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Delivery Focused Product Owner
Johnny Clark
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London, United Kingdom
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Experienced delivery focused Technical Product Owner, with DevSecOps mindset and 10 years of working in software development. Scoping and working with development teams on everything from big data streaming platforms, white-label mobile apps for use a on a world wide scale (100m+) and everything in between.
Highly skilled in Stakeholder Management and AGILE methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, FDD etc). I love working with architects, engineers (both dev and test) and can easily embed myself and build relationships within your team adding instant value. I have worked with distributed and remote teams professionally and successfully in Eastern Europe, Spain, India and the UK.
I actively participate in all the Sprint ceremonies (Daily Stand up, Refinement, Planning, Retro & Demo) and the development of Sprints to ensure the success of the team. As Product Owner I am actively engaged in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting scope and identifying tasks necessary to complete planned work. I can also act as Scrum Master if required.
Product backlogs are quickly built in a logical and organised manner. All User Stories written plain in English along with Acceptance Criteria using INVEST principle and BDD (Gherkin/Cucumber) respectively. I understand the need for good quality documentation for both requirements and code; making this part of product delivery.
Good technical knowledge of Mobile & Web Applications inc. SDK's, API and Cloud Infrastructure. Understands Architectural styles including service meshes, event streaming, microservices, monoliths, MVC, MVVM, serverless etc. Excellent comprehension of REST, HTTP, MQTT and many other protocols.
I am familiar with products such as Jira, Confluence, Balsamiq, Zeplin, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Solace, AWS (Cognito, CloudFormation, Lambda, Edge etc), Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana and many many more. I am AWS Cloud Practitioner Certified.
Greenfield projects and MVP's a speciality.
Highly skilled in Stakeholder Management and AGILE methodologies (Scrum, Kanban, FDD etc). I love working with architects, engineers (both dev and test) and can easily embed myself and build relationships within your team adding instant value. I have worked with distributed and remote teams professionally and successfully in Eastern Europe, Spain, India and the UK.
I actively participate in all the Sprint ceremonies (Daily Stand up, Refinement, Planning, Retro & Demo) and the development of Sprints to ensure the success of the team. As Product Owner I am actively engaged in defining and managing action items, identifying issues and risks, adjusting scope and identifying tasks necessary to complete planned work. I can also act as Scrum Master if required.
Product backlogs are quickly built in a logical and organised manner. All User Stories written plain in English along with Acceptance Criteria using INVEST principle and BDD (Gherkin/Cucumber) respectively. I understand the need for good quality documentation for both requirements and code; making this part of product delivery.
Good technical knowledge of Mobile & Web Applications inc. SDK's, API and Cloud Infrastructure. Understands Architectural styles including service meshes, event streaming, microservices, monoliths, MVC, MVVM, serverless etc. Excellent comprehension of REST, HTTP, MQTT and many other protocols.
I am familiar with products such as Jira, Confluence, Balsamiq, Zeplin, Docker, Kubernetes, Kafka, Solace, AWS (Cognito, CloudFormation, Lambda, Edge etc), Terraform, Prometheus, Grafana and many many more. I am AWS Cloud Practitioner Certified.
Greenfield projects and MVP's a speciality.
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Germany
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Fluently
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My experience
2018 - 2020
job
Lead Product Owner (Core Platform / API / Mobile & Web / Payments)
Orwell Group.
Tasked to scope and build a Greenfield White Label SaaS application in the Banking & Fintech domain and translate this into the Minimum Viable Product (MVP) for each.
Responsible for interacting with stakeholders from Board-level down and communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical individuals, stakeholders and clients. As Lead Product Owner I produced relevant documentation and worked with the Product Managers and both insourced and outsourced development teams during sprint cycles to ensure that outcome meets the business needs both strategic and commercial.
● Work closely with the product management team on defining the product strategy.
● Be responsible for the product vision, planning, design and usability.
● Translate roadmaps into manageable product backlog.
● Working closely with two cross-functional development teams to gather requirements
from a diverse range of stakeholders.
● Use of process modelling and mapping, user journeys, and User Stories in developing
requirements.
● Maintaining the multiple prioritized backlog of user stories, features and defects.
● Understand the features and changes in product requirements & support the sprint
planning exercises.
● Analyse product metrics and trends to assess product health and improvement
opportunities.
● Coaching Business Analysts & Junior Product Managers & Owners
● Undertaking reviews both on developer code and QA testing frameworks
● Participating in all SCRUM ceremonies including demo / retro / refinement / planning
Responsible for interacting with stakeholders from Board-level down and communicating complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical individuals, stakeholders and clients. As Lead Product Owner I produced relevant documentation and worked with the Product Managers and both insourced and outsourced development teams during sprint cycles to ensure that outcome meets the business needs both strategic and commercial.
