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Shoreham-By-Sea, Gb

Brighton, United Kingdom

Responsible for full lifecycle of projects from start-up to post implementation, delivering application and associated process change within Bupa Global. Working on multiple projects in parallel, including projects up to £400k, delivering through Agile (Kanban and Scrum).Delivery achieved through a combination of onshore and offshore resources/scrums through 2 releases to over 1300 users.Managed a cross-site, cross-functional team responsible for analysis, financial and delivery planning, application change (development and change) and service introduction.

Staines/Brighton

Responsible for development and environment management for Bupa Global Business Unit, as part of a central IT function. Involved in multiple department-level initiatives to increase alignment, collaboration and communication across BBS-IT.Key accountabilities:• Provision of application development services and resource across projects and programmes up to £3m, through provision of up to 20 scrums supporting 10-15 projects and programmes in parallel• Build, configuration, release and environment management for all BI systems and environments• Leadership of 160+ staff, including permanent, domestic contract and offshore vendor staff • Vendor management of competing vendors delivering software, environment and testing services• Enablement of a burst resourcing model, varying between 20 and 120 resources to best support business needs• Stakeholder management at a head-of level and above• Project manager for small technical improvements projects, owning £100k capital budget

London

Responsible for all development and environment management for the core Bupa International insurance system. Implementation of agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban) and best of breed tools and processes to drive efficiency and better meet business need, across both onshore and offshore teams.Key accountabilities:• Provision of application development services and resource across projects and programmes up to £2m• Build, configuration, release and environment management for all BI systems and environments• Leadership of 160+ staff, including permanent, domestic contract and offshore vendor staff• Vendor management of competing vendors delivering software, environment and testing services• Stakeholder management at a senior manager level• Continuous improvement of standards and processes, including delivery approach, release planning and estimation

Staines (London)

Delivering and supporting complex IT change across varied technologies and systems, with multi-located teams, to high level of quality, on time and budget.Key accountabilities:• Provision of application development services and resource to internal project managers, supporting up to 6 concurrent projects• Leadership of 15 UK based staff, including permanent and domestic contractor• Vendor Management of software development and testing vendors• Stakeholder management to manager level • Continuous improvement of development and testing standards and processes

Dublin, Ireland

Leading and and support teams of specialists and developers through cycle of Waterfall project delivery. Liasing with internal and external clients to gather requirements, discuss progress and orchestrate a smooth implementation.Member of the Design Approval group, assessing all functional specification and designs for fit to planned architecture

Dublin, Ireland

Trained in VB5 and Oracle (Reports and PL/SQL) as a junior developer, Within 18 months, was working as a full Analyst Developer, on bespoke internal development using Java design and development projectsGained experience in analysis, development and testing within diverse projects relating to front end, database, batch and system integration activities.

Computer Science And Systems Practices, Is, First

Activities and Societies: Active in OU Mensa meet-ups and peer mentoring. While working fulltime, I completed a primary degree in Computer.

Theoretical And Mathematical Physics