BenchSci

Project Manager

-Independent Consultant-

- Work with individuals, particularly in high-stress industries like IT and tech, helping them to create strategies to maintain a balance between their personal and professional lives, boosting overall well-being
- I help IT leaders (team leaders and middle management) to enhance their emotional intelligence, decision-making and leadership development through personal coaching based on ICF principles.

Coach ICF ACC

As an experienced Agile coach, I guide organizations through the process of adopting and refining Agile delivery to foster a culture of collaboration, innovation, and continuous improvement. My work involves coaching teams, managers, and executives on how to apply Agile approaches such as Scrum framework and Kanban method to their specific contexts.

Agile Coach / Management Consultant

K&C (Krusche & Company)

While working in this position, I collaborated with numerous customers and assumed various roles. The clients included Nestle Switzerland, Informa Connect UK, Bosch Group, HSBC Germany. My responsibilities were diverse, as detailed below:

As a Portfolio Manager:
- Oversaw the company's entire project portfolio.
- Ensured the successful delivery of all portfolio components, involving 150+ people.
- Designed PMO processes and templates to support Delivery.
- Maintained the operational profit margin within the agreed target.
As a Program Manager:
- Managed two programs for the company’s key customers (team 50+ people).
- Implemented strategies that exceded to expected YoY accounts growth.
As a Project Manager:
- Managed predictive and adative projects with various types of customers, including startups, mid-size companies, global enterprises, and government organizations.
- Handled delivery with different contract types, including fixed-price, managed service, delivery team, and dedicated team arrangements.
As an Agile Coach:
- Guided teams in adopting the Agile culture and principles, while supporting several customers through their Agile transformations.
- Acted as Scrum Master for different customer and setups, including in SAFe.

Head of Delivery (customer-side roles: Project Manager / Program Manager)

I managed client-oriented software development projects, leading all stages of development process from pre-sale to completion. I ensured timely project delivery for customers such as Societe Generale, Informa, Burda, Puma, Avalgon, Solar-Log.

As the Head of the Business Unit, I was responsible for overseeing the project delivery excellence for the Business Unit Ukraine (BU UA). I served as the focal point for daily operational activities and organizational growth, maintained the agreed net profit for the BU.

Delivery Manager / Project Manager / Head of BU Ukraine

Bosch

As a Scrum Master I helped to establish a healthy Scrum cycle with predictable deliverables, reduced cycle time and lead time.

Scrum Master (via K&C)

SvitSoft

As a Project Manager, I managed client-oriented web development projects on schedule and achieved milestones for notable clients including Microsoft Ukraine, The American Chamber of Commerce, Ukrbud and Osvitoria.  Actively participated in planning, managing change requests, budgeting and stakeholder management.

As a Scrum Master, I oversaw the software development activities for the AdSaver product, a dynamic call-tracking software. Facilitated Scrum ceremonies, improving the team's productiviry to deliver reliable software with a 99.8% uptime.

Project Manager / Scrum Master

Indus Valley

Head E-commerce / Product Manager

JCDecaux

System Administrator

I’m a Project Manager and Agile Coach with over 10 years of experience helping distributed product teams deliver complex software development projects across a variety of environments - from startups and scaleups to Fortune 500 enterprises and government organizations.

What sets me apart is the ability to blend structured project delivery (PMP, PfMP) and Agile expertise (CSP, KMP, ICP-ACC) with coaching mastery (ICF ACC). This combination enables not just timely results, but sustainable team growth and human-centered leadership.

Currently, I’m working in the GenAI space, contributing to the development of frontier product. It’s a space full of ambiguity, experimentation, and rapid shifts - where my coaching mindset and delivery discipline help teams stay focused and resilient.

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Amanda Brock

OpenUK

UK industry body and advocacy organisation, with a vision to "Develop and Sustain UK Leadership in Open Technologies" - Open Source software, open hardware and open data through a focus on Community, Legal and Policy and Learning.
https://openuk.uk/

Director

International Telecommunication Union

Expert Network of the Digital Innovation Board Member

Mojaloop Foundation

Board Member

Speaker Bureau Member

FerretDB

Advisory Board Member

Supporting the Founder and CEO in growing a truly open source alternative to MongoDB, https://www.ferretdb.com/

Open Charge Alliance

Appointed as one of the first 4 OCCP Stabnard Ambassador in recognition of past contribution to its evolution and growth.

