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Rhiannon Burrell

Rhiannon Burrell

Bude,Cornwall

Summary

A highly-skilled project/ delivery manager with 15 years experience delivering projects and products in a broad range of organisations from robotics and carbon removal to local government. Specialising in B2B SaaS products and migration projects, excels working in Agile teams taking on the Product Manager/ Owner role as well as the Scrum Master/ Delivery Manager role.

Overview

17
17
years of professional experience
3
3
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Principal Agile Delivery Manager

Cornwall Council
Cornwall, Cornwall
05.2024 - Current

Delivering technical change and implementing agile practices

  • Optimising flow and accelerating delivery across tribes and large areas of the IT department.
  • Building cross-functional project teams to deliver productivity savings through automation and digitising manual processes.

B2C Product Owner

UNDO Carbon Ltd
Remote, Remote
06.2022 - 05.2024

Managed the end-to-end ownership of the B2C Carbon Removal Subscription Product, overseeing various responsibilities:

E-commerce Implementation:
• Implemented off-the-shelf e-commerce tools to enable product development during periods of no technical resource.

Customer Service Project:
• Implemented a customer service tool to help B2C customers with queries.

Process Automation:
• Implemented feedback loops for streamlined processes, workload reduction, and task automation.

Expansion into SME Segment:
• Engineered a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for a new subscription offering tailored for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

Product Owner/ Delivery Manager

Vaarst (Rovco Group)
Remote, Remote
04.2021 - 06.2022

Product Owner for the Machine Learning Platform product. A B2B SaaS product aiming to reduce the time associated with visual inspection of industrial assets.

Agile Delivery Manager
• Additionally, took on the role of Agile Delivery Manager within the teams, leveraging my extensive Agile experience. Introduced the SCRUM framework to enhance collaboration within our cross-functional and distributed team of developers, testers, and UX designers.

Product/ Delivery Manager

Kaluza (OVO Group)
Bristol, Bristol
04.2019 - 04.2021

Product Manager responsible for the delivery of a product within a large Energy B2B SaaS Services Platform. Working closely in a scaled Agile environment to convert user insights into requirements and delivering these collaboratively.

Agile Delivery Manager
• As well as core product owner responsibilities, performed the SCRUM master role within the team, facilitating ceremonies and ensuring consistent delivery from the team.

Senior Project Manager

OVO Group
Bristol, Bristol
06.2016 - 04.2019

Senior Project Manager responsible for delivery of projects across the entire group.

  • Billing System Migration: Successfully completed a billing system migration project within a challenging 6-month timeframe using iterative deliveries.
  • PAYG Business Rebranding (OVO to Boost): Orchestrated a comprehensive rebranding of the PAYG business from OVO to Boost.
  • PAYG Project in Smart Metering Implementation (SMETS2): Executed the PAYG part of the SMETS2 smart metering implementation program.
  • In-Housing of Gas Shipping Project: Oversaw the largest migration in the UK gas industry by successfully bringing the gas shipping from a third-party to in-house.
  • SoLR Bid and Acquisition (Spark): Managed the project for Supplier of Last Resort (SoLR) bid and the acquisition of the medium-sized energy supplier, Spark.

Earlier Experience

Finance - Old Mutual Wealth/ Lloyds Banking Group
Various, Various
03.2008 - 07.2015

Project Manager

  • Successfully managed key data migration projects, new system deliveries and a product launch.

Portfolio Financial Consultant (Secondment)/ Project Coordinator/ Business Change Co-ordinator/ Workflow Analyst/ LEAN Project Assistant

  • Analysed portfolio finances and implemented controls for a £50 million budget.
  • Collaborated to implement LEAN methodologies, optimising business processes.

Education

Bachelor of Science - ACCA & BSc Applied Accounting

Self-study & Oxford Brookes University
Remote
12.2011 - 12.2014

A-Levels - Maths, Further Maths, Physics

Peter Symonds College
Winchester, Hampshire
/2005 - /2007

GCSEs - Various

Swanmore College of Technology
Swanmore, Hampshire
/2000 - /2005

Skills

  • Communication
  • Team Collaboration
  • Agile Software Delivery
  • System Migration Projects
  • Project Documentation
  • Risk Management
  • Problem Solving
  • SCRUM Master
  • Kanban/ Agile

Technological Proficiencies

  • Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project)
  • GSuite (Docs, Sheets, Slides)
  • JIRA
  • Freshdesk
  • Figma
  • Confluence
  • Zapier
  • Hubspot/ Mailchimp
  • Chargebee/ Stripe
  • Wordpress

Certification

  • General Assembly Product Management Course, (1-week, accelerated) Jan '20


  • Professional Scrum Master I, (Scrum.org) Oct '18


  • Agile PM Practitioner & Foundation, (APMG International) Mar '17


  • Prince II Practitioner & Foundation, (Prince II) Jul '13

Accomplishments

  • Volunteered with Guiding and Scouting Associations including working at the World Scout Jamboree 2015
  • Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award & Queens Guide Award
  • PADI open water diving qualification
  • Travelling for a year in 2015-2016 around Asia and South America, volunteering at an animal refuge in Bolivia
  • Climber and outdoor enthusiast

Timeline

Principal Agile Delivery Manager

Cornwall Council
05.2024 - Current

B2C Product Owner

UNDO Carbon Ltd
06.2022 - 05.2024

Product Owner/ Delivery Manager

Vaarst (Rovco Group)
04.2021 - 06.2022

Product/ Delivery Manager

Kaluza (OVO Group)
04.2019 - 04.2021

Senior Project Manager

OVO Group
06.2016 - 04.2019

Bachelor of Science - ACCA & BSc Applied Accounting

Self-study & Oxford Brookes University
12.2011 - 12.2014

Earlier Experience

Finance - Old Mutual Wealth/ Lloyds Banking Group
03.2008 - 07.2015

A-Levels - Maths, Further Maths, Physics

Peter Symonds College
/2005 - /2007

GCSEs - Various

Swanmore College of Technology
/2000 - /2005
Rhiannon Burrell