery and coaching within the agile way. We transform businesses from those who miss deadlines, those who under communicate, those who have slow releases into businesses that meet their deadlines, deliver more into production and are open to new and innovative technologies saving time and lots of money (its true ;) )We help companies build environments where change is encouraged, new technologies and platforms are discussed and the culture is that of success at the forefront.

London

The worlds largest listed hedge fund• Scrum master leading multi-disciplinary teams delivering in incremental fashion with increasing cadence. • Responsible for all scrum ceremonies including planning, sprints, retrospectives and show and tells • Working with business analysts and product owners to groom backlog• Providing metrics such as Burn Downs. Removing barriers and impediments to ensure work is flowing. • Defined test strategy and planning to ensure a fluid Agile process • End to end testing of Front Office applications, liaising with analysts and product owners for requirements, developers for unit and integration testing, other testers for gui and release management to ensure successful on-time delivery• Successfully tested site redesigns, internal SharePoint applications and data testing for feeds up and down stream, reporting projects included ensuring correct fund data was sent to end users• Testing of regulatory projects such as KIIDS (Key Investor Information Documents) working with internal data providers for correct data, and eCommerce team to correctly displayed documents • Leadership, management and motivation of resources in UK and Switzerland

Victoria, London

UK cutting edge television broadcaster• Dual role of interim Test Manager and Lead Tester for major projects • Management of test function, ensuring all deliverable work streams had enough test resource• Hiring and onboarding new team members, coaching and mentoring junior testers • Working with stake holders, product owners and release to ensure smooth release of software• Lead tester for the site redesign, working in an Agile team of over 30 engineers over weekly sprints• Spearheaded performance testing, using Spirent Avalanche, simulating extremely high volumes of traffic • Lead tester for the CMS solution using TeamSite, ensuring editors could create their own branded TV sites while living in a standard eco system• Conducting all non functional testing • Led out of hours production release activities mainly on weekends• Automation of site testing, using Selenium Webdriver (Java), SoapUI (api) and WaTIR

London, United Kingdom

Ask Jeeves - Global search engine • Ensuring the smooth end to end testing of the twice weekly release to production.• Various initiatives to reduce time to production from one hour to under 20 minutes • Hiring, line managing and mentoring team in the UK.• Working closely with US counterparts to ensure a one team culture was promoted globally • Ensuring environments were available and mirrored production in infrastructure and code• Automation with internally developed tools, ensuring tests were fresh and up to date• Established non functional testing for localisation across European sites

London, United Kingdom

• Testing the complete Ask.com estate including search, mapping, microsites, toolbars, and tracking • Testing on various end platforms including monitors, Television, BT MultiPhone booths and mobile • Project leadership and management of the launch UK Toolbar working with marketing, Virgin Radio, US developers and Ireland Release team for a smooth release and tracking• Conducted user testing and usability focus groups to ensure an optimum experience• Led a program to replace all legacy test lab equipment with VMWare Workstations. • Evaluated different defect tracking tools and championed the use of PVCS tracker and then Bugzilla• Working closely with marketing and third party design agencies for marketing activities

Farringdon, London

Early start up where I was the QA and Support manager with a team of up to 10 support staff• Line management of the test and support team, to ensure user queries were handled and resolved in a timely fashion• Responsible for all The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) sites • Led test responsibility for Allcures.com, first UK pharmaceutical site including concerns around PGP • Established test strategy from the ground up to ensure software was developed in a testable manner

London, United Kingdom

Contract infrastructure engineer. Testing internal build of Windows NT to run on PCs and Laptops that the company uses in worldwide locations. Also testing of hardware such as NICs, printers, and servers to ensure all connectivity is stable and working before global rollout.

Msc Information Systems And Technology

Ba (Hons) Hotel Management