• Multi-Account Kubernetes environment , AWS EKS 
  
• CI Workflows and PipelInes. 
  Terraform - on AWS Gitlab / Codebuild / Github
• Kubernetes Container Security -  Aquasecurity Trivy / Falco 
• AWS Serverless technology implementations inc. StepFunctions
• Python Development - internal data analytics application
• architect and developing a bespoke  Cost and Usage optimization data pipeline for internal Data Visualizations
  

• Grafana - data visulaization
• Terraform
• Kubernetes

Providing Agile Project Management and Build-development guidance to local and near-shore development teams to move the project from Red to Green. 
Ensuring the team have a focused ?ready? backlog and follow Agile practices continually producing and delivering API interfaces, stress testing these with Gatling as part of a continous integration workflow, end target was a music copyright and royalties management platform. These interfaces already exist in a current legacy mainframe system that is also in the process of being retired but these need to be adapted  to work with an AWS provisioned cloud platform. Build management of the (AWS) Music platform , working with our software partner ensuring impediments removed and focusing on iterative development to match the user journeys that are currently in place for copyright operations.

Hands on role leading a Global SRE team supporting a bespoke in-house SaaS cloud analytics and sales insight product built by McKinsey for their clients (known as Periscope). In addition to our daily team synchronization and knowledge sharing activities, we work with our practice product delivery teams (Solution Practice managers, Product Owners, Security, Architects and Developers) and ensure there are reviews in place for architecture sign off, planning capacity in our schedule and deployment roll-out procedures before each go-live iteration. This role was 100 % hands on with the application stack, app lifecycle monitoring as well as managing the overall deployments pipeline. 

Leading a software product development team developing Energy Visualisation and Management solutions for E.ON consumers. The cross-functional DevOps team I managed was involved in developing a new energy consumer visualisation product. We set out on utilising as much of the Azure PaaS services to gather the IoT sensor data that would be used, in addition to building a robust application stack Nativescript, Typescript, Angular open-source based Software-Stack to deliver a new visualisation product platform for E.ON customers. DevOps tasks were also maintained in my team and we leveraged Azure Containers, Kubernetes, Kafka in addition to MongoDB/DocumentDB, Influx.

Staples International with a digital and retail presence in over 16 EU countries had a need to drive more dynamic pricing decisions across their markets. Reporting to the Head of European Pricing Solutions I was brought in to kick-start, manage, lead, act as agile evangelist for this new product innovation that would drive increased price changes in the product assortment as well as shorter reaction time to market changes.

• Manage Development teams (HTML5, C#, AngularJS, .Net, MVC development stacks)
• Ensure SCRUM process are known and followed. Mentor team and Business Product Owner
• Product backlog formation (greenfield new product) and prioritization
• Technical Product Owner
• Promote Agile thinking to daily decisions and in the area of Pricing Solutions Europe to drive new features and development (Senior management Team, Product Owners, Stakeholders)
• Setup a CI (Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment) process that can be re-used and applied for future developments, enhancements and automated test in STAPLES (using JIRA Agile, Confluence, Build and Integration Applications and Services)
• Implement ElasticSearch (ELK Stack) for centralised application insight and visualization across Pricing Apps

Leading the software development project (internal & external resources) for this public sector client to roll out an innovative new platform to enable Dynamic Spectrum Access, often referred to as ‘whitespace’, in the UK Digital TV Spectrum. Applying Agile principles in prioritization, prototyping workshops for the Ofcom team to focus on the right business value in the product backlog.

Anglian Water Services are the largest geographic Water supplier in England, and they were having some trouble getting their Software project back on track when migrating from a waterfall approach to an Agile process. I was brought in specifically too:

• Independently review their current approach on the project with SCRUM from their software partner
• Suggest improvements - Develop a change in business mind-set process to using SCRUM
• Change Agent and Champion - challenging old beliefs in the project team
• Leadership: mentor stakeholders briefing them on Agile and explaining the pitfalls of their previous non-performing approach, tailoring the Agile framework to align to Anglian governance model.
• Mentoring development team, incumbent Product Owner and Project Manager
• Provide and Lead Workshops and prepare a new Product Backlog
• Work with Anglian resources to set up new tooling TFS / Visual Studio Online for transparent and accessible view on backlog and burn-down reports for all stakeholders
• Implement DSDM (AgilePM) governance framework for Project Board with SCRUM at the development and engineering core
• Promote core Agile Principles of transparency and collaboration
• Challenge Product Owners on definition of stories and getting to the right level of detail and prioritization
• Lead workshops with Anglian and offshore development partner on user stories creation, pruning
• Support the program transitioning from Waterfall to Agile