OCPP Ambassador

Scarf

Supporting the Founder and CEO in Scarf's business in open source usage analytics for sales and business intelligence at https://www.linkedin.com/company/scarf-sh/

The Stack

UK Research and Innovation

UK Exascale Science and Industrial Advisory Board Member

Digital Research Infrastructure Advisory Group

Rust Foundation

Distinguished Adviser

Tech London Advocates & Global Tech Advocates

Tech Advocate

Global digital leader with skills honed over 30 years across the width of global tech. I've built on 25 as a lawyer with 5 as CEO of OpenUK leveraging my unmatched digital and open source policy experience built over 30 years of contribution, 20 of them including open source.
Whilst my policy work has been demonstrably broad, my deep expertise is open source, primarily software but also AI and I was instrumental in the early stages of internet policy. 
Leading OpenUK my focus is on AI, software, hardware, data and standards that are open. 
We work on  3 pillars: community, legal & policy, and learning, we have secured the UK's position as a frontrunner in open technologies whilst collaborating globally.
We have evolved into a world-leading Think Tank/ advocacy organisation on digital and AI openness and demonstrating a substantial contribution to the UK economy. 
Our strategic policy shaping, community building, and a world-leading recognition program - in its 6th year's demonstrated the UK's Europe-leading open source contributions.
My 25 years of largely international legal experience, building product and organisations advising across all aspects of tech - from operating systems to data centres and fintech, developed skills in digital commercialisation, legal governance, and strategic planning combined with personal expertise in open source software, underpin our organisational mission of UK leadership and global collaboration in open technology.  Engaged at the bleeding edge of innovation I have helped to shape their legal frameworks.

Advisory work includes:
Not for proift Advisory Boards and Statutory Boards including UKRI's Exascale, The Cabinet Office Open Standards Board and Mojaloop Foundation. 
Enterprise Advisory currently spans open source metrics and analytics, database software, cybersecurity and agentic identity, and geospatial data. Previous roles include AI and an HR platforms. 
Primarily advising US-based start ups and scale ups, I've also worked with Irish and UK businesses.
My global speaking primarily embraces delivering  keynotes sharing insights on the transformative power of openness in digital environments and AI, strategically contextualising the conversation in a unique way bringing a policy perspective.  Past talks are shared on my website.

With Kunal Kushwaha in Bangalore Civo Navigate today. Great event!
#opensource

🇺🇦CEO OpenUK, Digital Leader - Raconteur 50 CEOs ‘25, Computing IT Leaders 100 ’23-25, Computer Weekly 50 Most Influential Women Tech ’23-25 - Board Member, Advisor, Writer, and Keynote Speaker.

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Are you one of the 100 attendees joining our 6th OpenUK Awards tonight?

Here’s a tip for your visit!
The Central Lobby Post Office 📮 in the House of Commons lobby is a favourite place of mine. If you get through Security early enough you can inexpensively send a letter - envelope and card are provided by the post office - and the envelope will have a House of Parliament post mark 🙂 
Great way to send a message or good wishes to someone! 📨💌 

Id like to wish our shortlisted nominees best of luck, Andy Piper ⁂ Bryan Boreham Daniel Gale , David Wood Dermoscopea, Flox Godfrey I. Jan Faracik Joe Birr-Pixton @Linux Vendor Firmware Service /fwupd, lowRISC CIC / OpenTitan, Dr Margaret Hartnett , MANYFOLD , Ministry of Justice UK Splink Team (Robin Linacre), OpenActive , Opemipo Disu , Dr. Ravinder Singh Zandu PhD, FBCS , Richard Purdie, Rustls (Rust Foundation), Sonia Cooper , Sourish Sharma, Universal Viewer, and UK Power Networks🍾🥂🏆

Thanks to our sponsors who make these awards happen on an equitable basis where it’s free to enter and to have one representative of each shortlisted nominee 

Thanks to our judges Liz Rice Nicolas Vibert and Lisa Allen 

And thanks to Zin N. and the House of Commons Events team 

#opensource #openukawards #community

🇺🇦CEO OpenUK, Digital Leader - Raconteur 50 CEOs ‘25, Computing IT Leaders 100 ’23-25, Computer Weekly 50 Most Influential ’23-25, Board Member, Advisor, Strategist, Mentor, Writer, and Keynote Speaker.

Calling India's Press/Media interested in AI?
🗞️ Press Preview 18th November at Civo Navigate India 🎧 for OpenUK's latest Road to the AI Impact Summit - AI Openness Report with Sai Rahul Poruri of FOSS United and British High Commission in India's Joshua Bamford and me

Report launches at Bengaluru Tech Summit, 19th November in panel session moderated by Abhishek Singh of IndiaAI

If you are in the Media and would like to join us in Bengaluru book your place
mailto:openuk@onebite.co.uk

#AI #AIImpactSummit #BTS2025 #BengaluruTechSummit #opensourceai #opensource #openuk #openhq

🇺🇦CEO OpenUK, Digital Leader - Raconteur 50 CEOs ‘25, Computer Weekly ’50 Most Influential Women Tech ’23-25, Computing IT Leaders 100 ’23-25. Board Member, Advisor, Writer, and Keynote Speaker.

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