Biography
Heather Baird has been working in Project Management in the IT&T industry for around 8 years, the last 3 years as an Agile Product Owner. She was integrally involved in the adoption of the Agile Scrum process by CallPlus’s Networks department, which has led to improved productivity, certainty of outcome and transparency to the wider business. It has also improved the work satisfaction of the engineers and their ability to concentrate on their core competencies.
Prior to her involvement in project management, she has filled varied roles in CallPlus and Telecom in line management and technical provisioning.
Heather has an interest in making Agile work for scrums made up of diverse specialised skill sets, and in fitting Agile practices into overall project governance systems.
Work experience
CallPlus Ltd, Project Manager and Product Owner
August 2004 - Present, Auckland, NZ
3 years as Networks Product Owner since Agile adopted in 2012
5 years as Technology Project Manager using a modified Prince2 process
2 years as Networks Administrator
Telecom New Zealand, Operational Specialist
October 2002 - August 2004, Auckland, NZ
Relationship management with 3rd party suppliers
Application support, process development and provisioning - InfoXchange
Dedicated Web Hosting - provisioning, process development and change management
Telecom New Zealand, Team Manager
January 2002 - September 2002, Auckland, NZ
Managed a team of up to 17 people involved in service delivery of data circuits.
Portfolio in Lanlink, Customer Reporting and Frame Relay