Agile Consultant and Trainer at OptumInsight
Minneapolis, Minneapolis
United States

October 2011-February 2012

Reviewed use of Scrum and XP across a number of product development teams. As a result of this, recommended a training and coaching program. Trained approximately 100 people and coached a number of teams in the use of Scrum and XP.

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Scrum Trainer at Cisco
London,
United Kingdom

November 2011-November 2011

Delivered Scrum and XP training to 4 Cisco product development teams.

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ScrumMaster at United Health
London,
United Kingdom

September 2010-September 2011

ScrumMaster for teams delivering decision support systems for primary and secondary healthcare professionals, including a totally new product, the first release of which was delivered in 5 weeks with a geographically distributed Scrum team. Also led development of a revenue management system for use in the UAE.

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Interim Technical Director at BBC
London,
United Kingdom

April 2010-August 2010

Refocused delivery of the Digital Media Initiative program, delivering digital production tools and a 50 petabyte archive of digital assets using Scrum and XP to deliver integrated software products, 2 major data centers and 12 regional production data centers. The technology budget for the program was circa £90m and as such the program was audited by the UK National Audit Office who gave the program a clean bill of health as a result of an audit in August 2010.

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Agile Consultant and ScrumMaster at United Health UK
London,
United Kingdom

September 2009-April 2010

I helped United Health set up 5 Scrum product development teams in the UK, delivering initial releases of a healthcare data warehouse, financial management system for primary healthcare, clinical care pathways and care monitoring and alerting.

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LLU Systems Lead ScrumMaster at AOL
London,
United Kingdom

September 2007-September 2009

Scaled Scrum and XP across 9 teams, delivering 13 products with over 24 releases over a 2 year period. The AOL LLU Program was commended by the telecom regulator OFCOM to the rest of the industry as an exemplary way to deliver software products.

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Interim Head of Software Engineering at BSkyB
London,
United Kingdom

October 2007-May 2009

Lead the adoption of Scrum and XP across business and technology departments consisting of a software engineering department of 250 people supporting 2 business units. The transformation was accomplished in 9 months after which I went on to lead the first cross-department Scrum development before leading a greenfield redevelopment of BSkyB's e-commerce systems.

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Group Business Systems Manager and ScrumMaster at Fitness First
Poole, Dorset
United Kingdom

September 2004-August 2005

Led development of membership, payment, business intelligence, data warehousing, asset management, finance and customer service systems. Introduced Scrum, coaching the teams to improve delivery.

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