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Basingstoke, GB

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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.

Sonning

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.

Maidstone

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.

Hurley

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.

Various Retail / Security Clients

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.

Aldershot, London, Milton Keynes

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.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

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.

Manchester, United Kingdom

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.

Milton Keynes, London, Aldershot

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.

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

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.

Master Of Science (Msc), Project Management

1St Class Honours, Ba - Business Administration

Activities and Societies: University of Portsmouth Hockey club Study of both a BA Business Studies and Msc Project Management courses.