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Wellington, New Zealand

Full stack Java development supporting and enhancing Oranga Tamaraki (Ministry for Children) legacy Java applications. With the great team at Fingo, five critical applications are hosted on AWS, deployed and automatically tested with GitHub actions. The devops enhanced agile team employs Cypress, Junit, Docker, Oracle, gitbash among others to deploy onto the EC2 AWS service.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Kāinga Ora (Homes and Communities) (KO) is embarking on a delivery optimisation program covering the entire Improvement Portfolio. Working with the excellent Nimbl consulting firm, KO has built a bridgehead for agility and pragmatic practices and want to go further. I was given two outcomes. The first, to inspect existing project and delivery data to establish the current baseline for visibility and transparency. This involved sourcing and analysing Jira and Sentient extracts and preparing a report. And the second, to add detail to a Value Stream delivery model prior to full consultation and implementation. Both outcomes were delivered in collaboration with Nimbl to create a number of first class leadership and executive reports. I wish KO all the very best on their continuing journey.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

Experiences with portfolio analysis and data migrations using generative AI to write T-SQL, powershell and other scripts led me to consider merging the two concepts. I set out to discover if generative AI could be used to develop a complete product in languages of which I had little experience. The goal was to create an online Proof-of-concept (POC) that took Jira data, analysed the data to provide portfolio management guidance and insight. The POC utilised a Node.JS backend, integrated to ChatGPT and Jira APIs, on top of an MS-SQL database. This was fronted in HTML, CSS, Google Charts and D3 visualisation library. All the code was developed by myself enabled by Chat GPT. The POC was used for the analysis that kicked off my subsequent engagement at Kāinga Ora (see above).In August 2023, I used my experiences to deliver an upbeat talk ‘Is Agility enabled by generative AI’ to the ACC agile community of practice setting out impacts to Agile from the growing use of AI for software development.

Wellington Region, New Zealand

This engagement gave me the opportunity to work with an innovative and unique data product on a large data migration. I developed ways of working and technical practices to be used as the product develops. I was able to integrate ChatGPT into the development process to accelerate delivery working in an agile way with artificial intelligence.

Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

ACC is an institutional bedrock of New Zealand society for injury compensation and care. Two years into ACC's scaled-agile implementation, to help build a vibrant Scrum Master (SM) practice, I was asked to help initialise and operate a "Home-Grown" program for developing new Scrum Masters from within ACC's passionate staff. The role included evolution of the ACC SM learning pathway for continuous learning, mentoring new Scrum Masters into roles, and supporting the agile community with ad-hoc training, talks and learning sessions. I worked with the Practice Lead to build a career development program for SMs and embed professionalism into the SM community.

During my time at ACC I was called to act as temporary Scrum Master for several teams on three different release trains, enabling teams for PI Planning, and setting teams up for permanent Scrum Masters to follow. ACC's Scrum Master role follows the SAFe model, and allows for pragmatic delivery using either Scrum or Kanban.

In 2018, many of NZ's banks needed far-reaching changes to deal with government changes to banking standards. ANZ had the need to integrate a huge waterfall program with a Scaled Agile delivery operation.I worked on a programme of 50 delivery teams across AU and NZ, where heavy governance and tight deadlines sound like there can be no agility. But we took the best, most appropriate agile techniques and rolled them out across the entire programme to improve progress visibility, reporting and decision making.The work involved extracting Jira data and developing a program data radiator (with an analyst), improving transparency, traceability and visibility. To make this work effective, I provided, communications, training and coaching, and worked with program leadership to operationalise and embed changes to practices and roles.

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

I am delighted to have had this opportunity to work in a fascinating, enthusiastic environment developing a great web-based software product and app in the Power retail sector. Knowing what good looks like can be a problem when you work in very challenging environments, but Flux proved the combination of devOps, agile, scale and visualisation really can create a great place to work.

Wellington

Westpac gave me my second taste of SAFe-like agile scale as I worked as a Scrum Master for a Credit and Debit cards team. I was also able to work hands-on as a test automation engineer for the team (coaching and delivery), and build agile-portfolio dashboard analysis. Coaching for the Agile Release train included training and workshops in agile fundamentals, story writing, scaling agile and many other agile topics.

Wellington

Agile Coach: Scrum master for design team while bringing new SM up.Trainer: Spec by example, Scrum, Visual work boards, KanbanAgile Consultant: Technical practices and team structuresMentor: help agile leads develop backlogs and prioritiesTechnical practices of Specification by example,

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

Agile transformation consultant and Agile project office consultant.

Wellington

Various roles at Assurity client sites: BNZ, MSD, NZ Customs ServiceRoles included: Solutions Architect, Test Automation Engineer, Scrum Master, Senior Developer.Implemented process change, agile techniques, modern development practices, agile governance, process improvement, continuous improvement.Technologies: Java, Groovy, Jenkins, Concordion, SoapUI, webdriver etc. etc.for continuous delivery stacks.