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Swansea, Wales, GB

Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

• The NHS Wales Health Collaborative was established in 2015 to work on behalf of the Chief Executives and Chairs of all Health Boards, Trusts and Special Health Authorities that make up NHS Wales. It worked in support.
• Supporting the organisation (and individual Clinical strategic networks and programmes) to develop and deliver its planning and management functions.
• Work across the whole organisation to develop and manage appropriate mechanisms to support the development, implementation and monitoring of long term and annual operational plans.
• Development of in-depth quarterly and annual progress reports and presentations for review by WG and Chief Executives of Health Boards across Wales.
• Development of dashboards capturing monthly KPIs to support SMT decision making for delivery in streamlining of services.
• Extensive stakeholder management across Wales, to capture latest and accurate developments e.g. monthly ‘business partner’ meetings with all networks

Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

• The Mental Health Network Programme Manager role was part of a team delivering an effective Mental Health Network function across Wales. The Mental Health Network was comprised of a number of national strategic.
• Work with the Network Manager to formulate cohesive strategic plans, utilising sub-group identified priorities and numerous WG strategies.
• Establish effective reporting and review mechanisms – to meet the requirements of NHS / Public Health Wales and Welsh Government. Produce detailed Highlight Reports, delivery plans, financial monitoring and performance.
• Identify programme risks, escalating to NHS Directors and WG (Health Minister) as necessary, and develop contingency plans to mitigate with sub-group leads as and when necessary.

Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

Senior Project Manager within the Wales Cancer Network, with responsibility for service improvement projects relating to ‘Acute Oncology Services'(AOS), & ‘Systemic Anti-Cancer Therapy' (SACT) services.The role has included:<> AOS & SACT completed their first Peer Review in 2018/ 2019. Following the review findings, key priorities were identified for.

Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

A broad spectrum of business management activities to ensure the smooth and efficient runningof the Swansea microbiology team, some 100 plus people.<> Line management of 5 staff<> Contract management - extensive set of equipment / suppliers / customers<> Secure income generation for the unit via effective Clinical Trials process <> Account / budget.

Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

Key member of the strategy and planning corporate delivery team. Key aspects of the roleincluded:Performance Reporting.<> Produce information reports on a variety of performance measures for members of theExecutive Team and Service Delivery Units e.g. RTT, IMTP tracker - to support effectivecorporate and service delivery unit management.<> Analysis of.

Swansea, Wales, United Kingdom

Set-up and established a successful services business. I was responsible for all aspects ofthe business including administration / sales / marketing / branding / delivery / finances etc.

Swansea University

The Computer Science Foundation Degree was an innovative and flexible way for students to gain a degree in Computer Science, whilst still in employment as was fully funded by the EU’s Convergence European Social Fund, through the Welsh Government.Brief description of your duties and responsibilities<>Set-up and established an EU funded project, which.

Swansea, United Kingdom

• Swansea 'Business Liaison Officer' for the £13.4m Software Alliance Wales (SAW) programme which supports innovation and growth amongst the ICT and Software Sector within the Convergence areas of Wales. SAW creates a.
• Swansea 'Business Liaison Officer' for the £13.4m Software Alliance Wales (SAW)programme which supports innovation and growth amongst the ICT and Software Sector withinthe Convergence areas of Wales.
• Worked with and assisted Welsh businesses in order to promote technology adoption amongstWelsh SMEs.
• Worked to understand technical skill gaps in the Welsh IT market & provide IT-specific trainingto up-skill the workforce.
• Worked with IT companies to achieve IT accreditation.
• Active account management of participating companies - including attendance at events,business exhibitions, and employer visits to facilitate and grow SAW project and IT adoptionthroughout Welsh businesses.

TSB, Tredegar Park, Newport.

• Extensive business requirements gathering undertook to establish formal business case including procurement strategy and options analysis in support of executive sponsorship for a £10million suite of projects.
• Responsible for the IT project management workstream delivery of a suite of Credit Card In-Housing Projects, across numerous internal / international businesses and external organisations.
• Comprehensive review of several external contract suppliers’ bids, to support procurement strategy and determine preferred supplier for assigned programme suite.

Swansea - DVLA & Department For Transport Account

• Responsible for the delivery of a range of infrastructure and Shared Service Centre projects on the DVLA account.
• Successful turn-around / delivery of a previously failing project.
• Programme lead for ‘Testing Environments’ portfolio of projects - key customer contact for assigned project suite and responsible for the delivery of a range of required programme progress and delivery reports.
• To manage successful end-to-end project delivery via effective Service Delivery Unit coordination and management.

Bridgend, Wales

• Senior project manager responsible for a range of national Healthcare projects on modernising health service delivery and promoting new ways of working; through the use of enhanced information technology and effective.
• Lead, manage and ensure successful delivery of national projects, through facilitation of effective collaboration across a range of health, social care and voluntary organisations.
• Programme Office successfully established to ensure development of strategies, procedures and reporting practices, in line with the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) best practice framework for Managing Successful.

London, United Kingdom

• Upon reassignment to a $2.5 million failing project well after inception, I was able to successfully turn this project around within 3 months thereby ensuring that the organisation avoided significant contractual.
• Responsible for the project management and successful delivery of a broad range of multi-million dollar technology infrastructure, application, service and change management projects, across the full project lifecycle.
• Member of key working group responsible for developing project and programme procedures in line with required corporate policies and requirements. I had personal accountability for risk and issue management and.

London, United Kingdom

• Provided industry sector representation in discussions with external organisations, including Government departments, European Commission officials, the media, MPs, MEPs, consumer and retail bodies, food research.
• Effective servicing of a range of food trade associations.
• Preparation and submission of technical dossiers to the European Commission, to ensure members compliance with EU legislation.

Bradford, United Kingdom

• Provided information and advice on regulatory issues to other departments, customers, regulatory authorities and international subsidiaries.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Creative And Media Writing, Distinction

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), International Business, Gpa 4.0 / 4.0

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc) (Hons), Applied Biological Sciences