Timothy Price
Verified Expert in Product Management
Product Manager
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Toptal member since July 21, 2021
Timothy is a process-orientated individual and leader who enjoys understanding, building, and enhancing complex systems involving people, technology, and operations. Timothy believes people are the ultimate source of value within an organization and takes a people-first approach to leadership. His broad underpinning technical knowledge in digital systems, combined with formal engineering training, allows for leading and coordinating technical teams and initiatives.
Project Highlights
Expertise
- Agile Coaching
- Design Thinking
- DevOps
- Jira
- Linux Administration
- Product Ownership
- Scrum
- Technical Program Management
Work Experience
Platform Program Manager
Self Employed—contracted for Australian DoD projects
- Coordinated activities of two agile product teams developing web applications within the Department of Defence networks. Acted as the primary point of contact for Defence stakeholders and sponsors.
- Coached two product owners in agile practices. Assisted with the translation and prioritization of user needs into backlog items through discovery, story mapping, and roadmaps.
- Acted as a scrum master within product teams, facilitating the smooth translation of user stories into development tasks.
- Facilitated the ongoing engagement with platform team, ensuring that software developed fits within technical and policy requirements of Defence networks.
Integration Lead and Agile Implementation
Capability Aquisition and Sustainment Group, Australian DoD
- Formed, coached, and led three agile product teams. Involved the hiring and onboarding process for each team member, training in agile practices, establishing Scrum within each team, and the ongoing coaching of product owners.
- Established relationships with stakeholders during initial product establishment and facilitated design sprints and design thinking workshops for early generation and validation of user stories.
- Built and maintained relationships with enterprise chief information officer group bodies to enable the DevOps-supported Agile software development within regulatory and policy requirements.
- Led and participated in the development of software CI/CD through the implementation of DevOps toolchains and practices.
Product Owner – Fleet Planning Optimization
Capability Aquisition and Sustainment Group, Australian DoD
- Worked with researchers and business sponsors to establish fleet planning optimization products under an Agile delivery method.
- Formed the product team, onboarded software developers, and established Scrum practices.
- Collaborated with researchers to translate research into outputs that can satisfy customer requirements. Facilitated semi-validation of users' stories through early design sprints, prototyping of work, and development of initial MVP.
- Acted as product owner and scrum master for the duration of involvement in the product. With the development team, translated research and user stories into working software capable of forecasting optimized fleet plans for fleet planners.
Project History
Enterprise Agile Software Development Capability
Formed, coached, and led multiple agile product teams towards the goal of developing an agile software development capability within a defense context.
The initiative involved product lines aimed at delivering value to end-users in the aviation asset management domain while establishing and demonstrating DevOps-supported agile software development pipelines.
Performed onboarding of all team members of product teams. Established Scrum practices, coached product owners, and provided ongoing scrum master support to each team. Built relationships with stakeholders during initial product establishment and facilitated design sprints and design thinking workshops for early generation and validation of user stories.
Facilitated the development of relevant enterprise security and architecture documentation to support the development of all software products.
The project demonstrated the release of updates and features in the space of weeks and months compared to the typical years it typically took to release software.
Education
Officer Initial Training in Military Leadership
Royal Australian Air Force - Victoria, Australia
Bachelor of Electrical Engineering Degree with First Class Honors in Electrical and Electronics
University of Southern Queensland - Queensland, Australia
Diploma in Refrigeration and Air-conditioning
Queensland TAFE - Queensland, Australia
Certifications
PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)
Project Management Institute (PMI)
Security+
CompTIA
Certified Scrum Master
Agile Alliance
Skills
Tools
Jira, Slack
Paradigms
Scrum, DevOps, Design Thinking, Agile, Agile Product Management
Other
Product Ownership, Leadership, Agile Coaching, Technical Program Management, Scrum Master, Technical Documentation, Cybersecurity, Python, Linux Administration, Microsoft Teams, IT Program Management, Public Speaking
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