Agile Delivery Manager

• Oct 2022 - Present

Software Project Manager

• Apr 2021 - Aug 2022

Arenko is a market-leader in the renewable energy sector focussing on battery energy storage solutions, Arenko’s technology optimises the technical and commercial performance of flexible assets in real time with a vision of a zero-carbon energy grid worldwide. In this role I have been responsible for transitioning a small development team of 6 developers using a unstructured development approach to 2 cross functional development teams utilising the Scrum framework supported by an infrastructure team operating with a Kanban approach. I have also been responsible for implementing a career development framework with the technology team, and line managing 6 members of the team. The project management aspect of my role includes: • Project managing agile project teams through the full software development lifecycle • Requirements gathering, progress tracking, resource allocation, process improvement • Risk and issues management, quality checks and change management • Project communications and engagement with stakeholders • Providing direction and support to the project team, chairing project meetings • Release management, version control, providing support to the help desk • Managing out of hours support rotas The Scrum Master aspect of my role includes: • Coaching Scrum teams, facilitating Scrum events, backlog refinement • Encouraging continuous improvement, prioritising technical improvement work to reduce workloads • Removing impediments and guiding the team on how to remove impediments • Jira administration, metric reporting The line management aspect of my role includes: • Staff appraisals and objective setting, staff development, leave/sickness tracking and approval • Staff health, safety and wellbeing (including as Mental Health First Aider), team building activities • Interviewing and recruiting Show less

Agile Delivery Manager

• Apr 2019 - Mar 2021

L&Q is a regulated charitable housing association and one of the UK’s most successful independent social businesses. The L&Q Group houses around 250,000 people in more than 97,000 homes, primarily across London and the South East. I am responsible for the management of the end-to-end delivery of new applications and upgrades to existing applications, as well as key business initiatives to meet the organisational and aligned product backlog priorities. These initiatives are varied and include the following: Business critical system and enterprise applications implementations, cross-functional process improvement initiatives and the implementation of new software products and features for on premise, cloud and SaaS solutions. I am also responsible for the demand management and prioritisation of work for a cross functional team of solution analysts, application and support specialists, as well as resource planning for project infrastructure, network and database engineers. In addition, I have been programme managing initiatives for business critical finance and payroll application upgrades, for which I have chaired steering committee meetings and prepared status and forecast reports for the executive board.. The delivery management aspect of my role includes: • Managing waterfall and agile project teams through the full project delivery lifecycle • Project planning and tracking, prioritising project work, backlog grooming • Providing direction and support to the project team, chairing project meetings • Resource allocation, cost estimating and budget management • Implementing and tracking KPIs, test process management, quality checks • Risk and issues management, change management, process improvement • Project communications, stakeholder and expectation management • Release management, version control, continuous improvement, transitioning to BAU • Contract management, service review, vendor management Show less

Technical Project Manager

• Mar 2018 - Apr 2019

Soundmouse is an ISO:9001:2008 accredited company that provides a number of services including music cue sheet reporting and programme metadata management to broadcasters, collecting societies, and other media companies. Soundmouse’s cue sheet platform, which was first launched in 2001, has become a global standard to receive, manage and report music cue sheets in a timely and efficient manner. My role involves project managing multiple simultaneous agile software delivery and customer integration projects in a client facing role, as well as being line manager for a team of 14 developers, testers and business analysts. In addition, my role involves being system owner for the software products and being Scrum Master for the development team. The project management aspect of my role includes: o Managing waterfall and agile project teams through the full project/software development lifecycle o Client liaison, requirements gathering and preparing documentation for project authorisation o Project planning and tracking, resource allocation, cost estimating and budget management o Risk and issues management, quality checks and change management o Project communications and engagement with internal/external stakeholders o Providing direction and support to the project team, chairing project meetings The line management aspect of my role includes: o Staff appraisals and objective setting, staff development, leave/sickness tracking and approval o Staff health, safety and well-being, team building activities The Scrum Master aspect of my role includes: o Coaching Scrum teams, facilitating Scrum events, removing impediments Show less

