Christopher Keane Email & Phone Number

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the development and maintenance of 5 national IT systems that contribute to the UK’s clinical research capability. Manage 2 agile teams; an off-shore development team of 9 programmers; and an infrastructure provider:• Introduced agile development methods to the Health Research Authority and offshore development team; resulted in faster release to live environments and increased user satisfaction.• Coordinated the migration of all of the Health Research Authority’s operational IT systems to a new data centre within time and budget constraints, resulting in substantial savings.• Led teams of developers and testers in the successful development and testing of a number of major releases across the Health Research Authority's operational IT systems.

London, United Kingdom

• Led the development of a national Management Information System, HARP, for the Health Research Authority within both time and budget.• Managed a series of complex enhancements to HARP to support new ways of working within the Health Research Authority.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for developing user acceptance testing plans for a series of major updates to the Clinical Research Network's central IT system for managing permissions for health research studies:• Managed and coordinated user acceptance testing for a number of developments to the Clinical Research Network's national R&D approvals management system, the CSP Module.• Created complex test scenarios for the introduction of major new feature in the CSP Module.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing business analytics for the central coordinating centre of the Clinical Research Network:• Developed a series of reports in Excel to monitor the Clinical Research Network'sperformance against national KPIs.• Developed and introduced a LEAN management boards for the Clinical Research Network's regional research governance offices, allowing them to track KPI data.

Newark

Responsible for the technical and commercial development of Infonetica’s key products RED, IRAS and ReDA. Managed teams of developers and testers that supported each system:• Redeveloped and marketed ReDA (a health research MIS) increasing revenues from approx. £50,000 to £500,000, this included the introduction of 4 national systems based on ReDA.• Developed a MIS system used to track human tissue samples, used by over 10 trusts.

Newark, United Kingdom

Responsible for developing training courses to support Infonetica’s MIS:• Introduced and delivered a national training programme, to support the role out of an ethics management MIS, RED. • Developed and introduced a training course to support ReDA.

Sunderland, United Kingdom

Responsible for the development and delivery of numeracy and literacy courses to school leavers and asylum seekers within the Sunderland area. Managed over 15 staff and delivered a wide range of different courses.

Training officer in the RAF, responsible for developing, managing and providing training in areas as diverse as leadership, wide area network technologies, mathematics and digital electronics. Led an IT systems delivery team and also oversaw quality management.

Chemistry, Chemistry, 2(Ii)

Activities and Societies: 1983 to 1984: President of Student Halls of Residence. 1981 to 1984: Member of Halls of Residence Football Team.

Pgce Chemistry/Physics