Experience

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  Berkeley Group Holdings Plc

  • Woking

  • Scrum Master

    • Sep 2016 - Present
    • Woking

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  Elekta

  • Crawley

  • Scrum Master

    • Sep 2013 - Sep 2016
    • Crawley

    • Scrum Master working with 2 teams in a highly regulated medical software environment.• Coaching numerous Agile teams (hardware and software) using either Scrum or Kanban within SAFe 4.0.• Release Train Engineer for 6 feature teams and 10 Shared Service teams• Co-taught Leading SAFe, Product Manager - Product Owner Orientation and Scrum Awareness courses• Helped with the Agile Transformation of 350 people in the company

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  Livebookings

  • Scrum Master

    • Apr 2013 - Jun 2013

    • Scrum Master for a team that is redeveloping the company’s client-facing website, using a responsive paradigm, so that it will work well on all browsers and devices.• Typical team of 2 back-end developers, 1 front-end developer, 1 UX designer, 1 QA and the product owner (located off-shore).• Facilitated the typical scrum meetings – sprint planning, story grooming (BDD and estimation via poker planning), daily scrum and retrospective.• Monitored the story progress and burndown / burnup chart via JIRA, although also used a large scrum board within the office for visibility.• Helped to get the team working cohesively and improve the story point success.

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  BrightStarr

  • Project Manager

    • Jul 2012 - Jan 2013

    • Project managing intranets designed and developed on Microsoft SharePoint 2010, with team sizes of 4 to 8, consisting of consultants, back-end developers, UI developers and QA staff.• Full life cycle management from discovery (wireframes and specification), through design (including responsive), HTML prototype, development, internal QA, client UAT and post acceptance support.• Project planning via Gantt chart in Microsoft Project / Project Server.• Managed a single large cross platform responsive intranet project and then multiple smaller projects concurrently.• Resource management (consultants, developers, business analysts etc.) who work on multiple projects.• Client liaison to manage expectations and ensure smooth running of the project (be the single point of contact for the client).• Weekly internal and client project status reporting.

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  Wolters Kluwer

  • Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom

  • Software Engineer, Project Manager, Scrum Master

    • Jul 1998 - Jan 2012
    • Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom

    Started as a Software Developer, but since 2002 have been working as a Project Manager and then from 2006 as a Scrum Master. Received Scrum Master certification in 2008 through the Scrum Alliance. Specific experience of dealing with Expatriate tax calculations. Typically worked with team sizes of 7 - 10 people.

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  Eskom

  • Chief Engineer

    • Jan 1990 - Jul 1998

    Worked in IT department leading a team of electrical engineers supporting engineering packages and writing user interfaces

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  University of the Witwatersrand

  • Researcher

    • Jan 1987 - Jan 1990

    Worked in the electrical machines field doing research into the deep bar effects of squirrel cage induction motors when used in variable speed drives. Completed my PhD with this research.