Leigh Jemison Email & Phone Number

London Area, United Kingdom

Product owner / build lead at Efficio consulting on Efficio's Connected Platform.

London, England, United Kingdom

Delivery principal at Automation Logic (AL) reporting to the head of delivery with accountability for a portfolio of engagements, previously including AWS ProServe (IT services & technology) – multiple projects, Centrica PLC (energy and utilities), Fujitsu (IT services & technology) - multiple projects, Ministry of Justice (public sector) – multiple projects and RS Group (electrical components).• Cloud-platform migrations, transformations, and modernisations (AWS, Azure & GCP)Resolutely led the firm’s Innovation Lab with delivery accountability for several product-offerings, including landing zones on major cloud-platforms (AWS, Azure & GCP) and AL’s Kubernetes-platform. All products successfully implemented for multiple customers within six months of initial releases, accelerating cloud-transformation value fulfilment and enabling significant cost reductions for corresponding clients.Following Version 1’s acquisition of Automation Logic in March 2023, I joined the UK’s private-sector business and continued with the following engagements: Centrica PLC (energy and utilities) and Lloyds Banking Group (banking & insurance) – multiple projects. Actively led pre-sales and bid initiatives in the private sector, winning new business in the banking and energy sectors.

London, England, United Kingdom

Sports and Wellbeing Analytics (SWA): Protecht (Head-Impact) Product Development.Continued my role as senior, product delivery lead for Protecht, following Deloitte's acquisition of Keytree in Q4 2020.Senior, product-delivery lead for Protecht, head-impact technology, directing a cross-functional, distributed Scrum team, to efficiently deliver firmware and software, changes and enhancements across all distributed components of the Protecht system from mouthguard sensors and remote receiver to local (edge) version and associated cloud version of the application.Initiated and cultivated the Keytree Delivery Method (KDM), to power Agile, product delivery. Maintained trusted-supplier status by managing the client relationship with CEO and CTO, to define and deliver product roadmap, negotiate resource profiles for future phases and realise product-development improvements such as AWS cloud migration, automated builds for sensor and receiver firmware, configuration management strategy and operational support model.Clients include English Football League (EFL), English Rugby Premiership and World Boxing Championship. Voted best technology for injury prevention or rehabilitation by the Sports Technology Support Group in September 2020.

Virgin Media: Converged App Project.Project delivery lead and principal Scrum master for Virgin Media, converged-app project from second to sixth cycle of major production releases. Directed, distributed, cross-functional teams, to effectively deliver new features and enhancements across cable and mobile work-streams on both Android and iOS platforms. The app provides customers with a sophisticated user experience, to manage their Virgin Media, accounts and services via mobile.Managed expansion of development team from ten to sixteen resources in Q2 2021, consistently exceeding increased velocity targets during and after transition, justifying additional client investment. Defined and implemented, corresponding, scaled-Agile process transformation: creating an additional Scrum team, agreeing amendments to Scrum events (Scrum of Scrums, etc.) and defining team rotation strategy, to maintain delivery transparency, team cohesion and optimal knowledge transfer.Liaised directly with client product owners, engineers, and project managers, leading and advising on a range of technical and process improvements: automated-testing reporting, root-cause defect analysis and release-management approach.During Q1 and Q2, 2021 the install base of converged app increased by over 33% to 2.3 million installs, realising core client goals: increased usage and engagement, greater customer satisfaction and reduced call-centre contact, etc.

Matrix Booking: Matrix Sense (Resource Sensor) Product Development / BEIS Implementation.Senior, product-delivery manager for Matrix Booking’s, desk-sensor solution (Matrix Sense) from initiation and design to second cycle of production releases. Led a cross-functional, distributed Scrum team, to successfully build system for inaugural client, department of business, energy & industrial strategy (BEIS) at its central London office (+ 3000 desks). Collaborated closely with product owner, to manage change requests (CRs). Coached Scrum team in KDM from project initiation, enabling accurate and rapid estimation for subsequent CRs. BEIS requirement for sensors outside the site’s fifty-plus bathrooms (to aid social distancing) was scoped and estimated in an extraordinary, sprint-planning session (facilitated by the efficiency and accuracy that the Scrum team had built over numerous sprints) and quoted on the precise resource profile with rapid turn-around, resulting in prompt CR approval by BEIS IT department (ISS).The application, leveraged on re-implementation of Matrix Booking, desk-booking UI, hosted on Azure; integrating onsite hardware (sensors, gateways, repeaters and display kiosks) to a green-field, backend implementation, hosted remotely on AWS. Product realisation, matched BEIS’s vision, to provide employees with live view of desk and meeting room occupancy via onsite kiosks, mobile or web devices. It also fulfilled BEIS’s key requirement, to provide MI for facilities and senior management, to analyse occupancy and trends across the estate. Following second Matrix Sense, production release and comprehensive handover in August 2020, Keytree Scrum team, transferred the innovative and robust, finished product to Matrix Booking stakeholders for client implementation, amidst exceptional feedback from senior BEIS sponsors.

