Professional background

Tech leader with 20+ years of experience leading, maturing and scaling software engineering teams.

Areas of Expertise

• Team building and leadership – leading engineering teams ranging in size from a few people to over seventy; working with remote teams; recruitment and onboarding, coaching and motivation.
• Agile advocate – promoting practices including XP, Scrum, Kanban and Lean; scaling Agile; implementing continuous improvement practices.
• Programme and project delivery – delivered many native mobile apps, web sites and server applications; risk and issue management; dependency management; stakeholder management; high-level and detailed planning.
• Technical leadership – full software delivery life cycle (SDLC) management; requirements gathering; leading technical decision making; software engineering best practices; continuous integration.
• Portfolio governance and management – demand governance (selection and prioritisation of investments); strategic planning, budgeting and forecasting; portfolio reporting, dashboards and analysis; programme and project best practices.