Former product owner at Sword GRC.Previously the key business analyst on Sky Go and then NOW TV, from near-inception and a single small team to having millions of customer records and many thousands of concurrent users across numerous client devices with multiple development teams. Worked primarily within Agile software development teams, both onshore and offshore, using various methodologies such as XP, SCRUM and KANBAN, ensuring the elicitation, analysis and delivery of requirements both business and technical. Able to work well with both business stakeholders and technical teams, to ensure that both sides needs for well-defined, understood and prioritised requirements are consistently met, and is adept at managing product backlogs and roadmaps to ensure that maximum value is being delivered.-Strong Agile background.-Enjoys problem-solving.-Effective Product Owner.-Understanding of technical architecture patterns and practises, by working closely with developers and technical architects to ensure technical solutions are robust.-A strong focus on consistent, high quality and efficient delivery and value-add.-Ensures that the requirements to be delivered are clearly defined and well understood by both the technology teams and stakeholders -Ensures there are always sufficient requirements for the development capacity, and that the requirements are prioritized to the satisfaction of all stakeholders. -Ensures the requirements have analysed and decomposed, usually into the form of User Stories, to best facilitate the methodology being used.-Able to manage multiple workstreams and projects concurrently.-Capable of working with both internal and offshore development teams in an Agile fashion.-Experienced at engaging and co-ordinating with internal and external third parties
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Product OwnerSword Active Risk May 2018 - Jun 2022Maidenhead, Berkshire, United Kingdom -
Career Break- Jan 2017 - May 2018Spent some months travelling, doing some volunteer work at an animal rescue, and pursuing some personal interests. These include playing bass guitar in a band, setting up and maintaining and automating home aquaria, and writing. Took up running, succeeding in my goal of running my first half-marathon this year.
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Senior Technical Business AnalystNow Tv Jun 2012 - Dec 2016Twickenham, United KingdomSenior technical analyst embedded with the NOW TV platform (server/core APIs) team. Responsible for elicitation and delivery of requirements and acting as a VOD and Sky OTT domain expert. Joined the development team about six months into development, on a voluntary, requested secondment from Sky Go, and this role was created to make the secondment permanent prior to the launch of the service. Helped to build and successfully launch NOW TV, initially as a Sky Movies proposition, with Sky Sports, Sky Entertainment, Sky Kids and NOWTV Combo to follow. Key in NOWTV growing from a development team, a few designers and a few business managers on one small floor of an office, to a major new Sky brand and player in the UK VOD arena that is still growing. -
Product Manager (Secondment)Sky Jun 2014 - Sep 2014Twickenham, United KingdomProduct development manager for the newly launched Sky Tickets service, working with a split internal and offshore TCS development team from Mumbai. Responsible for eliciting and detailing the requirements and running the weekly sprint, acting as a mediator between the business and development teams and coordinating with other Sky business such as Sky Sports and Sky Bet. Requested for this role by the former Sky Player Project Manager due to my experience working with him to develop Agile working with an offshore development team. Offered a permanent role but ultimately decided to return to NOW TV at the end of the secondment. -
Sky Employee Forum RepSky Oct 2010 - Oct 2013Twickenham, United KingdomElected as a Sky employee forum representative for technology - attending local and national meetings and worked with constituents on issues raised, as well as meeting with the CTO to provide updates. -
Technical Business Analyst - Sky Player (Became Sky Go)Sky Sep 2010 - Jun 2012Twickenham, United KingdomResponsible for delivery of sufficient well-defined and prioritised business and technical requirements to the outsourced development team in York as well as to any internal or external teams as necessary. Assisted the team in moving to an Agile way of working with an offshore development consultancy. -
Information Technology GraduateSky Aug 2008 - Aug 2010Twickenham, United KingdomGraduate training programme across Sky technology consisting of an initial six week intensive training course, and four rotations (with ‘refresher’ training between them), gaining experience in: Business Analysis - Sky Player - performance in this role led to being offered a permanent position. Test/QA - Corporate Applications - QA of internal corporate apps including a customer data retention and retrieval reporting project, and changes to the HR web app. Development - Sky iD and Services - Java (Groovy/Grails) and HTML/CSS/Javascript/SQL. Agile software development. Systems administration. Automated testing (Selenium). Operations - SNS IP NOC - Broadband network operations, device handovers, project planning and change administration.
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The University Of Manchester2:1 (Hons)
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