Chris Watson
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About
Chris Watson is a very motivated and knowledgeable Scrum Master and Agile Coach, with a proven track record of helping organisations embed Agile practices. Chris has a great dedication to guiding and empowering teams using Agile principles to help them provide solutions for complex business problems.
A passionate professional with over 14 years’ experience in IT and business change/delivery projects across a variety of industries including Financial Services, Automotive and Government. Throughout his career, Chris has constantly driven business improvement and has demonstrated the ability to form solid client relationships by bringing effective communication and leadership skills.
Chris is effective at implementing Agile and Scrum Methodologies. As Scrum Master, Chris has successfully promoted Agile Ceremonies in the teams he has worked in. He has driven Sprint Planning, Daily Scrum Meetings, Sprint Review Sessions, Sprint Retrospectives and held Sprint Demonstrations. Chris has also assisted in managing the Product Backlog and Sprint Backlog. He is passionate about fostering and empowering teams, serves to remove impediments in projects and promotes team collaboration – learning by doing.
Experience and services
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Career history
- 2020-05-11 - present - Fidelity Investments (Scrum Master)
- 2009-05-04 - 2015-01-30 - NHS (Business Intelligence Manager + Senior BI Analyst + BI Analyst)
- 2015-02-02 - 2016-06-30 - Codec DSS (Business Analyst)
- 2016-07-04 - 2016-10-31 - Dell (Agile Business Analyst)
- 2016-11-01 - 2017-01-31 - United Language Group (Senior Business Analyst)
- 2017-02-01 - 2017-08-16 - SQS (Scrum Master)
- 2017-08-01 - 2017-11-30 - NTT Data (Scrum Master)
- 2017-12-04 - 2019-07-31 - Valeo (Software Lead)
- 2019-08-01 - 2020-05-08 - Cora Systems (Agile Business Analyst)