Experience

• CnP Agile Delivery & Release Manager 2025

  Geidea

  ▸ Led enterprise-level delivery of digital payment solutions across the Card Not present portfolio — ecommerce, payment gateways, tokenization, and fraud & risk integrations. ▸ Translated strategic objectives into executable roadmaps, ensuring alignment between executive stakeholders, product, compliance, and engineering. ▸ Owned portfolio-level release management: orchestrating multi-team, multi-stream releases with full lifecycle governance — planning, risk mitigation, go-live readiness, and post-release stabilization. ▸ Divided and optimized the portfolio around value streams to improve flow efficiency, predictability, and time-to-market. ▸ Established delivery governance frameworks, KPIs, and reporting mechanisms ensuring transparency, dependency management, and risk control at scale. ▸ Acted as trusted advisor to C-level stakeholders, providing data-driven insights for prioritization, investment decisions, and regulatory readiness. ▸ Drove continuous improvement initiatives leveraging Agile and Lean principles to enhance throughput, quality, and crossfunctional collaboration. ▸ Coached Delivery Managers, Scrum Masters, and Product Owners to elevate execution maturity and build sustainable delivery capability. ▸ Ensured compliance with PCI-DSS, scheme mandates, and local regulatory requirements.

• Agile Practice & Delivery Lead 2026 - Present

  Parallel Tech

  ▸ Led and scaled the Agile practice across the organisation, establishing standards, frameworks, and governance to drive delivery consistency and maturity. ▸ Coached cross-functional teams, Scrum Masters, and leadership on Agile principles, SAFe practices, and continuous improvement mindsets. ▸ Conducted organisational agility maturity assessments and developed tailored coaching plans to elevate team performance and delivery capability. ▸ Facilitated Agile ceremonies at scale including PI Planning, Scrum of Scrums, retrospectives, and quarterly planning sessions. ▸ Defined and implemented Agile metrics and KPIs to provide delivery visibility and support data-driven decision-making at leadership level. ▸ Partnered with senior stakeholders to align delivery practices with strategic business objectives and transformation goals. ▸ Drove the adoption of Lean-Agile tooling and ways of working across teams, ensuring consistency in Jira, Confluence, and reporting practices.