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London

Resource Management, Capacity Planning and financial forecasting for Professional Services Operations.

London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Project Managing implementation of TPRM solutions using Aravo's SaaS platform for Fortune 2000 companies.

Kennington, Kent

Chose not to trade during the pandemic due to having an extremely vulnerable person within the household. Focused on home schooling my children and personal development, including courses on Power BI, Jira and Python programming.

Birchington, England, United Kingdom

Project Manager for a Prophet ERP Implementation in Thanet Earth Ltd. Led a team of around 15 and worked with third party suppliers to deliver on time to plan, meeting agreed success criteria.

Paddock Wood

Reported to the CIO, with responsibility for a team of programmers and IT Applications, together with their support services, across all 5 business units and subsidiaries within the Group. Overcame issues to successfully deliver a previously failed project embedding the Group HR system in Fresca’s Primafruit business. Also migrated the central Payroll.

Ashford, Kent With International Travel

Drove IT-enabled operational improvements by partnering with the business, contributing to strategy building, managing projects and collaborating with leadership teams for four European factories. Carried out a range of thorough evaluations for high profile initiatives and led a number of major IT projects. Promoted awareness of and actively influenced.

Ashford, Kent

Led a team of 20 through the Verification Stage and timely decommissioning of this major business transformation project. Gained Global Steering Committee approval to close by verifying functionality in the Production environment, transitioning technical support to the standard model, ensuring DR procedures were in place, qualifying Super Users by function.

Ashford, Kent

Temporary assignment covering all aspects of data migration and project delivery related to replacement or integration of existing IT systems and interfaces with SAP. Conducted timely retirement of legacy applications including quality and warehouse management systems.

Ashford, Kent

A position on the Factory Leadership Team, managing 2-4 Analyst Programmers and all IT applications supporting the UK supply chain. Delivered measurable productivity gains, forged robust links between IT and the business and fostered strong alliances with 3rd parties to improve support reliability.

London, United Kingdom

Project management and development of BI applications for Sales and Marketing, positioning the UK as the global corporations BI benchmark of the time. Tools used include Essbase, MS Analysis Services, Data Transformation Services, Crystal and SQL Server.

Reigate, Surrey

6 month contract to improved manageability and performance of the client's data warehouse. Also redeployed the Enterprise Reporting web tool and measurably enhanced batch process efficiency.

Reigate, Surrey

DBA for ShowCase (SPSS) data warehouse and OLAP tools. Designed, built, supported, maintained and trained-out Essbase apps for commercial and financial departments, leading to step changes in visualisation and informed decision making.

Reigate, Surrey

Streamlined the budget process using VBA to automate data collation and upload to Essbase/400. Created and rolled out a new dashboard with ShowCase Strategy for financial KPIs.

Turners Hill, Sussex

Interim contract work. Assisted S.I.T.A in consolidating company accounts and adjusting spreadsheet reports following the acquisition of BFI Waste Systems.

Redhill, Surrey

Industrial placement. Developed and published performance reports adding automation using Excel VBA.

Ba (Hons), Mathematics And Management, 2:1 Hons

A Levels, Maths, Politics, Economics, A, A, C

Gcses, 5 As, 3 Bs, 2 Cs