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Fordingbridge, GB

Newbury, England, United Kingdom

Vodafone UK | Business | Products & Propositions | Cloud, Edge, IoT & Centre For Health

Newbury

• Vodafone UK | Business | Products & Transformation | Connectivity2021: Led the delivery of a new, converged connectivity product, combining fixed & mobile (2021 Cisco best product award winner) 2020: Market launch of.
• Champion digital / agile working practices across the programme (SAFE Certified RTE)
• Own the overall delivery plan on behalf of Product Manager/Owner
• Manage interdependencies & interlocks with other critical projects 2018/19: Transformation programme to accelerate revenue growth in our direct channels via digitisation of our ‘prospect to order’ sales cycle. Key.
• Business case development, budget control and benefits realisation management
• Requirements gathering and backlog prioritisation

Newbury

• Vodafone Group | Enterprise | IoT Products & SolutionsNBIOT EXPANSION PROGRAMME (2017): Managed the LPWA expansion into 10 markets during FY17/18. Working with Product Managers and technology engineering teams to build.
• Successfully optimised Vodafone deployment process to accelerate Time To Market, reducing the delivery cycle by two months through improved risk management, clear roles and responsibilities and focus on the critical.
• Led the complete revamp of standard contract schedules to better reflect newer platform functionality, adding amendments to address key learnings from previous contract negotiations.
• Updated the IoT programme team deliverables with enhancements to controls and processes, achieving closer alignment of roles with partners, improved reporting and management of critical actions and dependencies.CAREER.

Major Projects Team

CLOUD SERVICES PARTNERSHIP (2013-14) Global partnership with enterprise cloud provider (NTT) to re-sell cloud Infrastructure services. Roles included establishing the governance framework between the two organisations and working with sales and product management to build, stabilise and develop the product roadmap. More recently, led the development &.

VISA (2008-11): Responsible for the transformation of new commercial network for Visa credit card payment and clearance service to 330 banks across the CEMEA region. Led all pre-contract activities relating to implementation aspects during a 2 year negotiation cycle from initial enquiry to eventual contract award. (Contract: USD 56m)KINGFISHER: Responsible.

GLAXOSMITHKLINE (GSK): Managed a team of 4 PMs & project coordinators. Responsible for all network deployment activities – included a global frame relay to MPLS upgrade to 120 sites in all regions, with high speed, dual access connections. (Contract: USD 30m)GENERAL MOTORS: Lead PM, in a team of 6 PMs. 600 site network deployment to connect Vauxhall, Saab.

Basingstoke UK

RS COMPONENTS: Global MPLS network & Packeteer application profiling to support the transition from catalogue based sales to e-commerce hosted trading systems. (Contract: USD 3m)PWC: Project Manager, responsible for global deployment of a Packeteer traffic shaping service. (Contract: USD 800k)KINGFISHER PLC: Programme Manager, responsible for all IT.

• Technically accountable for UK network services, within a global network of around 3500 PCs & workstations. Duties were to:
• ensure high availability for key systems and to lead the technical team
• Manage IT projects involving integration with client/partner networks
• Establish process & procedures to support growing PC/Server environment
• Consolidate and rationalise network services and legacy applications
• Implement procedures to support quality management programme

Design and programming of PC based business systems and database applications. Specialisation area was vehicle fleet management systems.

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