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Chertsey, Surrey, Gb

Project Management of projects within an Acquisition programme. Implementations of eProcurement, P2P & Invoicing systems (SAP, Foodbuy and Epsys) to ensure successful onboarding of acquired company. Migrating and onboarding acquired company data into parent company systems

London, Gb

Project Management of a Data Readiness & Enablement project to define and implement Target Operating Model (TOM), Data Architecture and Data Governance workstreams. Remediation of Data Quality & Data Management within a Dynamics365 Customer Engagement (CE) and FinOps (FO) ERP landscape (plus c20 other upstream data sources).Project scope consisted of Target Operating Model, Data Ownership, Governance, Strategy, Inventory, Accessibility, Management, Quality, Privacy & Protection, Retention, Security and Architecture.Delivery of a Microsoft Fabric based Data Analytics & Reporting platform (Fabric pipelines, Synapse, SQL Server, Semantic Layer, PowerBI) to facilitate BI reporting and acting as an AI (Artificial Intelligence) and ML (Machine Learning) enabler.

Longbridge, Birmingham, Gb

Project Management of several projects within an ERP transformation programme to migrate St Modwen enterprise Asset Management & Property Management systems from legacy ERP (Qube) to new ERP (Yardi).Management of Master Data Management project to remediate legacy data points and data quality before ingestion and consolidation into single-source-of-truth system (Profisee), using data rules hosted within Azure Purview.Definition, identification and onboarding of Data Owners and Data Stewards to ensure data quality does not regress during or post project.Integration from Yardi and Profisee into peripheral systems, including Forecasting & Planning system (Anaplan) and Azure Data Lake to facilitate data & analytics "self-serve". Management of a Reporting project to identify, document and map legacy reports into Yardi, Anaplan, Data Lake or Custom reports. Design/Build/Test/Rollout of custom reports/dashboards (PowerBI) via Azure DevOps Agile methodology.Management of Data Migration project to migrate data from legacy Qube ERP to Yardi ERP. Ingestion of data using ETL process into Yardi and Profisee systems..Projects executed using a mix of internal IT & Finance resources and external supplier partnerships (5th Street, Valcon, Lionpoint, GateOne)

London, England, Gb

Within Howdens Digital Solutions organisation, I managed a Programme of eCommerce projects relating to Howdens Sitecore based CMS (Content Management System) eCommerce platform. Delivered via a Scaled Agile (SAFe5) Release Train methodology using AzureDevOps, the team consisted of c150 resources across Howdens and 5 pan-European scrum teams from an outsource partner (EPAM).Programme consisted of the following projects:- Migration of Howdens UK CMS Sitecore website from on-prem to Azure cloud, decommission of legacy on-prem solution- Upgrade of Howdens UK CMS Sitecore website from Sitecore v8 to Sitecore v10 Content Manage & Content Delivery platform- "Internationalisation" development lifecycle of Sitecore framework to enabloe a "cookie cutter" approach to expedite non-UK country rollouts- Delivery of a template codebase to be used for all future country platform rolloutsIntegration via APIs and Pipelines into Howdens surrounding source systems (SAP, Product, Sales, Pricing, Discount Management, Account Management)

Birmingham, England, Gb

Delivery of Products, Projects & Programmes as a Systems Integrator with a focus on SAP customers.Specialising in Industry 4.0 Digital Transformations within SAP, Salesforce, Mulesoft, Azure Data and Artificial Intelligence services.Providing a wide service offering for SAP digital transformation activities coupled with Azure Platform; SAP Data Migration, Integrations, Analytics, IOT, Mixed Reality, AI and Chat Bots.Delivery of a wide range of products that improve the transparency and predictability of SAP Data Migrations and accelerate SAP Digital Analytics using Azure D&A.

Irving, Texas, Us

• Leadership: I realise strategic benefits by Directing a Programme and Project Management team across a European landscape using global resource pools• Delivering Value: I have increased delivery efficiency through implementation and ownership of a strategically aligned Portfolio, with c€40m P&L responsibility. I am accountable for a Portfolio aligned pipeline into either a CI/CD Agile Product/Release Train or Waterfall process• Maximising Resource: I have optimised Delivery capacity by implementing a forecast/capacity model to provide resource efficiency onto highest priority initiatives; ensuring the right people are working on the right initiatives• Spend Optimisation: I have increased McKesson revenue through close Portfolio, Programme and Project fiscal management; internal & external spend and benefit tracking. Implementation of an executive reporting model to assure constant budget tracking and benefit realisation to agreed business cases • Risk/Issue Management: I empower my team to manage Risks and Issues and act as an escalation point. I maintain a high-level overview but can and will dive into detail as required• Governance/Assurance: I have implemented a governance framework which has increased Programme and Project delivery efficiency and implemented consistency. Communication has been improved by implementing a Reporting model providing Project, Programme & Portfolio updates up to C-Suite level• Stakeholder Management: I have built and maintained strong executive stakeholder (Manage Closely) relationships that has greatly supported harmonious delivery of Programmes and Projects.• Development: I have ensured an agreed performance and individual-owned development plan is in place for each team member and personally mentor junior team members.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

