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1. Richard House CV Page 1 of 4 22/12/2015
Richard House
Scrum Master & Agile Coach
07515118265 richmhouse@gmail.com
Key Skills
 Coaching 2 yrs  Training 2 yrs  Tech Lead 9 yrs
 Agile / Scrum / XP 6 yrs  Scrum Master 1 yr  Line Manager 5 yrs
 CI / CD / Dev Ops 6 yrs  BDD / TDD 6 yrs  Pair Programming 6 yrs
 C# / .NET 10 yrs  OO A&D 15 yrs  Spatial Arc/Oracle 13 yrs
Agile
Experienced Early adopter & champion of agile principles, ethos & engineering practice.
Holistic Able to coach the whole organisation.
Self-organising Coaching teams to self-organise & find their own way.
Adaptive Whilst I have extensive experience in Scrum and XP practices I coach an adaptive,
principle led approach (every project is different, every team is different).
Friendly A light supportive touch: informal 1:1 chats, pairing, and facilitation.
Sharing Confident trainer - tailored hands on courses in agile behaviours & practices.
Expert Engineer Teams can leverage my in depth experience covering all aspects of development.
Automator I believe automation is key to the success of agile, so I coach effective CI/CD,
BDD & TDD. We should aim to be always be ready to release.
Personality
Team Player Pairing, sharing, coaching, helping & working for my teams.
Innovator I strive for smarter working: best practice + innovation + latest tech.
Dev Savvy Through scores of projects I know my way around development.
Explorer Whilst being loyal I’ve always sought to be on the latest leading edge projects.
Honest & True Principled, transparent, tell it how it is type of guy.
Quality Minded In my nature to build in appropriate quality as we develop.

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Experience
South Hampshire
Agile Cooperative
Dec 14 to Dec 15
 Green field development of my own ethical business applications following
agile engineering best practice (DDD, CQRS,C#, VS2015, Web-API,CSS,
MVC 5,SQL Server,Entity Framework 6).
 In future I plan is to complement this with contract, agile consultancy, Scrum
Mastery & coaching work as I love to share my learning & learn from others.
Agile .NET
Developer
Ordnance Survey
Field Planning Tool
Sep 14 to Nov 14
 Allocation of work to surveyors (C#, Arc Objects, VS2013, Resharper,
NCrunch, NUnit, Moq,Specflow,TDD, BDD,OO A&D, Design Patterns,
Scrum, Coaching).
 Continuous Integration & Delivery (Jenkins,MSBuild).
 Hosted Agile Community Workshop on Retrospectives.
CI Dev Ops
Developer
Ordnance Survey
GenIE Generalisation
May 14 to Sep 14
 Automated environment spin-up (Puppet,Geppetto,RSpec, Vagrant,Ruby,
VirtualBox,Git, Linux, Bourne,Oracle, Scrum,Scrumban).
 Presented environment spin-up framework to OS Developers Event.
 Continuous Integration & Delivery (Jenkins,Soap UI)
 Presented my Arc Objects CI to Tech Spotlight event.
Agile .NET
Developer
Ordnance Survey
GDMS Object Editor
Nov 11 to May 14
 Geospatial editing tools (C#, Arc Objects,Resharper, NCrunch,NUnit,
Moq, Specflow,TDD, BDD,SVN, OO A&D, Design Patterns, Scrum).
 Developed automated Test framework (C#,ArcMap,XML, QTP, NUnit,
Jenkins,WIX, Scrum).
 Agile Engineering Practices Facilitator for Geospatial development.
 Designed & delivered Jenkins Training courses.
 Hosted Agile Community Workshop exploring Agile Principles.
 Founded OO A&D Community & facilitated sessions.
 Presented Resharper tips to .NET Community
Geospatial Analyst
Ordnance Survey
Nov 10 to Feb 11
Apr 10 to Jun 11
 Comprehensive modelling of OS geospatial systems.
 Engaged with stakeholders and contributors across OS & presented the model
widely. The model highlighted many areas for architecturalimprovement and
was a key input to strategy workshops. (Analysis,Enterprise Architect).
FME Developer
Ordnance Survey
Feb 10 to Mar 10
 Analysis, design and development of application to generate Contractor cross-
charges (FME,Access, Excel).
CI Adviser
Ordnance Survey
MRDP
Jul 10 to Nov 10
 Set-up continuous integration builds (Cruise Control, Ant, Clearcase).
 Advised team on automated testing.
 Designed & developed 10k extraction (Oracle SOA Suite,BPEL,Java).
Developer
Ordnance Survey
PSMA & Web
Services
Jun 11 to Nov 11
 Publishing of OS VectorMap Local(A&D,UNIXscripting).
 WMS for OS products (Geoserver,PostGIS/Postgres,Centos,Scrum).
 Developed auto test framework (Oracle,UNIXScripting, SQL).
Technology
Community Lead
Ordnance Survey
Dec 09 to Jan 11
 Collaborating with Tech Champions & stakeholders throughout OS I drove
forward my vision for Technology Communities in OS.
 Promoted communities, e.g. presentation to IS Comms Forum.

