Scrum Master at Globoforce

Ireland
www.globoforce.com
December 2011-Present

A scrum master and agile coach, working with two teams in the use and adaptation of Scrum for delivering “better software faster” and being responsible for the team’s adoption of Scrum and practice of the same.

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Scrum Master at Pocket Kings
Dublin,
Ireland
http://www.fulltiltpoker.com/
March 2010-November 2011

Guiding multiple teams in the use and adaptation of Scrum for delivering “better software faster”, being responsible for the team’s adoption of Scrum and practice of the same; ensuring the Scrum framework is followed, including required meetings and artefacts; using “inspect and adapt” with teams to constantly improve performance and responsiveness; promoting a collaborative team environment that fosters creativity and innovation and mentoring team members. Full time Scrum master role for 2 teams.

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Technical PM at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Dublin,
Ireland
www.hmhco.com
June 2008-March 2010

A technical project manager in the platforms division where my role has involved the management of remote, local and virtual teams in the support and maintenance of a number of core enterprise educational platforms using agile methods. Key responsibilities include the facilitation and overseeing work tasks and deliverables of functional groups and outsource partners on the team; supporting and managing the team in delivery from requirements, development, and QA through to release and post-production support; working with product owners, development, operational and technical support teams in managing and producing product and sprint backlogs; facilitating sprint planning and handling daily updates, retrospectives, issue escalation, risk analysis, and stakeholder communications. Scrum master on one project running from November 2008 through to January 2010.

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Application Development Lead at Dell Inc.
Dublin,
Ireland
www.dell.ie
April 2006-June 2008

Development/Application lead for the online commerce team in the EMEA region (the Dell store checkout) – managing a cross-functional (development, QA, business analysis) and geographically disperse team across multiple geographies that designed, developed, implemented and supported high quality software applications; ensuring that the development effort is fully integrated with the Technical Architecture, Quality Assurance and Project Management standards. Responsibilities included ensuring on time delivery by maintaining an adequately defined development schedule through agile development, identifying and managing risks, managing technical dependencies with other technical teams and third parties, improving quality and/or productivity, ensuring that audit & quality standards are maintained, project management of project and release schedule via SCRUM. Scrum master on Europe specific ecommerce application (dell store) from June 2006 through to June 2008, working with other application leads to move teams over to a Scrum approach during that period.

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Consultant at BearingPoint
Dublin,
Ireland
www.bearingpoint.com
June 2004-March 2006

Senior Consultant in the Systems Integration practice. Projects included the development and implementation of a single billing system for a major telecoms company (.Net, Windows and Web services, Oracle and XML) and the implementation of a pensions processing system for a government department, using SCRUM, agile development practices, test driven development and continuous integration with a java based framework in a distributed .Net environment .

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