John Carr

• Facilitated ceremonies for one or more software development teams: Daily Stand-ups, Reviews, and Retrospectives.
• Uphold agile best practices while tailoring the framework to fit the team’s maturity and project context.
• Collaborated with Product Owners to keep product backlogs groomed, prioritized, and visible.
• Actively remove blockers and escalate critical issues to keep deliveries on track.
• Fostered a high-performing, collaborative, and transparent development environment.
• Monitored agile health using metrics such as velocity, burndown, cycle time, and sprint goals and distribute to internal stakeholder.
• Maintenance and review of Kanban boards. Reporting for MI/BI reporting.
• Coached development teams and stakeholders on agile principles, iterative delivery, and self-organization.
• Promoted engineering excellence through process consistency and alignment with DevOps and Release Management practices.
• Coordinated with Principal delivery leads to manage cross-team dependencies.
• Maintained accurate, up-to-date agile artifacts in tools such as Azdo, confluence.

• Provided vision and direction for the product to the Scrum team and to stakeholders by defining a clear and transparent roadmap.
• Anticipated and gathered internal and external customer needs, technology and market trends to ensure that the company’s product remain relevant and competitive.
• Build market value propositions and business cases to demonstrate that the proposed work leads to the realisation of the expected benefits and justifies investments.
• Lead the product release plan, define and communicate in advance the content of the coming releases.
• Owned, manage and prioritize the product backlog in line with the release plan, projects requirements, product roadmap and strategic direction of the company.
• Assessed value of epics and user stories to ensure priority is given to those with the maximum value in line with the production vision.
• Refined user stories with the team to ensure the backlog contains the expected level of details so that the development team can work efficiently.
• Worked closely with the solution architects, project managers and development team to ensure that the product and solution fulfills the requirements.
• Provided expertise and product materials to support the business development team, positioning the company to win new business by understanding and presenting a marketing leading proposition to sell our solutions.
• Prepared and organized demonstrations of the product to win opportunities.
• Shared knowledge and experience with other members of the Products and Solutions team to develop a common understanding and approach to product direction and development.

Training and aftercare support across a suite of aviation software products, specialising in Baggage Management.

A number of positions accumulating to being part of the Ground Operations team, involved in installation, commissioning, training and after care support on a host of FOH & BOH airport operations.