Chris Leishman

Member of executive staff at Neo4j, and responsible for navigating the grey zone between product engineering and the needs of the business, the customers and the community.

Technical founder and CTO of Screenspeak Studios / Lingovault, a Berlin and NYC based team focussed on getting people competent, confident and fluent in their target (spoken) language, using software applications designed for the multilingual work-travel lifestyles so many individuals and enterprises now practice in their home nations and globally.

International consulting across 4+ countries and numerous clients, performing numerous roles including: * Agile change program lead * Product manager * Product architect * Project/Program manager * Trainer * Agile Coach * Software developer * Deployment and operations coach (devops) * Business analyst * Scoping and project inception lead * Pre sales engagement lead

Provided analysis and coaching support for a business wide change programme.

Provided scoping, coaching and delivery support for improvements to the verivox.de website and to the internal delivery processes.

Developed technical product training materials and conducted on-site training for US based customers of ThoughtWorks Studios.

Conducted a rapid inception to scope out the development effort for an internal process change program.

Provided technical delivery support and coaching to an ongoing project

Project inception activities involving process analysis, project scoping and costing.

Senior Technical Program Manager for a rapid project recovery based in Pune, India.

Project Manager across multiple teams in a large programme of work based in Bangalore, India. The programme involved 8 delivery teams and approximately 150 developers. Responsibility for cross team collaboration, prioritisation of delivery efforts, and for all technical service provision across the programme, including development/test infrastructure, software build pipelines and deployment processes.

Business Analyst and Software Engineer for the development of the new lonelyplanet.com. Lead for the deployment effort, including systems and load test groups.

Principal Trainer for ThoughtWorks Immersion courses, a rolling 2 week program for all senior recruits globally covering Agile methodologies, project management techniques, consulting and technical delivery skills.

Business Analyst, Process/Iteration Manager and Agile coach for a series of workshops and projects related to online transactions and payments.

Principal Trainer for ThoughtWorks Immersion courses, a rolling 2 week program for all senior recruits globally covering Agile methodologies, project management techniques, consulting and technical delivery skills.

Lead software developer and Agile coach for several delivery projects.

Business Analyst, Java Developer and Coach for a back-office project and Agile enablement engagement. Mixed technical environment of VMS and Java. Blended delivery team including ThoughtWorks staff, Swann staff and external vendors.

Responsible for a small group of engineers, involved in the continued design and development of the control plane of a network-processing engine in a DSLAM device, using an embedded Linux system. In charge of job allocation, development direction and review.