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England, United Kingdom

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

Nottingham, England, United Kingdom

• Leading the Business Operations department to own the agile tooling strategy, provide valuable data-based insights across scrum teams and the wider portfolio domain. Also responsible for managing vendors and ensuring.
• Established the ‘Operations and MI’ team to be a credible and recognised capability. Provide PowerBI driven business intelligence across scrum teams that influences portfolio domain and business unit exec.
• Completed strategic agile, resourcing and project management tooling review. Confirmed current state across 30+ scrum teams and progressed towards the longer term direction of an Aha!/JIRA/Slack operating model.
• Completed a consolidation of time recording systems for ~500 departmental users and align to the KeyedIN toolset.
• Ensured wider department hit it’s £16m FY20 budget and met BU financial expectations. Intervening as required, with Engineering, Portfolio & Finance, to own specific remediation plans.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Leadership of the Software Development and Business Analysis capability departments. Managed 70 permanent team members and a further 50 incremental vendor & contract staff. Led the management team to actively recruit.
• Introduced and embedded an operational model that leveraged constrained technical & functional experts, resulting in significant improvement in overall oversight and knowledge management.
• Owned the budget and resource plan across the whole UK&I Product Development function (~£10m) and delivered over £2m of in-year cost reductions.
• Led the combined Software Development, Business Analysis and Testing teams to further drive operational alignment, improve resourcing and decision-making efficiency.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

• Promoted to lead a high performing IT team responsible for Identity & Fraud products that underpinned £30m annual revenue. Managed 15-20 onshore and offshore team members to deliver the required enhancements & regular.
• Accountable for ~£3m annual capex & opex budgets, with successive years of underspend.
• Led strategy to rebalance SDLC activities towards an onshore/permanent led resource model. This required significant recruitment and on-boarding, which resulted in increased quality and agility, at a lower total cost.
• Led the team through three years of significant organisational change that required strong people and change management skills to ensure smooth transitions and future state adoption.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Transitioned from senior project manager role to portfolio lead that involved line managing 3 project managers within the ID&F IT team and increasingly performing the Senior Supplier role for the team’s delivery projects. The role involved working with a matrix of colleagues across the IT team to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality projects..

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Joined Experian as a senior project manager and led a number of projects within the ID&F business unit, the most significantly being the CIFAS Transformation project, a £650k/9month fixed deadline project.

London, United Kingdom

• Lead Project/Programme Manager for £3m strategic print outsourcing project, which migrated the entire RBS Group’s central UK printing (~40,000 products) to a third party company. The role involved leading the.
• Delivered the key infrastructure to contractual milestones without financial penalty and under budget.
• Managed 5,000 host changes without significant post-implementation issues and no customer SLA impact, which was recognised with an RBS Silver Excellence award from the IT Director.Programme managed delivery of 7,000.
• Project was delivered on time and recognised as one of the initial benefits towards RBS Strategic Review.During this role I also led a research project into Lean IT project delivery methodologies and principles as part.

Basildon, Essex

• IT Application Support Manager – Dealer SystemsResponsible for $2.8million Production support budget and team for Dealer Management System, leading a 2nd and 3rd level support team of 10 technical specialists. Also.
• Used ITIL principles to shape the application support processes & model
• Reduced outstanding support tickets by 75%, which allowed a reduction in on-going budget
• Delivered monthly production support releases to improve system stability and user satisfaction

Basildon, Essex

• IT Helpdesk Team Leader – Purchasing SystemsDesigned and implemented the application support model for European portion of $300 million new global purchasing application. This included building up and running the.
• Improved the team efficiency to take on additional systems and user volumes
• Increased customer satisfaction with the service and response times achieved

Brentwood, Essex

• IT Project Manager and Business Analyst – Lean Production Project manager and business analyst for a new Lean Production IT application. This role included specifying the central algorithm to conduct the production.
• System delivered on time to support new engine production in Valencia, Bridgend and Dagenham
• Algorithm was recognised with a Henry Ford Technical Achievement award
• Obtained an internal Greenbelt accreditation and complete two 6-sigma projects

Wigan, United Kingdom

• 3 Summer Engineering Placements: IMI - 12 weeks each summer of 1996, 1997 & 1998
• Designed, built and installed electronic control circuit for wire drawing machine
• Designed and built prototype electronic circuit for infra-red communication link between boiler control circuit and technicians’ laptops – included in market product
• Increased agility in manufacturing cell by designing quick changeover machine tools

Meng, Manufacturing Engineering, 1St Class

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