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Reading, Gb

Reading, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for application portfolio simplification and rationalization in Europe enabling simplification, reduced TCO and minimizing security and stability risks

Reading, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for AMS support services for UK applications and Digital Marketing website hosting for Europe. Transforming application support from mixed support vendors and models to one support provider with a heavy offshore component as a managed service.

Reading, England, United Kingdom

Europe sector role responsible for leading regional Sector Business Solutions teams to deliver project and Sector solutions support seeking harmonisation and simplification opportunities across Europe.

Theale

Responsible for UK application development and integration. This covers sustain / support for more than 60 applications / services (both UK services and some common European solutions ). It also includes technical project delivery for UK projects.

Theale, England, United Kingdom

Management of the European Development and Integration support / sustain team delivering business critical IT services that enables Finance, HR, Commercial, Supply chain and Logistical functions to operate effectively. Responsible for the full operation of both onshore development and integration service support and the offshore development service support based in India.

Basingstoke

Managed HR and Payroll systems support and development (SAP, E-Recruitment application, CRM solution).Developed an HR Systems Strategy directing the focus of a newly formed team. Shaped and developed the team through recruitment, training, coaching and repositioning to enable the delivery of high quality systems’ support and development to the HR function and wider business customers.Established new, robust operational processes, techniques and tools enabling the delivery of high quality technology solutions to the business.Implemented a new change management process within the department and championed the need for effective change management.Conducted business analysis of numerous large and small scale business and systems improvements including business case preparation, project inititiation and terms of reference preparation, requirements capture and documentation, prototyping etcProject managed numerous payroll transition projects following the aquisition of new AA companies. Also managed various large scale, complex SAP improvement projects.Managed various third party suppliers (on shore and off shore) delivering niche HR & Payroll applications.

Reading, United Kingdom

Capability lead role for HR internally within Xansa developing the knowledge, expertise and skills of HR consultants in line with the business direction. Career Manager responsible for the long-term people management and development of other consultants.Boots Healthcare International (15 months) Worked predominantly on situation assessment and change planning phases of a project seeking to lay the foundations for a more efficient and effective people management process by implementing simple, consistent HR processes and systems utilising the SAP HR solution as the global HRMS. Worked to prepare the business case, which encompassed business benefits, costings, project dependencies and key performance indicators.Subsequently, led the Solution Design phase of this project through a series of key workshops addressing process and systems design. Obtained pertinent details and translated this into workable and effective business solutions. Delivered a more detailed systems design using the SAP Best Practice HR Solution as a basis.Diageo (14 months)Managed the evaluation and selection of a 3rd party Travel and Entertainment (Expenses) software package for the T&E global shared services solution. Then undertook a Project Management role to deliver the required back office functionality for the payment of employee expenses via SAP. In July 2002, the solution was successfully implemented across two major markets (UK and Ireland) with transactional processing and data maintenance provided by the Budapest shared service centre.

Staines

Guinness (16 months)Lead HR consultant on a project to upgrade SAP 31h HR system to version 4.6c. Rolled out SAP to a second European country with over 2,000 employees. Full project lifecycle from a feasibility study and initial project planning, utilising the ASAP methodology, through to go-live and warranty support. In addition to the system build work, I assisted the business community in designing and documenting their processes.As part of a continuous improvement project, implemented absence and training record solutions as enhancements to an existing UK SAP HR system. Designed and delivered a program of training courses to 50 end users. Chep (3 months)Solution design for the implementation of the SAP cross-application time sheet designed to capture employee’s attendance and absence across 12 UK and Irish depots. Hitachi (6 months)Implemented functionality to record and report on data for a complex, composite bonus scheme, across twelve European Countries for 800 European employees.British Aerospace (11 months)Technical Team Leader - led a team of ABAP developers managing the diverse workload generated, in order to meet tight deadlines. Worked on a number of SAP modules: HR, Materials Management, Quality Management and Finance.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Personnel Management, Distinction

Bachelor'S Degree, Biology, General, 2:1