Paul Henman

Past

Scrum master / project manager at Siemens Enterprise Communications (Trango)
Project Manager at Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN)
Project Manager at Systematic Software Engineering Ltd

Porting Manager at Uniplex Limited
Team Leader at ICL (now part of Fujitsu)

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Education

Lancaster University
Berteig Consulting

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Information Technology and Services

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Paul Henman’s Summary

Technical project manager with over 19 years' software development experience, committed to delivering customer-driven functionality, on time and on budget, utilising Agile practices.

You can reach me at paul.henman@topmanager.ca

Paul Henman’s Specialties:

• Certified Scrum Master / Agile project management: sprint planning/review; retrospectives; coaching; facilitation; release planning
• Waterfall project management: risk management; MS-Project; earned value; requirements change control
• SDLC: design; coding; testing; acceptance; deployment; training
• Data communications: EDIFACT, ASTM1238, HL7, X.400 & RFC822
• Development environments: C/UNIX, Linux, HTML, CSS, JavaScript
• Quality Assurance: ISO9001
• Clinical systems

Paul Henman’s Experience

Scrum master / project manager

Siemens Enterprise Communications (Trango)

(Privately Held; Telecommunications industry)

April 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 6 months)

• Championed introduction of Scrum/Agile practices within development group.
• As Scrum Master for pilot team, demonstrated benefits of adopting Scrum; identified potential issues and recommended action plan in order to address them.
• Coached team members and product owners (internal customer) on Agile techniques.
• Facilitated regular meetings with the Scrum teams and the Product Owner to review developments (demonstrate functionality), plan for upcoming requirements (user stories) and commit to delivery in the forthcoming sprint.
• Aided teams to consistently meet requirements, delivered completed (tested and documented) functionality on time and on budget.
• As senior project manager, provided interface between local scrum teams and external departments.
• Brought project in on time and on budget, delivering one of the most technically complex upgrades / product enhancements.
Project Manager

Ontario HIV Treatment Network (OHTN)

(Hospital & Health Care industry)

August 2001 — July 2005 (4 years )

Project: HIV Information Infrastructure Project (HIIP) had three deliverables: enhanced clinical support tools for physicians, data for researchers, and secure transmission of patient data to central database. The OHTN is funded by the Ministry of Health; HIIP’s annual budget was $3 million.
• Conducted status assessment and instituted changes to revitalize the overdue project, including redefining roles and responsibilities between the project and the vendors.
• Worked closely with software vendor to introduce change control processes, acceptance testing methodologies and improved software rollout practices.
• Defined business requirements for secure data extraction & transmission based on input from stakeholders; subsequently presented paper at national eHealth conference.
• Ensured ongoing funding for project.
• Brought sub-contracted Clinical Management System development to completion, including final testing.
• Managed negotiations with and rollout to four beta sites.
Project Manager

Systematic Software Engineering Ltd

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

November 1994 — March 2001 (6 years 5 months)

Projects: healthcare electronic data interchange (EDI), working with UK’s National Health Service hospitals and laboratories; also EDI projects with UK Ministry of Defence and NATO, UK Ministry of Agriculture, and non-EDI projects for Railtrack and NATO.
• Introduced Agile-style practices to enable small team to better respond to customer requirements, stop-start conditions, and maximise utilisation whilst minimising churn.
• Collaborated with National Health Service’s standards committee to improve EDI message definitions for medical data exchange.
• Delivered system enabling transfer of test results from hospital laboratory systems to physicians.
• Identified sales opportunities leading to three significant new contracts worth over $8 million.
• Seconded to Danish office for crucial role in military messaging product development.
• Ensured acceptance of Nuclear Biological Chemical (NBC) hazard prediction system by Ministry of Defence; conducted training for NATO experts.
Porting Manager

Uniplex Limited

(Privately Held; Computer Software industry)

August 1992 — October 1994 (2 years 3 months)

Project: ported Hewlett-Packard’s X.400 email server (OpenMail) to 25 flavours of UNIX as part of an office application suite.
• Technical expert for all X.400, porting, UNIX and software quality assurance related issues.
• Ensured BS5750 (now ISO 9001) approval for development, porting and testing division.
Team Leader

ICL (now part of Fujitsu)

(Public Company; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 1988 — August 1992 (4 years 1 month)

Project: fault-tolerant X.400 email server development aimed at national telecommunications companies.
• Designed and developed operating system interface library functions, simplifying porting between ICL’s DRS/NX operating system and Stratus’ fault tolerant VOS platform.
• On-site and remote technical assistance for MCI New York, a major test site for the project.

Paul Henman’s Education

Lancaster University

B.Sc. (Hons) , Computer Science with Operational Research , 1985 — 1988

Activities and Societies:

Lonsdale college, badminton, horse riding
Berteig Consulting

Certified Scrum Master 2006

Additional Information

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Paul Henman’s Interests:

I am the webmaster for my badminton club, a keen photographer and a fan of Formula One motor racing. Also: Scrum / Agile, Linux, Internet technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, LAMP).