Experience

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  EY

  • Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

  • Enterprise Agile Coach & Senior Manager

    • Apr 2022 - Present
    • Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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  Allstate Northern Ireland

  • United Kingdom
  • IT Services and IT Consulting
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Senior Team Manager

    • Oct 2019 - Apr 2022

    Supporting a team of 19 portfolio managers, co-ordinators and reporting staff, agile coaches and RTEs. Coaching them through delivery challenges, performance goal setting and other annual cycles & company compliance requirements as they transition to more lean-agile ways of working.

  • Enterprise Agile Coach

    • Mar 2018 - Apr 2022

    Enterprise Agile coach bringing about transformation within the wider organisation via: - Coaching, mentoring and training of over 700 candidates in agile, scrum, kanban, SAFe, etc. - workshop facilitation (leaders, managers and teams) including value stream identification and mapping (VSM) to optimize flow to the customer. - Facilitation of product strategy, critical success factor (CSF) and key performance indicator (KPI) workshops, Interviewed/assessed over 50 aspiring scrum masters. - Designed interview guides then conducted internal & external interviews for new scrum masters and coaches. - Development of new online and workshop-based training material used in all Allstate offices globally, then using feedback to further improve training material. - Interviewed, onboarded, coached and supported coaches and 20+ scrum masters.

  • Scrum Master

    • Jan 2017 - Mar 2018

    Scrum Master supporting cross-functional teams of developers (project delivery and production support) on their journeys toward agile development (scrum and kanban respectively). Supported the inception of a new product and development of its minimum viable product (MVP).

  • Senior IT Project Manager

    • Aug 2016 - Jan 2017

    Senior project manager in charge of managing up to eight concurrent waterfall projects from initiation toproject closure. These projects relied on distributed teams of developers in India and Belfast, delivering to business stakeholders in the U.S. and so required good co-ordination, facilitation, communication and stakeholder management skills. Projects were required to comply with SOX compliance and project gating controls. Adrian then worked.

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  Allen & Overy

  • IT Project Manager

    • Sep 2012 - Jul 2016

    Successfully managed the delivery of a number of large-scale multi-million pound enterprise projects including implementing:• a CRM and proposal generator system (Thomson Reuter’s Business Development Suite) which was heavily integrated with other enterprise systems such as Active Directory, PeopleSoft and A&O’s finance system. Project value £2.25m over three years.• a security incident and event management (SIEM) system (leased from Dell Secureworks) which included deploying infrastructure and agreeing supporting processes for the implementation of Network traffic monitoring, server log collection and retention and advanced end-point threat detection (AETD) across all A&O offices. Project value £2m over three years.• a Microsoft Sharepoint 2012 platform (servers, backup storage, operating systems, applications and maintenance procedures) and working with other projects to coordinate deployment of their enterprise applications to the platform. Project value £1m over one year• modifications to an in-house workflow system that allows business users to request document production services. Project value £50K over 6 months.• vRealize Automation which automates the allocation of resources to quickly deploy virtual infrastructure on a self-service basis. Project value £250K over two years.• a co-ordinated deployment of a standardised desktop image with upgraded suite of applications to 400 PCs in the Belfast office.• the upgrade of an enterprise electronic document discovery application (Ringtail) used by in-house legal teams to review, categorise and strategise. Project value £75K over one year.• the migration of databases from A&O’s Lotus Notes platform and its decommissioning.

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  PricewaterhouseCoopers

  • IT Consultant

    • Apr 2005 - Aug 2012

    Adrian’s main area of expertise is project management and project support of business change projects in a Prince2 environment with both technology and organisational implications. Adrian has experience in business alaysis, process definition & redesign, change management, benefits management, and knowledge management in both internal and outsourced arrangements. Adrian has seven years experience in industry and, since joining PwC in early 2005, has worked on projects within Government, Educational, National Health Service and Telecommunications. client projects included:• Programme management support at Care Quality Commission during roll-out of a new Target Operating Model and social and health care provider registration system• Programme management support at Syngenta, supporting roll-out o a new global target operating model• Implementation planning support of the Central Payment System (CPS) Roll-out at Department for Work and Pensions (DWP)• Project support at Qualifications & Curriculum Development Agency (formerly Qualifications & Curriculum Authority) for Key stage science sampling 2010. • Project management of knowledge management work stream affecting 300 outgoing staff at QCA during their relocation to Coventry 2008-2010.• Configuration Management Database Roll-out at First Data• Infrastructure Architecture Assessment for International Airlines Group• IT helpdesk and IT project manager for Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform (DoJELR)• IT Sourcing & procurement process advisory at Saudi Telecom Company, Riyadh• Process analysis & re-engineering at ITV Global Entertainment• IT Demand Management at Vodafone UK• Writing best-practice reference Guides on Shared Services for National Audit Office

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  TCS

  • United Kingdom

  • Graduate

    • Sep 2002 - Feb 2005
    • United Kingdom

    Adrian began his career with TCS, initially receiving further training in India before being assigned to projects in the UK, including:• BT Exact – Project Support on high speed broadband software development project• NHS’s National Programme for IT - Business case development, bid document preparation, implementation planning• National Grid/Transco - Code configuration management team lead, transitioning code and advising on processes at code change planning meetings