John B. Email & Phone Number

Wellington, New Zealand

London Area, United Kingdom

• Provide leadership and guidance to the Delivery Managers and Delivery Leads acting as the escalation point for any complex or cross-cutting issues or risks.
• Act as the liaison and interface between Engineering and Programme/Portfolio, ensuring effective communication and reporting.
• Drive consistency and quality of change delivery across Engineering, promoting the use of best practices and standards, and supporting the development and adoption of the common toolbox of methods… Show more
• Drive consistency and quality of change delivery across Engineering, promoting the use of best practices and standards, and supporting the development and adoption of the common toolbox of methods, artefacts, processes.
• Responsible for the oversight and coordination of change delivery across multiple engineering families, ensuring alignment with the programme and portfolio objectives, outcomes, and benefits.
• Delivered change that meets or exceeds the expectations of our customers, colleagues, and stakeholders, in terms of quality, timeliness, and value.

London Area, United Kingdom

• I’m responsible for the successful planning, coordination, execution and delivery of the largest most valuable cross-group Strategic IT programmes
• Line management responsibility for Technical Programme Managers, Delivery Managers and Solution Architects on large programmes, which includes mentoring, personal development and performance reviews
• Ensuring Project Teams within the Programmes are resourced / setup for success as a fully self-organising teams
• Re-organised Programme… Show more I’m responsible for the successful planning, coordination, execution and delivery of the largest most valuable cross-group Strategic IT programmes
• Re-organised Programme Delivery Team including agile ways of working with teams that have always worked more traditionally, embedding the use of the Atlassian suite via agile coaching and experimentation
• Assisting RFP / Tender creation for new data centre with non-functional requirements, reviewing results with stakeholders and successfully selected and negotiated contracts for a new data centre premises

Bedford, Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Professional Project/Programme Management Services

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

• My role as the Senior ITT PM was to ensure successful iterative delivery of the core system replacement; breaking down the monolith system in to microservices and containerising data so each micro service can be.
• Act as a servant leader to ensure any blockers are removed from the project team
• Setup self-organising cross functional teams & ensured that the team had the relevant training and skills
• Support other more traditional Project Managers with their… Show more My role as the Senior ITT PM was to ensure successful iterative delivery of the core system replacement; breaking down the monolith system in to.
• Support other more traditional Project Managers with their transition to a more iterative delivery mindset.
• Financial management, including planning and forecasting for £10m budget.

New Plymouth

• As the Transformation Lead I was at the heart of key initiatives that are looking to transform TSB’s Distribution/Retail network which includes re-designing and creating efficiencies across people, process, technology.
• Responsible for ensuring the projects, and project managers I look after are delivering a quality outcome.
• Develop, mentor and foster talent within my team and around the business.
• Strong problem solver, working across the business to resolve issues and ensure there’s a balanced governance structure in place.
• Although I have project managers reporting to me, I'm often rolling up my sleeves to run portions or projects myself.
• Create / Manage Programme & Project plan(s)

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Responsibilities
• Accountable for leading a team of Digital Project Managers/Coordinators, Business Analysts and Scrum Masters. Ensuring that Kiwibank's partners and delivery teams deliver to a clear set of standards, I monitor their.
• Ensure the team are working consistently in the following areas: o Project Planningo Project prioritization and scheduling status reporting including Risks, Actions, Issues… Show more Responsibilities
• Ensure the team are working consistently in the following areas: o Project Planningo Project prioritization and scheduling status reporting including Risks, Actions, Issues, Decisions managemento Client Communications.
• Responsible for managing relationships with agencies and brand teams. I also identified areas where IT can improve its service/engagement, through my own improvement initiatives.
• Developed “squads” operating model, to ensure we work in cross functional teams to enable us to deliver a pace. Show less

Wellington & Wairarapa, New Zealand

• Responsibilities
• Ensured all project’s within my responsibility were planned and delivered according to agreed timescales and within budget
• Worked with developers and designers to define and document questions, liaise with business via face to face collaboration, phone, IM or email to get new requirements and explain feasibility
• Created and delivered project work plans and revised as appropriate to meet changing needs and requirements
• Identified resources and assigned… Show more Responsibilities
• Identified resources and assigned responsibilities

Wellington

• Responsibilities
• Leadership and training of the IT Programme team as well as a number of other departments across the bank in both the technical and business domains
• Key member of senior leadership forums driving organisational change, release management, and operational delivery
• Manage vendor relationships, contracts and resourcing for the IT Programme Team
• Budget and resourse management for the Technology Resiliency Programme
• Programme management of both project… Show more Responsibilities

Wellington

• Responsibilities
• Manage and lead a team of 10 senior level Consultants based in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch
• Train and mentor the team on business, technical, and soft skills required for their roles
• Training and development of the wider account team
• Problem solving and resolution
• Key liaison for the Project Management Office (PMO) team to the business

• Responsibilities
• Project management of critically important work, across multiple customer accounts
• Train and mentor the team on business, technical, and soft skills required for their roles
• Training and development of the wider Professional Services team
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with project sponsors, stakeholders and key systems users across the business
• Contribute to the Schedule Management, Time Management, Budget Management, Scope… Show more Responsibilities

New Plymouth

• Responsibilities
• Responsible for implementing ‘multiple’ high-visibility/risk projects for clinical staff systems for Taranaki District Health Board (TDHB)
• Train and mentor the team on business, technical, and soft skills required for their roles
• Problem solving and resolution
• Training and development of the wider Professional Services team
• Develop and maintain productive working relationships with project sponsors, stakeholders and key systems users across the… Show more Responsibilities

New Plymouth

Wellington

Auckland, New Zealand

London, United Kingdom

Bristol, United Kingdom

Bedford

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