Rob Aston Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

At Zoom-Out Ltd we are dedicated to helping individuals and teams broaden their perspectives to boost resilience, agility and impact. We do this via Zoom-Out coaching, workshops, training and consulting.In this increasingly connected, collaborative, dynamic and rapidly changing world, our ability to see the bigger picture, embrace diverse perspectives.

London, United Kingdom

• Agile Transformation Coach launching a SAFe Large Solution Train consisting of multiple Agile Release Trains.
• Transformed the organisation from siloed component teams to the Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe)
• Launched a Large Solution Train consisting of multiple Agile Release Trains (ARTs)
• Coached multiple roles: CTO, Program Managers, Business Owners, Product Managers, Developers, DevOps, Scrum Masters, Architects, QA and UX
• Performed the role of RTE (Release Train Engineer) to lead delivery for one of the Agile Release Trains involving 4 teams (50 people)

London, United Kingdom

Agile Transformation Coach supporting Labs on their agile transformation journey to delivering using agile and lean perspectives and approaches.- Worked closely with a diverse range of roles to help them embrace the agile mindset,principles and practices. This included Product Managers, Product Owners, Senior Stakeholders, UX Designers, Systems Thinkers.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Northampton, United Kingdom

Agile Coach supporting teams across two programmes within UK Cards as part of the Barclays Agile Transformation.

London, United Kingdom

London

Scrum Master and Agile Coach in the development team for the News UK “Sun Goals” mobile app for iPhone/iPad and Android including the associated backend platform (push notifications, feed engine, etc). The App Business is a full-service mobile software and app development company that works with the worlds biggest brands.

London, United Kingdom

• Scrum Master for two large co-located and distributed teams, incrementally delivering a new Order Management platform for FT.com which was a migration from the legacy system. The teams spanned two main sites, one in.
• Delivery of a new, legacy-replacement system in the context of a large-scale environment
• Worked closely with cross-functional teams providing agile coaching, mentoring, facilitation as well as agile delivery in the context of the wider programme of work
• Facilitated agile ceremonies including planning, pre-planning, daily stand-ups, retros
• Integrated with portfolio working closely with the Programme Managers and other Scrum Teams on a daily basis and also via weekly “Dependencies Scrum-of-Scrums” (external teams included the content team, data team, data.
• Planning Releases and integrating this with the Roadmap and Portfolio level plans

London, United Kingdom

• Scrum Master & Product Owner responsible for iPhone and Android mobile applications for The Times & The Sunday Times and The Sun publications.
• Responsible for 4 core mobile products with concurrent development streams
• Led the internal and offshore development teams
• Proactively managed internal and external dependencies
• Owned the product backlogs for up to 6 separate mobile products, grooming the backlogs with the development team and stakeholders across the business
• Collaborated closely with UX, design and the development teams to produce optimal solutions.

London, United Kingdom

• Performed the dual role of Scrum Master and Business Analyst on multiple projects, including BBC Sport refresh and the BBC 2012 Olympics websites (international versions)
• Worked with stakeholders across the BBC to establish product vision and business requirements
• Proactively identified and managed dependencies within the team and across the business
• Worked closely with internal and external development teams to capture technical requirements, validate business requirements and streamline the delivery of built and tested software
• Led and developed the requirements for three major projects: a new international code base for the BBC Homepage; a major redesign/refresh of the BBC Sport website for international audiences; and BBC Future, a brand.
• Conducted UAT with stakeholders from across the business to ensure their goals and acceptance criteria were signed off

The Workshop is a creative consultancy and featured in Design Week magazine’s top 10 digital and top 30 design companies. Managed client relationships and led the technology vision, requirements, architecture and development teams resulting in the multimillion-pound, highly successful educational website http://www.diploma-support.org and spin-off products.

• Technology strategy and product development objectives
• Led the product development teams
• Built relationships with partner companies, customers and universities
• Spent two months on secondment in Los Angeles working with the sister company and Hollywood Studios and suppliers while continuing to lead the UK development team

• Led and managed technical, creative, project management and QA staff
• Fostered relationships with commercial staff, partners and customers overseas
• Conducted Programme Management
• Oversaw the following departments: - Software Development / QA (22 staff) - IT Infrastructure (2 staff) - Multimedia Application Engineering (4 staff) - DVD Title Testing / Production QA (5 staff)
• Line managed development, IT and creative staff up to Project Manager and Department Manager level
• Owned, defined and optimised the development life cycles and processes