Project Manager / Principal Engineer

• Feb 2015 - Mar 2018

RINA Consulting Ltd (formerly Edif ERA, formerly ERA Technology Ltd), provides specialist engineering consultancy helping clients to reduce risk, improve operational performance and comply with functional safety and regulatory requirements. My role involves working on and managing EMC and aircraft safety certification related projects, some of the projects /project areas that I have managed are outlined below: • Implementing improved software data capturing techniques for built environment and aircraft flight safety certification. • Designing training material for the aircraft safety certification programme • Business integration between RINA Consulting Ltd and its customers (including client liaison, requirements gathering, cost estimating, preparing documentation for project authorisation, and issuing quotations) • Preparing EMC evidence documentation (management plans, assurance files and technical reports) (including quality checks, change management, project communications and stakeholder engagement with senior staff in client companies) • Performing site measurements for EMC assessments of potential impacts to IT, power and communications systems or to human health (including risk and issues management, project planning, resource allocation, budget management and managing project teams) • Supporting flight airworthiness trials for new aircraft by running one of two on-site certification teams. (including managing project teams) The role encompasses both project management and project work activities. In summary the project management aspect of these includes: o Client liaison, requirements gathering and preparing documentation for project authorisation o Risk and issues management, quality checks and change management o Project planning, resource allocation, cost estimating and budget management o Project communications and stakeholder engagement with senior staff in client companies o Managing 'Traditional' and Agile project teams Show less

Project Manager / Principal Engineer

• Feb 2011 - Dec 2014

CTS developed communication systems and advanced Ground-Penetrating Radar (GPR) detection systems to support Counter-IED (C-IED) and mine clearance operations as well as research and development. My initial role involved project managing change initiatives to set up new facilities, and to improve workflow, for testing radar electronics. After this project, my role evolved to manage agile software/process development and business change initiatives for the test, development and manufacturing departments on projects such as: • Setting up a test, research and development, and prototyping lab with associated office space and development lab, for the use of a combined software development, prototyping, testing and QA team. • Increasing throughput of complex circuit boards from 20 per week to 150 per week (750%) by implementing control and data analysis software along with improved test procedures. • Enabling prioritisation of test and assembly tasks, and allocation of resources, with 360-degree feedback to the company ERP system by implementing software solutions and database workflow improvements. • Integrating software solutions with automated test systems to allow repeatable and controlled testing of development and deliverable products, including creating associated test procedures and processes. • Implementing software and database based improvements to the workflow for task specification, regulatory compliance and resource allocation for research and development projects. The role encompassed both project management and work activities. The project management aspect of these included: o Managing waterfall and agile (scrum) project teams through the full software development lifecycle o Requirements gathering, risk and issues management, quality checks and change management o Project planning, resource allocation, cost estimating and budget management o Project communications and stakeholder engagement often with senior staff in the company Show less

Project Manager / Principal Engineer

• Jul 2008 - Feb 2011

Cobham provided specialist EMC consultancy (among other specialist engineering services) helping clients to reduce risk, and comply with functional safety and regulatory requirements.My role was as a principal engineer working on and project managing EMC related projects. Some of the project / project areas that I managed are outlined below• Setting up and running a TV Interference / Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) service line to enable customers to meet planning requirements for new construction builds.• Assembling management plans for customers in the built environment sector to allow them to plan mitigation against potential EMC impacts.• Performing EMC assessments of buildings and infrastructure such as railway control rooms, substations, signaling systems, mobile phone base stations and data centres at sites in major cities in Europe, America and the Far East, which allowed the operators / developers to understand and mitigate against potential impacts to IT, power and communication systems.• Improving the accuracy and repeatability of aircraft flight safety testing, as well as reducing the time taken for on-site testing and report preparation which in turn reduced costs and gave the customer instant sight of the results by writing automated test software.• Performing radiation hazard measurements to determine the potential for hazards to human health.The role encompassed both project management and project work activities. In summary the project management aspect of these includes:o Client liaison, requirements gathering and preparing documentation for project authorisation o Risk and issues management, quality checks and change managemento Project planning, resource allocation, cost estimating and budget managemento Project communications and stakeholder engagement with senior staff in client companieso Managing project teamsThis role is a continuation of my previous role for Cobham (ERA) with a change of seniority. Show less

