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My first 3 months were in Defence Digital Foundry, doing community design and management. This was some of the best community design and building work I've ever done. Took a user-centred design approach conducting user research, especially with the user research community. Has made me want to pursue a career in user research.I then moved to Data and Navy Applications (a partnership with Navy Digital) leading deliver of Digital's social value commitments.

The Content Hub team which provides digital services and content to people living in prisons and young offender institutions.

Was there at the original 2017 unconference. Started a weekly breakfast which kept the community together and grew it across the world. Helped run the Global Unconference in London.

* Delivery manager for Behavioural Science team where I help embed agile practices * Ran user research with the entire team to see what could be iteratively improved * Job sharing with senior delivery manager Jen Oliver * Became lead organiser for DeliverCon2021 which will be run virtually in April 2021

* Delivery manager for the Systems Unit which shipped the Strategic Framework * Focused on agile coaching and facilitation when the team pivoted to coronavirus response * Co-founded Gov DMs in the Ether which is a monthly lean coffee for the Gov DM community * Helped organise and run DeliverCon2020 for the delivery management community

* Delivery manager for the '8000 project' which published over 11000 new datasets in 1 year * Delivery manager for Digital Working Team which improved digital capability across Defra* Delivery manager for Digital Innovation team which won the 1st ever Govtech Catalyst bid * Community development manager for the PermSec's vision of cross-Defra communities * Helped organise and run the first DeliverCon for the delivery management community

* Led a team who looked after engagement between Cabinet Office and the rest of government * I helped focus efforts on publishing data via data.gov.uk that users needed * Organised and ran the first Open Data Camp unconference for the community * Became lead organiser for UKGovCamp DDaT unconference

* Confirmed user research done in discovery* Built the service manager community of practice * Became more heavily involved in running UKGovCamp DDaT unconference

* Lead for gov.uk/contracts-finder support using Zendesk* Constantly listening to users and adapting processes * Started to help organise the run the annual UKGovCamp DDaT unconference

* Recommended #OpenData work @digibrum needs to undertake* Involved in steering/working groups for social media, people solutions (SAP) & LGBT* Change specialist for BEST, CHAMPS2 and Birmingham Energy Savers programme* Change agent on Customer First Business Transformation programme @bccrentservices* Digital engagement officer and marketing lead for Beyond 2010 conference* Substantive post as assistant housing officer @bccrentservices birmingham.gov.uk/rent

* Managed office moves of newly acquired companies between buildings* Managed 3rd party and onsite staff, including hiring of temporary staff as necessary* Managed client databases, including liaising with external data suppliers

Responsible for Business Continuity planning and Disaster Recovery testing* Designed & delivered "technology talks" and training courses on range of topics* Managed circuit & asset databases, including overseeing inventory checking

Worked with international clients to organise & test disaster recovery procedures* Turned around several difficult clients, after completing successful projects* Organised several year 2000 bug "late starters" to finalise their systems checking

Head hunted whilst working at Deutsche Bank, into a team of nine analysts* Worked with various internal business units to analyse & deliver effective change* Designed, developed & deployed solutions based on Microsoft & Solaris systems

Travelled to European business centres to support & deploy financial systems* Developed & delivered effective training materials for new company systems* Managed day to day activities and career development of nine engineers

Trained on all aspects of computing, then promoted to manage Intel based systems* Upgraded the DEC Pathworks set-up to Novell Netware, then to Windows NT server* Worked with Mitsubishi, Nissan & Microsoft to deploy market analysis systems