chris andrews

Career Highlights Busy Bees • Led delivery across multiple concurrent data workstreams including platform transformation, reporting, migration planning and data warehouse initiatives within an AWS-based data ecosystem. • Joined the first AWS Data Team following a major organisational rollout. • Improved delivery predictability by approximately 60% through refinement of Scrum and Kanban practices. • Led delivery planning and migration activities for rollout to 300+ nursery centres. • Delivered a new onboarding workflow and communications process sending over 27,000 customer emails. • Established governance and prioritisation processes across Finance, Reporting and third-party vendors. British Airways • Joined a large-scale delivery programme at a critical release stage for two major initiatives. • Created and implemented release plans that enabled both projects to deliver successfully and on time. • Improved team quality practices through BDD, Three Amigos and structured refinement. • Supported migration from legacy systems to AWS microservices architecture. Offshore & Distributed Delivery • Extensive experience leading distributed engineering teams across India, Bulgaria, Ukraine, China and the Philippines. • Strong focus on delivery transparency, cultural alignment and effective collaboration. • Created psychologically safe environments enabling honest communication and continuous improvement. • Established effective demo, playback and requirement validation practices to improve delivery quality and reduce rework.