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United Kingdom

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United Kingdom

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Chesterfield, England, United Kingdom

Consulting company providing first rate IT, technical and non-technical project management and change solutions.

London, United Kingdom

• Enthusiastically coached, guided and mentored a diverse team of fifteen internal and external personnel, effectively communicating project expectations in a timely manner. • Accurately validated, identified, and provided resolutions to faults within payment & billing systems, internal IT systems and operating procedures to facilitate smooth operation of financial systems.• Tenaciously negotiated and managed tenders with 3rd Party suppliers for the provision of resource augmentation and bespoke SaaS solutions. • Confidently facilitated the collaboration between Remediation and PSD2 Portfolios to ensure API suitability and compatibility.

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

• Innovatively designed and implemented an automated complaint loading and resolution process with a 3rd Party SaaS provider reducing operational costs by over 90%. • Proactively collaborated with multiple supporting functions including IT, Analytics, Product, Regulatory Compliance and Legal to coordinate resources and resolve key issues within redress projects.• Meticulously updated the bank’s IT systems, procedures, and policies for Vocalink, Visa and Direct Debit• Resourcefully prepared and authored key project documentation ensuring conformity to technological and operational standards.

Manchester, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom

(Formerly RBS Group)• Resourcefully embedded a new project governance model within the team ensuring an assurance rate of over 95%.• Efficiently devised and managed the bank’s planning for regulatory driven PPI ‘Timebar’ and Plevin programmes.• Successfully delivered three projects end-to-end, from the PPI portfolio of 15, within 4 months and also delivered PPI Portfolio Prioritisation planning, worth more than £500m.• Chaired a daily working group of 30+ senior stakeholders to resolve over 400 issues impacting on programme delivery.

Sheffield, United Kingdom

• Delivered an IT COTS package solution that increased business tender success rates by over 30%.• Instigated sub-contractor on boarding processes that resulted in a 20% increase in business QC scores.

London, United Kingdom

• Supported the company’s logistics modernisation programme and transition to SAP within the second largest production and distribution site in the company’s multinational network.• Creatively developed a new IT worker productivity tracker that reduced management input time by over 50%.

London, United Kingdom

• Contracted to run and improve the Risk IT release management process for trading applications. • Coordinated the Change and Run The Bank teams, managing a high number of application updates in Production requiring either rollback or incident management.

Afghanistan

• Substantially increased US auditory scores for all sites from below average to exemplary within 9 months of appointment.• Successfully delivered contingency actions to maintain project viability due to accelerated military drawdown.

London, United Kingdom

• Proactively developed and maintained exceptional relationships with Tier 1 investment banks, allowing them to better understand their clients, compete effectively and execute deals successfully by optimising the flow of capital around the world.

Various

• Delivered highly specialized projects in hostile and politically sensitive environments; including contingency, risk and change management planning and delivery, and safety management of teams working in non-permissive environments.

Various - Worldwide

• Managed and trained upwards of 29 personnel in the delivery of security projects in high risk environments in both a regular and reserve capacity.

2:1 Ba (Hons), History

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