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Tewkesbury, GB

United Kingdom

Principal Consultant and Agile Coach focussed on Essence - an open standard for describing practices and methods that helps individuals, teams and organisations get better value from their development processes. Essence isn't another method; by focussing on the essential elements of the endeavour, it helps you apply existing methods and processes more.

Swindon, United Kingdom

Subject Matter Expert in Agile for the BCS - The Chartered Institute for IT. Involved in reviewing syllabus and other content for the BCS Agile Foundation and Practitioner Certificates.

Responsible for technical leadership and direction for a major strategic initiative to make better use of cloud technologies and improve productivity of software development teams. As Product Owner, leads multiple agile industry and in-house teams developing tools, patterns, services and products that enable a development community of over 2000 to embrace.

Agile Coach working with multiple teams and stakeholders in highly technical public sector organisations. Applying agile mindset and practices within my own teams, but also working with other teams including coaching SCS leaders and working on cross organisational projects.Achieved CSP-SM and working toward CTC on an Agile Coaching Development programme.On.

England

Technical Director and Agile lead for a new software development department providing bespoke software for internal government customers. The team is growing fast, on track to reach 100 by next FY, and we focus on applying solid agile principles in complex environments.In this role, I have developed new approaches to structure and manage work to optimise.

An engineering leadership team role, responsible for leading the introduction of a new pay system to a large, predominantly technical business unit. Ensured that part of the change was a stronger link between advancing the strategy and reward, and led on communicating the business change and coaching managers to use it effectively.Conducted a major review.

A part time, civil servant role as senior product owner and programme advisor to a major, cross Government IT Infrastructure programme. The Programme is delivering an IT Desktop and Infrastructure service to meet the needs of a diverse and challenging set of Government Departments. They know that classically managed IT programmes struggle to succeed and.

Deputy Head of Profession for Technology. A senior technology role responsible for the software engineering, telecommunications, systems engineering, applied research, IT infrastructure engineering, quality, requirements and senior technical manager professions, a community of almost 1000 engineers. Responsible for defining and implementing strategies for.

Senior User for a major uk government outsourcing contract. Responsible for improving the performance of strategically important contract that was suffering from quality and customer satisfaction issues. Conducted root cause analysis to create a principles driven maturity model that described a to-be vision and change path. Collaborated with supplier.

A part-time role alongside other responsibilities. Responsible for a complete redesign of the software profession (of over 300 engineers), and used an innovative approach based on the industry standard SFIA framework. Created a combination of 4 roles and 6 grades that provide a balance of jobholder motivation and organisational job design. A experienced.

Responsible for the management and leadership of an important product centre of 70 staff and contractors, in 7 teams, developing a portfolio of 20 complex software products for business critical outcomes. Led the change from a previous, project centric approach to a product centre governance, including establishing new processes and building a community.

Technical Team Lead for a near-real time, complex and business critical software product. Introduced Agile practices to the team and led solution architecture for a new product innovation.

PRINCE 2 Project Manager and Solution Architect, responsible for the design, development and delivery of a new near-real time processing system and the associated business change required. Managed a capital budget of AU$500k, a full time project team of up to 7 and reporting to Director level. Led a multi-national team of up to 7 staff and contractors to.

C++ and Java development for telecommunications systems.

VHDL development and C++ device driver development for telecommunications systems.

IET and BCS accredited graduate fast-track development scheme in the UK Civil Service. Included management, leadership and technical training. Work placements included hardware and firmware development, engineering management and business operations.

Applied research into telecommunications and real-time hardware processing. Developed prototype circuit boards for real-time telecoms applications including schematic board design up to 8 layers and VHDL firmware design.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Summer student in the power systems division of Scottish Telecom. Various duties including investigations into sync problems with Cray multiplexers, troubleshooting power line telemetry systems, backups of mainframes.