James Thomson

Background

About James Thomson

As a leader I help people to create trusting and safe environments, where failures are viewed as outcomes and opportunities to learn, without blame or judgement. I have transformed teams of individuals into highly productive autonomous self-organizing teams, guiding the change to an agile mindset through the adoption of agile practices. I combine coaching, mentoring, training, consulting, and facilitation to empower teams and individuals to continually improve by running experiments to find more effective ways of working, that suit their unique needs and situation.I have extensive experience in individual 1:1 coaching, helping people work through topics including; working within and challenging their teams’ dynamics, adopting and understanding agile practices, tackling technical and product challenges and personal/career development.I am agile, technology and industry agnostic having worked with over 50 teams in industries spanning eCommerce, Retail, Government, Market Research, Card Payment Services, Loyalty Programmes, Statistics, Traffic Management, Accounting and Legal Practice Management. Products delivered include Digital, Mobile Apps, Cloud AWS and GCP, SaaS, ePOS, Real-time Systems, Micro Services, Data Warehouses, Data Migrations, and IT Infrastructure.My technical background includes hands-on experience in architecture, design, development, quality, deployment and support, Test Management, Database design and data modelling, Requirements engineering. Extensive programming abilities in a wide variety of development environments and databases including.NET, C#, SQL DBA as well as Java and Oracle. Process and regulatory frameworks including ITIL, PCI-DSS, PA-DSS, ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and CMMI.