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Hook, GB

Handpicked by the CTO to spearhead a critical mindset revolution from build to delivery for the Aurora product, leveraging extensive experience and a proven track record. Demonstrating exceptional ability to drive transformative organisational change through high emotional intelligence and strategic change management. Key Achievements and Transferable.

• To work with each department to understand, uphold and promote transparency, inspection and adaptation and to ensure each team also abides by these practices. This will ensure all departments and teams proactively.
• Consistent and actionable retrospectives for each team, with clear action points linked to continual improvement.
• Coaching for members of the leadership teams so they understand how best to approach change within their teams and how to get the best out of everyone.
• Creation of an environment that promotes cross-team collaboration.
• OKR’s for each team that are in-line with company objectives (where appropriate)
• Consistent iterative delivery of high value work that delights the customer.

Scrum master to 4 scrum and 2 swarming support teams within the engineering department who are encouraged to be self-managing and responsible for their actionsScrum Master to other departments outside of the development teams both of which are using Kanban (Operations / IT & Sales)Improvements made to date:Estimates via story points rather than timeAll.

Reading, United Kingdom

Scrum Master for both front end development team (HTML5, Javascript and Flash) and back end development team (Java).* Consolidation of five Scrum teams into two * Introducing continual improvements into workflows, processes and teams* Ensuring the Scrum Agile ceremonies are being performed and encouraging self management within teams* Backlog refinement.

Godalming

• Agile implementation across multiple successful Security Finance products, introducing and Scrum mastering Scrum and Kanban to heavily waterfall processes. Managed the migration project from legacy Change Control.
• Managing and driving continual Business Unit improvement o Scrum mastering in both Scrum and Kanban teams, introduction and maintenance of the Agile ceremonies to mentoring and protecting the teams o Agile evangelist.
• Managing multiple complex projects o Customer hosting project ($17m) which included planning, procurement, design, delivery and installation of infrastructure o Installation, rollout and maintenance of JIRA, Confluence.
• Facilitating Relationship building between internal customers o Managed a program of infrastructure improvement, from introduction of high speed performant servers which removed bottlenecks from development, build and.

In the IT manager role I was personally responsible for four UK based offices with a team of two. My responsibilities included providing local support, operational management and project management. The role enabled me to understand each of the business units requirements and to align the IT infrastructure to them.SLA targets were surpassed across all.

Supported a successful implementation of Peoplesoft CRM across 19 countries and 30 Offices. this included setting up a new department for this support and also new processes, etc. to ensure support was delivered in a timely manner

Colnbrook

Responsible for maintaining infrastructure for over 30 offices in 19 different countries, including servers, switches, routing, backups, patching, Anti Virus, etc