Kath Champion - Product Strategy & Agile Coach, Augment IT

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Work Background

AIT (Augment Innovation Together)Strategy and Innovation Facilitator

Nov. 2022Facilitates innovation workshops for clients and runs public innovation training courses.

DocComsProduct Owner

May. 2021 - Jun. 2021United Kingdom

Tech AmigosProduct Director

Feb. 2020 - Jan. 2021London, United KingdomHealth Tech, FinTech, Business and Product Strategy Facilitator

Concurrent SystemsProduct Owner

Dec. 2018 - Sep. 2020London, Greater London, United KingdomProduct Discovery, Design & Delivery.

Mitra InnovationSenior Manager - Business Consulting

Sep. 2016 - Aug. 2018London, United KingdomAgile evangelist and digital product owner driving customer vision in products (startups) and enterprise, employing's Mitra's AI5 Product Innovation Framework to successfully deliver products from idea to launch (local, regional and global). On-shore, near-shore and off-shore development.

WorkCalls - Enterprise Shared AccountsProduct Manager / Owner

Nov. 2014 - Aug. 2016Morningside, JohannesburgDesigned a Web 2.0 telco service for Enterprise users using their own mobile devices for work: - WorkCalls is a startup (within Concurrent Systems) producing products for the Enterprise market in the mobile telecoms market. - The project employed Kanban and other agile methods and practices (Lean UX, Lean Startup, collaborative Design Thinking, User Testing, among other agile practices) to develop a product for market fit.

Concurrent SystemsAgile Coach & Trainer

Apr. 2014 - Aug. 2016Morningside, JohannesburgIntroduced DevOps, Kanban Method & Holacracy within the company; product teams evolved from waterfall into lean and agile product delivery as well into a sociocratic, co-operative organisation. Assisted CEO in delivering strategic initiatives across the company.

JSE LimitedSenior Business Analyst

Feb. 2013 - Mar. 2014Sandton, Gauteng, South AfricaContracted to work on various enterprise related projects; CRM replacement (across all departments at the Exchange - Companies & Issuer Regulation, Membership, Markets & Regulation, Post Trade Services); analysis and change initiative improvements related to IT Governance and Procurement and engagement with Strategy and Regulations and Bonds and Financial Derivatives for rollout of SharePoint 2013. Champion for UX and User Centred Design - Designing Successful Experiences with User centred Design (self-study). Introduced processes and collateral to promote user centred design and ran knowledge sharing labs on UX within the BA community and championed for the function with the Head of Business Analysis.

Gatwick Airport LimitedProject Manager

Jun. 2012 - Oct. 2012Gatwick AirportShort term contract – implement deliver passenger facing information projects; including digital and physical customer information systems (screens airside and in departure lounge areas).

Augment Innovation Together (AIT)Founder | Business and Product Strategy Agency

May. 2012London, United Kingdom♥️ Facilitate strategy innovation, design sprints, service design sprints and growth hacking workshops for small to large enterprises. ♥️ Technology agnostic with a penchant for Web3, no-code and artificial intelligence tools and technologies.

Network RailStrategic Business Analyst

Jun. 2007 - Jun. 2012London, United KingdomDelivered business benefit on major web enablement programme (corporate website - £1.5m & intranet refresh £3.5m). Lead BA on Project Synergy, Web Enablement Programme & IM KPI project. Agile champion, SCRUM and SharePoint subject matter expert. Managed off-shore and on-shore business analyst resources and instrumental in introducing new content management business process & ITIL service support for web support. Assisted in IM Change / transformation and training of RBT (risk based testing) aimed at saving 10% Spend on IT Capex projects.

NTT DATA UKBusiness Change Consultant

Jan. 2007 - May. 2007London, United KingdomConsultant at Keane Limited delivering business change and improvement programmes at Severn Trent Water (project managed implementing of Oracle P2P processes) and RWE (nPower - ITIL and Application Support services 5 year business plan) and Bid Manager for ACCA project. Keane Limited: An application services, infrastructure and BPO specialist, headquartered in the US, and offering solutions delivered through onsite, near shore and off-shore personnel.

