Ryan Evans

Experience

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  University of Birmingham

  Jun 1994 - Jun 1995

  Developer
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  BNFL

  Jun 1995 - Dec 1998

  Nuclear and Computational Physicist
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  Admiral Computing Ltd

  Jan 1999 - Dec 1999

  Developer
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  Fujitsu

  Dec 1999 - May 2001

  Web Developer
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  Zurich Insurance Company Ltd

  Oct 2001 - Dec 2001

  Web Developer
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  Mercer HR

  May 2002 - Jun 2004

  Senior Web Developer
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  Cable & Wireless

  Aug 2005 - Nov 2005

  Team Lead & Senior Developer
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  Eversheds Sutherland

  Nov 2005 - Dec 2006

  Team Lead & Senior Developer
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  SSP Worldwide

  Feb 2007 - Mar 2009

  • Solutions Architect & Senior Developer

    Sept 2008 - Mar 2009

  • Team Lead & Senior Developer

    Feb 2007 - Sept 2008
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  HTDL

  Mar 2009 - Jun 2009

  Senior Analyst Developer
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  Schneider Electric

  Jun 2009 - Jul 2009

  Team Lead & Senior Developer
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  Next Group PLC

  Jun 2009 - Jun 2010

  Senior Developer
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  Redland Business Solutions Ltd

  Aug 2010 - Dec 2010

  Team Lead & Senior Developer
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  Coventry University

  Dec 2010 - Jan 2011

  Team Lead & Senior Developer
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  Wesleyan

  Apr 2011 - Jun 2014

  Scrum Master and Team Coach

  In order to remain competitive in a congested financial market, Wesleyan undertook a programme of work to upgrade / refresh internal and external facing applications. Working with several product owners, my role as a Scrum Master was to lead single teams and scaled teams to ensure delivery of greenfield and enhancements to existing systems to compliment the programme of work. * Scrum Master for single and scaled teams (LeSS) utilising Jira and Confluence. * Facilitated sprint planning, daily scrums, retrospectives, sprint reviews, stakeholder meetings, UAT, sprint planning one, sprint planning two, scrum of scrums and overall retrospective* Protected the development team from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts and maintain focus on product and sprint backlog.* Work closely with the Product Owners to determine priorities and continuous delivery of features and UAT cycles.* Advised, mentored and coached any team members who were unfamiliar with Agile / Scrum.* Frequent workshops with the business to understand current and future requirements.* Jira, Confluence, VB6, Oracle, SQL Server and Access. Show less

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  The Insolvency Service

  Jun 2014 - Jul 2016

  Solutions Architect, Scrum Master and Team Coach

  Under the Governments Digital by Default strategy and adopting GDS (Government Digital Services) guidelines, as Scrum Master, I was tasked to mentor, motivate, liaise with key stakeholders, backlog refinement, remove impediments and support the delivery of a high profile web based digital portal to initially meet a legislative deadline and then improve the service to meet core business needs* Guided, advised and coached an inexperienced business team in terms of Scrum / Agile, digital, SDLC, XP and UAT. Initially this took the form of simplifying and training the Team on the software development life cycle, differences / pro's / con's between Waterfall and Agile methodologies, discussing Agile at a deeper level (Scrum, Kanban and also XP), the roles and responsibly of team members, the interactions between team members, continuous integration, continuous delivery, product backlog, story points, sprints and the meetings / processes / tools within a sprint all with a focus on the core principles of Scrum allowing for pragmatic frequent quality delivery of features.* Stakeholder management; frequent participation at project board and frequent discussions with the senior responsible officers / programme directors.* Liaised with the business and PO to instil an understanding of the MVP (Minimum Viable Product) which was required to meet legislative requirements.* Worked closely with the Product Owner in backlog refinement and prioritisation to ensure continuous delivery of critical business features.* Facilitated business discussions around functionality to ensure the overall solution did not suffer from unnecessary scope creep, added to the user experience, ensured that the requirements were technically feasible and updated stories / acceptance criteria to Jira / Confluence.* Forecasting of future resource needs and ROI calculations...... request CV for additional details Show less

