Creating content for TheAxeThrower.com website, including reviews of axe throwing venues worldwide and features on topics of interest to axe throwing enthusiasts

Providing advice and support to people wanting to start an axe throwing business.

Responsible for strategic direction and growth of Laburinthos Ltd, trading as Escape Rooms Cheltenham.Overseeing Lean Startup approach for businessAdvising on creation of escape rooms and team building behavioursExploring funding and sponsorship opportunitiesExploring new venue opportunities

Developing a startup urban axe throwing business in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.

Creating and delivering training in team building and Agile/ScrumCoaching teams, predominantly in software development contextsScrum Master/Coach in a variety of contexts, activities including: facilitating retrospectives, problem solving, coaching and mentoring development teams (inc use of Belbin assessments)Providing advice on agile practices, inc BDD, automation, continuous integration/delivery, estimation and planningDelivering Agile certification training courses, eg Professional Scrum Master, Professional Scrum DeveloperHands-on experience and advising delivery teams in the use of tools such as Jira, Confluence, & Trello

Developing business strategy and overseeing growthCoaching and training the paid/voluntary staff teamManaging the Create on the Square incubator space Advising in Lean Startup principlesAdvising startup businesses on strategy and planning

Coaching remotely across the enterprise, encouraging continuous improvement, particularly the adoption of DevOps good practices. Creating and delivering training material, inc online learning resources.

Scrum Master of a multi-disciplinary team, providing coaching, mentoring and advice; Establishing an environment where the team can be effective; Ensuring a good relationship within the team and between the team and the product owner as well as others outside the team; Protecting the team from outside interruptions and distractions. Coaching and encouraging the team to drive their own agile process improvements; Providing advice and guidance to the team on how to deal with difficult situations; Identifying, developing and sharing best practice across the department.

Providing coaching to “Spotify model” development teams. Enabling team development and coaching in TDD, BDD and CI/CD practices. Developing training material.

• Advising and coaching Scrum teams, Scrum Masters and test specialists in Agile principles• Delivering Agile testing strategy and implementation on large-scale software development projects predominantly for public service clients• Managing and advising on QA for multiple Scrum teams• Creating and delivering training courses for a variety of business contexts, including: Agile/Scrum principles, Agile testing, performance testing, test automation and functional testing

Working for public sector client on RUP managed project delivering large-scale data storage/extraction product. Managed complete test lifecycle through each phase of a RUP Evolution. Managed up to 5 testers, inc instruction in technical testing. Developed test harness and system level automated scripts.

Technical Tester, CMG (Logica) Mar 2005 - Oct 2005Functional and non-functional testing of infrastructure for a large public service department, in an integrated test facility. Extensive use of automated testing using Java, Shell scripting and Rational Robot.Applications Tester, CMG (Logica) Nov 2003 - Mar 2005Testing and integrating Windows and Unix applications on large-scale desktop development project.Developer/Tester, CMG (Logica) Jun 2001- Nov 2003Developing and testing bespoke Java, VB and Perl products.

Managing consolidation of IT systems in Buying department.

Teaching History and RE in secondary school

Providing soft skills training and pastoral support for 60+ hostel residents.