Leadership
Engaging leadership approach with extensive experience leading teams of cross-functional professional engineers (10 – 65 direct/indirect reports). Excellent interpersonal communication skills with high emotional intelligence. Exceptional ability to identify, develop and motivate professionals, building up high performing teams from scratch.
Strategic Management
Vast experience maturing departments and organisations through development of Career Development Frameworks, using OKRs, coaching Executive Leaders in strategic, tactical and operational thinking and managing outcomes to set teams up for success. Capable CIO/CTO/CPO.
Continuous Improvement
Experience creating CI frameworks, mindset and tools. Using experimental change, retrospectives, lean principles, journey mapping, lean coffee, kaizen events, gemba walk, TIMWOODS, 5S’s. and many more… Using tools for problem type identification, fishbone, 5 whys, etc.
Project & Programme Management
Exceptional organisational and planning skills, working within Stage-Gate, Waterfall, Lean | Agile | Kanban, and ISO accredited environments, including medical imaging and industrial control manufacturing. Understanding and experience of PMP | PRINCEII approaches.
Agile Coaching | Development
Significant experience of Agile Development: tools and processes, including successfully introducing and fixing Agile implementations. Excellent understanding of how to apply agile-lean in a variety of industries through a pragmatic approach which fully embraces people-process-product.
Business Analysis | Product Ownership
Extensive experience analysing and documenting user stories to meet the business requirements for various functions and applications. Assisting with product planning, product backlog formulation and grooming, and customer journey mapping.
Lean Start-Up & Change
From Design Thinking through to Lean Change, experience of coaching teams from IT, software, firmware, hardware and integrated systems. Understanding People-Organisation-Culture. Experience leading agile transformations. Extensive experience with departmental & company restructures.
Software | Firmware | Hardware Skills
Managed Teams building SaaS products encompassing Architecture, microservices, CI/CD, DevOps, Test Automation, AWS .NET, Android and iOS Application Development Extensive computer programming experience primarily using C and assembly languages, PHP, HTML, CSS, MySQL, Powershell and Python scripting languages.