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Service lead for Enterprise / Business Agility at Chaucer. Responsible for growth of our pipeline of agile work with clients, people development of internal agile capability & leading complex agile evolution with our clients.

Working directly for the CTO to evolve agile ways of working across a development capability of 13 squads over several geographic locations & time zones. Led agile community of practice, facilitated Town Hall sessions to 100+ people monthly, and line manager to agile leads / Scrum Masters.

Trustee serving on the board for the Berkshire County Sports Club charity. Area of focus is on IT systems and streamlining processes.

Agile coach / Release train engineer for a strategic big data platform within the Upstream segment of BP comprising 5 distributed squads on a programme of around 40 people.Accomplishments;- Agile maturity assessment performed and roadmapping of agile maturity- Training delivered to the programme team in agile practices, including development, testing and product management incorporating agile games- Transitioned programme towards 'Essential SAFE' scaled agile, a first… Show more Agile coach / Release train engineer for a strategic big data platform within the Upstream segment of BP comprising 5 distributed squads on a programme of around 40 people.Accomplishments;- Agile maturity assessment performed and roadmapping of agile maturity- Training delivered to the programme team in agile practices, including development, testing and product management incorporating agile games- Transitioned programme towards 'Essential SAFE' scaled agile, a first within BP- Performed as Release Train Engineer for 7 iterations of development including facilitation of distributed PI planning events- Facilitated two hackathon events, the first unthemed, the second focusing on user engagement- Acted as scrum master for two squads where needed to support delivery - Configured Microsoft Azure DevOps instance to support scaled agile- Active involvement in the BP agile community of practice Show less

Agile coaching role tasked with roadmapping and leading a transformation for a company of 250 people with a development team of 50+ from waterfall development to scaled agile delivery.This encompassed;- Consulting on creation of a new Agile commecial proposition- Redefinition of the product life cycle incorporating Aha! and Jira- Providing a 1 day Agile training course to over 110 staff upon key agile topics and using Agile games- Spinning up new agile teams and… Show more Agile coaching role tasked with roadmapping and leading a transformation for a company of 250 people with a development team of 50+ from waterfall development to scaled agile delivery.This encompassed;- Consulting on creation of a new Agile commecial proposition- Redefinition of the product life cycle incorporating Aha! and Jira- Providing a 1 day Agile training course to over 110 staff upon key agile topics and using Agile games- Spinning up new agile teams and coaching agile best practice - Hiring in a team of Scrum Masters to support the transformation- Facilitating the Scrum of scrums process- Leading a 'Agile transformation' forum involving select agile champions across each department within the company, focusing on agile initiatives at the company level Show less

Agile coach & Scrum Master contract position within a rapidly growing M2M / IOT company. Responsible for agile coaching the development team in their first foray into agile, transitioning from a waterfall to agile delivery methodology . Accomplishments;- Defined new 'life cycle' for Ideas in their progression into user stories that are ready to develop- Roadmapped companies transition from waterfall to agile across a 6 month timescale, focusing on process and a consolidated… Show more Agile coach & Scrum Master contract position within a rapidly growing M2M / IOT company. Responsible for agile coaching the development team in their first foray into agile, transitioning from a waterfall to agile delivery methodology . Accomplishments;- Defined new 'life cycle' for Ideas in their progression into user stories that are ready to develop- Roadmapped companies transition from waterfall to agile across a 6 month timescale, focusing on process and a consolidated toolset - Instilled best practice scrum methodology including adoption of BDD, testing as you go, definition of done and definition of ready- Improved transparency of scrum teams progress through dashboards and automated reporting- Facilitated delivery of 11 sprints of development Show less

Associate Manager role at Accenture working across multiple retail and security clients working on large scale digital transformation and Google cloud ERP delivery.Chris has established himself as an Agile SME and has performed in a number of scrum master / agile coach roles, inclusive of training circa 200 employees on agile process and tooling.Accomplishments;- Scrum master / project lead of the first workstream being delivered in agile on a legacy customer facing POS… Show more Associate Manager role at Accenture working across multiple retail and security clients working on large scale digital transformation and Google cloud ERP delivery.Chris has established himself as an Agile SME and has performed in a number of scrum master / agile coach roles, inclusive of training circa 200 employees on agile process and tooling.Accomplishments;- Scrum master / project lead of the first workstream being delivered in agile on a legacy customer facing POS device - Team was repeatedly extended due to delivering estimated additional revenue of circa £22 million- Served on client 'Confident delivery' panel, focusing on agile tooling and process improvements- Delivered training to circa 200 staff on agile tooling as part of strategic transformation from waterfall to agile delivery- Defined new JIRA delivery model / workflow for a client delivering agile at scale with 8 scrum teams working in paralell, focusing on increasing efficiency of defect management and tracking.- Transitioned clients central deployment and stores deployment teams to Kanban and assisted in reduction of go-live deployment outage by 6 hours.- Championed adoption of Scrum / Kanban across various additional teams outside of own workstream and established self as an agile evangelist / "go to" person. Show less

A Project Management role at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) including infrastructure, software development and systems integrations projects.During this time, responsibilities included;- Project estimation / scoping, requirements capture- Writing of commercial documentation - Statements of work- Financial management of projects - highest value £1.7 million- Project planning using MS project or excel- Transition of projects into BAU support- Third party… Show more A Project Management role at Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) including infrastructure, software development and systems integrations projects.During this time, responsibilities included;- Project estimation / scoping, requirements capture- Writing of commercial documentation - Statements of work- Financial management of projects - highest value £1.7 million- Project planning using MS project or excel- Transition of projects into BAU support- Third party supplier management - Acting as system integrator and managing 3 different third parties concurrently- Project Managing a team size of up to 15 Show less

Infrastructure project manager for a portfolio of projects, managing up to 10 simultaneously through the whole project life cycle from inception through to acceptance into BAU support. This role was heavily client facing.This included proposal writing, requirements capture, project planning, risk management, resourcing alongside financial and budgetary reporting.Projects included various infrastructure works including the pilot deployment of VMware SRM technology, database… Show more Infrastructure project manager for a portfolio of projects, managing up to 10 simultaneously through the whole project life cycle from inception through to acceptance into BAU support. This role was heavily client facing.This included proposal writing, requirements capture, project planning, risk management, resourcing alongside financial and budgetary reporting.Projects included various infrastructure works including the pilot deployment of VMware SRM technology, database decommissioning and upgrades, upgrades and installations of additional web services. Show less

Fixed price project management of an Oracle based ERP system implementation, based on pensions auto enrolment with my client, a large national public transport company.Role entailed end to end project management from initial requirements capture, through build, test, go-live and acceptance into support.

An additional role taken whilst on the graduate scheme with CSC. Within this position, responsibilities included; managing the weekly pipeline meeting with the account senior management, managing the sales excellence process, assisting with the development of bid capture plans and facilitating the delivery of robust bids.

A project administrative role primarily with elements of project management within Portsmouth City councils regeneration department. The role included work on a number of projects to stimulate empoyment within the council district.The role entailed ; completion of an IT asset audit project, delivery of a project creating new content designed to increase job seekers prospects of finding work, website development, organising and booking events, communicating with internal and external… Show more A project administrative role primarily with elements of project management within Portsmouth City councils regeneration department. The role included work on a number of projects to stimulate empoyment within the council district.The role entailed ; completion of an IT asset audit project, delivery of a project creating new content designed to increase job seekers prospects of finding work, website development, organising and booking events, communicating with internal and external stakeholders on all levels, producing accurate documentation and any other tasks required to support the project managers. Show less