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Over 17 year’s of experience as an Senior Agile Delivery Manager , working with SAFe, Agile and Lean methodologies and frameworks for multi-disciplinary distributed teams to bring continuous improvement and structured business and team agility to projects, practices and processes adding business value and continuous learning at every stage. Good skills and knowledge of leadership, mentoring, coaching, teaching, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency between scrum teams, stake holders and the solution level management teams.
Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach.
Experience and ability to help create and define the right thing to build as well as building things right.
Company: Burendo Agile Delivery Lead
January 2022 - Present (3 months) Leeds, England, United Kingdom
Role: Senior Consultant - Agile Delivery Lead
Creating a rapid, repeatable idea delivery pipeline for client agile organisation Framework agnostic approach based on the knowledge that there isn't only one way to do Agile Practical and Pragmatic adoption of tools and techniques to deliver value quickly
Company : ETAS Ltd.( BOSCH UK)
Role: Agile SAFe Delivery Manager - 3 years 4 months
Define and Deliver the VMOST ( Vision , Mission, Objectives, Strategies and Tactics ) of the product and aim for high performing teams using lean agile methodologies. The Role is pivotal in validating client/stakeholder needs, determining and prioritizing the product and feature backlog, and delivering a product that aligns to the Solution Train ( SAFe ) and the Mission in the Business roadmap. We use Strong Agile delivery methodologies to ensure that the team performs in the best productive environment that suit the teams dynamics.
Command, Control, Collaborate and Resolve the RAID Log for the product continuously throughout the life cycle of the product development. Create and maintain a high-level, strategic visual product roadmap that outlines the vision and direction for the product acting both as a strategic guide for stakeholders to reference, as well as a plan for execution for the Development team. Encourage and empower teams to develop and thrive in an continuous improving high performing environment both in process and people using KPI's and Lean methodologies.
Oversee and evaluate each Iteration stages and provide course correction based on client and stakeholder feedback inputs into planning, refinement and Sprint review activities. Updating and empowering the team to use skill matrix to ensure the gaps in the knowledge within and outside the team are identified and addressed using methods like Technical talks , training and workshops to ensure the gaps are mitigated. Coaching and mentoring the teams for giving and receiving feedback to enable better collaboration and communication within the teams and the projects.
To identify any issues in the team either personally/professionally and guide and empower them to resolve them.
Role: Agile Delivery Manager/RTE ( Release Train Engineer)
February 2019 - February 2021 (2 years 1 month) York, North Yorkshire
Developing and maintaining the SAFe Release train with 6 Scrum teams and 3 product development value streams. Driving the technical scrum teams to achieve business outcomes in a fast paced agile environment. Driving continuous improvements both in processes and people, using lean principles and KPI's.
Coaching and optimising the lean-agile mindset flow of work and practices to members of the agile release train, including ART team, scrum masters, agile team members, stakeholders and business owners. Conduct, maintain, review, resolved RAID analysis for all development value streams in the ART. Support the creation, and relentless improvement, of a continuous delivery pipeline by promoting DevOps practices within the organisation.
Organise, facilitate and get the ART Backlog and the Product Backlog ready for the Program Increment planning event and facilitate System demos. Work with Product and Solution Management, Product Owners, and other stakeholders to help ensure strategy and execution alignment. Effectively use metrics and data visualization to report progress and support data-driven decision making at the team or program level.
Facilitate estimation and planning at the team or program level. Assisting in creating useful, reliable and practical forecasts for delivery sprints and releases. Shield the team from outside distractions, context switching and interferences.
Facilitate and Coach Scrum of Scrums to track and remove impediments and drive high quality. Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching to higher levels of maturity Build a safe environment with an emphasis on collaboration and problem solving Participate in Agile Communities of Practice across
October 2018 - March 2019 (6 months) York, United Kingdom
ETAS provides innovative solutions, engineering services, consulting, training, and support for the development of embedded systems for the automotive industry and other sectors of the embedded industry.
Company: Petards Ltd.
2 years 1 month
Role: Embedded Technical MCU Project Lead
February 2017 - October 2018 (1 year 9 months)
Develop Safety critical software in a thread-safe, multi-threaded enviroment C/C++ ( mainly C ) . Support and Manage the Embedded AtmelSAM V71/ E70 MCU project functionality using an ARM Cortex 7 processor.
