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Work History
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TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES
SECURITY CLEARANCE
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ANTHONY TORRETTI

Exeter

Summary

Globally certified PSM III professional with over 5 years of experience. Specialises in fostering trust, achieving outcomes, and instilling confidence within teams in complex environments. Expertise in aiding agile teams to streamline processes, connect work with strategic objectives, and cultivate psychologically safe environments. Prioritize the human element as the foundation for true agility to flourish.

Overview

9
9
years of professional experience
9
9

Certifications

Work History

Agile Delivery Manager

Preservica Ltd
08.2023 - 01.2025
  • Preservica are the leading company in digital preservation, and I help deliver key features to some of their biggest clients.
  • Embedded sustainable Scrum practices by enhancing team collaboration, streamlining workflows, and fostering continuous improvement.
  • Strengthened stakeholder trust via transparent communications, strategic roadmap alignment, and outcome-focused Sprint Reviews.
  • Introduced flow metrics (Cycle Time, Throughput, WIP) to surface bottlenecks, cutting Cycle and Lead Times by 50% and boosting predictability.
  • Partnered with Product Owners to shift toward outcome-based planning, grounded in Evidence-Based Management.
  • Facilitated Liberating Structures at LEGO Serious Play workshops, promoting psychological safety and shared ownership.
  • Led iterative Definition of Done review, aligning quality standards and reducing defects through cross-team accountability.
  • Minimized distractions by co-leading “3 Amigos” prioritisation sessions with PO and Tech Lead.
  • Empowered teams to own impediments through coaching and supportive autonomy.
  • Drove adaptability via regular team health checks and skill matrices, cultivating servant leadership and aligned agile behaviours.

Agile Delivery Manager (Scrum Master)

Global
07.2021 - 08.2023
  • Company Overview: Global is the UK's largest commercial Radio and outdoor advertising company. I help them deliver Global Player across all their platforms.
  • Coached three Scrum Teams to improve delivery through a culture rooted in Scrum values and psychological safety, fostering evidence-based adaptation and team ownership.
  • Launched a new product team by stepping into the interim Product Owner role, co-creating a user-informed MVP roadmap and empowering the team to navigate ambiguity confidently.
  • Partnered with the Agile Lead to introduce Nexus for a multi-team initiative, driving alignment, surfacing dependencies early, and strengthening cross-team accountability.
  • Guided teams in adopting Flow Metrics (Cycle Time, WIP) to improve planning, reduce delays, and deepen retrospective conversations.
  • Worked with senior stakeholders to build honest, lightweight delivery and risk visuals, prompting open dialogue and better support strategies.
  • Transformed the Agile Guild into an active space for learning and change through collaborative principles and cross-team alignment.
  • Co-facilitated workshops on Liberating Structures and LEGO Serious Play, giving teams hands-on tools to continuously improve.
  • Mentored Product Owners on backlog management, helping craft clearer PBIs, reduce rework, and achieve more meaningful Sprint Goals.
  • Supported the creation of team working agreements that fostered autonomy, accountability, and cohesion, leading to better decision-making without top-down intervention.

Lead Tester/ Scrum Master

uCheck Ltd
03.2020 - 07.2021
  • As the Tester, I ensured that all products met the required quality while meeting industry set standards. I also sat as the Scrum Master on a green field project and helped the business start their agile transformation while liaising with users/ clients and Senior Stakeholders.
  • Served as Scrum Master for a greenfield team, building Agile foundations through empirical thinking, self-management, and shared purpose.
  • Engaged senior leadership as a change agent to shape a unified vision for agility, aligning strategic goals and surfacing organisational constraints.
  • Facilitated company-wide Scrum workshops tailored to varied roles, accelerating Agile maturity through shared language and expectations.
  • Applied a QA lens to define clear quality expectations early, clarifying “Done” across diverse work types.
  • Coached the team through early Scrum adoption, guiding backlog refinement and helping avoid common pitfalls.
  • Empowered teams to manage challenges autonomously by co-creating working agreements and offering facilitation only when needed.
  • Partnered with the Technical Lead to design initial test automation strategy, aligning it with evolving product needs and team workflows.