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Agile Community
Lead
Ordnance Survey
Dec 09 to Jun 10
 Co-founded and facilitated the OS Agile Community.
 Organised & chaired forums.
 Provided consultancy to teams considering or starting Agile.
SOA Developer
Ordnance Survey
Jan 10 to Mar 10
 Developed Data Retriever Service (Cruise Control,Oracle SOA Suite,
BPEL,WS, XSD).
Tech Lead then
Scrum Master
Ordnance Survey
Phoenix/GDMS MPF
Jun 06 to Dec 09
 First GDMS Scrum Master – introduced Scrum.
 Architected MPF – publishes OS spatial data to product stores.
 Tech lead team of 5 (C# / .NET, NHibernate, Oracle)
 Engaged with stakeholders across OS & externalconsortium.
 Introduced CI (Jenkins,NUnit)
.NET Technology
Champion
Ordnance Survey
Aug 08 to Dec 09
 Suggested & designed role. Established .NET Technology Community.
 Evaluated & demonstrated .NET tools (VS2010,CruiseControl.NET,NUnit,
FxCop,NHibernate).Created OS .NET Standards.
Senior Developer
Ordnance Survey
Phoenix Publication
Apr 03 to Jun 06
 Publication Adapters (C# / .NET,Oracle), OSMM Generator (C++,OCCI,
Oracle,GML),Address visitor (C++,Objectstore,OSMM).
 Requirements analysis (use casing,UML,workshops)
 Presented overview of adapters to 50 Phoenix representatives.
Team Leader
Ordnance Survey
Mercury
Apr 98 – Apr 03
 Led team of 6 to develop the update component of Mercury. (OO A&D,C++,
ObjectStore,Java,Korn)
 Led team of 3 prototyping integration of geospatial data (Gothic, DSDM).
Researcher
Ordnance Survey
Feb 98 to Apr 98
 Feasibility study for using image compression. Evaluated tech options.
 Automated system testing of the NLPG Hub component of the NLIS Pilot - 3rd
prize BCS awards 98. (UNIXBourne Shell & PL/SQL)
Tech Lead
Ordnance Survey
Apr 97 to Dec 97
 Led team developing automated testing of DDMS' TOPO-96 release (UNIX
Bourne Shell ,PL/SQL)
UNIX Developer
Ordnance Survey
Jan 97 to Apr 97
 Solely responsible for all aspects of development of 50K-HEIGHT system. To
my knowledge no bugs have been found in this system during its life (UNIX
Bourne Shell, automated testing).
Pro*C Developer
Ordnance Survey
Sep 96 to Jan 97
 Link Meridian to ROADS data to incorporate admin & land use areas into the
RDS product (C, Pro*C,Oracle).
Analyst/Designer
Ordnance Survey
OSPLOT2
Apr 95 to Sep 96
 Scoping study to inform future development of plotting at OS. This evaluated
technical options.
 Analysis & design of the plotting component of OS Landplan product.
Tech Lead
Ordnance Survey
Address-Point
Sep 92 to Apr 95
 Designed and coded extract & customer supply applications (Pro*C,PL/SQL,
SQL*Loader, Oracle,Bourne shell).
 Tech led team developing 2nd
release.
 Automated Test Work Group member – evaluated test tools.
Developer
Ordnance Survey
Small Scales
Jan 91 to Sep 92
 Developed gazetteer update (UNIXBourne Shell )
 Developed TIFF validation (FORTRAN)

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Interests
Family Very happily married with three great children.
Sports Player Volleyball, 5 a side & tennis. Captained several league winning teams.
Board Gamer Love strategy games like Ticket to Ride. Invent new games and adapt existing.
Environmentalist I campaign locally for a more sustainable way of living.