Aug 2023 – Present · 2 yrs 10 mos · United Kingdom · Hybrid

Aug 2019 – Aug 2020 · 1 yr · Greater Dublin

Jan 2019 – Jul 2019 · 6 mos · Greater Dublin

Aug 2018 – Oct 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

• https://events.scrumalliance.org/vienna-2019

Jun 2018 – Dec 2018 · 6 mos · County Dublin, Ireland

• Supporting Agile Transformation within KBC Innovation Hub

Mar 2018 – Present · 8 yrs 3 mos

• What I Do:
• I partner with organisations to embed Agile, Lean, and AI-enabled ways of working that enhance delivery, foster collaboration, and align execution with strategy.
• Selected Clients & Impact:
• Fidelity Investments - Scaled Agile across multi-disciplinary teams, improving delivery predictability and accelerating release cycles.
• MetLife - Supported leadership and teams through digital transformation, embedding adaptive practices that reduced cycle times and improved cross-functional collaboration.
• Jaguar Land Rover - Coached product teams to adopt Agile delivery, resulting in faster decision-making and improved stakeholder alignment.
• Scottish Water - Introduced Lean and continuous improvement practices that improved efficiency while supporting sustainability goals.
• Highlights:
• Guest lecturer and facilitator for UCD, Irish Management Institute, LOETB, and the Institute of Project Management.
• Designed and delivered leadership workshops that improved team resilience, psychological safety, and delivery outcomes.
• Blended professional coaching (ICF-ACC) with Agile practices to create people-first, outcome-driven transformation.

Oct 2017 – May 2018 · 7 mos · Greater Dublin

• Coaching and guiding the Development Teams in Scrum, ensuring Agile/Scrum concepts and principles are adhered to
• Coaching and guiding the Development Teams in the continuous improvement of software delivery to enhance productivity, responsiveness and quality
• Coaching and guiding the Product Owner, especially with respect to refinement and integrity of the Product Backlog
• Coaching and guiding the Development Teams on how to get the most out of self-organisation and ownership
• Facilitate Scrum Events/ discussions/ decision making / conflict resolution
• Helping the Development Teams to remove impediments to prevent distractions
• Assessing the Scrum maturity of the Development Teams and coaching the team towards reaching higher level of maturity

Aug 2016 – May 2017 · 9 mos · Greater Dublin

• Experienced in; Scrum, Kanban and Scrumban
• Servant - leader responsible for ensuring that Scrum practices & ceremonies are adhered to
• Working closely with the Product Owner on maintaining the backlog and ensuring that the stories were groomed and ready for the sprint
• Removing any impediments and blockers
• Responsible for ensuring that continuous improvement occurs
• Balancing between delivering more and maintaining quality

Jan 2016 – Present · 10 yrs 5 mos · Dublin, Ireland

• http://agileleanireland.org/
• http://alicon.org/

Jan 2015 – Aug 2016 · 1 yr 7 mos · Dublin

• Responsible for leading and motivating cross- functional agile project teams
• Coordinate multiple interdependent teams working off the same backlog
• Ensuring consistency across the teams
• Maintaining a well balanced Product and Sprint Backlog
• Working alongside UX to define customer journey
• Responsible for continual process improvement via collective retrospectives
• Removing organizational impediments and blockers

Jan 2012 – Dec 2014 · 2 yrs 11 mos

• PROJECT MANAGER
• Managing a high number of concurrent tasks and projects varying from completely new product development to ongoing enhancements to the existing offerings or coordinating the system infrastructure deployments and upgrades
• o Games integrations for mobile and web
• o Developing products for the white labels
• o Sportsbook projects; automatic price changes, automating feeds from Racing Post, bet factor changes
• o Coordinating Oracle database upgrades
• o Developing mobile sites
• o Ongoing sites improvements
• Ownership of the entire PLC from inception to deployment and post-deployment support
• Identifying and managing projects’ dependencies and critical paths.
• Managing both external demands and internal constraints. Balancing shifting priorities.
• Regular reporting of project progress, risks and issues
• Analyzing reports and troubleshooting the problem areas. Preparing contingency plans.
• Liaising with project stakeholders, including operations, IT, business analysts and accounts, designers and external vendors and sponsors – games providers and white labels
• o Regularly cooperating with the vendors: NetEnd, Realistic, Playtech, BetSoft, Microgaming, Finsoft
• Coordinating cross functional, local and off-shore development teams. Resolving issues and conflicts within the project teams.

Jan 2011 – Dec 2014 · 3 yrs 11 mos

• Responsible for day-to-day poker operations:
• o Affiliate management
• o Website management
• o Organising marketing campaigns, analysing promotions and managing the CRM process for poker
• o Managing socio branding & driving social media strategy
• Organised IPOs (Irish Poker Open) – land based poker events
• Responsible for branding:
• o Organised promotional materials, bloggers and photographers
• o Organised social events for online qualifiers and awards ceremony in collaboration with the Bluff magazine
• o Co-ordinated payments for the sub-contractors and liaised with the Finance Department to ensure accurate payments