Over 20 years experience delivering complex digital transformation, innovation and associated business change at board level in organisations ranging from start-ups to multi billion global corporations. Industry Sectors include Financial Services, Media/Advertising, Market Research, Health, Government, Logistics and Manufacturing.Worked with major organisations including HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Sainsbury Bank, Stock Exchange, Jaguar Land Rover, The NHS, GroupM (WPP), Sky, Electronic Arts, DFS, Royal Mail, Australia Post, Canada Post, International Postal Commission and the UK Government.Proven history of managing stakeholder relationships and driving technology adoption to ensure business objectives are met or exceeded. Experienced in implementing projects using industry leading best practice frameworks, tools and techniques including Prince 2, Agile/Scrum, Devops, Kanban and Lean.Key Skills - Stakeholder Management. Building and maintaining cross-functional change networks to drive technology adoption and deliver business benefits.- Developing and implementing IT Strategy, preparing business cases, portfolio analysis and building application roadmaps. - Experience of the entire application development life-cycle including project/product delivery, progress tracking and reporting, risk and issue management, change management, business transformation, service transition, release and deployment, operations and benefits realisation. - Leadership and mentoring of mixed discipline, geographically dispersed teams comprising scrum masters, product owners, business analysts, solution architects, developers, infrastructure and operations. - Complete financial management of information technology budgets.- Experience of international systems implementation and rollouts.- Account management, consultancy and pre-sales.- Vendor Selection, contract negotiation and preparation, on-boarding and management. Engaging with nearshore/offshore development centres.