Agile,Scrum and Lean principles and tools like Jira( user stories/sprint planning/velocity/backlog)/Confluence( documentation)/Crucible(code reviews), working with the Project Architect/ Product Owner to organise and populate the backlog and retrospectives to achieve a tested and executable project deliverable at the end of every sprint aiding to project timelines. Co-ordinate and distribute the work and priorities using Agile methods within the team. Technical hands-on coding and integrating various peripheral interfaces ( SD Card, I2C driver for EEPROM & external low power RTC /SRAM chip, QSPI Flash for the AtmelSAMV71/SAME70 chipset . Implement and Integrate customised Bootloader running from IFLASH of the AtmelSAMV71 chip for the current project.
Ozone - J-Link full featured graphical Debugger for embedded application using Segger for both Linux /Windows. Integrate and help Hardware Team /Production Staff to complete hardware board bringup testing, integration testing, EMC testing and Production Test Software.
Projects/Solutions into CMake Build structure. Ensure for safety critical code reviews using Crucible. Use GoogleTests/GoogleMock for unit testing. Senior C/C++ Embedded
October 2016 - February 2017 (5 months) Gateshead
Developing Embedded software platforms, working on the next generation of Security and Surveillance systems used in 1000's of transportation systems across the globe. Writing custom bootloaders for the ATMELSAM V71/V70 platform. Designing the COMMS protocol layer for the ATMEL SAM V71/V70 using TCP/IP.
Skillset for the above projects:
- Programming using C/C++ - Cryptovision - STL/Boost/QT/PHP Scripting - OO software design/development - Writing IP Protocols/Socket programming (TCP/UDP) - Linux based development - Custom Bootloaders for ATMEL SAMV71Q21 - SVN
Role: SW Project Delivery Manager/Scrum Master ( Agile )
October 2015 - October 2016 (1 year 1 month) St Ives, Cambridgeshire
Working in a Dual Role both as a Hands-on Software Project Manager Delivery Manager/Scrum Master for a multi-discipline Engineering team in researching and developing embedded software and complementary technologies for Linx Continuous Inkjet Printers. Responsible for operations – design, plan, execution and control the project costs based on project budget allocated.
Scrum events and other ad-hoc meetings for teams. Facilitating multi-team events like Big Room Planning, Scrum of Scrums, and story mapping. Assist teams in story writing, backlog maintenance and prioritization and planning. Serve as teams’ or programs’ information radiator, representing the team or program to senior management, stakeholders and sponsors. Effectively use metrics and data visualization to report progress and support data-driven decision making at the team or program level. Facilitate estimation and planning at the team or program level. Assisting in creating useful, reliable and practical forecasts for delivery sprints and releases. Coach developer, designer and product team members in Agile practices, values and principles. Help teams and individuals clarify goals, and actions to achieve them. Shield the team from outside distractions, context switching and interferences.Track and remove impediments. Assess the Scrum Maturity of the team and organization and coaching to higher levels of maturity Build a safe environment with an emphasis on collaboration and problem solving. Successfully delivered 3 products the 8910, 8920, 8940 printers, with intelligent smart monitoring of the printer to prevent downtime in production which adds immense value for the total cost of ownership, service costs, and downtime losses for the customer. Work with senior management, engaging with stakeholders as required ensuring that project delivery is fully aligned with the company strategy and the required outcomes are achieved in time.
August 2014 - October 2015 (1 year 3 months) Bracknell, Berkshire
Develop Software in an agile environment for Linux embedded software, focusing on network file serving protocols like NFS
Company : Imagination Technologies 9 years 1 month
Role: Technical Project Senior Lead Manager
Establishment of Tools Team in India - Global team management
Senior Software Design Engineer April 2001 - October 2007 (6 years 7 months)
Over 17 year’s of experience as an Senior Agile Delivery Manager , working with SAFe, Agile and Lean methodologies and frameworks for multi-disciplinary distributed teams to bring continuous improvement and structured business and team agility to projects, practices and processes adding business value and continuous learning at every stage.
Good skills and knowledge of leadership, mentoring, coaching, teaching, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continual improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency between scrum teams, stake holders and the solution level management teams.
Experience applying a wide variety of well documented patterns and techniques for filling in the intentional gaps left in the Scrum approach.
Experience and ability to help create and define the right thing to build as well as building things right.
Bachelor of Technology - Bachelors - Electrical & Electronics Engineering