Apr 2023 – Apr 2025 · 2 yrs · UK, Remote · Remote

• Working with a world-leading manufacturer of hardware and software for BioTech medicines. Advising multiple platform teams on everything agile, rapid-delivery, and process improvement. Championing AI-adoption via Hackathons, Channels, and Github-CoPilot licensing.

Jul 2022 – Jan 2023 · 6 mos

• Working as an Agile Coach and a Release Train Engineer with one of the most talented and intelligent software teams in Europe on the OneSat satellite programme.
• Facilitating six teams in a train move from a mixed ability of agility to a uniform agile-centric teams able to work day to day in agile ways, synchronise frequently and in Planning Increments, and demonstrate progress at the train level value stream.

May 2021 – Feb 2022 · 9 mos · Remote

• Brought into a series of Design Sprints to shape digital offerings in Jacobs. Stayed to shape and accelerate a new data-driven project controls software for major programs launching this year. Advising on team shapes and sizes, agile methodologies, and carrying out daily scrummaster duties.

May 2021 – Jun 2021 · 1 mo

• Co-founded a BEP-20 Smart Contract token on the Binance Smart Chain with solidity developers. Organised audits and conducted Fair-launch created the liquidity pool, and locked the liquidity. Managed a wind down the operation with a FILO exit.

Jan 2021 – Apr 2021 · 3 mos · Remote

• Hands on delivery management of two teams in a larger data-led transformation programme. Advised on scaling agile with across an increasing team-size via Safe methodolgies. Contracted in via a specialist agency EQ-CS.

May 2020 – Oct 2020 · 5 mos

• Managed the design and delivery of an online mentoring app for C-level executives. Centaur have been training blue-chip MDs, CEOs, and CIOs for decades and I guided them through a user experience phase, followed by a development phase. I architected Web, iOS, Android apps all linked via a single API. www.thecentaurapp.com

Jan 2020 – Mar 2020 · 2 mos · Manchester, United Kingdom

• Agile Delivery Manager for two teams within DWP on their Debt Management Programme. Challenged 10 month release timeframe of the Minimum Viable Product and marshalled a campaign to create a schedule of earlier releases and instigated Continuous Integration of their Agile Release Train. Delivered well-received Design Sprint. Helped the teams delivery Project Increments and Show n Tells.

Aug 2019 – Jan 2020 · 5 mos · Manchester, United Kingdom

• Headhunted to join ex-colleagues at their rapidly growing BigData start-up. Firmed up their internal delivery practices from basics like visualising their workflow, tidying up JIRA boards through to healthy demo cadence. Transforming them into a set of more user-focused, continuous-delivery teams with tight control on metrics and a strong Agile and Devops ethos. Successful pitched for new work with existing clients.

Apr 2019 – Aug 2019 · 4 mos · United Kingdom

• Setup and executed phase one for www.tunaamini.org solar charity. Taking advantage of the nexus of falling prices of solar and storage power systems; Electrified three off-grid primary schools in Kwale, Kenya. providing light and power for the education benefit of over 300 pupils. Distributed 500 single solar lights to help families in extreme poverty avoid spending 20% of their money on kerosene for small lamps.

Apr 2018 – Feb 2019 · 10 mos · Wigan, United Kingdom

• Brought in to support a new C-level and kickstart a Transformation of IT, process, and people. Supported CIO on a daily basis with strategy, tactics, and execution of transformation and BAU activities. Brought the transformation to life with user experience thinking, storyboards, and customer walls. Was Sprint Master in multiple week-long Design Sprints which unearthed the biggest problems in areas of the business and came up with multiple ways of solving them. These all led to bottom-line impacts via improved KPIs on deliveries, timing, and network capacity. Bootcamped entire IT department in Agile and Devops.

Apr 2017 – Apr 2018 · 1 yr · Liverpool

• Hired to troubleshoot a multi-million pound AWS Big Data programme. Aligned the wider programme of work, agile programme board and stakeholder meetings. Coached and delivered faster feedback loops between Data and eComm teams. Used delivery tool data to analysis to persuade steering committee to increase headcount into teams in order to meet delivery targets. Hands on turnaround of two failing teams getting them to demo working solutions within weeks.

Oct 2015 – Apr 2017 · 1 yr 6 mos · Knutsford, Cheshire

• Coached over 50 project teams in an Enterprise Transformation programme moving Global Infrastructure Services from Waterfall to Agile processes.
• Achieved first annual target within first 6 weeks of arrival. Second annual target met in 3 months.
• Advancing DevOps culture, automation, and efficient paths to production
• Championing intermediate and advanced training in Chef, OpenFlow, InSpec, ServerSpec and delivery strategies.
• Organised and led multiple pan-campus events. Multiple contract extensions and longest tenure of any Agile consultant onsite.

Jul 2015 – Sep 2015 · 2 mos

• Delivering the full-stack site redesign and product transformation using agile principles and kanban methodology. Leading a couple of teams including an angular-based frontend team and an offshore Adobe AEM Marketing Platform team.

