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Remote

• I managed two significant programs: Payments and Hotels
• For both programs, I was accountable for creating and maintaining all documentation, which includes project plans, schedules, RAG status, RAID logs and weekly reports, escalating as required.
• I managed communications with our stakeholders, which includes identifying the many teams impacted by our workflows and building professional relationships with those teams.
• Tasks specific to the Payments Programo I had a leading role across Tripadvisor’s Payments function and am accountable for all centralised aspects of the Payments program across the Tripadvisor group.o I helped to.
• Tasks specific to the Hotels Programo I managed the modernisation of the Hotels tech stack, from on-prem to AWS. This program has numerous individual and complex projects, including the time-critical migration of.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

• Key member of Senior Leadership Team, with responsibility for delivery momentum, RAID, budgeting; ORK Planning, Steering and Product Direction Group meetings
• Took key role leading departmental over recent months, including chairing all SLT meetings; departmental All Hands; budgeting accountability; HR issues and reportingLine Management and Recruitment, both for my team and.
• Led team through changes in working patterns resulting from Covid, and continue to do so as departmental Pathfinder contact and lead on Hybrid Ways of Working agreement
• Main point of contact for 3rd parties including all procurement processes and compliances. I was also a key member of working group to renew procurement framework agreements (DSFIV)

Glasgow, United Kingdom

I work across a portfolio of projects and programmes to ensure the successful delivery of strategic objectives, taking responsibility for the full set of portfolio management activities.

Pacific Quay

BBC Education, Bitesize

Pacific Quay, Glasgow; Media City UK, Salford; Broadcast Center, London

Technical Project Manager for a Portfolio of Deliverables from the BBC's Digital Creativity initiative

Pacific Quay, Glasgow

Technical Project Management for delivery of CBBC and CBeebies online products and apps

Glasgow

• Provided Project Management within the Cloud Programme involving Project Management and Programme Office Planning. The Programme involved a large complex cloud system implementation and migration to Microsoft Office.
• Project Managed the delivery of Use of Technology Project incorporating 6 distinct work streams within this £5 million Programme.
• Worked with multiple stakeholder groups, including internal and external partners, all local authorities, and Scottish Government, to manage the full project lifecycle of all user support aspects
• Project Documentation accountability - PID, project and resource plans and project milestones, RAID log, escalation
• Active membership of Programme Update and Programme Board Meetings
• Declined offer of extension to contract, but declined it decision to freelance already made

• Project Managed User Support Project incorporating 3 distinct work streams within Programme with £6 million annual budget, including stakeholder management, user support, and development of a profiling solution.
• Leading role in engaging with and supporting all stakeholders in the implementation of Glow, the world’s first and only national education intranet.
• Member of the management team dealing with principle contractors.
• Managed the complete project lifecycle of creation and deployment of pupil e-portfolios through Glow in response to SG legislature. This continues to be very successful, with over 80,000 pupils continuing to use this.
• Accountable and responsible for all project aspects, including creating the Business Case, creation and maintenance all project documentation including the PID, project plan and project milestones, RAID and lessons.
• Member of team which procured online educational content, with an annual value of £200K.

• Project Managed the deployment, training and roll out of the Glow intranet (SharePoint) across all North Ayrshire’s 65 schools and council offices
• Identifying, sharing and promoting the educational and administrational benefits of Glow.
• Built, prepared and managed team of 20 champions to deliver a coordinated programme of localised training events to staff and pupils, working with partners to ensure the project remained on track and sustainable.

Devised, created and managed a small IT company, teaching Science online to older primary school pupils throughout Scotland and wider afield. Responsible and accountable for all aspects, from market research to user support and system maintenance, as well as financial aspects, communications, and customer relations.

St David's High School, Dalkeith

• Responsible for all aspects of IT across the school and for ensuring all pupils given the best opportunity to achieve their full potential. Managed many initiatives, including
• issuing handheld PCs to all staff and ensuring appropriate use,
• replacement of traditional chalk boards with interactive whiteboards and
• the development of a large intranet, used by all departments and pupils, to share resources and reduce costs.

Member of team responsible for all aspects of both the Primary and Secondary teacher training courses. Specific responsibility for all aspects of Computing. Designed and delivered national training events for Scottish educationalists

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Computer Science

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