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Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Joined a new consulting practice to lead mobility engagements with Oil and Gas clients.

Jan 22 – May 23: Programme Director for major O&G client retail platform transformation. • Led UK/IN bid team, working with client project team, legacy service team and commercial & procurement team, in successful competitive RFP response and contract negotiation for 3-year transformation programme and 5 year support service. TCV in excess of £13m.• Managed delivery team (30+) for initial transformation cluster design, build and test; transforming solution form incumbent en-premise… Show more Jan 22 – May 23: Programme Director for major O&G client retail platform transformation. • Led UK/IN bid team, working with client project team, legacy service team and commercial & procurement team, in successful competitive RFP response and contract negotiation for 3-year transformation programme and 5 year support service. TCV in excess of £13m.• Managed delivery team (30+) for initial transformation cluster design, build and test; transforming solution form incumbent en-premise solution to MS Azure. Ensured initial delivery, development and testing completed on time, within budget and against agreed specification.Jan 21 – May 23: Programme Director for major O&G client application support framework. • Led UK/APAC and subcontractor support teams across client sub surface & wells application portfolio.• Owned service performance, responsible for delivery and reporting of key performance metrics and SLAs.• Worked with client and delivery teams to manage service planning; responsible for service delivery roadmap and service strategy.• Owned opportunity pipeline and led teams implementing new solutions (contract change TCV c£6.7m).• Worked with client Supplier Management team and Contracts & Procurement team to negotiate a 2-year sub surface & wells portfolio contract extension (TCV c£8.5m).May 19 – Dec 23: Programme Director for major O&G client payment switch support. • Led CGI UK/APAC teams (15+) hosting and supporting Europe/Asia payment authorisation switches.• Owned service performance, responsible for delivery and reporting of key performance metrics and SLAs.• Owned opportunity pipeline and led end to end change process: chaired change boards, supervised impact analysis, solution design, costing, build, test and transition to service for functional and compliance (PCI DSS) enhancements including P2PE and proactive monitoring (contract change TCV c£1.6m).• Managed service compliance and accreditation against PCI DSS. Show less

August 2013 - May 2019: Global Rollout ManagerLeading the Rollout Team responsible for deployment of a significant new fuel card business capability solution to a global oil and gas company across 35 countries. Responsible for co-ordinating rollout in European Pilot country.January 2013 - July 2013: Cutover ManagerWorking in the Deployment Team responsible for deployment of a significant new business capability solution to a global oil and gas company across 35 countries… Show more August 2013 - May 2019: Global Rollout ManagerLeading the Rollout Team responsible for deployment of a significant new fuel card business capability solution to a global oil and gas company across 35 countries. Responsible for co-ordinating rollout in European Pilot country.January 2013 - July 2013: Cutover ManagerWorking in the Deployment Team responsible for deployment of a significant new business capability solution to a global oil and gas company across 35 countries. Responsible for Cutover management of data migration of two client country into new cards platform, MS Dynamics AX, MS Dynamics CRM and Power BI.March 2012 – December 2012: Deployment Project MangerWorking in the Deployment Team responsible for deployment of a significant new business capability solution (cards platform + MS dynamics AX and CRM) to a global oil and gas company across 35 countries. March 2010 – March 2012: Training ManagerWorking in a client consortium responsible for the provision of an information infrastructure to support a global business. Responsible for teams developing and administrating the delivery of user training.June 2008 – March 2010: Service Delivery ManagerResponsible for the provision of training infrastructure, content, support and consultancy through a network of permanent eLearning classrooms and deployable classrooms.July 2007 - June 2008: Project ManagerResponsible for the management of onshore and offshore development teams responsible for design, development and delivery of eLearning deliverables. 220 hours of new eLearning material successfully delivered within budget in a 9 month schedule.Oct 2004 - July 2007: Client Training ManagerResponsible for user training in support of the rollout of a new Logica electricity and gas billing system for UK based utilities client. Nov 2002 - Oct 2004: Training ManagerResponsible for the user training supporting the rollout of a new Logica Case Management System. Show less

Worked in, and project managed, various teams in the development of computer based training applications for clients.

Undergraduate Technologist employed on a training programme supporting study at university.

B.Eng (Hons), Manufacturing Systems - Engineering And Management

Post Graduate Certificate, Engineeing Business Management

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