Vishal Somal
Independent Agile Consultant
United Kingdom
§ Agile Practitioner with experience as Agile Transformation Lead, Agile Coach and Agile Project Manager/Delivery Lead/ Scrum Master in Insurance Brokers, Retail Banking, Investment Banking, Insurance, Travel, Vehicle Leasing, Education and Public Sector in the UK and multi-site, multi-vendor, onshore-offshore models.
o Agile Transformation Lead and Coach at a leading Insurance Broking (Marsh McLennan)
o Agile Lead and Coach for regulatory work in Retail Bank (Santander UK) helping the core Payments division on their Agile journey.
o Agile Lead at an Investment Bank (Bank of America) supporting a large distributed (multi-site) programme that also involved multi-vendors.
o DSDM (Dynamics System Development Methodology) Lead for developing applications for a leader in Travel industry in UK
§ Agile Transformation Lead, Agile Coach with experience of transforming client organisations (including FTSE 100 clients) to adopt Agile framework.
§ Practice Head - Agile Centre of Excellence (Agile Practice Head) in Mastek Ltd. with responsibility for global adoption of Agile practices in the organisation.
§ ECB (English Cricket Board) Level -2 Certified Cricket Coach
§ Manager of Age Group Cricket at Bedfordshire County Cricket
§ As the Lead Coach, my team of U13 Bedford Cricket Club reached the Nationals Finals of 2016-2017 season