Agile Coach at Open Polytechnic

New Zealand

March 2012-Present

Scrum Master for a major online marking Project. Providing Scrum coaching to other teams.

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Agile Consultant at Assurity Consulting Ltd

New Zealand

March 2010-March 2012

Scrum and general Agile practices coaching. Over a 2 year period lead the transformation of a team of 120 people at a major NZ bank from waterfall to a Scrum and Kanban driven delivery programme. Presenting at conferences within New Zealand. Working with small business to increase their business Agility. Coached delivery teams at a NZ university in Scrum.

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Agile Consultant at 3Months

New Zealand

July 2012-March 2010

Project manager / Scrum master delivering bespoke web applications Financial, risk and issue management Coaching and training in Agile practices Coaching and training in general project management practices Reviewing organisational software delivery capabilities

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Manager Programme Teams at ACC

New Zealand

April 2008-July 2009

Project and Programme delivery management Coaching and Mentoring Resource management / recruitment Line Management – up to 18 project managers / coordinators Quality assurance of project artefacts Acted as Programme Office manager during recruitment freeze Conduit for senior management concerns and project issue escalation Subject matter expert / internal coach on Agile practices

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Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master at BBC

United Kingdom

February 2007-December 2007

Delivery of complex, high value / risk projects using Scrum Coaching of junior staff Financial and resource management Reporting to senior management Stakeholder management SME for Agile project delivery methods

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Project Manager / Scrum Master at BBC

United Kingdom

February 2005-February 2007

Delivery of all BBC mobile projects and others as required using Scrum and Agile delivery frameworks Financial and resource management Team workload forecasting Reporting to senior management Stakeholder management SME for project delivery methods Agile Coach / trainer

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Operations Producer at BBC

United Kingdom

April 2004-October 2004

Day to day management of operation team – including out of hours management support covering emergency call out for website issues Act as an interface between client and first line support team Act as an single point of contact between project team and production support team Creation of management reports on roll out progress Release manager for project team deployments Assist the product manager in planning the implementation of new product launches.

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Technical Project Manager at London Borough of Greenwich

United Kingdom

September 2003-February 2004

Single point of contact between council and vendor Technical support and guidance of MS content management system rollout internally Project reporting and resource management Generation of UAT scripts and processes Management of council staff during UAT phase of the project Production of requirements specifications for site upgrades Liaison with the Royal National Institute for the Blind on accessibility issues and testing

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Deloitte & Touche

United Kingdom

August 2002-September 2003

Mentoring and Coaching junior team members Project QA role looking at methods, practices and governance on client projects Bid management Generation of new business Project management

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Consultant at Arthur Andersen


September 2000-August 2002

Project management Software development Generation of new business

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Test Development Engineer at Nokia Telecommunications

United Kingdom

February 1995-September 2000

Component level repair of base station equipment Maintenance of test equipment and production line tools Production line build and deployment Software development Small scale project management

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Telecommunications Technician at British Army

United Kingdom

June 1988-April 1994

Team leadership Training Repair of military telecommunications test equipment to component level Telecoms site setup and maintenance

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