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I am a hands on technical delivery manager, with a proven track record of leading multiple onshore and offshore teams to deliver value to stakeholders in a global front office banking environment. My background in software engineering enables me to communicate effectively with engineers, resolve issues with agile process, and promote good engineering practices whilst focusing on delivery. To build on my management experience as a delivery lead, I will shortly add a Leadership and Management diploma to my qualifications, so you can see that I strive for continual improvement. Key SkillsDelivery leadership and management of onshore and offshore engineering teamsAgile delivery process improvements and controls through SCRUM Stakeholder engagement Software engineering background using J2EE (1.4 Sun certified), OOD, TDD, Mocking, Continuous Integration, UML, Sybase / Oracle, Linux Bash scriptingCareer ProfileUBS Investment BankAgile Delivery Manager (Director Level) 01/2013 - PresentTransitioned the ownership of applications from London to new near-shore development teams to reduce cost, whilst maintaining quality through good engineering practice, and business confidence by facing off to front office stakeholders. Leading teams of up to 30 developers globally in Krakow, Bucharest, HK, London and NY to deliver regulatory, business demand requirements, and support on multiple applications. Highlights of this delivery effort includes MIFID II, 871m, FINFRAG, and Brexit. This role frequently requires the resolution of issues escalated by teams, the mentoring of my direct reports and key engineers in offshore locations, and a close working interaction with project managers.Management and governance of business change into existing platforms, through partnering with the stakeholders on prioritisation. Ensuring sustainable delivery practices and quality, through enabling development teams to follow agile delivery practices. Examples include challenging optimistic sprint commitments, improving the quality of JIRA requirements, and reducing the developer support burden through the introduction of a process to manage how incidents are handled.My next challenge is to leverage existing development teams to work to with a core engineering team, to build out the decomposition of monolithic applications into services using Kafka eventing and services.In February 2020 the completion of a Chartered Institute of Management endorsed Leadership and Management Diploma, through Corndel and UBS University.

Listed skills include Agile Methodologies, Agile Project Management, Scrum, Java Enterprise Edition, and 21 others.