About Donald
Certified Expert Agile Coach:
Since 2015, I have coached large organizations to realize the benefits of Agile, increasing the speed, quality, and frequency of product delivery. Supporting Directors and Service Managers in their transformations, I specialize in leading development teams, to achieve high-performance. I can draw on a spectrum of Lean, Agile and traditional management techniques appropriate for the situation at hand and customize them to realize their benefits. I use my networking and collaboration skills to extend my value across the organization.
Transformations: With a highly collaborative approach, I plan, monitor, and manage the transformations of organizations, teams and their leaders, establishing new ways of working and building centres of excellence. I deliver adoption models, metrics, governance, and training programmes that bring long term cultural impact and benefit.
Software Delivery: I have many years of experience in delivering software projects, both hands-on and in managerial roles. I have good technical knowledge of modern development techniques, and so can quickly build rapport and respect with development teams, understand their issues, and help find solutions. I can advise on modern techniques of BDD, TDD, Continuous Integration, and can administer APM tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps.
Advanced certifications: Agile Coach (ICE-AC), SAFe Consultant (SPC) and Scrum Master (CSP-SM)
English
Native or bilingual
Can work on-site
Milton Keynes (up to 50km), London (up to 10km), Birmingham (up to 10km), Cambridge (up to 10km), Oxford (up to 10km)
Experience
- Manmaru LtdAgile Coach and Management ConsultantJanuary 2016 - Today (10 years and 5 months)Milton Keynes, United KingdomSummary: Senior Agile Coach specializing in Agile coaching and transformation. I guide organizations through successful Agile adoptions, building collaborative teams and fostering business agility. I have a proven track record of delivering tailored solutions, optimizing processes, and achieving quantifiable results. I am instrumental in elevating the profiles of IT departments, raising awareness of Agile methodologies throughout organizations, and building high-performing teams.Key Achievements:• Orchestrated Agile transformations for complex organizations such as BP, Sony PlayStation, Santander, Jaguar Land Rover.• Crafted and executed transformation plans tailored to organizational nuances, resulting in enhanced alignment, coordination, and throughput.• Realigned under-performing teams to bring 30-50% performance and planning improvements• Drove adoption of Agile frameworks (Scrum, Kanban, SAFe, OKRs) to meet deadlines and elevate productivity across domains.• Collaborated with senior leaders in establishing Agile governance practices and metrics to facilitate data-driven improvements and guide decision-making.• Contributed to organization-wide Agile transformations, elevating IT department profiles and instilling business agility.• ICAgile Certified Agile trainer• Consultant Agile Trainer creating and delivering customized training courses.• Extensive experience JIRA, Confluence, Azure DevOps etcLatest role: Astellas: Dec 2024- June 2025Senior Agile Coach, working with the Digital Dept leaders to expand their Agile transformation plans, by developing and implementing an Agile maturity and metrics framework to bring insight and support across all departments. Partnering directly, I coached teams, product owners and department heads to build improvement plans for Agile ways of working, OKRs and big-room-planning.Previous Clients: AstraZeneca, Jaguar Land Rover, Aston Martin F1, BP, Sony PlayStation, Santander, Office Depot, Aggreko
- Sopra SteriaAgile CoachMay 2015 - June 2016 (1 year and 1 month)• Trained and guided teams, individuals, and managers in adopting Agile concepts and practices across various clients, including:◦ Home Office Technology, Hendon Data Centre◦ Ministry of Justice Common Platform Programme, Croydon◦ Ministry of Justice Court Store Project, London• Contributed to Sopra Steria's Agile Practice by writing and editing materials, including "Scaling with SAFe," Scrum Handbook, training courses, and white papers.• Took a lead role in delivering Agile Training courses, including the BCS Agile Foundation certification course, utilizing effective back-of-the-room techniques.• I held SC clearance for this role.
- Capgemini UKScrum MasterMay 2013 - May 2015 (2 years)• Led the introduction and successful implementation of Scrum and Agile techniques within the data analytics team for the HMRC Aspire EDH Programme.• Acted as the programme's Coach to implement the GDS delivery model, driving development and defining governance to enable project delivery on the Data Platform (Hadoop, Cloudera).• Delivered projects with national reach, potentially yielding significant financial benefits to HMRC.• I held SC clearance for this role.
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Education
- Computer ScienceUniversity Of St Andrews1992BSc (Hons)
Certifications
- Certified Scrum Master (CSM)Scrum Alliance2011
- Professional Scrum Master (PSM1)Scrum.org2013