Specialties: Strategy & Planning Leadership Productivity Improvement Continuous Delivery Agile Development Technology Integration Product Development Business Process Design and Implementation IT Release Management Negotiations & Relations

Platform Services and DevOps Manager at Thomas Cook Group @ • Overseeing the implementation and on-going management of the public cloud ecosystem; • Strategizing the Improvements and implementation of Continuous Delivery across multiple program areas; • Building Continuous Delivery Culture across the Business; • Continually reviewing and improving the delivery of infrastructure automation systems; • Collaboratively working with stakeholders and Technical teams to ensure we deliver highly available and scalable solutions; • Introduced automated test phases within the deployment pipeline to ensure better quality of release; • Introduced kanban to the team to ensure work was quantitative; • Built common environments from the start of Development till the deployment to ensure consistency; • Looking at the future to ensure we use the most cost effective solutions; From November 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) London, United KingdomRelease Manager & Scrum Master @ • Aligned development team sprints to enable better management and planning of dependencies; • Introduced test phases to the deployment plan to ensure better quality of release; • Advised business groups in how Agile sprints work and how to best achieve longer term gains, by adhering to sprint rules and agile philosophies; • Managed the integration of three different markets to one common shared code base and therefore the requirements and processes for a collective signoff; • Manage an off shore third party deployment team; • Created a knowledge base of processes and guidelines for achieving a deliverable product; • Introduced NFR (Non Functional Requirements) into the development and Implementation processes; • Introduced a shared calendar so everyone could see when releases were occurring to avoid hardware maintenance conflicts; • Successfully managed the rebranding and major feature enrichment of over 30 websites over one release cycle and deployment; • Created a separate project in Jira to manage and audit all release activities in all environments managed by release management; • Helped introduce more definitive methods of monitoring and reporting of websites enabling better analysis and increased understanding for proactive problem solving; • Created a plan to introduce a DevOps team to greater increase there ability to release and support more complicated in house developed software; From August 2013 to Present (2 years 5 months) London, United KingdomTeam Leader: Application Support/Dev Ops Sky Network Services @ • Managed a team of twelve direct reports; • Introduced and established Scrum methodologies within the support team, enabling the team to align itself with Development and Testing in a high paced agile environment; • Responsible for implementation and maintenance of SKY’s Broadband and Telephony Provisioning, Assurance and Inventory Systems (130+ applications); • Introduced Application Readiness meetings, these ensure the Application Readiness Requirements have been met, along with all the necessary communications to the business areas; • Key stakeholder in Pre Production test meetings and pre release meetings where Go/no go decisions are agreed; • Responsible for final decision on rollbacks on all production releases; • Manage post release communications to Business and Technology stakeholders; • Work closely with Change and Incident management; • Responsible for managing and defining the Support relationships with Third Parties to ensure SLA’s are met along with ensuring suppliers work to the Values expected; • Reviewed applications and advised on the necessary requirements to improve the systems; • Provided customer service and engaged with other departments to ensure service delivery; • Planned application monitoring and introduced Splunk to better manage all the data feeds for real-time reporting; • Encouraged all members of the team to automate repetitive tasks using Test Driven development and adding to subversion; • Actively working with and holding workshops for other teams in different areas to ensure the end to end processes are robust and accurate; • Worked with third parties to develop monitoring and improvements within in their systems and processes, which have benefited, Sky and its customers; • Produced concise work flows and processes ensuring best practices were adhered to; From June 2007 to August 2013 (6 years 3 months) Finance and New Technologies Team Lead & Implementation Specialist @ • Responsible for the implementation, delivery and support of Strategix, a bespoke software application incorporating distribution and finance whilst also combining CRM, Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), Supply Chain Event Management (SCEM) and Supply Chain Management (SCM); • Worked closely with Sales and Professional Services before clients "go-live”; • Identified areas that required improved performance and functionality; • Championed major blue chip companies: performed regular call reviews and site visits, evaluated the requirements of the client, resolved issues to the client’s satisfaction; • Identified the root cause for application related problems, from bugs in the programming through to data corruption, set-up issues and user errors; • Checked database tables and system daemons for corruption and performance issues; • Manipulated data to produce comparison charts/graphs for analysis; • Proficient in the use of SQL for data interrogation and updating; • Updated and amended table structures in Informix and Oracle using VI and SQLPLUS; • Created rules using JavaScript to enhance the functionality of our products; • Managed system files to ensure optimal performance; From 2000 to 2007 (7 years)

St John Fishers Lee Sexton is skilled in: Agile Methodologies, Scrum, Requirements Analysis, SQL, Testing, Business Analysis, Databases, Unix, Stakeholder Management, Integration, CRM, Subversion, Continuous Integration, Program Management, Github, Team Leadership, Management