OBJECTWAY

Employment Summary for Objectway Limited ~ (Dec 2014 - Mar 2019)

Employer Type	Roles	Client Sectors	Tenure
FinTech Products	Agile Delivery Manager Agile Transformation Lead Product Owner Scrum Master	Investment Management Wealth Management	4 years, 4 months

Oversight and governance of the implementation, training, and support of digital collaboration tools to be used by solution development teams (JIRA Core, JIRA Agile, JIRA Service Desk, Confluence, Slack).
Coaching business leaders, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Scrum teams in line with the latest scaled agile frameworks, methodologies, and best practices.
Evangelizing the move to "Value-based Velocity" to help Product Owners and Scrum teams focus on value delivery and outcomes.
Overseeing all aspects of JIRA configuration for new projects/teams (acting as the Senior JIRA Administrator for the UK).
Attending various Agile/Lean/DevOps summits, conferences, and meetups to keep abreast of the latest thinking in agile circles and gain additional knowledge and insights from the experiences of others.

Acting as an Agile Coach and leading the transformation of the FISCAL product development and implementation team.
Providing training and coaching for Business Analysts, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and the Scrum team.
Introducing Scrum events, Story Point estimation, MoSCoW Reviews, and Test-Driven Development.
Establishing an iterative and incremental approach to product development for the MiFID II project.
Configuring JIRA to be used for MiFID II project management (development, UAT, and implementation).
Implementing two-way JIRA/Microsoft Visual Studio Online synchronization using the TFS4JIRA plug-in.

Acting as an Agile Coach and Transformation Lead for several Product Development teams during the transformation period.
Coaching Business Analysts, Product Owners, Scrum Masters, and Scrum teams as a Subject Matter Expert for agile best practices.
Establishing an iterative and incremental approach to Product development at the solution development team level.
Working with Product Owners and Scrum teams to coordinate the agile events (Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-ups, Sprint Reviews, and Retrospectives).
Establishing a culture of Continuous Improvement and leading the transformation of teams working with legacy codebases.
Introducing Kanban boards, Story Point estimation, MoSCoW Reviews, Impact Mapping, Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, and Continuous Delivery.

Running Scrum events and ceremonies (Backlog Refinement, Sprint planning, Daily stand-ups, Sprint reviews, and Retrospectives).
Working closely with stakeholders, Product Owner, and the Scrum team to remove impediments.
Coaching stakeholders on how best to interface with the Product Owner and Scrum team to maximize the value from their interactions.
Assisting the Product Owner in the analysis of business requirements to become a Subject Matter Expert in a completely new domain/industry sector.
Assisting the Scrum team in refining the emerging architecture requirements for the digital transformation and modernization of a Container Shipping system.
Performing technical analysis as a Subject Matter Expert for the migration of legacy codebase (from Unix to Windows).
Introducing, coaching, and supporting the implementation of Agile/XP methodologies (pairing, TDD, BDD) and modern version control/digital collaboration tools (Git, JIRA, Confluence, Slack).
Guiding the Scrum team in the investigation and adoption of modern development frameworks and architectures.
Evangelizing the move to infrastructure-as-code and experimentation with containerization for continuous deployment.

Oversight and governance of JIRA implementation (1,200+ users over 500+ projects).
Overseeing all aspects of JIRA configuration: projects, Agile boards (Scrum/Kanban), Dashboards, Shared Schemes, Workflows, Security, User Groups, and User Accounts.
Maintaining JIRA Administration "Best practices" and associated documentation in Confluence, including configuration details for JIRA projects/shared schemes/workflows, etc.
Training other JIRA Administrators in line with best practices.
Establishing JIRA administrative support processes.

Delivering a successful migration of clients from legacy (on-premise) systems against a hard deadline.
Project management supporting business analysts, implementation team, and clients during the transition phase.
Providing expert knowledge and guidance to the implementation team for ETL and data validation techniques.
Defining and tracking metrics used for data conversion and reconciliation during migration "dry-run" trials.
Facilitating the deployment of read-only systems for historical audit inquiries and regulatory compliance.
Overseeing the migration of on-premise servers at various client sites (and Objectway data centre) to cloud compute/storage (Azure).

Delivering the successful migration of live client data from a legacy product to the Wealth-in-One solution.
Project management supporting business analysts, implementation team, and clients during the transition phase.
Conducting a gap analysis of existing vs. target application functionality.
Providing expert knowledge and guidance to the implementation team for ETL and data validation techniques.
Defining and tracking metrics used for data conversion and reconciliation during migration "dry-run" trials.
Facilitating project coordination events for the Altimis support team.
Scheduling shared resource availability (with commitments across multiple projects).
Project managing the deployment of read-only systems for historical audit inquiries and regulatory compliance.
Overseeing the migration of on-premise servers (at various client sites) to a hosted service in the Objectway data centre.

Taking responsibility for the product roadmap, backlog prioritization, and overall service delivery for the Flagship legacy product.
Applying agile project management methodologies to oversee the development and implementation of regulatory updates such as Flexible & Lifetime ISAs (2016), MiFID II (2017), and GDPR (2018).
Coordinating the efforts of the development, service delivery, and support teams to ensure smooth collaboration and successful outcomes.