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Lafayette, Co, Us

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

Columbus, Ohio, United States

- Led platform and product strategy across the organization, leveraging user research, visual facilitation and automation to reduce long-term, embedded pain points. Rebuilt trust in product & tech, improved retention, capacity and resilience across the company.- Created a culture of collaborative discovery and human-centered design thinking to build digital solutions that minimize burnout and continuously improve business processes.- Led platform migration from Salesforce to a custom-built solution in partnership with Bauhealth that drastically improved clinical experience, sustained clinical quality day-to-day, plugged holes in claims management and accounts receivable, and created a data foundation for building analytic capabilities > +$1M savings per year.

Delivery Lead in the 2 People & a Platform Initiative: provided strategic leadership for systems-first Enterprise Agile Transformations. This comprised envisioning future states, identifying systemic constraints & clearing conditions, conducting business architecture & value stream workshops, and gaining alignment around organization-wide transformation goals. Led Pilot Expeditions across vertical slices of the organization to test conditions for scalability, maintaining strategic alignment on transformation efforts from the C-Suite to Delivery Teams, and coaching on Agile, Lean and Product methodologies and frameworks at Executive, Investment, Portfolio and Product levels of the organization.Product Practice Lead conducting first line of interviews, leading the Product Management Community of Practice, and advancing the integration of product craft and POVs in the LeadingAgile methodology.

Charlotte, North Carolina

Member of the Core Team within Digital Transformation at Duke Energy, co-creating the Product Management, Agile Engineering and Transformation Strategies with a focus on human-centred design, team agility, facilitation workshops, and a specific, intentional and authentic ‘customer culture’.Used visual facilitation techniques (BVIRs, graphic recording, Miro, and hands-on / inclusive white-boarding workshops) to design impactful, collaborative experiences and compelling innovation stories to drive the momentum of Business Transformation across the Enterprise.Product Management Lead coaching individual Product Owners and Product Managers, and leading their Communities of Practice; empowering individuals to become self-aware of their own capabilities and lead with an innovative product mindset. Impactful contributor to team agility, change management and adoption strategies for Product Teams across 10 Business Units - including Supply Chain, Nuclear, Enterprise Asset Management and Human Resources. This included an empirical focus on data-driven KPIs and highlighting specific user value in order to craft and tell transformational stories.

Fort Mill, South Carolina - Remote

Working within SAFe and facilitating onshore and offshore dev teams, as well as 3rd party vendors, on the development of the Student Information System, as well as Curriculum and Assessment platform development; involved digital user journey mapping (StoriesOnBoard), user story creation and LOE estimation, Kanban analysis and prioritisation (Aha!), engaging with stakeholders and customers through Discovery sessions (Mural), and daily stand ups, refinement and Inspect & Adapt sessions in Scrum (TFS & Azure DevOps), API validation and user acceptance testing. Successful organizational projects have included onboarding process improvements and cross-functional silo busting.Also played a founding role on the ‘Culture Crew’, where we worked towards creating a people-based company of execution; highlights include planning 2 company-wide Open Spaces, facilitating over a hundred projects & pilots, and implementing or actively contributing to ‘Working Connected’, Wellness, Office Revitalization and several D&I work-groups, in addition to being a member of the company-wide Comms Council.

Fort Mill, South Carolina - Remote

Charlotte, North Carolina Area - Remote

Sit upcoming UK & International Edexcel Geography examinations to ensure they are accurate, error free and fit for purpose.

Holborn, London

Worked in the Science team on the 11-16 strategy across General Qualifications and Secondary Learning Services, as well as the production of Sample Assessment Materials for the International A levels in Science. Managed customer experience and the production of free support for the UK and International GCSE and AS/A level Science qualifications, including Core Practical Guides and Mapping Guides, and maintained up-to-date content on ExamWizard. Led Science collaborative network events for high and low attainers and practical skills. Also managed the production, accreditation and training for the Geography and History GCSE, AS and A level qualifications (content and assessments). Presented to large audiences of subject experts and teachers at external events and seminars; e.g. Geographical Association and Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). Managed production of free support - including Course Planners, Schemes of Work, Getting Started, Assessment, Maths for Geographers, Fieldwork and Topic Guides - achieving impressive click-through rates in e-mails and social media. Recognised for excellent technical oversight, reliability, attention to detail, engagement with colleagues, and meeting targets and goals effectively. Used centre database to monitor success of campaign and inform strategy, marketing and sales decisions. Wrote key training materials, and successfully organised and managed 50+ events across the UK and international markets in 2016, as well as playing a key role in an event creation pilot for General Qualifications. Expected to increase market share for Geography (2016) , History (2016) and Science (2016) qualifications. Pursued several CPD opportunities including 'Strategy Toolkit for Qualifications', 'Assessment Design Principles', 'Market Research', 'Online Survey', and 'Product Lifecycle' training.

Lewes

Recognised for creating an aspirational working culture, working closely with teaching assistants, educational psychologists, behaviour support and sensory impairment specialists, to support students with additional learning needs and complex IEPs. Quickly developed strong professional relationships with colleagues and students.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Led Humanities Faculty (15 teachers) comprising five subjects - Geography, History, Economics, Religious Studies and Classics - inspiring a shared vision, managing and supporting Heads of Department, facilitating a whole school presence through assemblies, speakers, enrichment opportunities and partnerships with external organisations (including an expedition to Nepal for 15 girls to support infrastructure recovery after the 2015 earthquake). Designed a programme of study as Head of Geography to support upcoming GCSE and A-level qualification changes, specifically focused on developing a KS3 geography curriculum that was innovative, rigorous and exciting. Led a whole-school strategy as Master Teacher to improve the quality of teaching and learning through collaboration, shared best practice and INSETs. Participated in top level strategy and marketing meetings with Senior Leadership Team. Yr7 Tutor and Resident Tutor for a boarding house of 50-60 girls aged 11-18.

St. Johns Wood, London

Led a large and diverse department that included Vice Principals, Heads of Year, NQTs and Schools Direct trainee teachers. Nurtured an aspirational working culture, particularly through 1:1 support and out-of-hour revision sessions for GCSE, AS and A level exam classes. Designed a geography field-trip to the Dorset coast for 250+ inner-city pupils with challenging behaviour.

South Kensington

Taught A-level Geography, Maths, Physics and Chemistry on a 32-hour/week timetable, with pupils consistently achieving above their targets, devised and led Geography field-trips, ran revision and Physics practical sessions for internal and external candidates. Initiated Senior Personal Tutor role to support relationships between parents, students, teachers and the Principal, principally supporting students who required extra 1:1 support and intervention. Ran a successful ski trip to France and played a key role alongside Senior Team in marketing and recruitment prior to each School Year.

Cranbrook, Kent

Taught physical geography to GCSE and A-level exam classes hoping to attend Oxbridge and other Russell Group universities, wrote end-of-year reports, moderated controlled assessments and led Geography department on cross-curricular trip to Cevennes, France.

Bermondsey, London

Taught Geography, Citizenship, History and Religious Studies from 11-18, and recognised consistently for subject expertise, innovation and active engagement in all school areas. Led on Humanities Faculty and school-wide behavioural management strategies. Launched climbing and football clubs; the latter winning the South London schools trophy. E-learning and Fronter Administrator for Humanities Faculty; responsible for liaising with E-learning team and Humanities Faculty to promote use of ICT in the classroom and use of Virtual Learning Environment by teachers, students and parents.

Master Of Education (Med)

Pgce In Geography

Ma Cantab, Geography

Geography Ba

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