Curriculum vitae

Alec Martin

AI-enabled innovation and delivery

Innovation and delivery leader with more than 12 years across technology operations, DevOps/SRE, Agile delivery and organisational change.

I find valuable problems, shape practical interventions with users and subject-matter experts and carry ideas through prototyping, delivery and adoption. I am development-aware rather than a software engineer: able to interrogate technical choices, work credibly with specialists and use AI-assisted development to make ideas tangible.

I am especially interested in what technology makes possible for human judgement and agency inside organisations, and in how new ways of working become real rather than merely announced.

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Selected impact

Useful work, carried into the organisation.

01

Waterline

Conceived and built a reflection tool in response to an HR-sponsored question about burnout and organisational change. Pilot feedback has been unanimous: respondents said it helped them see something differently and that they would use it again. Backed by HR and wellness for rollout.

02

ClearView

Conceived and built a Jira-integrated delivery-intelligence application that exposed overcommitment and weak planning assumptions, contributing to delivery against commitment rising from approximately 50% to consistently above 80%.

03

Alignment Lab

Created a web application that turns team-purpose and values facilitation into reusable remote exercise paths. Championed by Training and Development and now a permanent offering on the company L&D platform.

04

Kanban Board Steward

Designed an Atlassian Rovo agent that turns Jira evidence into concise flow and planning reports. The pilot workflow was adopted successfully, further test teams are using it and the work has been presented to the wider group.

Experience

Wood Mackenzie

Scrum Master / Agile Delivery Lead

June 2024–present · Edinburgh
  • Created Waterline, ClearView, Alignment Lab and Kanban Board Steward by connecting organisational problems to user-centred design and AI-assisted development.
  • Selected by an SVP to strengthen coordination and transparency across a business-critical data-platform initiative spanning five teams, three departments and an external technology agency; surfaced dependencies, established ownership and supported delivery through production and user onboarding.
  • Revived and now lead the company Agile Community of Practice, establishing a focused core and using it as a platform for cultural change, capability development and practical innovation.
  • Led two teams from Scrum to Kanban and supported three others, redesigning roles, WIP controls, flow policies and cadences to strengthen ownership and delivery flow.
  • Designed and embedded purpose-and-values work that helped a reactive support-focused team clarify its direction, strengthen its organisational narrative and progress towards ownership of initiatives and migrations.
  • Received the highest available performance rating in 2025 for advancing delivery maturity and contributing to organisational culture.

Wood Mackenzie

Escalation Lead

May 2023–June 2024 · Edinburgh
  • Led global Production Operations escalations for client-affecting incidents, coordinating technical investigations, priorities, communications and handovers until service was restored.
  • Brought engineering, operations and client-facing stakeholders together under pressure, maintaining clarity on impact, ownership and the route to resolution.
  • Improved operational readiness through clearer runbooks, on-call playbooks and handover practices.

Wood Mackenzie

Operational Analyst; later DevOps Engineer

September 2014–May 2023 · Edinburgh
  • Progressed through application operations into DevOps/SRE-oriented work supporting global digital products and services.
  • Worked with AWS, CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Jira, monitoring, releases and production support.
  • Built the technical literacy and operational judgement now used to shape feasible ideas and collaborate effectively with engineering specialists.

Holyrood Communications

Conference Research and Development Executive

July 2013–September 2014 · Edinburgh

Researched public-policy priorities and translated them into viable conference propositions, programmes and audience experiences. Secured speakers, coordinated stakeholders and delivered events for professional audiences.

Digitas LBi

Media Content Manager

January–July 2013

Delivered client-facing digital-content and media-research work in an agency environment.

Technology and methods

AI-assisted prototyping · structured prompting and Kiro hooks · user-centred design · Jira · Confluence · GitHub · Bitbucket · AWS · Jenkins · CI/CD · Power Automate · Identity · Kong API Gateway · Splunk Observability/APM · APIs and data workflows · Scrum · Kanban · Lean · facilitation · coaching · dependency management · operational readiness · service transition

Education and qualifications

MA English Literature, First Class Honours

University of Edinburgh

Advanced Certified ScrumMaster · Certified ScrumMaster · ICAgile Agile Facilitation · ITIL V3 Foundation · Agile Teams in the Age of AI