Detica – Senior Technical Consultant

September 2008 to Present

Roles I have completed include:

Project Manager – Capability Development Project (October 2011 - present)

I managed an internal project with a budget of over £1m to develop internal capability. Work streams in this included developing standard engineering tooling for software development projects, standardising project processes and project management tooling across the business.  I was responsible for the management of the finances, resources, project plans, a team of ten and reporting to senior management.

Software Configuration and Release Manager – Mobile Telecoms Provider - Femto Cell Offering (September 2010 - May 2011)

I worked across a UK and Italian client and was responsible for the assurance of the deliveries of multiple in-house Scrum developed solutions.  This included implementing software development tools and processes to support continuous build integration and testing, source control management, code reviews and task management for the projects. I put together the go-live plans for the £2m+ piece of work and was the Scrum Master for the management team that worked across the projects.

Environments & Release Manager - Mobile Telecoms Provider - E-Commerce (June 2011 - September 2011)

I was responsible for delivering several environments and managing the releases for a new e-commerce platform.  I put together the design of the environments and go-live plans, managing a hosting supplier and an in-house team for the implementation. I owned this workstream as part a larger £4.5m+ agile Scrum project, which I was the Scrum Master for.

Technical Team Lead – Mobile Telecoms Provider - Femto Cell Offering (December 2009 - April 2010)

Acting as Scrum Master, I led an agile Java development team for a £1m+ piece of work delivering three applications to the customer. I was responsible for running daily stand-ups, planning sessions, reviews and retrospectives as part of the role as well as coaching and mentoring the team.

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