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London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Managed a substantial $2M budget while spearheading the formation and orchestration of high-performance data teams spanning diverse geographical regions. Focussed on enhancing business comprehension of data's intrinsic value, its potential benefits, and the successful execution of prioritized projects. Key areas of delivery include:• Data discovery and comprehensive cataloging initiatives to broaden understanding and data utilisation• Evaluating data usage collection options and consumption solutions for best practice and fit with enterprise solutions• Overseeing the seamless delivery of data to an enterprise data lake, ensuring a centralized repository for efficient data storage and retrieval

London, England, United Kingdom

Led the definition of the Group Data Strategy, orchestrating alignment of business objectives, measuring capabilities, and crafting a strategic roadmap. Collaborated extensively with stakeholders across analytics, information management, and diverse business units to ensure unified direction.Additionally, spearheaded the development of a comprehensive Data Operating Model. This encompassed defining the spectrum of data team services, streamlining processes, and establishing a clear responsibility matrix.

Specialized in strategic guidance for Oil & Gas, Utilities, and Mining sectors. Recent highlights:• Crafted data strategy & roadmap for mining leader, aligning governance, management & architecture. Built implementation initiatives from benchmark assessment • Evaluated oil major's data architecture, aligning with best practices• Orchestrated cloud evaluation for oilfield services, recommended platform & architecture roadmap.Additional extensive experience leading teams to drive value through data analytics and in implementing data management tooling. Projects include:• Leading an agile team at a retail utility to create an AWS cloud data platform and generate customer and equipment insight from smart meter data• Leading a team to migrate an existing meter data management solution to SMETS2 compliant software. Full re-implementation, data migration and data cleansing.• Leading a team to optimize data usage for development and testing at a retail utility. Defined test data strategy, installed and configured EPI-USE Data Sync Manager and applied across ERP landscape