About Paul
Paul Henman began his career as a coder on an email server development project in 1988 and has over 15 years experience in leading software development projects, more than half of that time in Agile environments.
| 2009 (current) | Looking to work with a dynamic, exciting software development group in Toronto, helping them adopt Agile practices to improve teamwork and productivity. |
| 2008- (ongoing) | Involved in the XP Toronto (and Agile) group; provided Agile training to non-software teams; led photo walks; volunteer IT consultant for not-for-profit group. |
| 2006-2008 | Scrum master* @ Trango, part of Siemens Enterprise Communications. Introduced Scrum & XP practices with large team enhancing an established call centre product. (*A scrum master is the Agile world’s somewhat-equivalent of a project manager.) |
| 2001-2005 | Project manager @ Ontario HIV Treatment Network. Focal point for coordination of external suppliers, interactions with clinical sites, and reporting to stakeholder committee. |
| 2001 | Emigrated to Toronto, Canada. (Secured Permanent Resident status, which permits working anywhere in Canada.) |
| 1994-2001 | Projects manager & Quality Assurance manager @ Systematic Software Engineering Ltd. Led multiple concurrent projects for primarily healthcare and military customers. |
| 1992-94 | Porting team leader @ Uniplex (juggling 20+ flavours of UNIX). |
| 1988-92 | Software developer, Carrier400 project (X.400 email system) @ ICL (now part of Fujitsu). |
| 1985-88 | B.Sc. (Hons) Computer Science with Operational Research @ Lancaster University (Lonsdale College). |
Paul’s experience spans healthcare, military, government, transportation markets; he has been involved in all aspects of the software development lifecycle, from pre-sales discussions right through design, implementation, testing, delivery, training and support.
You can find more details in Paul’s (PDF) résumé and his LinkedIn profile.
