Work experience
-, Scrum Master / Project Manager of long experience
July 2014 - Present, London, United Kingdom
Considering positions where my Scrum skills and experience can contribute in a rewarding way to an organisation's growth and successful project delivery.
-, Supporting son with school exams / considering opportunities
October 2013 - July 2014,
Spending time assisting my son with his GCSEs, whilst keeping an eye out for interesting Scrum Master opportunities.
-, Pursuing house projects
July 2013 - September 2013,
Exploiting the great summer to pursue household projects!
SkyIQ, Project Manager / Scrum Master
January 2013 - June 2013, St.Albans, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Jan - June 2013
· Took over management and delivery of two key projects providing portals to access market insight reports.
· Organised successful delivery of existing projects, whilst moving towards more Agile approach
· Implemented daily scrums of development team
· Liaised with other projects to ensure dependencies were understood and acted upon
o Set up cross-project Scrum-of-Scrum meetings
· Arranged planning sessions and produced project plans
· Presented plans and updates to stakeholders
· Monitored project costs
· Co-ordinated provision of implementation plan for release day
CCH Software (Wolters Kluwer UK Ltd), Project Manager / Scrum Master
January 2003 - January 2012, Kingston, Surrey, United Kingdom
· Produced project plans and schedules and documentation, based upon extensive analysis of requirements, estimations and resource availability, in close collaboration with stakeholders and team members
· Monitored team progress on delivery of project plan tasks, updating plans as necessary
· Identified and managed project risks at a broad and detailed level
· Communicated project status to all stakeholders, including higher management, by methods such as
o Written reports
o Sprint Burn-down charts / Velocity charts
· Introduced Agile process approach, in particular Scrum.
· Performed ScrumMaster role (across concurrent projects), the activities including
o Ensuring that the Scrum process was followed
o Facilitating Project and Sprint planning activities
o Working to remove any impediments to progress that arose
o Ensuring the project backlog was in place, properly defined and prioritised, working with Product Owners and Business Analysts
o Hosting daily Scrums
o Holding project and process retrospectives
· Coordinated design and implementation of major feature updates – e.g. an update of the software installation process
o Ran design sessions
o Documented new processes and procedures
o Supported QA in defining appropriate test strategies
· Coordinated release sign-off process amongst stakeholders
· Carried out occasional limited Development activity using MS VB or C#