John Cole Email & Phone Number

Manchester Area, United Kingdom

I'm leading a team of Product Owners, and together we're helping amazing teams protect identities, stop threats and deliver dynamic access in today's work from anywhere world.

Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Greater Manchester, England, United Kingdom

BeyondTrust is an innovator in endpoint security. Our endpoint security software, Privilege Management for Windows, is a multi-layered prevention engine that stops malware at the endpoint. It takes a proactive approach, uniquely integrating three core capabilities of privilege management, application control and content isolation in one lightweight agent. This unique and award-winning combination makes prevention possible, allowing businesses to build solid security foundations that protect over 6 million endpoints at many of the world’s most recognizable brands. This proactive strategy is advocated by analysts, industry experts and security professionals alike.BeyondTrust’s simpler and smarter approach to security makes organizations more secure from day one. For more bespoke requirements, an experienced and qualified team of consultants is available to guide the implementation and ensure project success.In 2018, Bomgar acquired Lieberman Software, Avecto, and BeyondTrust. The combined companies are now operating as BeyondTrust.

My team lead achievements include;• Increased velocity of the team from an average of 27 to 42 points per sprint. This was achieved by a combination of improving the quality of planning discussions and estimation, improving the detail of the near-term backlog and tracking distractions effectively• Improved engagement at stand-up by ensuring that each member runs the physical board at least once a sprint• Reduced unfinished work at sprint end by re-establishing the ‘heartbeat’ of the sprint and focusing the team on our commitment to deliver. • Facilitating the scrum ceremonies: user story breakdown (release planning), sprint planning, daily stand-up, retrospective• Removing blockers and barriers to progress on a daily basis• Empower the team to deliver stories and tasks as they choose and support them when necessary • Working closely with project managers, architects, developers, analysts & other team leads to design, schedule and deliver business benefits• Line management & career development responsibilities with 7 colleagues My technical lead achievements include:• Moving the web retail database into code• Inspiring and facilitating the team to produce and prioritise the target architecture and product technical debt backlog for the web retail solutions.• Aiding two delivery teams with advice and occasionally even solutions to day to day technical problems and making technical decisions when required • Championed the definition of requirements in terms of behavioural tests (gherkin & specflow) for solutions and drove a movement for the ownership of these tests to reside closer to the business owners rather than with developers.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Deliver software to meet business requirements within agreed timescales• Assist the team’s developers by providing solution specific and technical knowledge• Promote coding standards and best practice guidelines• Providing clear and concise technical specifications• Review peers and colleagues functional specifications, test plans and code• Writing comprehensive unit tests for classes and methods• Increasing encapsulation and re-use where possible• Provide application support and investigate and fix faults in a timely manner

Stockport, United Kingdom

numéro provide web based customer interaction management software to contact centres for a variety of large organisations in the retail, publishing and government sectors. I was part of the development team, specialising in the user interface. I used Object Oriented JavaScript, web services, AJAX (json & XML) to link the UI tier to the platform / business logic tier of the application. Responsible for design, delivery and documentation of new functionality as well as bug fixes and code improvements.

Chester, United Kingdom

Working within a small GIS development team, I was involved in the development and support of several GIS applications on the Intra/Internet, including; Interactive Mapping and Discover CheshireI was responsible for the management and administration of three ArcIMS 9.2 servers, and the support of all of the organisations ArcIMS web sites.

Msc. Multidisciplinary Informatics, Information Technology, Distinction

Introduction to Systems Thinking Computational Modelling Communication Visualization and Interaction Collaborative Internet Architectures.

B.Eng. Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Manufacturing Engineering, 2.1