As an agile coach, I help clients create value at scale by building healthy teams that create distinctive and lasting solutions. Working with everyone from top management to the newest intern, I show what the agile ways of working are, why they matter, and how they change the day-to-day. To do this, I lead large (>30 members), multidisciplinary, mixed teams of clients and colleagues to create data, analytics, and software products that can be deployed across organisationsFocus has been: Leading organizations to change at scale with AgileDeep understanding of delivering AI products to scale (multiple squads delivering multiple use cases)Deep experience in working in highly regulated environments (e.g., banking, pharma, …), navigating and breaking down heavy-weight processes to enable organisations to deliver impact in a highly agile way

Program Manager providing leadership over the development process including commercial management and defining the Product Roadmap / Scope of Energy Trading Software. Using Agile development techniques. Moving the software assets of Tradelogic to a product.Key Achievements* Evaluated the companies portfolio and defined areas of strength and those requiring further development to determine the feasibility of moving the software portfolio to a product.* Developed a product vision and led workshops to define a prioritised roadmap* Performed a review of the testing coverage and approach* Created a RAID log and action plan* Conducted an offshore vendor capability review to support staff augmentation strategy

While a consultant at BJSS I delivered several complex projects including;Led a large distributed team (20) composed of vendors, consultants and permanent staff to enable complex integration between SAP BW, a Large Engine parts forecasting tool and SAP HANA enterprise reporting data warehouse based in Derby. Worked with a leading retailer to evaluate the people and processes involved in utilizing infrastructure as code and adopting Cloud.Led a team of 15 located across India, London and Geneva. to successfully deliver automated commodity hedging functionality, Risk Position Viewer and Risk Explain tool for the Refined Metals trading application The software was delivered using Agile delivery techniques with emphasis on integrated testing automation using detailed user stories and acceptance criteria.

Successfully established and managed a multi-million pound programme which sourced and stored data across the whole Banking group for liquidity risk analysis and regulatory reporting. The role involved setting up governance, building teams, planning the overall programme, implementation roadmap and liaison with stakeholders at the most senior level.

When Joanne joined the Treasury department, application services (the team providing IT resources) was perceived to be a failing group. Software deliveries were late, unreliable and frequently went wrong. Business confidence was so low that an increasing number of stakeholders were writing their own manual solutions instead of using strategic IT systems. Within a year, she ensured that software was always safely delivered, that products met business needs and that development teams were motivated and engaged.Key Acheivements• Worked with senior stakeholders to re-engage business, prioritise and ensure that key issues were tackled first• Restructured global IT teams, hired key personnel (e.g. dedicated environments/release manager)• After a thorough process review, Instituted control around development, testing and releasing. Before I joined, major system outages were frequent; under my leadership there were no system outages• Changed a large, disenfranchised IT team into self-critical, responsive small teams of developers and analysts, working with their stakeholders to design, develop and demonstrate software prior to release, using an agile methodology

• Managed a program of delivery to address BaFin Findings in the Economic Capital Calculation Process within a fixed regulatory stipulated time frame and managed the implementation of Value at Risk methodology changes. All Findings were closed on time. • Managed teams and projects to close a major audit finding against the Bank by ensuring that all business-owned Economic Capital calculations were moved to be correctly handled, either by automating them or by ensuring that Operations controlled their processing. There were almost 300 business-owned calculations and a very tight deadline. • Above required full programme governance; liaison across multiple Bank systems; managing project managers, business analysts, developers and testers; dealing with Market Risk Managers and Methodologists globally and at all business levels. • Managed the VaR methodology work stream was a complex programme delivering the Bank’s key Monte Carlo VaR methodology changes. It encompassed everything from minor methodology changes to major re-engineering projects including a complex move of the Traded Market Risk Economic Capital processing into the VaR framework. Projects, which had direct financial implications for the Bank in terms of the VaR multiplier, were completed on schedule and on budget.

Performed the role of Project manager specifically looking at projects that were considered to be in distress responsible for identifying issues and delivering remediation steps.. • I-TAP Treasury issuance trade interface project for Treasury Risk IT Department This project had no governance, lack of understanding of requirements and testing, and poor stakeholder buy-in. Improved communications and governance and ensured that the project completed to a schedule agreed with stakeholders• Regulatory issue tracking project for the Bank’s Compliance, Legal and Audit Departments This project was urgently required and sponsored personally by the CRO (Chief Risk Officer) in order to ensure that the Bank was able to track and close regulatory issues. Led product evaluation, vendor engagement, and expedited speedy Infrastructure acquisition, ensuring the project finished rapidly on time.• CARA – Credit risk rating application project for Credit Risk Department Resolved the issues on the project by conducting an RFP between two vendors, reorganizing the delivery team, confirming the scope with the business and negotiating a fixed price contract.

• Defined the requirements for a new Carbon Trading system, and oversaw development teams in India and New York working directly with senior clients using Agile development approach• Defined an offset trading platform and a web 2.0 information portal

As senior business analyst in the Credit Hybrids department, undertook data analysis and requirements definition for multiple systems including:• Augmentation of the eManaged Trades Service with a new portfolio management reporting system• Integration of S&P and Moody’s rating models into a Pricing and composition analysis tool for CDOs (Collateralised Debt Obligations)

As senior data analyst, undertook data analysis and requirements definition for a new CDO investor pricing application

Performed the role of Project Manager on two key projects, ending my time at Lehman Brothers as a VP,• Equities Sales Trading System Delivered all requirements definition of replacement internet-based brokers’ orders processing application Undertook full project management lifecycle across global IT teams, resulting in a significantly faster system• Equities and Fixed Income Client Relationship Management system Defined the requirements and planned the implementation and training of the JANNA application Undertook full project management lifecycle across global IT teams

Gathered system requirements to enable relocation of the Swedish FRA trading team to London. I wrote the functional specifications and co-ordinated the implementation, testing and go-live of the new systems.

Performed system requirements analysis to enable development of a Fixed Income derivatives trade capture and risk management system.• Defined user requirements and wrote development specification• Conducted system testing, date migration, user training and trading floor support

Provided business analysis and project management of all market data application development and Bloomberg vendor management. • Projects included extending and supporting a key complex Monte Carlo Simulation application and implementation of a new market data application across the trading floor

• Delivered business analysis and project management of in-house derivatives Front Office development. Projects I analysed and managed included creation of an exotics risk management system and design of a position reporting database:

• Responsible for the technical design of the SYBASE database layer of the SUMMIT derivatives risk management system, including the data model design and the prototyping of the data access functions

• Performed implementation, training and support in multiple banks in London, New York and Tokyo - Included Lloyds, Kleinwort Benson & First Interstate Bank & Baring Brothers• Specified, developed and implemented application modules including LIFFE Option Margining for Kleinwort Benson, Limits management module, Real-time trade interface and FRA trade processing module.