• Directed a team of IT Programme and Project Managers across International region (UK/EMEA/ANZ). I also owned the associated Portfolio (c$30m P&L budget responsibility) and demand model.• Created a PMO and governance framework, tools & processes to ensure delivery consistency. This resulted in Portfolio cost reduction of $4m per year from a prior culture of missed deadlines and overspend.• Implemented a Resource Management model to map scheduled resource requirements vs capacity; resulting in productivity increase & resource related slip decrease (a major contributor to $4m save)• Successfully Programme Managed a contractual 3-way €300m partnership with CGI to transform Royal Shell's legacy card payment systems onto FleetCor’s card processing ERP product across 35 countries globally. Full SDLC gap build within an Agile product environment and ETL migration completed on schedule, resulting in a $2m year on year revenue increase.• Directed the migration of several acquired businesses into FleetCor domain. Transformation & migration of Application & Infrastructure landscape into parent company domain within TSA constraints, enabling rapid revenue stream growth.• Responsible for Delivery input into Business Development European Bid/RFP and Merger & Acquisition/Divestment processes; ensuring technical soundness, pricing and resourcing in collaboration with Vendor Management teams to maximise contractual revenue streams

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Robert Half International (RHI) is a staffing & resourcing company with over 16,000 staff across 400 offices worldwide• Management of IT, Finance, Marketing, HR and Real Estate business transformation programmes and large projects within a global ITPPM environment• Managed numerous large Applications (Front & Back Office) and Infrastructure programmes and projects to approved schedule, budget and scope, using internal & external resources across several dispersed locations• Oracle PeopleSoft Financials Implementation: $17M, 4-year programme replacing EMEA & APAC MS Great Plains systems with Oracle PeopleSoft Financials v9.1 and upgrading existing North & South American Oracle PeopleSoft Financials v8.4 instance to v9.1• Oracle Hyperion HFM/FDM Implementation: $3M, 2½ year programme replacing legacy Finance reporting systems across 28 EMEA and APAC countries with Oracle Hyperion HFM & FDM, integrated into existing MS Dynamics GP, PeopleSoft, DRM and EDW systems• Real Estate programmes/projects with focus on office moves, new country openings, mergers/acquisitions, data centre implementations, VoIP and telephony implementations• 3rd party vendor management including tenders, negotiations and contracts• Involvement in pre-programme/project intake process; reviewing and approving new initiatives to ensure return on investment and alignment to company strategy and budget• Resource management ensuring forecast resource availability within programme and project lifecycles, using Enterprise PM software to track and monitor time and forecasts• Management and analysis of budget, stakeholders, resources, risks and issues• Monitoring, tracking and realising benefits throughout Programme and Project lifecycle• Regular Status reporting to Stakeholders, Sponsors, Steering and Executive groups (to CxO level)• International lead for ITPPM Focus Group, improving internal project framework• Mentoring project coordinators/managers managing small & medium sized projects

Cadbury Schweppes (CS) is an FMCG, Supply Chain & Manufacturing company with over 45,000 staff operating in 60 countries• Project management of infrastructure, online solutions, applications and infrastructure projects within CS Global IT department. Covering IT aspects of Finance, Marketing, Digital, Supply Chain and HR projects.

Miami, Florida, Us

Cable & Wireless is a telecommunications company with 16,000 staff operating across 50 countries worldwide• My role combined line management of a development team with project management and hands-on development of global e-commerce solutions & manual process automation

Coventry, West Midlands, Gb

Healthcare, Pharmaceutical, Supply Chain, Distribution• Development and implementation of clinical Patient Administration Systems (PAS) / Electronic Patient Record (EPR) systems• Creation of ETL migration scripts and completion of on-site and remote migration of EPRs/PASs from competitor systems; test labs for migration testing and parallel runs ahead of live onsite managed cutover

Oldbury, West Midlands, Gb

Bsc (Hons), Information Technology

Btec National Diploma, Computer Studies

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