Responsibilities:Delivering POS (Proof of Solution) to enable further investment, business case and development for greenfield project Organising Scrum ceremonies with both in-house team and Salesforce collaborating as oneSprint planning to tight deadlines of weekly sprints and demos

CContracted as a Technical Project Manager / Scrum Master to manage the full SDLC from inception to delivery with a distributed development team of 9 (5 front-end developers, 2 backend Developers, 2 QA Testers) in California, Budapest, Exeter and London. • Manage daily stand-ups, bi-weekly retrospectives and all artefacts and events in different time-zones. Backlog refinement and priorititation with product owner. • Facilitate the teams to ensure adherence to the Scrum process and remove any and all blocking issues.• Maintain focus of the team to commitments, shield them from outside distractions and helped them to self-organise and collaborate. Clients include: Disney, Pepsico and Samsung

• Worked in an Agile environment and managed developers working on Java / J2EE projects and helped guide the development process for the next release of Synchronicity• Introduce new technical features based on client feedback and internal roadmap • Work with the core delivery team to streamline processes to deliver its quarterly targets on time whilst providing production support and BAU responsibilities• Continuous Improvement, Lean, Kaizen approach to software development.• Manage the full Sprint lifecycle including facilitating daily stand-up, Sprint planning, release planning, backlog refinement, Sprint refinement, retrospectives and reviews• Prioritise tasks using the ticketing system Kanban to deal with frequently changing tasks using scrum to allow the on-going management of feature development. Triage issues directly with main clients Deutsche Bank, Nomura, HSBC and Credit Suisse on a daily basis• Hold weekly meetings between stakeholders, PMO, CRM and Sales to ensure a process was in place to deal with business needs, allowing the Product owner to prioritise the backlog efficiently• Evangelise and support the teams’ efforts for DevOps successfully implementing continuous integration (Bamboo)• Improve communication between team members by coaching them to identify anti-Agile patterns and act on them building closer relationship between testers (QA) and development teams • Use Jira, Confluence, Fisheye and Bamboo (Atlassian suite) to improve and manage the delivery of day-to-day tasks. • Set up fortnightly workshops to actively scrutinise and improve both our definition of done and delivery workflow – i.e. release notes, feature freeze, code freeze and QA sign-off

Progressed from developer to Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager working on multiple projects. Significantly improved offshore and onshore collaboration. Team sizes ranged from 3 – 20 team members.

• Deliver project based on XP principles• Develop the highest trafficked web pages across the TUI brand namely www.Thomson.co.uk and www.firstchoice.co.uk focusing on performance and accessibility improving the customer’s • Work with the UX designers at the early SDLC stages to help draft wire frames• Web pages coded in HTML, HTML 5, CSS3, LESS using Eclipse and Webstorm IDE• Slicing elements using Photoshop• Use Tortoise SVN and Git for version control• Organise monthly team meetings and governance over white labelling code base• Liaise with team leader along with senior developers to re-factorise code and document best practices specific to TUI both through documentation and screen casts• Integrate static pages with JSPs• Use Prince2 prioritisation (Moscow principle) at the beginning and towards the end of SDLC

10 week summer Internship program as an analyst - responsibilities included:• Thoroughly researching market conditions and developments;• Identifying Merger opportunities along with sales • Financial modelling and developing specific financial solutions to clients.• Liaising with the chief executive and chief finance officers of large organisations;• Co-coordinating teams of professionals, including accountants, lawyers and Investors