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District Brno-City, Czech Republic

• Primarily responsible for gripping portfolio planning and optimising delivery against challenging commercial priorities
• Driving forward new ways of working to minimise waste and maximise return on investment
• Advising and supporting Agile adoption across projects
• Providing day to day delivery assurance to circa ten plus Delivery Managers
• Regulatory Programme Manager responsible business critical change across projects
• Responsible for recruitment and retention of Delivery Managers; mentoring and career development

Global

• €300m programme to implement and rollout a state of the art solution to manage Shell's Fuel Card business. The solution manages 6m cards over 1.5m customers making 150m transactions a year across 30 plus countries
• Accountable for all CGI aspects of deployment and business readiness for the client’s two largest Fuel Card markets
• Led bi-weekly reporting to the programme management within CGI and client organisation
• Responsible for day to day project management of circa 10 stream leads across CGI and the client organisation including local configuration, training and user acceptance testing
• Managed the integration and interdependencies between the delivery plans provided by the various streams
• Owned the repeatable deployment model and continual improvement process

London, United Kingdom

• Transport sector Enterprise Data Warehouse Implementation for Network Rail
• £1m project to deliver circa 50 scorecards and dashboards to improve insight in revenue generation at 17 of the largest UK train stations
• Team size circa 12 consultants based across the UK
• Initially brought onto the project to complete a delivery assurance review. Identified a number of root causes for the significant delivery challenges and presented a remedial action plan. Subsequently led a “red-team”.
• Responsible for performance management of the consultants yearly appraisals
• Prepared and secured multiple time and material extensions worth £1m plus

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Energy sector Enterprise Data Warehouse Implementation for Shell's Fuel Card business
• Delivered a £3m transformation project to unlock customer insight via a replacement EDW providing various KPIs and data mining tools
• Managed a blended team of 25 consultants based across the UK and India
• Successfully delivered against challenging timelines in a complex multi-partner programme. This required extensive stakeholder management across geographical borders
• EDW built using Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 toolset including SSIS, SSRS and Sharepoint

Derby, United Kingdom

• Commercial sector Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) Implementation for Rolls-Royce
• Successfully delivered a £2m EDW to support the client’s purchasing and supply chain teams to monitor current demand and model flux through What-If scenarios
• Managed a mixed team of 15 contractors, landed and onshore CGI consultants
• EDW built using Informatica Powercentre, IDE and IDQ v8.6.1, Oracle 10g Grid and Cognos BI 8.4.1 toolsets

Manchester, United Kingdom

Public Sector EDW ImplementationBI Bid Manager for an independent watchdog of public services. Responsible for the production of external proposals which included the contract terms, scoping, planning, risk assessment, estimation and pricing as well as performing the internal resourcing and financial reviews throughout the bid process.

Slough, United Kingdom

• Telco sector Enterprise Data Warehouse for O2
• Managed the full lifecycle delivery of a portfolio of change requests to an existing Telco EDW which supported the client’s sales team with targeted advertising campaigns
• Team size circa 15 consultants
• Revised working practises to increase the performance of the team which had been failing to deliver to the business requirements of time, cost and quality
• EDW built using AbInitio 2.13, Brio Reporting and Control M

Sheffield, United Kingdom

Business Analyst and team leader of Logica and third party contractors for British Telecoms working on a project to provide an electronic view of paper cable records.

Computer Science Bsc, Computer Science, First Class

• First Class BSc Honours degree in Computer Science • Received individual award upon graduation for achieving the highest course average.

A Levels, 4 A-Levels With A-C Grade In It, General Studies, Biology And Mathematics With S