Nick Clare Email & Phone Number

Worthing, GB

Primarily Remote Working For Ford Credit Europe

• Implemented, adapting and evolved a scaled framework for product development in a complex interdependent data environment with legacy and new financial products;
• Utilised agile management tools, principally Rally, to drive productivity effectively;
• Leveraged data analytics for coaching product teams and programmes, based on flow, value and quality metrics;
• Provided hands on coaching to teams, emphasising Scrum based and scaled ceremonies, outcome based slicing for incremental and iterative value delivery, rapid feedback cycles, and fostering an experimental culture (e.g..

• Led the implementation of quarterly portfolio-level business-outcome-driven planning at Denmark’s top digital investment bank for aligning on common features and goals;
• Implemented visual management techniques to control the software development pipeline, enhancing flow and reducing cycle time;
• Established a “Minimum Viable Bureaucracy”, defining a lightweight governance process for enterprise operations.

London, United Kingdom

• Led agile transformation efforts for non-IT teams across HQ Central Retail, Field-based Change Managers, and in-store customer trading teams;
• Provided coaching to senior leaders, teams and individuals;
• Promoted an agile mindset among business personnel through visualising work, backlogs, and implementing Plan, Do, Check, Act cycles.

London, United Kingdom

• Implemented scaled agile practices at ARM Holdings IT and Nordea bank;
• Led value stream mapping and Agile Release Train (ART) discovery and design initiatives;
• Engaged with business and broader stakeholders and provided coaching at team level.

Worthing, UK

• Led the implementation of SAFe methodology across a 500-person business unit at Parexel Informatics, a prominent clinical trials services company for major pharmaceutical organisations;
• Provided training, initiation and extensive coaching to establish six SAFe Agile Release Trains (ART) in one year;
• Offered hands-on coaching to enhance the performance of fi ve SAFe Agile Release Trains (ARTs) at portfolio, program, and team levels;
• Developed metrics to measure and improve product development effectiveness

• Agile coach and change advisor for enterprise-wide global roll-out program of Scrum and SAFe Agile methodologies at Ford Motor Company, impacting a business unit of 4,000 employees;
• Facilitated and coached at VP, Executive Director, and practitioner levels within the Ford IT organization, covering all Agile roles and events.

London, United Kingdom

Continuation of role at Nokia - see below

London, United Kingdom

• Spearheaded the rollout of Scrum and Enterprise Agile to Symbian SmartPhones, impacting 6,000 people across 200 Scrum teams for one main product line. Applied pragmatic Scrum methodologies within a highly complex.
• Facilitated, coached, and trained teams while evolving Scrum and Enterprise Agile methods;
• Led the transformation of Symbian Software Ltd Tools Development groups (100 people across 12 teams) from waterfall to Scrum.

London, United Kingdom

• Created, maintained, and owned the company's testing handbook of processes;
• Served as a hands-on Test Manager, leading and overseeing testing activities.

On-time, on-budget incremental deliveries of Reuters Internet Office sales administration system: * Test Manager for all development and system testing * Project Manager for development and testing teams

British Library Public Catalogue (BLPC) system development:* Lead tester for integration and system testing* Java test harness development for component testingVarious other positions (mission critical systems development and integration of reading room systems:* Business Analyst* Programme Planner* Project Manager* Configuration Manager

• At British Gas Services:* IT Development and Implementation Programme and Project Planning
• Quality Management ConsultantHoskyns Consulting:* Implementation of ISO9001 quality system

* Business/Systems Analyst on an SSADM full study of a police force Intelligence function.* Software Development Manager for a Royal Navy tactical advice system, managing a team of 20. * Team Leader for a Royal Navy helicopter project developing acoustic processing software.* Systems Integrator for a Tactical Subsystem in an Indian Navy helicopter.