Summary
Brad Ward is a technical co-founder and seasoned agile practitioner with over a decade of experience building web products and leading cross-functional teams. He co-founded GroupMap and TeamRetro, combining hands-on development with product leadership to deliver collaborative facilitation and retrospective tools used by distributed teams. His background includes developer and consulting roles at ThoughtWorks and program management at Microsoft across Office Labs, Bing Shopping and Xbox subscription services, giving him a strong mix of startup grit and enterprise-grade process. Brad moves fluidly between coding, product strategy and agile coaching, and often translates research-driven ideas into polished user-facing features. Based in Perth, he pairs a creative advertising education with computer science training—an unusual combo that informs both his UX sensibility and technical approach.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
BCM, Computer Science, IT Applications, BCM, Computer Science, IT Applications at The University of Western Australia
BA, Creative Advertising, BA, Creative Advertising at Curtin University
English