Cheshire West And Chester, England, United Kingdom

Essar Oil UK: Stanlow 2.0 Program. SAP C/4 HANA, Customer Portal Project.Senior PM / Scrum master on Essar’s, customer-portal implementation from initiation to third cycle of production releases and subsequent transition to operational support. Led, distributed, cross-functional team via revered, Keytree Delivery Method (KDM) driving Agile / DevOps, project delivery whilst simultaneously directing project stakeholders towards optimal adoption of project methodology and tooling.Productively collaborated with the client, to manage business and technical, project dependencies. Diligently negotiated project commercials, including scope amendments, change requests and associated staff-augmentation demand. Defined the multi-organisation, support process and managed the transition from project delivery to managed services, operational support.Cloud solution built on SAP C/4 Hana, integrating with SAP ECC via SAP CPI; integral to program ambitions, to increase numbers of UK customers, and Essar forecourts. Client objectives, attained with successful, on-budget and on-schedule delivery of the new, primary retail-channel for customers and sales representatives, enabling increased sales, promoting efficiency of call-centre operatives, and streamlining sales operations by minimising backend, data-quality issues.The application surpassed the client’s vision of a highly available, scalable, and customer-focused portal; processing circa 35 million litres of product orders per month within two months of phase two, go-live in Q3 2019.

London, United Kingdom

Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) Rates Division: Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) Program.Senior PM on the legislative, MII program, from initiation to fourth cycle of production releases. Directed cross-functional teams, to successfully deliver (APIs, components, and services) across multiple work-streams. At the heart of the implementation was a green-field, data-service that processed and augmented the entire division’s (enriched) European transaction data (circa 20,000 trades / day) for persistence and reporting purposes. Scrum master for between one and three scrum teams (+/- 18 resources) depending on project phase. Liaised with the development team, product owner and client stakeholders, to ensure that Scrum events were optimised, Scrum principles were respected, and continuous improvement was actively adopted. In addition to Scrum, our teams incorporated several DevOps practices into their approach. These included peer reviews, automated testing, and automated deployments. Defined the Agile process architecture, adopted by all divisions of RBC, ensuring that the bank was able to implement and prove legal compliance (for all applicable trades) ahead of the initial legislative deadline. This avoided potential fines of up to €50m or 10% of global turnover. Closely managed project financials and resourcing, ensuring all work-streams were on budget with resource profiles optimised for functional balance and capacity.

London, United Kingdom

Credit Suisse: Initial Margin Program. IM Calculator Project.Senior PM on the legislative, IM Calculator project, from initiation to third major production release. Led cross-functional teams, to implement a (margin requirements) calculation system for the bank’s worldwide (OTC) derivatives trades. Defined the hybrid-agile project methodology and JIRA architecture, crucial for the project’s success. Coordinated resolution of external dependencies with all interfacing systems and associated teams within the bank, ensuring that all legislative milestones were achieved.Scrum master for between one and two scrum teams (+/- 15 resources) depending on project phase. Liaised with development team, product owner and client stakeholders, to ensure that Scrum events optimised, Scrum principles observed and continuous improvement, considered integral to delivery approach.Initial solution successfully delivered on schedule in September 2016, avoiding potentially catastrophic penalties from industry legislators, including trading injunctions with new (OTC) derivatives in the EU. Conversely the Infusion implementation was ranked as the leading industry solution, in January 2017.

London, United Kingdom

Continental Europe and Rest of the World (CERoW) IT Division.

London, United Kingdom

One ISS: Human Resources Shared Service Centre (HRSSC) Transformation Project – Manila, Philippines.

London, United Kingdom

Crown Prosecution Service (CPS): Compass Programme. Service Projects’ Team.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Brighton, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom