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Diarmait O’Reilly (Verizon Connect)
I am a Lean Program Manager working within the Reveal Tribe in Verizon Connect with whom I have been working for ~3.5 years. I have been working in IT since 1999 in various roles starting of as a tester with Logica Aldiscon and working for Accenture, Bank of Scotland Ireland, IBM, Misys and Paddy Power. I have been working as a project manager since 2007 when I started with Bank of Scotland. My deep interest is in how we we deliver software in as an effective manner as possible and have for the last 5+ years being working with Agile/Lean methodologies to help manage the delivery of software projects. Outside of work I enjoy the outdoors, hill walking and spending time with my family. I volunteer as a Venture Scout leader which I find very rewarding.
Pawel Olchowik (eShopWorld)
Pawel is a Scrum Master at eShopWorld. He's using all types of visual techniques on daily basis to facilitate better understanding of software development in a complex environment.
Cristiane Pitzer (Retail inMotion)
Agile Coaching and Enterprise culture change are my areas of expertise in a world that is going Digital. I work with teams and leadership to design and build a workplace that is adaptable to the ongoing changes and shifts in the world and that unleashes innovation within each individual being.
Kevin Duggan (Poppulo)
Kevin Duggan is mobile lead at Poppulo (an internal communications software company), in Cork Ireland. He has spent over fifteen years building products and teams. When Kevin isn’t writing code, he can be found racing mountain bikes, running, and playing guitar. In a former life, he was also a champion Irish dancer who toured worldwide.
Smija Tomic (Equifax)
Works as a Scrum Master last three years. One of the most important reasons why she likes this role is continuous learning of new soft skills in order to perform the job and improve communication and collaboration with people. After finishing her studies and Master’s degree in Electrical and computer engineering, she started her career as a java developer, but when she started to work as a Scrum Master she felt like she finds a right profession. Almost two years ago, she moved to Dublin from Serbia and now works at Equifax Technology in Dublin, Ireland. This change made the job more interesting because of the international environment. She is interested in coaching and enjoys running.
Aidan Casey (JCI)
Aidan Casey is a Senior Manager at Johnson Controls where he leads the delivery an IoT platform for smart buildings. He has over 20 years’ experience working with leading global brands and startups performing leadership roles in agile transformation, architecture and software delivery. He believes that people are the magic ingredient in every company and the secret to building a successful and sustainable business starts with clearly aligning the technology and business strategies. Aidan is a frequent speaker at technology and lean agile conferences worldwide.
Subhendu Mohapatra (FBD Insurance)
Subhendu Mohapatra has been with FBD since 2013 and has established the Release and Environments Management (DevOps) function at FBD. Subhendu's key role has been to establish the DevOps practice, introduced tools and process improvements, automation to support environments,release and deployment automation. Prior to joining FBD, Subhendu has 10+ years experience working on DevOps roles at various other consultancy engagements. Subhendu is a T Shaped Engineering Manager, passionate about DevOps and process improvements that can help organizations improve their delivery cycle. He has written articles, blogs, spoken at events on DevOps in the past.
Rory Scanlon (Workhuman)
Rory is an experienced software development manager, Scrum Master and Agile coach. He has been managing engineering teams at Workhuman for the last 8 years. Workhuman is the world’s fastest-growing integrated Social Recognition and continuous performance management platform. Our human applications are shaping the future of work by helping organizations connect culture to shared purpose.
Margherita Frezza (Retail inMotion) )
Margherita moved from Italy to Ireland to accidentally become a Scrum Master three years ago, and she strove for continuous growth and learning since then. Starting from a Junior Scrum Master role in a small company, she is now an active part of Retail inMotion's Agile Transformation, expanding her influence and skills every day. As a people person, Margherita’s passion is to interact, coach and train developers and managers in understanding Agile and its practices.
Aoife Hannigan (Storyful)
Aoife is a Lead Software Developer at Storyful in Dublin. She has 5 years experience as a Developer working in many different types of teams and organisations. She has a passion for Front-End Development and more recently identified her motivation for working with people alongside problem solving. Currently she is looking to improve in the areas of mentoring and coaching to help her in her new management duties.
Neil McGonigle (Fidelity Investments)
I am an agile coach across 20 teams within the Enterprise Cloud Computing business unit of Fidelity Investments. I have worked as a developer, a project manager, a Scrum master and now as a coach. I have a passion for understanding how to evolve teams to their most efficient state and everything that it entails.
Adelina Stanciu (Finastra)
I am a senior software engineer and trainer. I worked for the past years with different technologies mainly with C/C++ and .NET for applications in different domains robotics, finance, automotive, antivirus.
Senan Coffey (Fidelity Investments)
Senan Coffey is a Senior Manager with over 15 years’ software development experience in the financial services and Telecommunications industry combined helping deliver waterfall and agile projects. Over the 15 years I have held multiple roles including management, delivery, Test automation, scrum master to name a few. Recent certifications include CSM, CSP, PSM level 1 and AWS Cloud. “Fail fast and come back stronger” and “Change is a good thing, embrace it” – this is my motto.
Fran O'Hara (Inspire Quality Services)
Fran is the founder/director of Inspire Quality Services. With over 30 years experience, he consults with local and international organisations on agile/lean and quality/testing. He provides agile/lean coaching, training and advisory support to organisations transitioning to agile. Fran co-organises Agile Tour Ireland and co-founded the Irish SIG in Software Testing - SoftTest. He is a Certified/Professional ScrumMaster, Professional Product Owner and an advanced level ISTQB testing tutor. A regular presenter at international conferences and seminars - his tutorial, ‘Metamorphosis – Moving to Agile and Staying Agile’, was voted best tutorial at EuroSTAR in Stockholm.
Francesco Bianchi (Oliver Wyman)
Francesco started his career as a Software Developer. He has always been passionate about supporting his team members and improving the way the team collaborated to deliver successfully while still having fun. It took him 10 years and a few hybrid roles before realizing that he could have lived without coding and would have instead preferred to become a full time Scrum Master. Francesco is now an Agile Coach and Delivery Lead in a Management Consultant company where he helps his teams and his clients embracing a more Agile way of working.
Ray Glynn, Sarah Graham, David Denham (Workday)
We (Ray Glynn, Sarah Graham, David Denham) are a team of Agile coaches from Workday Dublin serving over 50 product delivery teams. We love sharing stories of success and learnings from our coaching experiences.
Gordon McGuirk (Ding)
Gordon McGuirk is currently Head of Delivery, Quality & Agility @ Ding. Gordon has 20+ plus years’ experience in the Technology sector across many companies (Microsoft, Sage and Ding). In his current role Gordon is responsible for ensuring business agility at Ding and providing Kanban coaching to all teams and new hires.
Augusto Evangelisti (Evangelisti Consulting Limited)
Augusto "Gus" Evangelisti is a Business Agility Coach and principal consultant at Evangelisti Consulting Limited. With over 25 years experience in Product development spent on software development, testing, leadership and agile coaching, Gus has been helping many organisations find a more joyful and effective way of delivering products.
Rob Meany (Poppulo)
Rob Meaney is a tester that loves tough testing and software delivery problems. He works with teams to help create products that customers love and know they can rely upon. Although he enjoys learning about software delivery, in general, he’s particularly interested in Quality Engineering, Test Coaching, Testability, and Testing in Production. Currently, he’s working as Head of Testing & Test Coach for Poppulo in Cork, Ireland. He’s a regular conference speaker, an active member of the online testing community and co-founder of Ministry of Test Cork. Previously he has held positions as Test Manager, Automation Architect and Test Engineer with companies of varying sizes, from large multinationals like Intel, Ericsson & EMC to early-stage startups like Trustev. He has worked in diverse areas from highly regulated industries like safety automation & fraud detection to dynamic, exciting industries like gaming.
John Coleman (Orderly Disruption Limited)
John Coleman is an Irish Professional Scrum Trainer, a candidate LeSS trainer, a Leadership Masterclass trainer, a Product Ownership for agility trainer, and Europe’s most prominent Scrum+Kanban trainer. John Coleman helps organizations to ACe their agility transformations. ACe is a brand for developing agility chefs, in effect helping "the new kids on the block" to not have to take twenty years to become experts in agility transformation. John helps to develop new agility change chefs, budding experts in both agility and transformation, two separate bodies of knowledge. John helps to reinvigorate in flight transformations and helps to start new ones. John works at all levels, with teams, with programs & products/services, values streams and exec level. Without "walking the gemba" of value creation and value consumption, John’s organizational transformation work would lack punch and credibility at various levels; so understanding the work and its use is crucial to John. John is a systems thinker, and most importantly, John takes an independent view. But John is also a people thinker; he specialises in Extreme Ownership, Turn the Ship Around, Team of Teams, Spiral Dynamics Integral, Viral Change & other models.
Torsten Hansen
Starting out in sales and administration in the grain and feed industry in Denmark, I soon realized that software development was my destiny when I was asked to help programme tools and reports. Since the year 2000, I have been involved in helping teams deliver software in an agile context. I have been working with accounts across Europe, North America, Asia and Pacific in the as Scrum Master, Product Owner and trainer. I am an experienced agile coach, facilitator and trainer. When I organize training and workshops, I value collaboration and interaction and limit the use of electronic tools. I hold several certifications, including ICAgile Expert in Agile Coaching.
Vispi Shroff
As an agile enthusiast, I have worked with various organisations and teams to successfully adopt Agile values and principles since 2006. I have facilitated the leadership of various organisation to implement Agile practices. Empowering people is a core value of mine which is why I am so passionate about Agile. However, the key to the long-term success of organisations in their agile adoption lies with the leadership, and I am focussing my efforts and energies to work with leadership. As an agile coach, I have worked in a variety of sectors and industries such as financial, manufacturing, enterprise software, mobile applications and more. I have worked with start-ups and 5000+ employee organisations over the years. I have delivered training, workshops and spoken at conferences.
Patrick O'Beirne (Systems Modelling)
Patrick is Managing Director of Systems Modelling Limited (sysmod.com). His current focus is Excel/VBA development and spreadsheet auditing services as well as end-user training such as "Spreadsheet Safe"(tm). He is chair of the European Spreadsheet Risks Interest Group (EuSpRIG) and a Fellow of the Irish Computer Society. He has advised two certification bodies on the content of a syllabus for a new certification in good spreadsheet practices. He is the author of "Spreadsheet Check and Control" (Systems Publishing, 2005, ISBN 190540400X) and the developer of the XLTest spreadsheet auditing Excel addin.
Caroline Craddock (Storyful)
From a young age, I have always been curious in understanding how things work and creating something from nothing. In 2012, I had my first role as a graphic designer at a mobile app startup. In a very fast paced environment, I learned how to fail fast and learn, evolving my passion for user experience design. Since 2018, I've been working in Storyful as a Product Designer, where my current curiosity and motivation is designing interfaces and visualisations to help our users make sense of complicated social media data.
Glaudia Califano (Red Tangerine)
Glaudia started her technology career in 2005 and has worked with software and non-software development teams in various capacities, from facilitating training and workshops to getting deeply involved ‘in the trenches’ with teams.Glaudia is passionate about helping organisations identify how value to the customer is delivered, by evaluating what work is performed, by whom, where the bottlenecks and waste are, and what steps organisations can take incrementally to improve future flow.
Natasha Hampshire (Red Tangerine)
Experienced multi-disciplinary service, product and experience designer with a demonstrated history of working in the financial services and automotive industry. Strong Agile and Scrum knowledge with ability to implement a human focused approach. Extremely passionate about improving customer and user centered services and products by collaborating with colleagues to create a pure HCD (Human Centered Design) environment. With a growing interest of ACI (Animal Computer Interaction).