Mobile & Web Application Tester

Global
07.2019 - 03.2020
  • As a tester at Global, I ensured that all new code was of a high quality before it was committed to production
  • Worked as a QA within mature Scrum Teams, ensuring the quality of both native mobile apps and web applications through structured release and regression testing, aligned with Sprint cycles.
  • Collaborated closely with Developers and Product Owners during Backlog Refinement to shape clear, testable stories and align acceptance criteria with real user needs and business goals.
  • Created and maintained regression test suites for critical user journeys and new features, helping the team confidently release changes with speed and stability.
  • Led and facilitated bug triage sessions, fostering shared ownership of quality and helping the team improve issue prioritisation and resolution across sprints.
  • Supported the team’s Definition of Done by contributing test coverage expectations and promoting consistent quality practices across multiple squads.
  • Utilised tools like Jenkins for continuous integration testing and Postman for API validation, using manual testing strategies to maximise coverage and early feedback.

Mobile & Web Application Tester

Connected Space Ltd
01.2016 - 02.2019
  • Connected Space were a tech innovation company that delivered scalable and secure solutions to a variety of Government, large corporations, and disruptive scale-ups in the UK and abroad and specialised in Internet, Mobile, Emerging Technology, Internet of Things (IoT), Blockchain, AI, Machine Learning, Mobility, Connected Car, Govtech, Smart Cities and Fintech.
  • Provided practical QA and light Scrum Master support across diverse domains, including AI, IoT, Fintech, and GovTech. Adapted quality assurance approaches to meet the unique demands of each sector, enabling teams to deliver value within Agile frameworks.
  • Collaborated closely with Business Analysts and Developers to shape well-defined user stories and acceptance criteria, ensuring robust test coverage, especially important when aligning delivery across international stakeholders with varying expectations.
  • Took initiative as interim Scrum Master during early Agile adoption phases, facilitating ceremonies (Daily Scrums, Sprint Reviews, Retros) to establish consistent delivery cycles and drive team reflection and improvement.
  • Managed offshore and onshore stakeholder expectations with transparency, prioritising change requests based on value and feasibility to support both local development realities and broader business goals.
  • Mentored QA colleagues by sharing effective Agile testing strategies, promoting shared ownership of quality, and supporting team members in building their confidence and technical capabilities.
  • Contributed to connected car projects by testing both the software and hardware integrations and capturing live data for validation and development.
  • Worked alongside the local council to explore how they could use our machine learning applications using dashcam footage, helping prototype solutions for real-time pothole detection and reporting.

Skills

  • Scrum Facilitation (Planning, Retros, Reviews)
  • Agile Transformation & Team Coaching
  • Metrics & Flow Optimisation (Cycle Time, Throughput)
  • Stakeholder Alignment & Product Collaboration
  • Product Discovery and Backlog management
  • Scrum Framework
  • Agile Methodologies
  • User Story Writing
  • Coaching and Mentoring
  • Stakeholder Management
  • Empowerment
  • Risk Management & Evidence-Based Management (EBM) & Outcome-Focused Delivery

Certification

Scrum.org

  • Professional Scrum Master 1,2 & 3
  • Professional Scrum Product Owner
  • Scaled Professional Scrum
  • Professional Agile Leader - Evidence Based Management
  • Professional Scrum Facilitation
  • Professional Scrum Product Backlog Management
  • Professional Product Discovery and Validation

Mountain Goat Software

  • Better User Stories

ICAgile

  • ICP-Agile Fundamentals

Timeline

Agile Delivery Manager

Preservica Ltd
08.2023 - 01.2025

Agile Delivery Manager (Scrum Master)

Global
07.2021 - 08.2023

Lead Tester/ Scrum Master

uCheck Ltd
03.2020 - 07.2021

Mobile & Web Application Tester

Global
07.2019 - 03.2020

Mobile & Web Application Tester

Connected Space Ltd
01.2016 - 02.2019

TOOLS & TECHNOLOGIES

  • Atlassian Suite (Jira, Confluence, Trello)
  • Slack
  • Office Suite (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams)
  • Manual Testing (Native Mobile apps, Web, React Native Apps)
  • Postman
  • Product Board
  • Agile Estimation (Planning Poker)
  • Virtual facilitation tools - Miro / Mural / LucidPark

SECURITY CLEARANCE

  • Eligibility: I am eligible for full security clearance in accordance with both SC (Security Check) and DV (developed Vetting)
  • Readiness: Prepared and willing to undergo the necessary clearance process promptly upon acceptance of a relevant position

Hobbies and Interests

American Football: Played and coached at various levels in the UK, contributing to two Senior National Championships as a player and as a coach, helped the University of Exeter to a Division 1 University Championship title in 2023 -24

Photography: Enjoy exploring creative expression through photography, with a focus on action shots and capturing landscapes., 

Rugby Enthusiast: Passionate follower of rugby, regularly attending both grassroots matches and Premiership-level games.

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