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Corby, England, United Kingdom

- Manage Digital Delivery through Scrum methodologies.- Ensure co-ordination of sprints, retrospective meetings and daily stand-ups - Coach team members in Agile frameworks as needed- Facilitate internal communication and effective collaboration including dependencies and critical path actions and bottlenecks. - Be a point of contact for external delivery.

Corby, England, United Kingdom

This is a general freelance position to help support smaller organisations achieve Agile and supporting tooling to do so.

Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom

Corby, England, United Kingdom

• Coached teams on Agile and Lean principles utilizing futurespectives to encourage continuous improvement and adapt from inspections had previously.
• Coached at the Domain level and worked with fellow coaches to ensure deliverables
• Empowered teams to take on their own events and encourage self-sufficiency
• Facilitated events at domain and practice levels to overcome wider issues
• Supported the creation of OKRs at the domain and team levels to align with the company’s objectives
• Supported scaling of work between teams within a domain (the APIs within the product)

Howden, England, United Kingdom

• Led change in teams that are working on mature products
• Led change on utilisation of tools to ensure effect use and use of information being clear and supporting peers on practices they’re interested in.
• Implemented scaling across teams utilising LeSS
• Coaching teams on new ways of working and empowering them to take charge of their ways of working
• Coached a Product Owner on how to handle a large portfolio, provide consistency for his team, and communicate effectively with both the dev team and stakeholders

Olney/Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

• Led as a change agent for improving the culture and values of the company.
• Empowered three teams including a feature team, production support team (BAU), and a combined feature/support team remotely in the U.S. through Continuous Improvement, Scrum Ceremonies, and coaching
• Implemented LeSS-based scaled agile framework to enable multiple teams to work on a product
• Implemented Kanban to the BAU team to help support better throughput and clearer view for release management.
• Coached teams on Agile and Lean principles utilizing futurespectives to encourage continuous improvement and adapt from inspections had previously.
• Facilitated ceremonies for multiple teams including reviews/show and tells, retrospectives, and stand ups with a view to make teams self-sufficient.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

- Led workshops and learning sessions around Agile and Agility to various audiences- Empowered up to three teams to change how they work and become better as a team including changing day-to-day practices and ceremonies within Scrum Values- Coached on software engineering practices such as GIT, CI/CD/CR, and testing practices including BDD- Coached teams.

Northampton, United Kingdom

- Led rollout of Scrum from Kanban to a development team of 12 developers locally and 5 developers in at another UK site - Led the transfer into Atlassian suite from various others to consolidate including JIRA, Confluence, and Stride/Slack- Created and evolved processes for the team to follow universally on each project including code reviews, QA.

London, United Kingdom

• Managed a development team of 18 developers and QA for developing bespoke solutions for major clients such as Unilever and GSK
• Managed stakeholders such as high-level directors at clients to ensure the project delivered to the best quality and within given timelines using an agile methodology
• Managed the configuration team to ensure requirements were sound, and delivery on time that saw a clear improvement in communication and delivery of the configuration of the solutions
• Created the SDLC for the development teams to follow, and organise the different stages of development (i.e. Requirements, Development, UAT) within the Atlassian suite (JIRA, Confluence, Support Desk)
• Matured practices such as improving QA reporting and management, dividing UAT and QA testing, creating a separate requirements process to ensure a proper backlog (requirements catalogue)
• Trained colleagues in Project Management so they can support their own workstreams including soft skills and hard skills such as JIRA

Bedford, United Kingdom

• Led programmes of work for large and high profile client to improve and expand the solution to be used in multiple European source markets, and various functions throughout the UK business
• Managed projects for a partner that had multiple clients in the public sector
• Managed a project team of up to six developers and two business analysts to provide a solution quickly in an organised and efficient manner
• Managed pilots for prospective clients to ensure speedily and requirement focused solutions for the client
• Managed training of an offshore team for a client in our solution in order to provide further capacity in delivery
• Managed C-level stakeholders on delivery, and worked through any issues.

London, United Kingdom

• Led on rollouts of SunSystems 6.1 to in multiple partner countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America
• Led and manage on stakeholder management of each country that were our customers to ensure deadlines are met
• Analysed the local requirements, laws, and practices in order to incorporate it into the international standard set by the executive team
• Analysed IT issues on behalf of countries during the SunSystem upgrade acting as go between the local team, the project team, and third party providers
• Created business cases to different programmes in the organisation to implement Sun6 and how they would benefit
• Managed the nominated country project lead in order to accomplish necessary IT and business change within strict and tight deadlines

London, United Kingdom

• Led on support to all IT infrastructure, and Insurance Product development projects including requirements gathering, business case creation, testing, and warranty stages
• Led on application development projects using Agile and PRINCE2 methodologies including web based development
• Led on portfolio IT infrastructure enhancements and minor projects
• Analysed demand items for impact of IT enhancements, projects, and programmes upon business projects
• Created and presented business cases to programme boards, and if successful, to the European Governance Committee composed of CEOs, CFOs, and COOs.
• Managed actions, risks, issues at programme, project, and workstream level support

London, United Kingdom

• Collated data from the consultation from a range of entries including individuals, NGOs and Third Sector organisations
• Produced analysis of the findings of the consultation in conjunction of Policy Leads in each area
• Created an excel based system to allow ongoing analysis during the receiving of consultation to provide preliminary ideas of what various groups were saying
• Coordinating and answering queries from the public on the consultation matters.

London, United Kingdom

• Led the procurement for the Leadership Academy
• Managed Purchase Orders, invoices and receipts for the Leadership Academy
• Supported finance by producing monthly and year-end accruals on accounts
• Supported policy by providing research to the Policy Lead for the Leadership Academy on a case-by-case basis

London, United Kingdom

• Led policy review for Academy Trusts to ensure their Financial Agreements and Articles of Association were within given parameters of the government’s Academy policy
• Maintained stakeholder relations with Academy Trusts, local authorities and Department for Education legal services
• Specialised in Co-operative Academy Trusts on my team and had a working knowledge of religious schools as part of the Faith Schools Team within the division.

Romford, United Kingdom

• Formulated policy in conjunction with the policy team on the leader’s behalf
• Supported the leader by summarising consultations and their implications as well as provide research on topics of interest as well as current events.
• Organised stakeholder meetings involving the leader and other major political figures such as Baroness Eaton and Boris Johnson

Mpa, International Public Administration, Merit

Modules in: Comparative Public Policy. Public Service Policy and Strategy (PESTLE/SWOT analysis), Governance and the Public Sector.

Ba (Hons), International Politics, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Gaming Society, Writer for the LDN Press.Modules in: International Politics; Local politics in the USA and UK.

Hnd, Public Administration, Merit

Activities and Societies: Globalisation Society, Young Fabian Society, Gaming Society and DMU Gym - BoxingModules in: Politcs & Public.

High School Diploma, College/University Preparatory And Advanced High School/Secondary Diploma Program, 3.2