● Work closely with the product management team on defining the product strategy.
● Be responsible for the product vision, planning, design and usability.
● Translate roadmaps into manageable product backlog.
● Working closely with two cross-functional development teams to gather requirements
from a diverse range of stakeholders.
● Use of process modelling and mapping, user journeys, and User Stories in developing
requirements.
● Maintaining the multiple prioritized backlog of user stories, features and defects.
● Understand the features and changes in product requirements & support the sprint
planning exercises.
● Analyse product metrics and trends to assess product health and improvement
opportunities.
● Coaching Business Analysts & Junior Product Managers & Owners
● Undertaking reviews both on developer code and QA testing frameworks
● Participating in all SCRUM ceremonies including demo / retro / refinement / planning
Product Management, UI Design, UX Design, Mobile Applications, Mobile testing, Fintech, KYC, Jira, Confluence, Grafana, Stakeholder Management, Business Analysis, Saas, Stall
2017 - 2018
job
Head of Requirements and Test Engineering
Orwell.
Responsibility for the design of application, and related, testing activities for a core banking platform which utilises streaming technology. Agree testing policies and standards for all phases of the testing cycle. Ensuring that the team has the necessary technical processes, environments and technologies, organization structure and people skills, and governance and reporting mechanisms to keep stakeholders up to date with performance. To promptly identify risks and issues in a timely manner and provide proposals for mitigation and corrective actions as required.
● Built and led a team of both Internal / External testers and Developers in Test
● Defined QA strategy, approach and execution in development projects
● Monitoring of all the QA activities, test results, leaked defects, root cause analysis and
identifying areas of improvement. With a view to implementing steps required to
improve the processes.
● Directed the development of the QA strategy, methodology, discipline and framework
● Introduced TDD concepts to the company which are now incorporated within the SDLC
● Introduced BDD framework (Cucumber) for both functional and non-functional
requirements
● Led testing for successful payment industry accreditation BACS, CHAPS and Faster
Payments
● Oversee testing for SEPA, Target2 and Merchant Services
● Designed a ‘Confidence Model’ using AI and Big Data to improve the quality of software
● Engaged with all the key stakeholders to ensure QA vision is understood and
implemented correctly
● Built and led a team of both Internal / External testers and Developers in Test
● Defined QA strategy, approach and execution in development projects
● Monitoring of all the QA activities, test results, leaked defects, root cause analysis and
identifying areas of improvement. With a view to implementing steps required to
improve the processes.
● Directed the development of the QA strategy, methodology, discipline and framework
● Introduced TDD concepts to the company which are now incorporated within the SDLC
● Introduced BDD framework (Cucumber) for both functional and non-functional
requirements
● Led testing for successful payment industry accreditation BACS, CHAPS and Faster
Payments
● Oversee testing for SEPA, Target2 and Merchant Services
● Designed a ‘Confidence Model’ using AI and Big Data to improve the quality of software
● Engaged with all the key stakeholders to ensure QA vision is understood and
implemented correctly
User testing, Qa testing, Business Analysis, Cucumber, Gherkin, Automation test, Jira, Confluence, Agile, Scrum, TDD (Test-driven Development, BDD
2015 - 2017
job
Lead Business Analyst & QA Lead
Orwell Group.
Reporting to the Head of Software delivery the role was to plan, design, develop, and launch efficient business, financial, and operations systems in support of core organisational functions and business processes. This included gathering and analysing data in support of business cases and proposed projects identified by product managers.
● Defining process, writing service manuals.
● Providing UX/UI design for the Back-Office platform/ web app.
● Identified MVP proposition for pan-European core banking platform
● Documented business requirements (functional and non-functional) from Product
Owner.
● Designed User Journeys and Acceptance Criteria.
● Defined testing strategy and priorities.
● Undertook manual testing both for Mobile and Web based products.
● Led AGILE ceremonies acting as Scrum Master
● Acting as a point of reference for two development teams and making decisions on
behalf of product owner (CEO) where required.
● Defining process, writing service manuals.
● Providing UX/UI design for the Back-Office platform/ web app.
● Identified MVP proposition for pan-European core banking platform
● Documented business requirements (functional and non-functional) from Product
Owner.
● Designed User Journeys and Acceptance Criteria.
● Defined testing strategy and priorities.
● Undertook manual testing both for Mobile and Web based products.
● Led AGILE ceremonies acting as Scrum Master
● Acting as a point of reference for two development teams and making decisions on
behalf of product owner (CEO) where required.
Jira, Confluence, TDD, BDD, Microsoft Teams, Mysql, C#, Java
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