Shaun Newman
Stoke-on-Trent,Staffordshire
Summary
Innovative agile delivery manager with 20+ years of experience in leading, managing, and delivering complex software projects. Proven track record of success in scaling teams, delivering high-quality products, and exceeding customer expectations.
Overview
23
23
years of professional experience
Work History
Senior Team Coordinator
Couchbase
Remote
01.2021 - 01.2023
- Facilitated smooth business operations, coordinating work of up to 8 development teams of various sizes.
- Streamlined multiple plans and dependencies across range of teams into single overarching perspectives and plans.
- Facilitated key team meetings including planning, review and retrospective meetings, ensuring key outcomes were appropriately managed.
- Enabled efficient decision-making by collecting data and producing automated reporting for senior management & key stakeholders.
- Led technical delivery teams with in-depth understanding of agile processes and techniques to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Applied best practices to implement 'single source of truth' approach to JIRA issue tracking and project management, ensuring consistency across all teams.
- Built and nurtured professional relationships with wide range of stakeholders.
Senior Agile Team Coordinator, Manager
Webroot (an OpenText company)
Derby, Derbyshire
07.2014 - 12.2020
- Created and delivered training program's to facilitate the implementation of a company-wide agile transformation.
- Developed strong agile coaching team by skillfully recruiting, orienting and mentoring talented and creative agile team coordinators in EMEA and USA.
- Applied expertise in team leadership to manage EMEA team of 3 coordinators and provide matrix management support to 3 USA coordinators, providing daily support, regular goal-setting and appraisals.
- Facilitated smooth business operations, coordinating work of up to 6 development teams of various sizes.
- Led technical delivery teams with in-depth understanding of agile & software development processes and techniques to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Supported company-wide initiatives to equip staff with basic technical skills.
- Facilitated discovery, planning, review and retrospective meetings for teams and drove the adoption of big room quarterly planning sessions for better consistency in company-wide planning and roadmap development.
- Drove the adoption of JIRA as a 'single source of truth' for planning and reporting including high levels of automated reporting for greater visibility among stakeholders.
- Oversaw entire lifecycle of large-scale, complex projects.
- Developed and maintained strong working relationships with key stakeholders through out the organisation and within the executive leadership team.
Senior Scrum Master
SAP
Knutsford, Cheshire
01.2008 - 06.2014
- Led technical delivery teams with in-depth understanding of agile processes and techniques to deliver high-quality solutions.
- Streamlined multiple plans and dependencies across range of teams into single overarching perspectives and plans, acting as Scrum of Scrum Master to coordinate at scale.
- Facilitated design, planning, review and retrospective meetings ensuring all relevant outcomes were handled appropriately.
- Supported engineering managers in developing high-performing development and delivery teams.
- Collaborated with other Scrum Masters to implement a centre of excellence and key mentorship for individuals new to the role.
- Implemented and maintained appropriate systems to enable successful planning and scheduling.
- Boosted productivity by initiating changes to SAP development and release processes, refining or replacing processes to better suit an agile development approach.
- Built and nurtured professional relationships with wide range of stakeholders.
Senior Software Developer
SAP (through acquisition of ALG Software)
Knutsford, Cheshire
01.2007 - 01.2008
- Technically lead team of 6, improving standards through design reviews, pair programming and coding reviews.
- Led the technical integration team to support adoption of SAP development processes and systems as appropriate, including adoption of Perforce, InstallShield and all relevant process integrations.
- Managed software lifecycle from concept to execution.
- Gathered feedback to innovate and improve user experience.
- Verified and resolved bug reports and issues.
- Oversaw system testing and validation procedures.
Senior Software Developer
ALG Software
Knutsford, Cheshire
04.2006 - 01.2007
- Technically lead team of 6 developers, improving standards through design reviews, pair programming and coding reviews.
- Supervised entire software development lifecycle from design to delivery.
- Incorporated new technologies such as C# and ASP.NET to update existing Profitability and Planning solutions.
- Employed expertise in agile development techniques to guide application development and adoption of automated test environments.
- Wrote clean, clear and well-tested code for various projects.
Software Developer
ADP
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire
03.2000 - 04.2006
- Wrote clean, clear and well-tested code for various projects.
- Verified and resolved bug reports and issues.
- Modified existing software to upgrade interfaces and elevate performance.
- Adapted to different languages and technologies based on project requirements, including C#, ASP.NET, HTML, CSS, Javascript, VB, VBA.
- Coordinated technical requirements for projects with internal and external stakeholders.
- Led the adoption of Scrum as an approach to rapid development of new solutions.
- Led a team of 4 developers to rewrite HR Perspective in C# and ASP.NET.
- Collaborated with talented design and development teams to produce ADP Payroll for MS Office SBE, specifically providing expertise on the UI framework team.
Education
Design Thinking Coach - Design Thinking
SAP AppHause
2013 - 2013
Professional Scrum Master Level 1 - Agile
Scrum.org
2013 - 2013
NVQ Level 1 - Business Administration
Manpower Forum
Milton Keynes 1992 - 1992
NVQ Level 2 - Business Administration
Manpower Forum
Milton Keynes 1992 - 1992
BTEC (not completed to examination) - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wolverton Technical College
1988 - 1990
Skills
- Coaching and mentoring
- Team Building
- Agile Coaching (Agile Principles, Scrum, Kanban)
- People Management
- Team Leadership
- Project planning and development
- Analytical problem solving
- Release management
- Business process re-engineering
- Lean software development and design
- Project estimation and planning
- Programming Languages (C#, ASPNET, HTML, JavaScript)
- Software Development Lifecycle
- JIRA expert administrator
- Group and individual instruction
- Training program development
- Workshop coordination
- Interdisciplinary collaboration
Accomplishments
- Successful delivery of Couchbase Capella v2 on AWS in 2022
- Successful launch of Couchbase Capella on GCP & Azure 2023
- Successful delivery of multiple Webroot console releases as well as Dynamic DNS, Security Awareness Integration, LastPass Integration and multiple releases of RMM integrations alongside the Unity API and core Webroot enhancements.
- Successful release of ADP Payroll for Microsoft Office Small Business Edition
- SAP high performer award 3 years running 2010-13
- Awarded Couchbase Presidents Club 2022
Work Availability
monday
tuesday
wednesday
thursday
friday
saturday
sunday
morning
afternoon
evening
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Interests
- Amateur street photography
- Boardgame design and avid collector/player
- Support human for two rescue cats
Quote
There is a powerful driving force inside every human being that, once unleashed, can make any vision, dream, or desire a reality.
Tony Robbins
Timeline
Senior Team Coordinator
Couchbase
01.2021 - 01.2023
Senior Agile Team Coordinator, Manager
Webroot (an OpenText company)
07.2014 - 12.2020
Senior Scrum Master
SAP
01.2008 - 06.2014
Senior Software Developer
SAP (through acquisition of ALG Software)
01.2007 - 01.2008
Senior Software Developer
ALG Software
04.2006 - 01.2007
Software Developer
ADP
03.2000 - 04.2006
Design Thinking Coach - Design Thinking
SAP AppHause
2013 - 2013
Professional Scrum Master Level 1 - Agile
Scrum.org
2013 - 2013
NVQ Level 1 - Business Administration
Manpower Forum
1992 - 1992
NVQ Level 2 - Business Administration
Manpower Forum
1992 - 1992
BTEC (not completed to examination) - Electrical and Computer Engineering
Wolverton Technical College
1988 - 1990
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