Project Manager for a Research Project, 'Studying African Farmer-led Irrigation', a 3-year ESRC-funded project focusing on smallholder farmers' own initiatives in Tanzania and Mozambique.

Project Management of a multi-disciplinary team responsible for the architecture design, and delivery of new infrastructure for the redeveloped FT.com website.- Planned delivery of infrastructure to support the Release Plan of a large Agile Development programme- Led the team to provide new code management and release management tools to support Development, Test and Release processes for the programme- Responsible for producing and maintaining plans and roadmaps, identifying dependencies and future resource requirements - Aligned team planning to Agile process with a 2-weekly Sprint cycle, and backlog of stories- Carried out Risk Assessment sessions to identify potential risks, and to plan relevant contingency or mitigating actions. Also looking for potential opportunities, in order to capitalise on the benefits of a project- Worked with Legal and Procurement departments to negotiate costs, Service Level Agreements and contract sign-off for new third party vendors- Managed an infrastructure budget in excess of £1 million- Delivered new Unix environments in Development, Integration, Test and Production in both UK and US, working with IT department and existing hosting providers to meet timescales- Line Management of permanent and contract staff in Project Management team, setting objectives and plans for professional development- Recruitment of Scrum Masters

Providing a project management service for major technical projects in BBC News Interactive; developing, delivering, and supporting both editorial and technical products and services- Launched the Embedded Media Player for the BBC News and Sport sites, including integration with third party advertisments for international users- Managed the launch of Audio & Music’s Podcast service, delivering content from 200 shows- Implementation of new website features for Sport Interactive to build online World Cup content. This project also included the successful migration of Sport to a new publishing system for online, mobile, teletext and digital platforms- Delivered a major strategic technical project across BBC News, Sport and World Service to allow journalists to author and publish content to multiple platforms from one application, including online, Ceefax and digital text- Recruitment of new Project Managers into the team

Managing the development and launch of new products and services to Internet Solutions Centres across 11 European countries. Developing, agreeing and documenting installation plans for hardware and software.