Project Manager / Senior Engineer

• Sep 2004 - Jun 2008

Cobham (ERA), provided specialist EMC consultancy (among other specialist engineering services) helping clients to reduce risk, and comply with functional safety and regulatory requirements.My role involved working on and project managing projects such as:• Performing environmental impact assessments for large infrastructure projects such as Heathrow Terminal 5 and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as well as projects for large multinational companies at their sites in major cities in Europe, America and the Far East , which allowed the projects to mitigate against potential external impacts and operate without interference to their communications systems.• Carrying out EMC assessments of buildings and infrastructure such as railway installations, so as to enable the developers of the buildings to understand possible affects on IT and power equipment within the structures.• Performing EMC assessments of railway vehicles, allowing the manufacturers of the vehicles to confirm that they complied with European standards on emissions.• Performing radiation hazard measurements to determine the potential for hazards to human health.This role is a continuation of my previous role for ERA Technology Ltd with a change of seniority and a change of company ownership.The role encompassed both project management and project work activities. In summary the project management aspect of these includes:o Client liaison, requirements gathering and preparing documentation for project authorisation o Risk and quality managemento Project planning and cost estimatingo Project communications and stakeholder engagement with senior staff in client companieso Managing project teams Show less

Engineer

• Jan 2001 - Sep 2004

ERA Technology Ltd provided specialist EMC consultancy (among other specialist engineering services) helping clients to reduce risk, and comply with functional safety and regulatory requirements.This role is a change in position from my previous role in ERA Technology Ltd.The role included:• Performing environmental impact assessments for large infrastructure projects such as Heathrow Terminal 5 and the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park as well as projects for large multinational companies at their sites in major cities in Europe, America and the Far East , which allowed the projects to mitigate against potential external impacts and operate without interference to their communications systems.• Carrying out EMC assessments of buildings and infrastructure such as railway installations, so as to enable the developers of the buildings to understand possible affects on IT and power equipment within the structures.• Performing EMC assessments of railway vehicles, allowing the manufacturers of the vehicles to confirm that they complied with European standards on emissions.• Performing sub-surface surveys of utilities and other features (such as possible buried fuel tanks) using ground penetrating radar (GPR) and complementary technologies so as to provide confidence to developers / installers in planning digging, construction and similar operations. Show less

Engineer

• Aug 1996 - Dec 2000

ERA Technology Ltd provided specialist sub surface radar consultancy and manufacturing services (among other specialist engineering services) helping clients to reduce risk, and comply with functional safety and regulatory requirements.In this role I was involved in sub surface radar production / design / testing, sales, training and civil and forensic surveying. Typical projects included:• Undertaking site surveys for various police forces using ground penetrating radar, enabling them to either eliminate areas from their enquiries or concentrate on likely areas when carrying out forensic investigations.• Performing sub-surface surveys of utilities and other features (such as possible buried fuel tanks) using ground penetrating radar (GPR) and complementary technologies so as to provide confidence to developers / installers in planning digging, construction and similar operations.• Training customers of the ERA Technology Ltd range of SPRscan sub surface radars in the use of the surveying equipment in locations such as Ireland, Cyprus, Germany and the UK.• Sales and marketing activities for the sub surface surveying business line, including customer visits / liaison, design of marketing materials and carrying out demonstrations at exhibitions• Designing accessories for the ERA Technology Ltd range of SPRscan sub surface radars.• Creating circuit schematics for research projects.• Supporting Research and Design (R&D) activities through the design of test equipment and test scenarios Show less

Technical Support Engineer

• Jan 1994 - Aug 1996

Manufacture, software support and test of Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) equipment Manufacture, software support and test of Automated Optical Inspection (AOI) equipment