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  HomeServe

  Jul 2016 - Nov 2016

  Scrum Master and Team Coach

  HomeServe created new a Digital Hub with a programme of work operating under the Scrum methodology to expand into new international markets and to improve services across the UK, I was one of the two leading Scrum Master and Coach for two teams; comprising of Product Owners, Business Analysts, Solutions Architects, UX/UI, a couple of third party development teams and an off-shore test team with an onsite lead tester.* For the larger team, initially only 30% of the teams were co-located but my coaching and efforts lead to having 80% of the team being co-located resulting in tangible improvements in a higher level of productivity and quality of product.* Facilitated discussions on penetration testing, source control and other technical meetings to ensure that unnecessary work was not an outcome and that any new requirements were brought to the attention of the Product Owners before being added to the backlog as either tasks or technical spikes.* Protected the development teams from outside distractions, impediments or team conflicts and maintained focus on Product and Sprint Backlog.* Coaching of Team members who were not familiar with Agile / Scrum either as a team or one-to-one.* Facilitation and prioritisation of the production issues with the Business, Development Team and Product Owners.* Maintained rigour around planning sessions between the Product Owner, BA and UX/UI developers to ensure that the UX/UI was at least 3 days ahead of the rest of the Development Team (as the UI design, in conjunction with the story / Acceptance Criteria were required for a full understanding of the requirement).* Facilitated the discussions to define the Definition of Ready, Definition of Done and Team working agreements.* Jira, Windows, RESTful API’s, Angular, SQL Server, IIS, GitHub Show less

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  Discover Financial Services

  Nov 2016 - Dec 2018

  RTE (Release Train Engineer): Discover Financial Services December 2017 – December 2018As a Release Train Engineer leading an ART for five Scrum Teams and one Kanban Team spanning multiple locations and time-zones, I have led all the phases of the PI events including Inspect & Adapt, organisation, facilitation, managing successful outcomes of four PI events, removing blockers / impediments at Program level to help achieve successful PI execution, briefing for future PI events, planning for future PI events and communications cross ART at Large Solution Level to ensure all stakeholders are engaged and informed.* Pre PI event responsibilities have included leading the Inspect and Adapt with Quantitative Measurement for the previous PI Event to gain feedback for future improvement, providing Leadership / Stakeholders with an insight to the success of the previous PI and regular communications for the Teams, Leadership / Stakeholders.* Preparation for the PI Event comprised of creating comprehensive PowerPoint decks and relevant hand out content to cover all stages for both days, addressing Business Context, Product Vision, Architectural Vision, Planning Guidelines, Overview, Breakouts, Scrum of Scrums, Leadership Syncs, Draft Plan Review, Problem Solving, Sprint Goals, PI Objectives, ROAM and Confidence Votes. Additionally, ensuring that logistics, technology resources and facilities were available for the co-located UK Teams and audio / visual communications were operating for off site Teams.* Via regular Team confidence votes at the Scum of Scrums and the final ART Confidence vote, ensured that every member of the ART left the PI Event with an aligned and sequenced plan, with known dependencies visually mapped for PI Execution (four Sprints, each of three weeks). As the Large Solution comprised of five ART's, I also collaborated with other RTE's to establish cross ART dependencies / sequencing which were discussed at the Leadership Sync's ...... Show less Scrum Master and team coach on a highly technical enabler team (architectural runway) within a Scaled Agile Environment (SAFe) on a $200m global program. The Agile Release Train which I am part of is responsible for migrating several hundred complex financial reports from an IBM legacy system to new technology platform which will allow for the decommission of the legacy system.* Facilitate and guide all standard Scrum Ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Daily Stand-up, Story Refinement, Sprint Review and Sprint Retrospective) with a Team split across three continents (UK, India and US).* Participation, Organisation and Facilitation of key SAFe Ceremonies consisting of PI Planning, PI Inspect and Adapt, System Demo's, Scrum of Scrums, Feature Refinement and Community of Practice.* Continuous drive to improve Team communication and performance.* Refinement of Definition of Ready, Definition of Done and the Team working agreement where required at Retrospectives.* Participate and advise on improvement areas of our Value Stream and ART Team structures with several RTE's, Product Managers and System Architects.* Though open forums, training or one-to-ones; Coaching of less experienced Team members and Scrum Masters / Product Owners / Product Managers from other Teams to strive towards self managing and high performing Teams and provide an understanding of the Scrum and the SAFe framework. * Advocate of TDD, CI, Pair Programming, Story Pairing, Swarming, Spikes, Fail Fast and other core practices to support delivery of quality and planned Sprint Goal.* Ensure that and blockers and impediments are highlighted quickly so they can be resolved within the team and then shared across the ART and raised to the RTE if escalation is required.* Rally, Ubuntu, Java, Spring, RESTful API’s, GitHub, Spark, Hadoop. Show less

  • RTE (Release Train Engineer)

    Dec 2017 - Dec 2018

  • SAFe Scrum Master and Team Coach

    Nov 2016 - Dec 2017
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  Three.

