Experience

Beneficial Consulting Limited

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Enterprise Agile Coach

  • Jul 2011 - Present

  ✔Certified SAFe SPC, DA SSM Instructor, DA Senior Scrum Master, DA SM Instructor, and ICP ACC, with experience of TDD, BDD, DevOPs, CICD, the Agile PMO, and Agile Transformation.✔ Enterprise Agile Coach leading Lean Portfolio Management as a means of top-down agile transformation within a 6000 head technology organisation within a global tier-one bank.✔ Enterprise Agile Coach leading IT and non-IT transformational activities across a 5000 head organisation within an international telecoms provider.✔ Interim Director of Agile Transformation responsible for Agile culture adoption in a 650-people strong international division and 350 strong UK division of a major financial service provider. Reduced the average duration of activities by 50% and reduced average effort by 60% working with Agile teams, Scrum Masters, Product Owners, and Senior Management.✔ Enterprise Agile Coach for Global Bank. A consulting role coaching MDs internationally (UK, Europe, USA, South Africa, and India) for Sponsors of Agile programs. Established awareness of Agile control techniques, health assessment, and governance. ✔ Interim Programme Director for International Strategic Change and Regulatory Programmes. Including Agile organizational change $100 million, Agile Cultural Transformation, New Product Development $28 million, Project Audit, and recovery activities. Delivered a portfolio of $68million reducing costs by 10% in six months



Cutter Consortium

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Consultant

  • Dec 2018 - Present

  Appointed to Cutter's bench of Senior Consultants to provide thought leadership and impartial advice on matters concerning successful Agile Transformation. My interests are in the cultural change and adoptions aspects of Agile at Scale. I am using my thirty years of international consulting expertise to provide clients with pragmatic transformational solutions. Appointed to Cutter's bench of Senior Consultants to provide thought leadership and impartial advice on matters concerning successful Agile Transformation. My interests are in the cultural change and adoptions aspects of Agile at Scale. I am using my thirty years of international consulting expertise to provide clients with pragmatic transformational solutions.



Severn Consultancy UK

• United Kingdom
• Business Consulting and Services

• Managing Director

  • Jun 2009 - May 2011

  Programme Manager and Managing Director responsible for the completion of a number of complex strategic change programmes including cultural change, Solvency II and an Operational Risk programme for two international insurers. Programme Manager and Managing Director responsible for the completion of a number of complex strategic change programmes including cultural change, Solvency II and an Operational Risk programme for two international insurers.



Severn Group

• Business Consulting and Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Programme Consultant Chief Executive

  • 1987 - 2009

  Change management services across a wide client base including Banking, Investment Banking, Asset management, Insurance and Retail. Responsible for a wide range of programme management assignments. Change management services across a wide client base including Banking, Investment Banking, Asset management, Insurance and Retail. Responsible for a wide range of programme management assignments.