Olwen Milne
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Senior Engineering Manager
St Andrews, Scotland, United Kingdom
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Jobs
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Engineering ManagerOak National AcademyMar 2026 - Current (8 months)- Engineering ManagerThirdfortFeb 2024 - Mar 2026 (2 years 2 months)
- Senior Engineering ManagerZegoNov 2022 - Nov 2023 (1 year 1 month)Small (~100) B2B UK and EU business with an early startup approach to find market product fit.
Emphasis on extremely lean processes, rapid iteration and experimentation.
Highly collaborative approach with product, data and infrastructure teams.
Senior engineering team, Python/Django and React.
Solely responsible for the line management, wellbeing, performance and growth of 7 developers and one engineering manager.
Supported the promotion of 4 engineers.
Also responsible for the delivery and communication of the team’s work, collaborating with product managers to balance between speed of release and long term scalability.
Organised and promoted the first internal B2B Hackathon, now a regular event. - Engineering ManagerZegoDec 2021 - Nov 2022 (1 year)Lead an cross-functional engineering team, responsible for product delivery, wellbeing and development of engineers. Part of the EM community.
- Scrum MasterNCR CorporationMar 2020 - Dec 2021 (1 year 10 months)Scrum Master for three teams; development, DevOps and documentation. Collaborate to determine how we would approach the move to fully distributed work. Experiment with remote collaboration tools, including Miro, Butter, Mural, and Slido.
Continually innovate and learn ways to address team-specific challenges whilst meeting customer requirements. Seek to understand and adapt processes for a neurodiverse group including use of slack automations, searchable hashtags and bots.
Look after people’s mental and emotional health whilst working remotely, including the creation of a “Check-In” exercise to help everyone understand the variation in individual circumstances in the group and effectively support each other. - Technical WriterNCR CorporationAug 2017 - Jun 2020 (2 years 11 months)Liaise with multiple scrum teams and the Product Owner to gather requirements and technical information. Create, publish and maintain versioned documentation, policies, and release notes, using MadCap Flare. Advocate for the user during planning, providing a non-development perspective, and asking “why”? Inspect and adapt to address impediments around part-time and asynchronous working.
- Customer Training ConsultantCanon EMEAApr 2008 - Jun 2017 (9 years 3 months)Field based customer training consultant in print management software and hardware solutions.
- RTrainer and EducatorRadiowavesAug 2005 - Mar 2007 (1 year 8 months)Freelance consultant delivering training in schools and universities throughout Scotland on podcast content creation and youth journalism.
- TProfessional Development Consultant in personal financeThe Money TreeAug 2004 - Apr 2007 (2 years 9 months)Created and delivered personal and professional development courses in personal financial management to groups throughout Scotland.
Education
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- MSci, PhysicsUniversity of St Andrews
- Postgraduate MA, JournalismEdinburgh Napier University