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Stanford-le-Hope, GB

London, GB

Corringham, GB

My Sweet Spot is in delivering all forms and sizes of change. Including taking new business opportunities from sales to operations and beyond. Right the way through to improving and/or maintaining existing continuous change portfolios and aligning to the current business drivers and benefits. Within my previous roles which include, Interim CIO, Agile Coach.

London, GB

Agile Transition Leader for a respected FMCG company, beginning their transition to agility, starting with Data & Technology (D&T) encompassing 2700 people and their extended business owners. Beginning with my unique, experience-led, flexible approach, I have educated and coached C-Suite members, and their Senior, Core, and Extended leadership teams in the.

London, England, GB

Baringa Partners Devised and implemented Baringa’s organisational-wide Agile Capability Strategy within their “People and Process Excellence” business unit, focused upon enterprise-level transformations, leadership training, DevOps, and Lean Portfolio Management. As well as providing consultancy on a number of high-profile clients with regards to.

London, GB

On the back of coaching the bank in one of the city’s largest agile adoption programmes enabling delivery to a scale and timescale previously unprecedented within the bank. I was asked to continue that success further and wider. Re-imagining the structure, operation, and delivery value streams throughout HSBC Security Services. Providing executive.

London, GB

Transformed their ways of working by applying SAFe to the entire programme. Consisting of 2 ART’s, 16 Scrum & Kanban Teams, in multiple locations/time zones, totalling 250 resources to deliver a strategic global platform moving HSBC from 20+ place in the market to top 3 with a £175M programme budget. Widely noted, at all levels, that without applying these.

London, GB

Working for the Global Payments Programme Director, to initiate the agile mechanics for their programme of work to incorporate Design Thinking, Scaled Scrum framework & DevOps ensuring integration into existing PMO governance practice and other external elements.

London, GB

Establish and direct an Agile delivery programme within IT and Operations to deliver, best in class key global metrics and management information through an online portal, updated daily to operational decisions and focus from executive and board level members to front line operational managers.Established and maintained 10 focused Scrum teams, with 3 Scrum.

London, GB

Working for HSBC’s Global Innovation CIO, I delivered a Google Cloud Platform POC to aid progression towards its strategic aim to remove on premise reliance and make full use of GCPs machine learning capabilities.

London, UK, GB

Capco is a consultancy focused on financial organisations. I am the Head of Agile Ways of Working, encompassing Design Thinking, Lean, DevOps and of course Agile. We present clients with a connected transformation approach to create Innovative businesses and a growth culture for their people to thrive, excelling in the infinite game!I’m also Global Head of.

St. Albans, England, GB

OPAL is a FinTech company who provide lifetime administration solutions for a wide range of investment, protection, wealth management and other financial products for some of the biggest names in financial services. Working directly for the CEO to review the IT function and provide short term and strategic alignment to their future development plans.

Chicago, Illinois, US

• Working directly for the UK Delivery Director, responsible for the successful delivery of major UK programmes and improving the quality of our professional services delivery governance from sales process to BAU. This.
• Delivered a strategically significant transition programme for Schroders to provide them with improved creative, presentation, communication and reprographic services within a very short 10 week time frame.
• Delivered a major transition & transformation programme with a budget of £5.7M for Aviva UK and Ireland, to maximise the effectiveness of their outbound, inbound and back office services, whilst reducing operating.
• The Aviva programme utilised over 45 direct and indirect reports, notably 8 business PMs, 3 IT PMs, 12 BAs, TAs, a PMO Manager and an entire test team, plus operational teams and took just over two years.
• Delivered a transition programme to Allianz Insurance UK to reduce costs and maximise creative and back office services using RRDs Enterprise Communication Management model within the budget of £1.5M.

Bromley, Kent, GB

• Working directly for the Director of Architecture and Solutions, responsible for shaping all IT & business change ideas & initiatives for two business areas, the Chief Customer Office and the Partnership.
• Shaped a Digital Programme to refresh all product web sites, using Agile for rapid business lead change.
• Creating and maintaining an agreed strategic change roadmaps into 2015 for both business areas.
• Managed a Chief Customer Office investment of £23.4M in 2013 with an expected 5 year net benefit of £198.6M, including Digital, Data Warehouse & Customer Interaction programmes.
• Managed a Partnership investment of £5.3M in 2013 building upon a 2012 gross written premium in excess of £635M. Including partnerships with Sainsbury’s, Nationwide, NatWest and RBS.
• Built great relationships with key partnership stakeholders, driving an open & collaborative approach to change management.

Addlestone, Weybridge, GB

• Working directly for the Global PMO Director within the senior leadership team which included the CTO & CIO, with responsibility for development, readiness & implementation of a global £50m programme to standardise all.
• The main CRM, Bond Adapt’s SAAS solution, using off shore resources & an agile style approach.
• Completed each country data & document migration solution with the UK Data Manager.
• An integrated eLearning CBT solution which was housed per DC & administered from AsiaPac.
• Infrastructure monitoring solutions delivered from the EUDC located in Courbevoie, France.
• The collation, streamlining and development of EU local applications, also run from Courbevoie, France.

Brookfield, Wisc., US

• Working directly for the UK & EU Programme Director, responsible for the delivery of Barclaycard Partner credit cards on to the Vision Plus platform. Managing the development activity, risk management & a joint.
• Delivering of credit card solutions for the following Barclaycards partners - Argos, BHS, Hilton, Thomas Cook, Sky, Apple, Orange and Lastminute.com
• The first two cost £1M and took 10 months. I successfully decreased both by introducing repeatable processes, sustaining a motivated & cohesive team & managing external stakeholders.
• Introduced a full traceability process to prove business benefit for over 450 change requestsAs a Senior Project Manager, May 2002 to May 2006, key achievements were the successful delivery of:
• Advanced Mailing Logistics Project (21months / 22,000hrs / £1.2M) – Targeted Marketing tools for all UK clients to utilise white space on printed communication, including monetary transactions.
• Decision Manager Programme (24months / 18,5000hrs / £1.9M) – Providing a data warehouse solution & 3rd party campaign management tool to provide targeted marketing opportunities.

London, London, GB

• Working directly for the MD and reporting to the CTO and the CFO. I managed 40 production resources including Project Managers, Business Analysts, Developer and Testers and maintained relationships with our design.
• Successfully formulated and implemented a complete governance process via the introduction of a PMO and a Prince2 project management methodology including time boxed development (early form of Agile).
• This transformed the delivery function, preventing scope creep which increased profitability, allowed for further growth whilst managing customer expectations & expense.
• Introduced a continuous improvement process to identify inefficiencies which led to the introduction of coding standards, transparency between design and development areas, simpler & clearer documentation.
• Supported the sales team in major pitches to promote cScape’s delivery capability as well as their unique design and development ability, often in partnership with Microsoft.

London, England, GB

Reporting to the Programme Director & responsible for creating & implementing PMO governance based upon Prince2 to aid the delivery of a Global Data Centre with satellite DC’s in the EU & Americas.

London, GB

Progressing from Analyst Programmer, my key achievement being infrastructure upgrades in 250 UK sites including a custom insurance quotation system, deployed successfully within budget and schedule.