Scrum Master of a team working to improve reader experience, content navigation and discoverability of content across the nature.com platform.• Working closely with the team to ensure they understand the Agile values and principles and adhere to the rules of Scrum utilising the appropriate artefacts and ceremonies. • Supporting the Product Owner in the generation and refinement of the Product Backlog.• Facilitating a shared understanding of the project across the team… Show more Scrum Master of a team working to improve reader experience, content navigation and discoverability of content across the nature.com platform.• Working closely with the team to ensure they understand the Agile values and principles and adhere to the rules of Scrum utilising the appropriate artefacts and ceremonies. • Supporting the Product Owner in the generation and refinement of the Product Backlog.• Facilitating a shared understanding of the project across the team and adopting appropriate collaboration tools and techniques to support communication and teamwork.• Maintaining transparency to the wider business through producing sprint burn down and release burn up charts, roadmaps and facilitating sprint reviews.• Working with the team to create a quality focused ethos through promoting agile practices such as pair programming, 3 amigos, user stories and automated testing.• Encouraging continuous improvement using different retrospective techniques to help the team to find better ways of working. Show less

Working closely with the PMO and Head of Project Management to coach my team of Project Managers through an organisation-wide transition from waterfall to Agile and to promote and propagate Agile practices to the wider business.• Ensuring the governance models, standards, tools, reports and templates are implemented across the Programme.• Assisting Product Owners in strategic planning and road mapping.• Ensuring requirements are captured and prioritised and dependencies… Show more Working closely with the PMO and Head of Project Management to coach my team of Project Managers through an organisation-wide transition from waterfall to Agile and to promote and propagate Agile practices to the wider business.• Ensuring the governance models, standards, tools, reports and templates are implemented across the Programme.• Assisting Product Owners in strategic planning and road mapping.• Ensuring requirements are captured and prioritised and dependencies managed across the projects and resources are prioritised accordingly.• Monitoring Programme milestones to identify risks to schedules. Maintaining risk logs and working with project teams to mitigate risks.• Recruiting, developing and managing a team of project managers in London and New York. Show less

In three years in this role I successfully project managed the launch of over 15 websites:• Gathering and documenting stakeholder requirements.• Liaising between commercial and technical stakeholders.• Identifying, documenting and managing project risks and dependencies.• Producing and maintaining project plans.• Monitoring project progress and costs and providing effective reporting.

Managed the online publication of several high profile academic journals hosted on http://www.nature.com ensuring timely and accurate publication. Liaised with developers, designers, editors, publishers, marketing and other stakeholders to ensure the smooth progression of projects.• Produced and maintained XHTML, Javascript and CSS ensuring compliance with accessibility standards and cross-browser compatibility.• Optimised images for the web, picture research and managing a… Show more Managed the online publication of several high profile academic journals hosted on http://www.nature.com ensuring timely and accurate publication. Liaised with developers, designers, editors, publishers, marketing and other stakeholders to ensure the smooth progression of projects.• Produced and maintained XHTML, Javascript and CSS ensuring compliance with accessibility standards and cross-browser compatibility.• Optimised images for the web, picture research and managing a picture budget.• Provided statistical reporting on site traffic. Show less

Responsible for site builds and publishing of journals hosted at http://www.biomedcentral.comDeveloped solid HTML and Photoshop skills and a good understanding of databases and information architecture.

Editing content. Directed peer-review. Liaised between authors and production teams. Responsible for meeting press deadlines and page budgets. Coordinated print journal and website launch.