Karl Scotland

Current

Senior Practice Consultant at EMC Consulting
Senior Technical Consultant (Agile Coach) at Conchango

Past

Engineering Program Manager at Yahoo! Europe
Engineering Manager Billing at Yahoo! Europe
Production Manager at Two Way TV

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Education

Queen Mary, U. of London
City University

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Industry

Computer Software

Karl Scotland’s Summary

A versatile software practitioner with a wide range of skills, including development, project management, team leadership, coaching and training, looking to utilise his Agile experience. Expertise in feature based, iterative and incremental project planning, reporting and delivery as a Certified ScrumMaster. Excellent object-oriented, design pattern, test-driven development and continuous integration skills with numerous languages. Proficient at collaboration and facilitation techniques using whiteboards, wikis and workshops. Passionate about delivering high quality software, and enthusiastic about the use of agile principles and practices in order to achieve this.

Major achievements include:
* Delivered 100% of projects to their scheduled launch dates for the BBC.
* Led incremental development of a system which enabled the launch of over 100 different services in 12 months for the BBC.
* Developed the Wimbledon 2000 service which won an interactive BAFTA, one of a number of awards and nominations while at the BBC.
* Successfully introduced agile software development principles and practices, such as XP and Scrum, into the BBC.
* Presented a paper entitled “Agile Planning with a Multi-customer, Multi-project, Multi-discipline Team” at the XP/Agile Universe 2003 conference.
* Introduced Lean thinking (e.g. Kanban systems) into the development process at Yahoo! in order to improve delivery effectiveness and customer satisfaction.

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