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London, England, GB

London, London, GB

London, London, GB

London, London, GB

Programme Manager for the Royal Mail’s Internet upgrade project, reducing the Total Cost of Ownership by up to 40% whilst improving quality. Working for the Enterprise IT Director, overall responsibility for the project plan and successfully obtaining board approval for the project.

London, London, GB

Programme Manager for the Royal Mail’s multi-million pound investment to transform their Intranet, covering a 2 year period of significant business change. Achieved a 30% reduction in ongoing hosting and maintenance costs by consolidating 28,000 pages and 300 applications onto a technology refreshed infrastructure, supporting over 24,000 users. Managed the.

London, London, GB

• Reporting to the Programme Director, as both a project and programme manager for a number of phases of the Philips eBusiness platform, which provides their web presence and services for over 80 different countries in.
• As part of the management team I was instrumental in implementing and refining an agile development process, resulting in a top result in the corporate audit.
• By transitioning from a team dominated by consultants to one predominantly made up of permanent employees I increased team moral and significantly reduced development costs.

Founder and director with overall responsibility for the Information Technology Systems and Business development element of RapidInsure.co.uk, an online insurance intermediary, with 17 employees. RapidInsure.co.uk was launched in March 2000 with seven online products and sold over 2,500 policies in the first year of trading before being sold to the Berkley.

Bethesda, MD, US

• Reporting to the Project Director, I was Line manager for 19 professional engineers with responsibility for the cost and schedule of the system design.
• One of the three core contract negotiation team with the Royal Mail, involved in all aspects of the negotiations, but specifically responsibility for the schedule and technical areas.
• I managed the development of the system, through an ISO 9000 approved structured development approach, up to the preliminary design review.
• Responsible for managing the procurement of required subsystems, including the competitive tender of £20M computer hardware.

Bethesda, MD, US

Reporting to the Business Development Director, I was responsible for developing and executing Lockheed’s strategy to penetrate the UK’s Postal market. Starting out alone, but building up to a team of 70 people, I was responsible for the marketing and bid strategy, team identification and selection, customer relationship and managing the bid/proposal.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Responsible for bid/proposal activities and budget. Developed and implemented the marketing plan, including a political lobbying and national press campaign. Contributed to the proposal and source selection.

Armonk, New York, NY, US

Contributed to the development of the IBM 37XX manufacturing line. Specifically responsible for: Managing IBM Havant's 3 person Media room, producing all the site's magnetic media requirements; Designing and implementing the 37CS PS/2 console and micro-code processes.

Bachelor Of Engineering (B.Eng.), Computer Science

3 A Levels, 12 O Levels