• Lead a delivery area (100+FTE, £15m+) responsible for a wide variety of IT change initiatives across both legacy systems (c30 systems) and strategic technology areas (AWS hosted Microservices, React UIs, Kafka).• Responsible for end to end delivery including solution definition, governance, risk management, financial management, partner management (onshore and offshore), procurement and vendor management. • Worked alongside Engineering and Product Owners to produce delivery roadmaps… Show more • Lead a delivery area (100+FTE, £15m+) responsible for a wide variety of IT change initiatives across both legacy systems (c30 systems) and strategic technology areas (AWS hosted Microservices, React UIs, Kafka).• Responsible for end to end delivery including solution definition, governance, risk management, financial management, partner management (onshore and offshore), procurement and vendor management. • Worked alongside Engineering and Product Owners to produce delivery roadmaps to feed into investment cycles• Stakeholder management across a broad community of senior leaders throughout mortgages and the broader enterprise. Show less

Finance Systems DeliveryMulti-million pound, multi-phase finance separation project for AXA Wealth to create a new Kalido Data Warehouse for Fund Management, Actuarial reporting and New Business Investment reporting following the sale of various finance systems used by AXA Life to FriendsLife. This project combined agile and waterfall methodologies to migrate data feeds from legacy finance systems, transform the data using Informatica, and load into a new Data Warehouse to enable reporting… Show more Finance Systems DeliveryMulti-million pound, multi-phase finance separation project for AXA Wealth to create a new Kalido Data Warehouse for Fund Management, Actuarial reporting and New Business Investment reporting following the sale of various finance systems used by AXA Life to FriendsLife. This project combined agile and waterfall methodologies to migrate data feeds from legacy finance systems, transform the data using Informatica, and load into a new Data Warehouse to enable reporting from Business Objects and Qlikview.Achievements:• Managed the AXA Wealth IT element of a major Kalido software upgrade including Oracle database upgrade. Successfully delivered on time and to quality. • Project led the analysis and design stages of the NBI project work stream laying a firm foundation for a successful project.• IT project managed the delivery phase of the NBI work stream. Project delivered successfully, on time and to budget. • Planned and delivered successful software implementations for Funds, Actuarial, Accounting and NBI project phases into the production environment under tight delivery timescales. Show less

Transversal EnvironmentsTeam responsible for Environment and Implementation Management, technical support and configuration management. Customers included projects wishing to change applications that didn’t fit an operating company focussed model because they were either used by multiple operating companies; or there was a skills gap in transversal departments such as HR and Finance.Achievements:• Implemented the “PCI DSS” project to amend the AXA card payments systems to meet new… Show more Transversal EnvironmentsTeam responsible for Environment and Implementation Management, technical support and configuration management. Customers included projects wishing to change applications that didn’t fit an operating company focussed model because they were either used by multiple operating companies; or there was a skills gap in transversal departments such as HR and Finance.Achievements:• Implemented the “PCI DSS” project to amend the AXA card payments systems to meet new Industry standards. Multiple drop implementation during early hours of the morning coordinating resources across the country. Successful implementation with no unplanned downtime to online or offline systems.• Delivered AXA Group Solutions finance project “PARI” on time and to budget.• Engaged with projects early in the lifecycle to provide estimates for all projects coming into the Transversal Environments project. All initial estimates provided were within acceptable tolerance based on project gate when delivered. Show less

Delivery ServicesWorked in a team of people focussed on delivering IT Test Environment solutions for Projects across AXA UK. Responsible for following defined project management processes to manage upwards of 30 resources at any one time including coordination of technical resources from third parties such as AXA Tech, Capita and Steria. Achievements:• Delivered a new HP Exstream outputs solution providing a more automated and higher quality document creation service for AXA PPP… Show more Delivery ServicesWorked in a team of people focussed on delivering IT Test Environment solutions for Projects across AXA UK. Responsible for following defined project management processes to manage upwards of 30 resources at any one time including coordination of technical resources from third parties such as AXA Tech, Capita and Steria. Achievements:• Delivered a new HP Exstream outputs solution providing a more automated and higher quality document creation service for AXA PPP Healthcare. Managed the Linux infrastructure build, software deployments to test and production environments, and application rollouts to 500+ users across the business. Project completed on time and to budget, with HP Exstream going on to become the preferred outputs solution in many parts of the business. • Environment Managed Asset Based Projections (ABP) to bring the AXA Life Wealth Management business in line with new legislation on how product performance predictions are communicated to the customer. Project delivered on time and to budget receiving excellent feedback from the business.• Delivered environment and implementation solutions for multiple smaller projects; successfully managing concurrent projects whilst maintaining a high level of service to the customer. Show less

Four placements of sixth months in various positions across AXA:AXA PPP Tunbridge Wells - Applications SupportAXA PPP Tunbridge Wells - eCommerce developerAXA Life Bristol - ALIS Centre of ExcellenceAXA Life Bristol - IT Strategy