Description

===Recent Projects===

Product launch accelerationCoached a team to launch a new multi-tier hybrid cloud product from scratch in 5 weeks.

Cycle time reductionCoached a team to reduce end-to-end delivery time from 9 months to 2 weeks

Team scalingCreated a new product delivery team and scaled from 0 to 150 members within 18 months

Cost of delivery reductionCoached and mentored a team to reduce cost of delivery by 30% within 8 weeks

Agile TrainingDesigned and delivered a training programme to a team of 100+ members

*About Me*

I am an outcome focused product and agile coach with the proven ability to deliver successful Agile and Digital transformation initiatives and projects.

I am passionate about creating high performing teams. My people-centric approach is focused on improving team productivity while also improving productivity of the wider organisation.

I have expertise in coaching, mentoring and training product development and product management teams, and the wider organisation. He has over 20 years’ experience in a variety of leadership roles with a proven track record for implementing successful change initiatives in Bio-Tech, Financial Services and Information Services industries.

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Remote only

Primarily works remotely

Techcredibles Ltd
Agile Leadership Coach
DIGITAL AND IT
January 2021 - Today (5 years and 5 months)
London, UK
• Partner with leaders to create of an overall vision and strategy for Agile & Business transformation
• Coach senior leaders in the organisation to support the transformation initiative
• Coach multiple teams to help them grow from new and inexperienced scrum teams into high-performing and self-organising teams
• Coach and mentor Product Owners and Business Leaders to build in-house capability to ensure successful adoption and sustainable change
• Design, implement and optimise target operating model for send-to-end product delivery
• Design and run tailored Agile training workshops for different stakeholder groups
Coaching Strategic planning Scrum Team management Product development Product management
Sophia Genetics
Senior Director of Technology
BIOTECH
June 2021 - August 2022 (1 year and 2 months)
Lausanne, Switzerland
Overall accountable for transformation of customer & corporate technology platforms & infrastructure and supporting teams
Successfully led an initiative to reduce the end-to-end bioinformatics pipeline execution time by 80%
Successfully led a transformation initiative to migrate on-premise computational workloads to the cloud
Initiated & delivered key initiatives supporting DevOps maturity through automation and toolchain consolidation
Successfully co-created and helped deliver the roadmap for multiple core technology services
Created a demand pipeline for all teams to allow forward planning to support product roadmap and technology roadmap initiatives
Cloud computing Microsoft Azure DevOps Digital Transformation
Financial Conduct Authority
Head of Product Group, Engineering and Operations
BANKING AND INSURANCE
December 2017 - June 2021 (3 years and 6 months)
London, UK
• Overall accountable for product group with £20m annual budget and responsibility for product management, product development, business and service operations
• Direct line management responsibility for leadership team with overall responsibility for a product group of over 150 on-shore and off-shore team members
• Successfully led the launch of multiple core regulatory products over the last 24 months
• Successfully created and delivered roadmaps for multiple core digital regulatory products over the last 36 months
• Nurtured and cultivated a culture of peer-to-peer recognition leading to a steady and consistent increase in colleague engagement scores
• Focused on capability development within the group through creation of guilds and community of practices supported by industry recognised training courses
• Coached and mentored product management & development teams to focus on continuous improvement initiatives to increase productivity and responsiveness
• Coached senior leaders, Product Owners, Agile Coaches and ScrumMasters
• Built strong working relationship with partner organisations' management teams to create a "one team" environment, providing strong leadership to the product group
• Defined key performance indicators (KPIs), creating three levels: scrum team, product team and product group level metrics & KPIs
• Successfully implemented KPI collection and reporting in order to allow teams to inspect and adapt their own performance and provide leadership team with visibility of impediments affecting team productivity
• Created a demand pipeline view for all product teams to allow forward planning to support customer demand and continuous improvement initiatives
• Provided leadership and guidance in adoption of Lean, Agile & DevOps principles to improve customer satisfaction, working practices and accelerate product delivery
Product management Product development product owner Agile method Scrum Team management Digital Transformation