Stuart Sadler Email & Phone Number

Norwich, England, Gb

Norwich, England, United Kingdom

- Facilitate, Enable and Deliver the Improvement Plan by working with the Aviva & the Supplier's Delivery Teams to agree and embed Problem Statements and progress them thru to resolution.- Ensure that the Change Internal Audit Action Plan is delivered successfully and on time- Day to day responsibility of the Change Related Governance Model- Review the Change Commercial Model

Norwich, United Kingdom

• Working with the Business Partner and their Leadership Team to increase the pace of our Agile Transformation / Adoption & improve the Ways of Working across the S&R Portfolio• Removing Waste & becoming more Lean enabled us to increasing the frequency of value add deliveries (up to 130 times in one year on one Programme) and shorten feedback loops• Created a new Agile Target Operating Model• Supported Continuous Improvement and the increased Agile maturity within 14 Feature Teams• Managed, mentored and developed 8 Scrum Masters• Brought IT and the Business closer together• Provided Agile, Scrum & Kanban training and coaching to teams across the organisation• Leading the Communication Theme within the Agile Transformation Community

Norwich, United Kingdom

• Setting the Agile strategy for the Customer Operations Transformation Programme• Leading up to 18 Scrum Masters (Permanent, Contractor and Supplier) and their teams• Overseeing the resourcing for all Teams. This included the overseeing of the transition of all of our Developers and Testers from one GSP to another• Training, coaching & mentoring my Scrum Masters, Dev Teams and Product Owners. Including coaching one particular Product Owner to create a Release Burn Up Chart to prove evidence that a Business Case was not viable. The Project was then stopped and considerable money saved• Creating multiple new Feature Teams (Kanban and Scrum) and acting as Scrum Master within them until they started to mature• Helping all teams to continuously improve, remove waste, continuously improve and work closer with the Business• Organizing and running Internal Kanban & Scrum training sessions throughout the organisation• Performing an "Experiment“, as requested by our CIO, to understand what organisational impediments were stopping us from running Scrum as per the Scrum Guide. Then trying to remove those impediments

Norwich

• Day to day management and development of up to 9 Test Managers across 2 Portfolios and 1 large Programme• Replacing the entire Aviva Life Finance Test Team (9 Test Managers plus their Test Analysts) with our new Global Sourcing Partner resources (within 8 weeks)• Created & implemented entirely new, more efficient, Test Strategies for both the Finance Area and the Functions Dept• I carried out hands on Test Management on 3 very red, critical projects (Unit Pricing, Document Management Services & Aviva Quotes largest ever delivery)• Overseeing the Agile Testing for 12 Features Team within the Customer Ops Programme

Norwich

• Managed a team of Enterprise Architects & Apps Support Staff to build an accurate list of our 800 Apps• I was the first person to successfully build a new Financial Model Tool that calculated the run costs for each Aviva Life Application which enabled us to see where our Infrastructure budget was being spent. I then created the report showing where millions of pounds could be saved• Helped other areas of Aviva to create these same reports for their respective areas

Norwich, United Kingdom

• Designed and implemented a revised Target Operating Model for the whole of the Aviva Life Test Team• Led the Aviva Test and Strategy initiatives across the UK, USA, Canada, Asia and European Communities• Led a recruitment campaign for Test Analysts & Test Managers and also led on career promotions• Created a professional training programme for all Aviva Test and Service staff (including ISTQB and ITIL) and managed the training and training budget• Organised Practice forums & institutes• Responsible for the Validation and Verification Processes and ensuring that they achieved CMMI Level 3. At outset the Verification process was our weakest CMMI process but at the CMMI assessment it came out top• Assessed all process improvement / simplification ideas & created the Business Cases. Then obtained and managed the budget, people and work• Managed all Aviva’s test tools & resources• Managed the relationships with HP & IBM (including involvement in all contract negotiations)• Planned & managed an entire re-host of Quality Center from Aviva to HP (under a SaaS arrangement)

Norwich, United Kingdom

• Picked up all test responsibilities for a multi-million pound project when the test RAG status changed to Red (including budget and resourcing)• Created Test Strategies and managed the planning & resources through to successful delivery for the IPP Migration, Pensions Performance, Finance Transformation & Solvency 2 Programmes / Projects

Norwich, United Kingdom

• Created a new Resource Management Process for all SDLC Roles within the Web / E-Comm Platform• Ensured all resource issues (inc resource mix) were resolved• Created the strategy, plan and training material for our first Knowledge Transfer to Aviva GSP’s

Norwich, England, United Kingdom

Managing a Web / E-Comm System Test Team consisting of 21 Test Analysts

Norwich

Norwich, United Kingdom

Norwich, United Kingdom

Norwich, United Kingdom

Norwich, United Kingdom