Paul Henman

Current

Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager at Looking for a Scrum Master position with a software development company, ideally downtown Toronto

Past

Scrum master / project manager at Siemens
Scrum master (project manager) at Trango Software, A Division of Siemens Canada
Project Manager at Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN)

Project Manager at Systematic Software Engineering Ltd
Porting Manager at Uniplex Limited
Team Leader at ICL
Technician (software engineer) at Coulter Electronics

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Education

Lancaster University

Connections

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Industry

Computer Software

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Paul Henman’s Summary

Project Manager with over eighteen years of experience in the IT industry, more than ten of those years as a supplier of software solutions to the healthcare industry in addition to exposure to military, government and commercial vertical markets and a variety of technologies such as C/UNIX, Microsoft Windows and Office suite, MS-Project and EDI (Electronic Data Interchange).

Paul Henman’s Specialties:

Software development life cycle, SDLC, project management, ms-project, healthcare, military, government, agile project management, scrum

Paul Henman’s Experience

Scrum Master / Agile Project Manager

Looking for a Scrum Master position with a software development company, ideally downtown Toronto

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2008 — Present (3 months)
Scrum master / project manager

Siemens

(Computer Software industry)

2006 — 2008 (2 years)
Scrum master (project manager)

Trango Software, A Division of Siemens Canada

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; SI; Information Technology and Services industry)

April 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 6 months)

A scrum master is (roughly) the Agile Methods world's equivalent to a project manager. [http://www.agilealliance.com/]

Project: developing common services for Siemens Communications division, upon which Trango's HiPath ProCenter (call-centre routing) application and others are built.
Project Manager

Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN)

(Non-Profit; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2001 — July 2005 (4 years)

* Primary source of professional technical advice to the HIIP Director, five managers and 20 staff.
* Initiated radical changes to revitalise overdue (24 months) project.
* Created project change control process.
* Defined business requirements for secure data extraction & transmission.
* Evaluated and closed sub-contracted Clinical Management System (CMS) development.
* Brought formal software acceptance testing to completion.
* Managed negotiations with three beta sites.
* Met critical milestones, ensuring ongoing funding for project.
* Designed province-wide implementation process for over 100 clinics.
* Presented at national eHealth conference "Privacy and Confidentiality in a Real World Setting".
* Oversaw execution of Privacy Impact Assessment and Threat Risk Assessment.
* Recommended application and general IT training for all 26 OHTN staff.
* Created and presented supplementary training.
Project Manager

Systematic Software Engineering Ltd

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Computer Software industry)

November 1994 — March 2001 (6 years 5 months)

SSEL is the UK subsidiary of a privately owned Danish software house focused primarily on the military and healthcare markets, specialising in electronic data communications.
* Managed concurrent EDI projects for healthcare, military and commercial customers.
* Built multinational team utilising 3 UK staff, 3 Danish staff and 2 consultants.
* Created technical knowledge base, directly supporting the company's sales and marketing efforts.
* Identified sales opportunities leading to three significant new contracts worth over £4million.
* Seconded to company's head office (in Århus, Jutland) for crucial role in military messaging product development.
* Design authority for integration of military messaging products with Graphical Information Systems and other third party systems.
* Ensured successful acceptance of Nuclear Biological Chemical hazard prediction system by Ministry of Defence; trained NATO's NBC experts.
* Ensured company maintained ISO9001 / BS5750 / TickIT approval.
Porting Manager

Uniplex Limited

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

August 1992 — October 1994 (2 years 3 months)

Uniplex produced an integrated suite of office tools on a wide range of UNIX platforms and in many languages.
* Responsible for concurrent porting of Hewlett-Packards X.400 email server (OpenMail) to 25 flavours of UNIX.
[Porting is the adaptation of a piece of software so that it will function in a different computing environment to that for which it was originally written.]
* Technical expert for all X.400, porting, UNIX and software quality assurance related issues.
* Assured BS5750 approval for development, porting, testing and translation division.
Team Leader

ICL

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Software industry)

August 1988 — August 1992 (4 years 1 month)

ICL was the largest British software house but is now part of Fujitsu. The Carrier400 project was a fault-tolerant X.400 email server development aimed at national Post, Telephone & Telegraph operating companies.
* Designed and developed operating system interface library functions, simplifying porting between ICLs DRS/NX operating system and Stratus fault tolerant VOS platform.
* On-site and remote technical assistance to MCI New York, a major test site for the project.
Technician (software engineer)

Coulter Electronics

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Medical Devices industry)

December 1984 — August 1985 (9 months)

Coulter (now Beckman Coulter) is a leading manufacturer of biomedical testing instrument systems.
* Sole designer-developer of statistics and graphics packages for interpreting particle counter data.
* Created interface between particle counter equipment and Apple computers.

Paul Henman’s Education

Lancaster University

B.Sc. (Hons), Computer Science with Operational Research, 1985 — 1988

Activities and Societies:

Lonsdale college, badminton, horse riding

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Paul Henman’s Interests:

scrum, agile project management, project management, software development, SDLC, healthcare software, HL7, EDIFACT, C programming, ANSI C, K&R C, shell scripting, standards, XPG4, portability, open source, linux, unix, quality assurance, open source, web design, internet techology, XHTML, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, LAMP