Sep 2014 – Jun 2015 · 9 mos

• Delivering digital services using good agile practices. Worked on various projects in the disruptive digital Government space. Including MOJ Intranet, Google Apps For Work Cloud Productivity Tools Rollout, LAA projects. Instilling agile practices where possible and putting user needs ahead of business needs.

Jun 2013 – May 2014 · 11 mos · Southampton, United Kingdom

• Programme Manager of this fast-growing ad-tech startup (no. 2 in Techtrack 100) as it went from £14m to £32m turnover and 40 to 110 people. I put the entire organisation through agile bootcamp and implemented lightweight agile structures to ensure visibility and ubiquitous understanding of delivery pipeline whilst increasing velocity and quality.
• Advised the board on the latest development techniques, and secured budget for formal training in BDD, TDD, and advanced development and testing.
• Focused on recruitment and brought in high calibre people in BA, PM, dev and test positions.
• Brought in a UXD consultant to significantly improve our main software user interface.
• Introduced and hired Automatic testers whilst incepting and heading up the Performance and Quality team; Coached and Mentored the PMs and the Head of Projects in Scrum, Kanban, Scrumban, and traditional PM techniques.
• Overall worked with a great senior management team to lead a genuine transformation of the organisation leading to projects that delivered a diversification of income streams and an extension of market reach into mobile.

Oct 2012 – Apr 2013 · 6 mos · London, United Kingdom

• Hired for my agile coaching and team management skills onto an ambitious and strategic multi-platform banking project. Coached senior stakeholders into a User Centred Design approach running the first user story workshops of the project. Introduced Jira, sprint planning, kanban boards & retrospectives. Recruited an energetic and talented team to catalyse agency-level creativity into the organisation with pop-up shops, guerrilla-testing, and brown-paper sessions. The team proactively engaged with and then influenced key stakeholders and progressed style guidelines across both Barclays UK and Group digital landscapes. This was seen as refreshing, innovative, and exceptional for an internal Barclays UXD team.

Aug 2011 – Oct 2012 · 1 yr 2 mos · Manchester, United Kingdom

• ScrumMaster in the mobile delivery team. Delivering complex applications in both mobile-web and native iOS/Android platforms for high usage iPlayer products including iPlayer mobile tv, iPlayer Radio, DRM/Downloads across all mobile iPlayer devices and Sports' Olympics apps. Acheiving millions of installs and high quality and audience satisfaction metrics on all projects. Also introduced automated testing on these native mobile projects using BDD, cucumbers, and calabash.

May 2011 – Jul 2011 · 2 mos

• Delivering mobile apps for iPhone, Android and Blackberry for ground-breaking BT wifi app. Working with client services teams on pitches covering blended CMS/CRM/Social Media web builds and campaigns.

Mar 2011 – May 2011 · 2 mos

• Fab digital/PR agency - Project Managed concepting, definition, and technical design for Bing search, Howie's new e-commerce website, and Hunter's iOS app.

Dec 2010 – Mar 2011 · 3 mos

• a.k.a. PlayStation! Project manager implementing CRM projects revolving around the 25million PlayStation Network customers in the SCEE region.

Nov 2010 – Dec 2010 · 1 mo

• Managing designs and web content with Hat-Trick design, RE:MEDIA, and IMG.

Jul 2010 – Oct 2010 · 3 mos

• Managing a"Wagilefall" (Waterfall definition - Agile Development - Waterfall Deployment) digital project for an Xbox pre-launch marketing mechanism: www.fable3kingmaker.com which had four mobile phone apps interacting with a website that integrated a Microsoft technology stack of Azure cloud hosting, bing maps, silverlight 4, and windows phone 7.
• Also helped successfully pitch two web projects to Nestle

Apr 2010 – Jul 2010 · 3 mos

• Worked on some great accounts, delivering CMSs, games and e-learning websites with strong audio visual elements for the BBC, V&A, and Unicef. Worked with an array of in-house talent and some distributed development teams in both .NET and LAMP website builds.

Jan 2009 – Sep 2009 · 8 mos

• Evaluated and selected CMS options for building Hampshire PCT's newly aggregated website and intranets. Most work was done in-house with PHP developers, and Flash and frontend designers.

Mar 2003 – Jun 2006 · 3 yrs 3 mos · Sale, Cheshire

• Generally working on digital projects in a Microsoft stack. ASP, C#.NET, TSQL, CMSs.

Jan 1998 – Apr 2010 · 12 yrs 3 mos

• At certain periods I have worked in an individual capacity delivered high value web solutions by project managing overseas Contracters from across the global talent pool. With 10 years in the industry and a Computer Science MSc I can handle distributed development by being understanding of the need to clearly define the work, and being responsive during development.

Jan 1997 – Jan 1998 · 1 yr

Jan 1997 – Jan 1997 · 0 mo