Russell Anthony Email & Phone Number

Amberley, Gb

London Area, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Part of a highly talented team of Agile Coaches, supporting one of the UK’s largest-ever Agile transformations. North Highland, a leading global change and transformation consultancy partnered with Jaguar Land Rover to help implement their Strategic Agile Transformation.• Successfully implemented Agile values and the Scrum Framework whilst coaching at Team, Group and Enterprise Levels.• Coached and mentored Senior Leaders, Product Owners and Scrum Masters; performed Agile Team Maturity assessments and created Coaching Plans helping grow Agile maturity.• Facilitated Goal-Orientated Roadmap creation, connecting Product Vision to Product Goals and driving backlog creation. • Supported and facilitated Big Room Planning events; promoting inter-team collaboration.• Created and provided Agile Training, Lunch and Learns on Scrum, Agile and SAFe content.

Drove agile transformation initiatives for this leading insurance company and led a team of Scrum Masters, Developers and Test Analysts. Coordinated efforts of the Scrum Master team, coaching them to be Agile Servant-Leaders who remove impediments, promote collaboration and create high-performing, self-organising teams. Promoted Lean Thinking best practices and introduced Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methods, and driving overall technical excellence.• Established company’s first product team, introduced Scrum and Agile best practises. • Introduced Program Increment (PI) planning, facilitated the first two events remotely using Miro (80+ people / 4 teams). Identified dependencies, gained alignment and commitment around a clear set of prioritised objectives by ensuring that the people who do the work, plan the work.• Enhanced team scalability, agility and empowerment with the creation of a new team structure based on the Spotify Model (tribes / squads / chapters).• Facilitated Weekly Scrum of Scrums to track inter-team dependencies as raised in PI Planning.• Created ‘Communities of Practice’ promoted best practices, implemented standards, and ensuring quality.

• Established company’s first product team, introduced Scrum and Agile best practises. • Collaborated in migration from legacy commerce platform to modern cloud platform built on Serverless Microservices, harnessing modern CI/CD DevOps processes.• Oversaw digital channel shift with digital becoming the primary customer journey for key experiences

London, United Kingdom

Played a key role managing delivery of a Digital Asset Management System to internal and external users. Provided astute product ownership working with clients and key stakeholders to create and establish product strategic vision, to continually enhance product development.

Provided expert leadership to deliver highly customised health assessment projects requiring extensive language customisations and localisations for world leading companies in an agile web based SaaS (Software as a Service) environment.

Led technical project delivery and product owner for internal product development championing Agile development methodologies. Defined business cases for proposed, together with leading product and project definition, planning and scheduling and management reporting and budgetary control.

With a keen interest in different cultures and travelling; I took a brief career break to travel the length of Africa and South America by motorcycle. https://pikipikisafari.wordpress.com/

Managed multiple projects simultaneously across multiple locations in different countries. Account Managed Thomson Reuters Investment Banking for 4 years. Managed a program of new site rollouts during the Thomson Financial and Reuters Media merger, including the flagship IFRe.com.

Responsible for the development of Insurance trading systems specialising in risk workflow for clients such as HSBC and Aon. Consulted with clients to establish user requirements and produce technical specifications. Web applications were built using .NET and SQL Server.

Oversaw development in the New Media Department of this London based B-to-C Publisher. Developed and managed an insurance e-Commerce website for MORE TH>N, awarded 2001 “APA Website of the Year” .

Developed interactive sites for some of South Africa’s top brands as a New Media Programmer. Innovated South Africa’s first online pizza delivery system for Debonairs Pizza.

Personal Performance Coaching Diploma, Merit

Professional Coaching Diploma endorsed by the International Coaching Federation (ICF)

Professional Diploma, Professional Diploma In Management

Industrial And Product Design