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Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

A servant leader who facilitates program level processes and execution, drives continuous improvement, manages risks and escalates impediments while also acting as a full time chief scrum master for NAVBLUE's Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) implementation.

Guelph, Ontario, Canada

I manage Schema App's team of Software Developers and Dev Ops and am responsible for the technical direction, quality and delivery of the applications that make up the product portfolio.I oversee our technical strategy and engineering management processes from technology choices to Agile practices.

Toronto, Canada Area

Based in Toronto, I oversaw the technical direction and operation of Insight Vacations and Luxury Gold websites. I maintained internal and external partner relationships across the globe, including our development teams in Spain and India, and key business teams in the USA, UK, Geneva and Australia. I was responsible for a globally distributed team, including Product Owner, Scrum Master, Software Developers, QA, User Experience Design and Content Marketing staff.

London, United Kingdom

Created, recruited and managed Contiki’s 25 strong produect and engineering team, including 3 product owners and 1 support manager, to ensure the smooth delivery of the annual roadmap, technical strategy, hosting, support and overall management of Contiki’s website. I reported to Contiki’s Director of Digital and Technology, worked closely with both Contiki’s CTO and Vice President of Marketing, and reported weekly to Contiki’s CEO.- Introduced Product Owner model for Contiki’s software development strategy.- Dramatically increased development flexibility and output by creating a permanent 20 person development capability, distributed across London, Madrid and Delhi.- Improved software delivery timelines and business outcomes by building and recruiting new product owner team.- Improved service and reliability with change of both development and hosting agency partners.- Delivered US $1.5 million re-platforming and redesign of the website from Ruby on Rails to Sitecore on .Net

Bromley, United Kingdom

Head of Project Management at Contiki Marketing Lab, working I managed a team of Project Managers and support managers. I was responsible for the smooth running of Contiki’s online and mobile product roadmaps, and the development, hosting, support, and maintenance thereof.I reported directly to Contiki’s CTO, and was also responsible for reporting roadmaps and progress to Contiki’s CEO, and the Vice President of Marketing. I worked with Contiki’s regional offices to to ensure we have a good relationship and capture their valuable business requirements.My aim was to focus on driving the business value of Contiki’s technology platforms.Key achievements• Took control of annual development budget and associated spend.• Built new project management team, including recruitment, and line management thereof.• Introduced new support structure to better manage adhoc requirements of customers and internal stakeholders alike.• Changed both hosting and development suppliers to deliver better value and service.• Introduced roadmap and project processes.• Oversaw the re-platforming and redesign of the website from Ruby on Rails to Sitecore.• Promoting a culture of ownership within the team, with a focus on driving business value.

London, United Kingdom

As a project manager, I was responsible for many successful Contiki web projects, from technical API integrations to heavily designed marketing campaigns, with budgets up to $200,000. I was responsible for requirements gathering, business analysis, build and delivery.

Feltham, United Kingdom

I was responsible for the successful delivery of several critical web projects at Perform. I managed the project life-cycle, including requirements gathering, planning, change control, budget control, risk management, and reporting. I worked with both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.Day to day, I co-ordinated the development team, and interfaced with other departments such as design, infrastructure, AV engineering and production. I worked closely with the management of each department to ensure that my projects were sufficiently resourced. I liaised with all internal and external stakeholders so that all were kept informed of project progress and schedules.Key achievements• Successful delivery of the new Player video websites to 81 Football League interactive (FLi) clubs. This helped secure renewal of the £2million annual FLi contract.• Delivered £1million project for Abu Dhabi Media Company to live online stream the English Premier League to the Middle East and Africa.• Delivered the series 11 Big Brother 24hr live stream website.

Brighton, United Kingdom

I delivered successful projects for Oxford University Press, Palgrave Macmillan, Wiley Blackwell and others. These have ranged in value from £3,000 for a small update to £170,000 for a complete new platform.As a Project Manager at Semantico, I was required to ensure the smooth running of all stages of the project life-cycle. This includes project initiation, requirements gathering, planning, risk management, estimating, implementation and, once completed, handing over to the dedicated support team.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Software engineer producing large scale academic reference websites using Perl, XML, XSLT and other web technologies. This role required an in depth understanding of data processing and search technologies.I was responsible for technical architecture and specification of new platforms, as well as helping the project manager with requirements gathering, costing and risk analysis. I was often required to talk to both customer and internal stakeholders – being able to communicate complex technical issues in a straightforward way became a crucial skill.Projects included delivering new platforms to Oxford University Press, Macmillan, Wiley Blackwell, and others.Core technologies included Object Oriented Perl, XML, XSLT, RetrievalWare, Linux and Apache

Gatwick Airport

I was involved with BAA's year 2000 project. My task was to produce a model of the communication pathways between BAA's many computer systems, and identify any date based information that may need modification in light of Y2K fears at the time.I used a variety of modelling methods and was required to work with administrators and managers in several departments and locations