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Luton, United Kingdom

• Independent functional and technical leadership consultancy to global businesses implementing Workday, leveraging a 25 year focus on service design, software development, information management, enterprise data.
• Troubleshoot and correct cutover planning, management and execution
• Led all aspects of service transition to on-time launch
• Coordinated change communication, data, integration and functional stream activitiesDyson - Global product design and engineering business - 13,000 headcount
• Executed restructuring activities to recover in-flight Global Workday deployment
• Drove lessons learned from previous abandoned HRIS platform deployment

• Travel to Australia, taking in the Barossa wine region and the Ashes
• Carried-out research for a book idea I’ve had in mind to write for a few years

London, United Kingdom

• Led phase-two Workday deployment to US LLP realising global HR services platform objective- Delivered Workday HCM core, self-service, benefits, absence, time-tracking, US payroll
• Transformed regional worker lifecycle processes, retired legacy Ceridian platform
• Led global Master Data architecture design, transforming global digital-identity propagation

London, United Kingdom

• Secured Executive and Partnership buy-in for first-phase Workday deployment to International LLP- Led business case, RFI, implementation partner selection, functional and technical design- Managed Business Analysis and.
• Managed and mentored 20 member information services and architecture team

London, United Kingdom

• Secured Executive support for Master Data programme- Planned and executed end-to-end review, identified $1.2M cost reduction opportunity- Led architecture and implementation team, delivered phase one integrations.
• Led information management planning team for transatlantic law firms merger- Delivered post-merger Intranet consolidation realising $0.5M annual cost saving.

London, United Kingdom

• Led introduction of Agile software development lifecycle
• Standardised team working practices ensuring faultless design to deploy service lifecycle
• Delivered time-critical process improvements to firm's new business intake software service

London, United Kingdom

• Conducted requirements analysis and systems evaluation for Ladbrokes inventory control system

Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire

• Designed and built warranty management system for Mazda Motors.

London, United Kingdom

• Managed independent IT consultancy
• Developed stock management system resulting in elimination of unreturned inventory cost
• Built sales forecasting system enabling factory capacity utilisation improvement and shortened order fulfilment lead times

Stevenage, United Kingdom

• Focused on sales operations continuous improvement
• Standardised vehicle order to handover process
• Raised dealership Customer Satisfaction Index from 79% to 94%
• Generated industry leading repeat-business levels of over 85%
• Executed vehicle supply chain logistics review reducing business transportation cost overheads
• Responsible for all finance and cash management in vehicle sales business.