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Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Programme Manager, Finance Strategy, Finance COO.Planning Transformation PM.Programme Manager, Finance Strategy, Finance COO.Climate Change Measurement and Reporting.Technical Test Lead, Customer Due Diligence In-Life Management Project, Financial Crime Domain.Head of Test Consultancy, Quality Centre of Excellence Test Services,Leading delivery of new services to new customers.Transformation Lead, Test Centre of ExcellenceMoving organisation into new Agile Ways of WorkingTest Lead, Payments Transformation ProgrammeRestructuring workstream based test structure into an Agile Release-based approach.Technology Lead, Faster Payment Migration, Payments Transformation ProgrammeManaging the technology project initiation, design, build, test and implementation activities to migrate channels onto the new Faster Payments solution.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

V.Ships is the world’s largest outsourced ship manager with over 70 offices in 34 different countries providing technical management, purchasing, finance and crewing services to 1,000 vessels worldwide and supporting a crew roster of over 30,000My role has two major parts to it.Test Manager for Project Bridge. An ERP project deploying Microsoft Dynamics AX in the Azure Cloud.Test and Release Manager for the redevelopment of ShipSure - The V.Ships ShipSure redevelopment project with teams in UK, USA & India. ShipSure is an in house designed and developed application, specifically built for the Shipping Industry to support the delivery of core ship management services. ShipSure is a suit of four integrated products: Procurement, Finance, Crewing and Marine.

JMB Project Management provide project and program services to the Scottish hi-tech and financial services markets.

Baku, Azerbaijan

Defining, implementing and operating the Arrivals and Departures Systems for the 1st European Games to be held in Baku in June 2015. This includes requirements gathering, development and operations support of a cloud based system used by hundreds of organisations to capture the travel arrangements of 20K members of the Games Family, and provide operational processes and reports so that all the groups (governmental and games) providing services to the clients at the airports and at the accommodation can operate efficiently and effectively.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Responsible for the delivery and support of the Games Management System required for the 2014 Commonwealth Games.This included managing all the stages including collecting requirements, validation of potential suppliers, ensuring development completed to time, quality and budget, user acceptance testing and training, bug fixes, production delivery, report development and production support.Systems that I was responsible for provided following functions- Accreditation and background checks of workforce, volunteers and contractors.- Printing and issuing of passes including day passes.- Validation of entry requirements for non-UK games family.- Management of uniform requirements.- Volunteer registration, selection, training, scheduling and rostering.- Workforce scheduling and restoring.- Sport Entries.- Venue access control.- Arrivals & departures.- Protocol.- Plus reporting to support all of the aboveGames time roles- Business Systems Operations Manager- Technology Operations Centre Sustainability Champion

Leading the Rewards Programme within a major HR improvement activity.HRMS and HCM change.Role included management of design and preparation for implementation of PeopleSoft 9.1 eCompensation and Oracle Incentive Compensation (OIC) R12.1 systems to support Annual Pay Review, Pay Modelling, Awards, Commitment Tracking and Incentives processes. Review of use of Oracle Fusion Compensation.For final phase of programme I was the HR Core Technology PM.

Various Project/Programme/Portfolio Management roles including- Finance Test Lead for major global ERP implementation- leading global deployment of Oracle Incentive Compensation- deploying datawarehouse to support field and commission processes- leading test activities in EMEA in two major global ERP implementations.- Business architect during two major ERP implementations and for EMEA field processes.- New Product Introduction activities for a variety of computing products.- PM for CIC close.- post acquisition integration of records management

Following management buy-out led a number of improvement activities for the new organisation, includingRedefining development management roles as part of concurrent engineering programDefining and developing a sales configurator so that the new sales force could take orders more efficiently.

Responsible for defining and leading a continuous improvement project to revolutionise how new products were introduced from design into manufacturing. This was a diverse programme that delivered multiple IT and business processes improvements in order to implement a long-term vision.

Developed a range of Telecommunications Key-systems with associated terminals/ telephones for international markets. This activity was a key part of the process of turning the business from 95% UK sales to 75% Export within 3 years.

Managed a team of 8 people, that developed test programs and supported production test of a range of custom telecoms ICs

Part of a team that took company into a new market for high-reliability Integrated Circuits.Engineered new products, developed BS9000 and ISO90000 specifications,. gained approval from UK and European standards agencies, developed production processes and supported production.

Msc, Computing For Commerce And Industry

Postgraduate Diploma, Computing And Manufacturing

Mba, Business And Strategy

Bsc, Electronics And Electrical Engineering

Activities and Societies: Chairman of Handball Club and captain of team.Awarded degree with Specialisation in Design Awarded John Brown.

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