BBCProgramme Manager & Software Architect

Jan. 2006 - Dec. 2006London, United KingdomBBC Worldwide Limited is the main commercial arm and a wholly owned subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). In 2014/15, BBC Worldwide generated headline profits of £138.6m and headline sales of £1,001.8m and returned £226.5m to the BBC. Role Description: Performed the roles of Programme Manager on Royalty Programme (comprising 6 related projects). Performed role of Software Architect on multiple digital projects (third party partners extranet and intranet projects) - first experience using Scrum (an Agile delivery framework) within BBC Worldwide's PMO (a first within BBC Worldwide).

AT&T Enterprise EMEAFunctional Consultant

Jan. 2005 - Dec. 2005Redditch, United KingdomPerformed the role of Functional Consultant (including Data Migration Manager and UAT Manager) for re-engineering and roll-out of Oracle Financials (General Ledger), Java and web technologies solutions across Europe (to replace legacy Visual Basic application) at AT&T UK in collaboration with on-shore, near-shore and off-shore teams.

3Systems Architect & Design Consultant

Jan. 2004 - Dec. 2004Maidenhead, Berkshire, United KingdomPerformed business and systems architect & design role as a consultant on the Hutchison 3G greenfield project delivering Mobile Network Portability (MNP) and video for 3G mobile phones. Used collaborative design approach and UML and XP - extreme programming (peer-to-peer programming) to deliver software for 3G mobile.

HP - EDS Document ManagementBusiness Architect Consultant

Mar. 2001 - Dec. 2003Milton Keynes, United KingdomBusiness Architect / Design Consultant for Enterprise Document Management and workflow systems division at EDS. - Implemented document management and workflow at the DVLA (2001-2002). - Project Managed the transition of Abbey National Bank and - Designed re-engineering mortgage service processes to scale down the bank’s operation throughout the UK (2003), before it was purchased by Santander.

Tertio LtdBusiness Consultant

Jun. 1999 - Mar. 2001London, United KingdomFirst role in UK after emigrating from South Africa in August 1999. - Project managed the delivery of workflow projects for telecommunications companies BT, Scottish Telecom (later became Thus) and Deutsche Telekom. - Performed business analysis and designed workflow processes and - Managed project risks on multiple telco projects.

Dimension DataBusiness Consultant @ Shared Objectives

Mar. 1998 - Mar. 1999Johannesburg Area, South AfricaWorked at DiData subsidiary Shared Objectives using OO technologies and design for delivery of financial software at the client Standard Bank. Provided software delivery and change consultancy management on client site in Johannesburg.

IBM Global Business ServicesSystems Advisory Engineer

Feb. 1994 - Dec. 1996Joined IOS (IBM Global Services) and performed business analysis, project management and consultancy services for South African Breweries. Supported SAB’s management accounting system. Re-engineered the SAB management accounting budget and forecasting for development and integration into the SAP ERP software.

South African BreweriesSenior Systems Engineer

Jan. 1988 - Dec. 1994Johannesburg Area, South AfricaFirst PC developer at SAB Information Technology department. Product Engineer (1990-1991), Analyst Programmer (1992 - 1993) and Senior Systems Engineer (1994). Product: Developed and delivered standardised management accounting software & training for Financial Managers and Management & Cost Accountants across all SAB breweries and main depot sites in the following capacity; Product Service Design & Delivery • Designing, Coding, Testing and Implementing the Product and User Experience and Workflow for Key Users (Financial Managers & Cost Accountants) • Development team of 5 and product owner (Financial Manager) was co-located at Isando IT site (1990-1992) during development and delivery of management accounting standardisation and improvement programme. • First team to use RAD and JAD delivery approaches to deliver software with a cadence of 90 day iterations and increments – i.e. enhancements on previous modules delivered.