Rich Livett

Technical Delivery Lead (Platform and software development)

Rich leads the GSU software development and platform(DevOps)teams in GSU. Rich is a Certified Scrum Professional – Scrum Master with over a decade’s experience supporting software delivery teams to deliver experts systems, national forensic databases and tracking systems for industrial stem cell production and genomics including the UKs covid 19 response.

Rich remains an advocate for teaching and training particularly through the Open University for teams members he works with. Rich is interested in applying system thinking tools such as Soft System Methodology (SSM) to improve process and outcomes.

My timeline

• Technical Delivery Lead (Platform and software development)

• Lead Scrum master - Genomic Surveillance Unit

• Senior manager for core operations LIMS (Genomics & Cellular)

• Clinical sequencing (GCLP) with GenoLogics Clarity LIMS goes live

• First Product owners (Scrum) secure certification with scrumalliance at Sanger

• Cellular Genetics and Phenotyping (GCaP) pipeline with Beagle LIMS goes live

• Joined