Summary
• Agile Coach and Trainer
• Agile Transformations, Leadership and Cultural change
• Background in software development, full stack .NET
• Expertise in Financial service and Telco
• Significant experience particularly in financial services and large organizations around digital and agile transformations, comprising onshore and offshore teams, ranging from delivery teams to senior management
• Aim to create environments where business and IT collaboratively work together in order to maximize customer experience and product engagement

Qualifications and certifications
• MBA, Strategy, Operations management, Cass Business School
• MSc Multimedia applications and Virtual Environments, University of Sussex
• BSc, Computer Science, University of Sussex

Key Engagements

• Enterprise agile coach for the Infotainment tribe, assisting the leadership team to increase the added value to the customer and optimize the organization structure by benefiting from adopting agile ways of working. (Vodafone, 2019)

• Coached the leadership team (consisting of Head of Technology, Head of Commercial, Principal Managers and Commercial Managers) to create its strategy for the agile transformation by setting up OKR and set its strategic goals in a way that they would correlate with QBR and project deliverables, and would provide more focus whilst implementing changes. (Vodafone, 2019)

• Promoted the agile transformation and adoption of the Spotify model, coaching and mentoring 5 teams (squads). (ING, 2018)

• Created end to end autonomous feature teams that shared a common product backlog, and produced product increments in each sprint. (ING, 2018)

• Helped the business to create a new strategy to adopt agile and implement the Spotify model.

• Member of the strategy team, working with Tribe Leads (Heads of departments) across the different locations of the company. (PaddyPower-Betfair, 2018)

• Helped to bring business, product and IT together to improve feedback loops, and ensured that the company focuses on delivering customer value via OKRs, and enhance communication and customer satisfaction. (PaddyPower-Betfair, 2018

• Assisted in creating short and long-term strategy, and operating model matrices to assess the business maturity, suggested improvement points and communicated them to the senior management team. (PaddyPower-Betfair, 2018)

Motto:
‘Management makes a system work. It helps you do what you know how to do. Leadership builds systems or transforms old ones.’
John P. Kotter

Contact Details:

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