  Dec 2018 - Jul 2020

  STE (Solution Train Engineer) and RTE (Release Train Engineer)

  STE (Solution Train Engineer) & RTE (Release Train Engineer): Three. December 2018 - July 2020A signification number of programmes within Three are undergoing transformation from traditional Waterfall to Scaled Agile; I am a Release Train Engineer and Solution Train Engineer for two ARTs working to create predictable, valuable incremental delivery between a massive third-party technical capability and the Business Readiness Programme which are spread across 3 UK locations and India. Business Readiness is not a traditional software programme, but rather it is required to get the business ready for technical delivery which involves; ordering SIM's, training of store staff, training call centre staff, marketing, legal compliance etc.* Due to the Covid-19 lockdown, after three face-to-face PI Planning events, Three moved to remote working so all the other PI Execution and PI Planning ceremonies were done remotely via MS Teams. * Initially, the Business Readiness Programme was a single ART of function teams but over my first six-month period, I have guided it to two ART's, made up of cross functional teams, all under a single Solution.* Due to its lack of agile and SAFe maturity, a large amount of time was spent working with the team of agile coaches to improve the ARTs agile skills and also moving the ART's closer to SAFe in order to drive better predictability, improved feedback loops and increase flow.* I have led all the phases of the Solution and ART PI events including Inspect & Adapt, organisation, facilitation, managing successful outcomes of five PI events, removing blockers / impediments at Program and Solution level to help achieve successful PI execution, briefing for future PI events, planning for future PI events and communications cross ART and Large Solution Level to ensure all stakeholders are engaged and informed.... Show less

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  Maersk Line, Limited

  Sept 2020 - Mar 2021

  STE (Solution Train Engineer) and RTE (Release Train Engineer)

  The WannaCry attack in May 2017 caused serious disruption and significant financial loss to Maersk; after successful remediation, the Cyber Security tower was created. After 3 years, it has reached a level which can protect Maersk, but there is a desire to take the capability into the future resulting in a companywide Agile Transformation with Cyber Risk front and center. There are 4 Agile Release Trains within Cyber Security where I was a Release Train Engineer for one ART but also the Solution Train Engineer (Chief RTE) across the ART’s. In addition, Maersk is on the early stage of the journey to Agility, so I take the role as Team and ART and SAFe Coach.* Launching the ART's* Bringing in best practice and Alignment of the ART’s* Multiple Training and Coaching sessions for Leadership, RTE’s and Teams covering Solution and ART level Pre PI-Planning, PI Planning, PI Execution, Inspect & Adapt, Metrics and Tooling* Working with Epic owners to prioritise Epics and assist in Capability creation* Coaching Leadership, RTE’s and Scrum Masters in the need for Definition of Ready, Definition of Done, Refinement, WJSF, Team Working Agreement, “Shift Left” and the importance of Boolean Acceptance Criteria with 1-1’s with new RTE’s and stakeholders* Coaching the RTE’s, Product Mangers on how the 3-day planning session will operate* Been through 2 fully remote 3-day PI Planning sessions using Miro as the visualisation tool which required extensive planning across the 4 ARTs and training so that the other RTE’s understood their role and responsibilities. * Lead all the phases of the Solution and ART events including Inspect & Adapt, organisation, facilitation, managing successful outcomes of 2 PI events, removing blockers / impediments at Program and Solution level to help achieve successful PI execution, briefing for future PI events, planning for future PI events and communications cross ART and Large Solution to ensure all stakeholders are engaged and informed. Show less

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  Ferring Pharmaceuticals

  Mar 2021 - Nov 2021

  RTE (Release Train Engineer)

  Working with Tenthpin Management Consultants, Ferring is undergoing a transformation from legacy operations to SAP S/4HANA so they required an experienced RTE with many years of SAFe, Scrum Master and RTE experience with the ability to have a flexible and pragmatic approach to enable a complex delivery. The ART is large with 130 members comprising of 15 teams which are a mix of Feature and Enabling Teams who are spread over 30 countries with multiple time-zones.* Leading all the phases of the PI events including Inspect & Adapt, organisation, facilitation, managing successful outcomes of PI Planning events, removing blockers / impediments at Program level to help achieve successful PI execution, briefing for future PI events, planning for future PI events and communications to ensure all stakeholders are engaged and informed.* Been through 3 fully remote 3-day PI Planning sessions using Mural as the visualisation tool.* High focus on Risk and Dependencies as these could easily derail the ART if not quickly addressed.* Pre PI-Event activities include leading the Inspect and Adapt with Quantitative Measurement to gain feedback for future improvement, providing Leadership / Stakeholders with an insight to the success of the previous PI and regular communications for the Teams, Leadership / Stakeholders. In addition, I have held PI Planning training sessions with Scrum Masters and a short mock PI event with the whole ART.* During PI Execution, I lead the regular Scrum of Scrums, PO/PM sync, feature grooming for future PI Events and Leadership syncs. Also monitoring the progress of the PI, escalating blockers or impediments which the Teams were not able to resolve themselves, * Coach Scrum Masters, Leadership and Stakeholders for the correct behaviors and patterns in Agile / SAFe, always available to any ART member for discussions and consistently drive for transparency leading to continuous improvement. Show less

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  GSK

  Feb 2022 - now

  STE (Solution Train Engineer) and RTE (Release Train Engineer)