- Strategy development & roadmap- Target Operating Model - Commercial Assurance Framework & Governance - Digitisation & Automation

- Digital & technology strategy definition & execution, which delivered an evolved technology landscape, digital roadmap and core capability offering. - Business case development and plan for consolidating services and migration to Gov.uk platform - Established a cyber security programme resulting in measurable improvement in culture and behaviour - Reduced operational spending by simplifying landscape, consolidating contracts and negotiating licenses.- Defined a new TOM for Digital Services which delivered a new service delivery function and introduced Business Relationship Managers along with defined KPI’s and SLA’s#- Created the Enterprise Design team focused on enterprise architecture and design (business process / data / integrations / logical and infrastructure).

- Delivered strategic technology mordenisation through cloud technology and user centric digital marketplace solutions- Redefined the digital strategy utilising user journeys to deliver scalable solutions, reducing costs and enabling faster TTM delivery - Established & led the strategic delivery team to include devops and delivery - Established digital portfolio governance to assess design readiness, alignment to strategy and service readiness- Devops & agile implementation

The financial division of Thomson Reuters was sold off to an equity fund. I was brought in to define the separation strategy and approach for technical operations and development (incl. tools and applications) and define the delivery approach and roadmap.

Portfolio & strategy consultant on financial services, telecoms & utilities • Digital Transformation using Agile, Lean and Waterfall methods• Strategy & Technology Roadmap definition • Lean portfolio management•Designed benefits framework to ensure maximum return on investment and alignment to strategy • Programme Delivery & Assurance • Regulatory & Compliance Practicus Consulting is now United Outcomes, as of 16th April 2018. United Outcomes is a Transformation and Delivery Consultancy with offices in Australia, Hong Kong and the UK

• Recovery & Delivery of the digital transformation programme which included new digital customer channels, modernisation of the back & front office legacy systems and a new TOM.• Defined 3-year delivery roadmap in collaboration with the Division COO's and CIO's• Established Technology Portfolio management office • Implemented a competence framework to assess maturity and capability • Planning and control process improvements to minimise delivery risk and deliver improved capability• Digital transformation delivery (Cloud, SAAS, Infrastructure)• Built and managed high performance team to deliver the Bank Strategy• Devops implementation for core services

• Implemented a simplification strategy for project delivery and setup the right environment for rolling out Lean & Agile practices. The new strategy impacted a portfolio of over 900 initiatives and $1 billion of investment. • Engaged a cross-functional team to design a project framework for delivery in a Bi-Modal IT model including tools, processes and capabilities• Partnered with C-level leaders to establish the Project Delivery Governance forum to gain sponsorship and on-going commitment for the project delivery strategy and roadmap.• Mentoring & coaching of PP&PM practitioners to improve capability, increase delivery efficiency and recover troubled initiatives.• Head of Capability for the PP&PM Profession

• Programme delivery & oversight for front & back office • Defined Sales incentive transformation strategy which delivered common a platform and processes for the leasing, lending, commercial entities in EMEA. • Delivered project efficiency improvements by combining lean and agile principles to address long-term strategic programmes as well as tactical projects in a Bi-Modal IT setting.• Project rescue of troubled initiatives • Governance & compliance • Programme assurance • RFP negotiation and vendor selection for programme delivery • Operational responsibility for front office apps

• Responsible for rolling out a common ERP solution for the Americas business entities.• Defined project delivery best practices to facilitate the subsequent rollout for the Asia Pac implementation

• Designed financial solutions for a number of clients using oracle ERP across EMEA (multi-currency & multi-language support) with focus on tax and compliance. • Defined delivery methodology for future ERP rollouts to enable clients to manage future implementations with minimal dependency on 3rd parties.

Project consultant for Yahoo, Kelkoo and Overture European Shared Services Centre for Financials

• Responsible for the technical delivery of an oracle ERP implementation in EMEA. This was the largest implementation of its time, deployed in 18 countries impacting 200+ users (Team: 45, Budget: $10M).• Defined a new project management framework to facilitate rapid adoption of new initiatives using lean principles and industry best practices.• Defined business architecture strategy for Accounts Receivable. • Delivered a Lean Six sigma solution for the Order-to-Receipts area which increased efficiency and reduced DSO from 180+ days to 60 days across Europe

Product Developer for Public Sector Financials

Development and functional/technical support of Oracle financials