I am a relentless problem-solver and optimistic pragmatist. Over the years, I have developed extensive expertise in technical project and product management, software products delivery and organisation-wide agile transformations. I have coached organisations and software teams in agile ways of working, adaptation to complexity with systems thinking, and management of frequent and early value delivery to customers.I strive for and excel in environments where I'm hands-on in practicing my craft and putting my knowledge of several agile methodologies to good use. With my enthusiasm in coaching organisations and teams in adoption of flow, lean principles, high productivity, self management, and servant leadership, I can bring desirable cultural shift to your organisation. I have experience of leading enterprise agile transformations of teams sizing more than 100 people with multiple squads and tribes.Career Accomplishments:• Implementation of continuous, predictable, and on-demand release cadence where one was virtually non-existent).• Facilitation of planning, development, and delivery of several large and small releases of company’s flagship product across a program of work involving over 100 members spread around multiple geographies.• Development of a new light-weight system for financial reporting from software engineering teams, reducing time required for report generation from several months to less than two weeks; saving nearly 100% of engineering manager’s time and more than 75% of financial team’s time.• Established company-wide agile centre of excellence and several other guilds for sustained process improvements.• Taught agile ways-of-working to Engineering and Business stakeholders through targeted and general coaching sessions and training. Established several feature teams, focusing on progressive refinement and implementation and empirical learning culture.• Delivered 3 multi-million dollars digitisation and modernisation initiatives to customers over the period of 2 years at Telstra Digital.• Consulted team in adoption of architecture and development guidelines enabling rapid agile development resulting in increased throughput by more than 200%.• Oversaw and increased expansion of company’s product portfolio from 2 to 7 products.• Hired and expanded development team size from initial size of 10 to over 30 people.
Listed skills include Scrum, Agile Methodologies, Software Engineering, Software Development, and 24 others.
