IT Project Manager within a programme to transform Dogs Trust’s IT landscape, moving away from a legacy bespoke system to use Salesforce CRM, Informatica and Tableau tools to build an infrastructure for the future. Also supported the transformation of the IT operating model to use Professional Scrum and attained Scrum Master (PSM 1) certification. Delivered a major Salesforce release across Dogs Trust teams to change the way Supporter cases are managed to save time and enable accurate reporting. Successfully delivered with minimal live issues. Additionally managed business change aspects to ensure affected users were engaged and trained effectively.

Team Leader of a Covid Rapid Test Centre for Haringey, responsible for operational management of a team of up to 25 operatives - ensuring excellent customer service, that health and safety rules are rigorously applied, and that accurate daily reporting is provided to the Chief Executive and senior management team.

Supporting the production and delivery of meals to key workers, care homes and other charities.

Senior Project Manager in a programme/portfolio team delivering key outcomes. As part of the role I have line managed a small team of project managers as well as supporting the wider team with Portfolio Management including resource management, quality assurance, issue, risk, and dependency management. Projects are delivered using a rigorous operating model incorporating standard governance stage gates, engaging with Director level stakeholders for direction. The team supports internal corporate customers such as: Financial Services, Legal, Comms, Facilities, and Personnel. Projects can involve Waterfall/Lean Kanban processes and commonly require working closely with vendors from procurement to delivery. Managed a wide range of projects including:- Delivered a project to implement Deeplinking to drive customer usage of a critical iOS retail app and increase John Lewis sales revenue.- Delivered a rapid integration with a Facilities Management 3rd party to support an outsourcing business change and realise significant cost savings. This impacted the whole Partnership.- Delivered a GDPR compliance project for key Personnel systems in order to comply with critical Audit risks.- Delivered a secure cloud-based solution (Way2Pay) to support internal staff catering services delivered and hosted by a 3rd party, this is in use by over 8000 users.- Delivered a secure portal to enable ex-employees to gain access to key sensitive documents in response to a business critical HMRC request.Supported and participated in an IT change initiative to adopt a continuous delivery DevOps model involving learning to adopt a Servant Leadership style and a continuous improvement approach.Away from project work, I was part of a division wide team that examined how diversity and inclusion could be improved. This led to “Bring Yourself to Work” week where people shared any skill with their team, and ultimately to a new company value “Be yourself , always”.

Managed a wide range of projects including but not limited to:- Migration of all BMJ staff from Lotus Notes to Google Apps for all email, calendar and collaboration work. Achieved significant business transformation (http://goo.gl/8EcV5B)- Procurement and implementation of cloud based staff performance management system for the BMA.- a business change project to redesign the performance management and reward approach for all staff at the BMA- a technology change project to replace the whole Local Area Network and Wi-fi infrastructure for the BMA to make it ready for the next 5 years of growth.- Business critical projects to upgrade all BMA and BMJ desktops from Windows XP to Windows 7, successfully completed in a highly challenging timeframe.- Brand Development project for the BMA that for the first time delivered a brand story (purpose) for the BMA agreed by senior management and elected officials.- Successful delivery of two legally compliant ballots of BMA members for industrial action. This business process had not been run in the BMA for almost 40 yrs and had to be designed from scratch.- Procurement and implementation of an enterprise-wide Content Management System (SDL Tridion) and brand new corporate website for the BMA.- Implementation of home working technology in the BMJPG.- Management of a group of suppliers to install an enhanced resilient internet connection to the BMA headquarters.

Responsible for managing and performing major renovation projects to the late Victorian property I lived in at the time

Finance Division - a wide range of assignments including:- Programme Office Manager for a programme within one of the largest IT Integrations in Europe arising from the merger of NatWest and Royal Bank of Scotland, this involved coordinating multiple development and testing teams, managing risks and dependencies in a highly charged political environment..- Project Manager at Reuters Limited of a Global Lotus Notes R5 Deployment Project that impacted over 20000 users in 80 countries. - Project Manager at Reuters Ltd for the implementation of Citrix Winframe Thin Client Computing, IBM MQSeries Messaging products, and Compaq NT Cluster technology.- Project Manager at Reuters Ltd of a large strategic development project team based in different global locations to deliver a new product for the US market to provide historical financial information for corporate investors.

Millennium Services Unit - a range of roles including:- Participating in aggressive recruitment campaign to support Millennium Services business requirements- Production of proposal documents which led to winning new Millennium Services business- An assignment at Bank of Scotland to perform a rapid analysis of all mainframe code to collect the information required to develop a high level costing of the impact of Millennium date processing and European Currency changes.

Automotive Division - Ford Motor Company - A wide range of roles based on-site including:- Project Manager and DBA of a Marketing and Sales system which formed part of their strategic sales forecasting business. - Development Phase Project Manager of a large mainframe development in the Finance department of Ford. The software was developed in COBOL II and the DBMS was DB2.- Analyst/Programmer on a project to convert and enhance a vehicle accounting system for Ford. The first phase involved converting the system which ran on Sperry Univac machines in 11 countries, to run on an IBM 3090 mainframe.

Pfizer Pharmaceuticals - responsible for documenting a complex management information system designed to enable a large pharmaceutical company to comply with government legislation.