Colin Fairhurst
Senior Product Owner | Enterprise Platforms & Agile Product Delivery
London
Professional Summary
Senior Product Owner with deep expertise in B2B enterprise software, cloud platform migrations, and complex workflow automation.
Demonstrated success leading cross-functional engineering squads and aligning diverse executive stakeholders to deliver scalable digital products.
Work Experience
Aldermoor Solutions
London
Lead Product Owner
Mar 2021 – Present
- Defined multi-year product roadmaps and strategic release priorities for an enterprise multi-tenant supply chain platform serving over 80 commercial clients.
- Led backlog refinement, sprint planning, and acceptance reviews across two agile delivery squads comprising 16 engineers and designers.
- Introduced automated document validation workflows that cut manual transaction handling cycle times by 38%.
- Chaired fortnightly stakeholder steering forums with executive sponsors to ensure deliverables aligned with corporate OKRs and customer commitments.
Veloquence Systems
London
Senior Product Owner
Jun 2016 – Feb 2021
- Managed the end-to-end product lifecycle for a mid-market regulatory reporting and auditing platform.
- Partnered with compliance specialists and software architects to deliver statutory reporting modules ahead of mandatory industry deadlines.
- Maintained well-defined user stories and explicit acceptance criteria in Jira, sustaining an average sprint delivery completion rate of 92%.
- Conducted structured user interviews with compliance officers to simplify core navigational workflows, reducing customer onboarding requests by 25%.
Kestrel Dataworks
Reading
Product Owner
Jan 2012 – May 2016
- Owned the functional requirements and sprint backlog for an internal data ingestion and business intelligence reporting portal.
- Authored process flow documentation, user stories, and technical specifications alongside data engineers.
- Shortened routine monthly data aggregation cycles from three business days to under two hours through automated ingestion pipelines.
Education
University of Bristol
Bachelor of Science (Honours) · Computer Science with Management · Bristol · 2:1 · Oct 1984 – Jun 1987
Curriculum focused on software engineering fundamentals, database systems, operational research, and commercial management principles.
Key Projects
Enterprise Core System Modernisation
Jan 2022 – Apr 2023
- Orchestrated phased decommissioning and cloud data cutover of a legacy on-premises ERP system without business disruption.
- Coordinated user acceptance testing and user adoption workshops across regional operations units.
Key Skills
Product Backlog Prioritisation
User Story Mapping
Agile & Scrum Delivery
Roadmap Strategy
Stakeholder Management
Sprint Planning
Acceptance Criteria Definition
Jira & Confluence
Business Process Modelling
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Languages
English
C2
French
B1
Certifications
Certified Scrum Product Owner (CSPO)
Scrum Alliance · Apr 2014
Professional Scrum Product Owner II (PSPO II)
Scrum.org · Sept 2018
Voluntary Experience
Camden Youth Technology Club
London · Oct 2019 – Jun 2024
- Agile Project Mentor
- Mentored secondary school pupils on team collaboration techniques and basic product planning for regional community technology challenges.