Gerard Fyson

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ABOUT GERARD FYSON

A driven and motivated software delivery and engineering leader with a proven track record of delivering and launching world-class digital products for Sky such as Sky Glass and Sky Q, as well as high transaction mission-critical service layers.Builds high-performing, multidisciplinary cross-functional teams focused on delivery, continuous improvement and engineering excellence. I am a strong communicator and am looking to make an impact with a new challenge.I encourage practices that improve delivery, scalability and reliability, over short-term gain. I work closely with the team, guiding them on best practices in agile software delivery methodologies.• Leadership - Led a department of 85 encouraging and building trust, agility, self-organisation and psychological safety• Delivery - Over 18 years of hands-on technical experience working within Agile frameworks consistently delivering high-quality products and features and managing multiple teams and dependencies. Launched the award-winning Sky Q, Sky Glass and Stream currently used in over 12m homes.• Recruitment - Built large teams from scratch, actively recruiting the majority of my team of 85• Budget Management - Management of $11.5m budget• Capacity and Roadmap Planning - Proficiently managed multiple roadmaps and planning activities across multiple teams facilitating the rollout of significant product launches including the recent introduction of Xumo Stream in the US.• Collaborated effectively across Architecture, Product Management, Development, Project Management, Test, Stakeholders, and Third Parties ensuring alignment on approach and development.• Utilised mentorship and motivation techniques to inspire individuals and the team, creating a safe and inclusive growth environment, resulting in several promotions. • Transformation - Led impactful changes to improve and promote cross-functional collaborative teams resulting in faster delivery of high-quality features and improvements. • Extensive experience in award-winning customer products, and improving customer experience and value through data insights and feedback analysis. • Understands and inputs into complex systems. Focused on best practices, quality and improvements in repeatability and scalability such as Infrastructure as Code, test automation, runtime config, shift left practices, incremental releases, fast feedback• Strong communicator and relationship builder across technical and non-technical areas• Analyses processes and uses data-driven insights to inform decision-making.