Anthony Hughes Email & Phone Number

London, UK

London, United Kingdom

• Program Manager for $15 million p.a. portfolio of world-leading music notation and education software products. Responsible for leading program teams through all phases of the product lifecycle (from concept to.
• Launching Avid’s first mobile application, Avid Scorch for iPad; preparing partner functions across the business for supporting this new platform and sharing the responsibility of designing the user experience.
• Responsible for the successful launch of the most recent version of Sibelius on time and under budget
• Leading development sprints – daily stand-up meetings, release planning, reviews and retrospectives.
• Radically improving localisation process to enable simultaneous release in seven languages from day one across product line for the first time.
• Pivotal role in assisting Product Managers with defining product line strategy, establishing roadmap and constructing ROI models.

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for leading software development teams – including contractors working locally and remotely – throughout the product development lifecycle. Reviewing product backlogs; assisting developers in estimation and.
• Developing and executing stabilisation and beta plan for Sibelius 6; all bugs in scope resolved prior to release to manufacturing.
• Leading the team responsible for developing the Groovy Music series of educational and consumer music-teaching software (targeting Foundation Stage, Key Stage 1 and 2 children) and companion website for child-friendly.
• Successfully launching radical redesign of the SibeliusMusic.com website, a community site for Sibelius users to share their content using the Scorch web browser plug-in.

London, United Kingdom

• Responsible for system and integration testing of all products during feature development in order to maximise quality and minimise risk. Deriving test cases and conditions from feature specification documents and.
• Leading functional testing for new product introduction, the Groovy Music suite.
• Editing and testing more than 1,700 musical scores for Sibelius 5’s Worksheet Creator feature, collaborating with authors and educators in US and UK.
• Building comprehensive regression test suite for all of Sibelius’ major features.

London And Bristol, England

• Responsible for leading the management of major incidents at the London and Bristol data centres for a top five IT services and consulting company; compliance with ITIL standards and operating to strict deadlines.
• Designing comprehensive trend analyses – both specifically for individual clients’ requirements and also for internal process management – suggesting areas for service improvement.
• Consulting on project transitions: implementing services for new clients and liaising with client service management, technical infrastructure support groups and call centre operations.
• Managing teams of Problem and Incident Managers in data centres and service centres, supporting up to 40 clients’ technical operations.

Ba Hons., Music

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