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Responsible for the delivery of a number of Personal Banking System (PBS) releases to Lloyds and TSB branch networks. PBS is a mission critical customer facing system within branches. Each PBS release contains changes from several different IT projects and Business areas, including specific TSB-only changes. Each release will be deployed individually to over 3,500 branch servers. PBS releases are very fluid, with the scope often changing as new projects are brought into a release.

Responsible for delivery of replacement software to all 7,500 ATM machines throughout the Lloyds estate including the replacement of Windows XP to Windows 7 and the delivery of Pro Cash Enterprise software as a Central Service Host enabling the move to a ‘Thin Client’ model for ATM services.

Responsible for moving the Commercial Indicators project out of Initiation phase, where it had become stuck, and kick-starting the Warwick project into a proof of concept phase.Main responsibilities:Project planning and tracking via Microsoft ProjectProject resourcing via RFQ requests in MWOTResource forecastingProject reporting both summary reporting and milestone tracking via CMT to senior stakeholdersManagement and tracking of risks, issues, assumptions and dependenciesProducing End of Initiation governance pack for Commercial Indicators I ensured Commercial Indicators was moved out into the Design phase from the Initiation phase successfully. The End of Initiation pack I produced was distributed by the HOPD to all her projects as the example of how one should be created. Warwick successfully started a proof of concept (this was an Non-Disclosure project).

Responsible for the migration of Your Business Online (YBO) system from the Your Finances (YF) server to ensure YF was not critically impacted at times of heavy YBO usage. This was a critical project for Lloyds and involved the building of a new server plus several migrations of brand data before YBO could be decommissioned on the YF server. This project was extremely successful despite the very tight timescales in which it was performed and business user feedback regarding the performance on the newly separated YBO and YF systems was excellent.

Working on a consultancy basis for a Blue Chip Financial to implement a new Agile development method to be used by 1,500 employees within the Retail IT division