Paignton, England, United Kingdom
I am a successful, dynamic freelance Senior Agile Delivery Manager, Agile Coach and Scrum Master. I have Agile Coaching, Professional Scrum Master and Certified Scrum Product Owner agile qualifications with an extensive practical knowledge of Agile, Scrum and Kanban. I have successfully delivered a varied range and scale of projects across different business areas, most recently at NHS Digital where, as a Senior Delivery Manager, I delivered four major projects using Scrum. I have strong commercial and customer awareness and a user focus on delivering the right product. I am the founding member and sponsor of the Agile Exeter Meetup Group. Skill Set: • Delivery Manager, Scrum Master, Agile Coach • Certified Professional Scrum Master • Certified Product Owner • Certified Agile Coach • Scrum, Kanban, Lean, XP, Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe), Traditional development • Good understanding of Cloud based deployments, AWS, Devops & CI/CD • Senior stakeholder management • Excellent communication and facilitation skills • Knowledge skill set around leadership, facilitation, situational awareness, conflict resolution, continuous improvement, empowerment, and increasing transparency • Knowledge of numerous agile patterns and techniques: story point estimating, #no estimates, technical debt management, testing, agile games, burn-down, retrospective formats, handling bugs, etc • Analytical and problem-solving skills • Excellent communication and presentation skills • Go knowledge of Government Digital Services • Full project lifecycle management from inception to implementation and support handover • Risk and Issue Management • Leading both onshore and offshore development teams in multi team environments • Change management • TDD/BDD • Delivery Metric Tracking, Forecasting and Prioritisation • Backlog management • Product management • Workshop facilitation • Feasibility study and business case development • TFS, Jira, Confluence, Skype, Slack, Trello INDUSTRIES WORKED IN • NHS • Hospitality • eCommerce • Airline • Online Music Retail • Retail • Manufacturing • Publishing • Government/Local Government Looking for contract Agile Delivery Manager, Scrum Master and Agile Coaching roles.