Work experience
Undeveloper Ltd., Managing Director
August 2014 - Present, Godalming, Surrey, GB
Undeveloper Ltd. is a consultancy and micro-software house, offering primarily tactical development, project management and training services within lean and agile frameworks.
Ascom Network Testing, Chief Product Owner
March 2012 - October 2014, Elstead, Surrey
Working with long-established Agile (more recently Scrum) team in full-time Scrum "Product Owner" role to capture value and plan changes to a highly complex installed product for functional testing of mobile networks and related services.
The company background is also highly complex, and product direction is often shaped not only by the immediate needs of customers, but by the direction of other products in the portfolio, and also on shared architectural goals divisionally.
My primary customer is the PMO, although direct interaction with end-users also occurs regularly.
Ascom Network Testing, Development Manager
December 2006 - March 2012, Elstead, Surrey
Working in a cross-functional team producing a highly complex installed product for functional testing of mobile networks and related services.
Responsibilities varied considerably, from coding, line-management, defining and maintaining team processes, architectural design and coaching, and managing work from an offshore development team.
Ascom Network Testing, Scrum Master
May 2010 - May 2011, Elstead, Surrey, GB
In charge of transitioning previously eXtreme Programming team to Scrum.
Acted as Scrum Master as well as leading transition effort.
Eventually hired permanent replacement.
Argo Interactive Ltd., Senior Developer
December 2004 - December 2006, Elstead, Surrey, United Kingdom
Working in a cross-functional team producing several products.
Mostly coding, but whatever else required to "get the job done", in a small start-up environment.
Significant amount of integration work resultant from M&A activities.