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As a digital transformation consultant and interim, I help organisations large and small navigate a variety of fast-changing conditions — from transformations through mergers to building high-growth start-ups and making business turnarounds happen. I specialise in changing and expanding product strategy, creating a delivery infrastructure across suppliers.

Pesky Fish enables fishermen to sell their catch to any buyer in the UK. By making the catch accessible to a network of buyers beyond the traditional local merchants, it creates fairer prices to the fishermen and improves the availability and quality to the consumers throughout the supply chain. I joined as CTO, and quickly took on CPO responsibilities.

Remote Along With Most Of The Country During The pandemic!

Testing for All is a not-for-profit on a mission to enable large scale testing of SARS-CoV-2 and related COVID-19 disease. I led the technology effort to deliver a provisioning supply chain and to facilitate testing with labs and other providers as new protocols becomes available and reliable.Key achievements:- In less than 3 months, I became a key member.

I joined Kiwi Power to create the Product Management capability and team behind it. As part of the senior management team, I was involved in the re-structuring of the organisation and introduced a data-centric, customer-focused approach to decision-making and prioritisation.Key achievements:- I established the Product Management capability and built the.

I introduced modern, agile processes, allowing a traditional bank (RBS) to enter the disruptors space whilst maintaining regulatory compliance and increasing the security and quality of the bank’s data and technology.Key achievements:- I was accountable for creating a working culture and team values, with quality of our software and the operational.

Richmond, London

I brought leadership and stability to a key department (digital marketplace) that had not had consistency at the top for 3 years, and was struggling with the legacy issues from a monolithic marketplace application that was prohibiting change and growth. Key achievements: - I led the establishment of new ways of working within the department, particularly.

London, United Kingdom

I stepped into the role to define and lead a long delayed migration project of its flagship product to Cloud-based infrastructure, for the organisation's largest digital presence and essential for the publisher's success. Key achievements:- I led a combined programme of 6 different teams in 3 countries and 5 locations to the successful delivery in under a.

I led the merger of 2 distinctively different companies and cultures (Springer and Nature).Key achievements:- I led the merging of technology departments (people and processes) between two mature organsations into a singular streamlined, efficient ways of working that blended Springer's historical operational efficiency with the Nature's adaptive and.

As part of the IT Strategy & Enterprise Architecture team, my primary focus was the development of an Agile SDLC for use throughout the organisation. I achieved this via:- Developed Architecture Development Process (ADP) to help application teams proactively address all relevant architectural concerns at an appropriate time in the development lifecycle..

I led the programme for the Transactions team within the Connected Services Division. This team had functional and delivery responsibilities across three of Microsoft's main products - Windows,.Net programming model and BizTalk. My chief accomplishments include developing the team's roadmap through 2010, and, with two others, designing Microsoft's solution.