I'm the music ambassador for Mark Walmsley's Arts and Culture Network: https://www.artsandculturenetwork.com/The Arts and Culture Network is a growing global community of over 140,000. We make new connections, start conversations and explore opportunities for collaboration. The pulse of our community is a series of free, one-hour networking events on Zoom and in-person. You can find the schedule of events here: https://www.artsandculturenetwork.com/ourevents . Guests have been hired at our events.Mark likes to meet new members to learn more about their work, so that he is best placed to make useful introductions when he can. If you'd like to meet Mark for a 15-minute call on Zoom, you can arrange that here: https://calendly.com/mark-walmsley/mark-walmsley-acnAnd if you could use some help raising your own profile, growing your network, progressing your career and/or promoting your business, you can find the benefits of full membership here: https://www.artsandculturenetwork.com/join . Testimonials are here: https://www.artsandculturenetwork.com/testimonials

The Encore Fellows programme matches skilled, seasoned professionals with social sector organisations in high-impact paid assignments.The UK team is working towards a positive and purposeful impact for people in their mid-life transition by moving employer agendas forward with the creation of innovative solutions for older workers, and tapping experienced workers for social change within the non-profit sector.

Startup promoting the DWP's Mid Life MOT as a service, resulting in Mid Life MOT Workshop at Barclays Hammersmith in May 2019.

Created and evangelised Maximise (now Stages) Network in the belief that there is greater capability to be leveraged from experienced colleagues for themselves, their employer, their future beyond full time employment and benefit for the UK Economy.Contributing member of Baroness Ros Altmann's Business Taskforce for Older Workers.Achieved Finalist Award (Top 3 in UK) for Aviva Championing an Ageing Workforce (Business In The Community) at Royal Albert Hall.Made a significant and recognised contribution to the Organisational Inclusion and Diversity agenda, providing over 3,000 internal colleagues with forums for financial awareness signposting, introduced menopause awareness into the organisation & contributed to engagement in the experienced colleague population.N.B. Performed out of personal passion alongside a full time role.

Facilitated Large Population Logistics for 10k+ IT Division colleagues in 55 Locations across the UKActively supported the cultural introduction of increasingly agile working practices at high ratios to optimise use of office spaceDelivered self-authored series of workshops on building presentation confidence Implemented the Group Property strategy in the IT Division, contributing to releasing 25,000 square feet of Group-wide office space in 2017H1Executed large scale communication initiatives to support building movesSaved £7m per year through successfully managing the exit of one building by 900+ colleagues.

Direct management of a team of circa 30 change professionalsFounder/Chair of the MAXIMISE Network for colleagues in later stages of their career.Delivered extensive series of Inclusion & Diversity Workshops to senior audienceLeading and delivering transformation items aligned to the Group IT Divisional Strategy.

Managing a very large pool (100-200) IT contract resources within a P3O structure who support projects delivering significant IT & Organisation-wide change.

- Moved minds in the right direction i.e. towards better ownership and regular active monitoring of key risks by Project Managers.- Used innovative verbal and written communications to elegantly express the actions needed to manage risks effectively in workshop settings.- Carried out and supported EY Large Scale IT Programme Reviews to boost probability of programme success according to defined criteria.

Key responsibilities* Administering and influencing of performance management processes and policy to all levels of management from Heads of function to Project Managers* Facilitating regular staff appraisals, coaching plans, peer ranking, grand parenting sessions, the pay round, recruitment and promotions* Supporting and leading the line manager community with HR processes, promoting and reinforcing performance management best practice to reduce staff using the grievance and appeals process, hearing appeals or disciplinary action when necessary

Key responsibilities * Day-to-day line management of the employee pool within the IT Developer Unit* Administering HR processes for staff within the team (including performance reviews, promotion, recruitment, pay rounds, disciplinary action, grievance hearings, long term absence management and other people matters)* Managing the effective assignment and scheduling of resources on to projects and programmes, in order to satisfy business demand whilst taking individual’s career development needs into account* Analysis on the people numbers and costs plus additional management information to assist in identifying any recruitment needs* Driving introduction of new working practices, SDLC methodologies, tools, processes and transformation initiatives

A variety of roles working with Financial IT Systems on large scale transformation programmes including company integration, Year 2000 Conversion.As Steering Committee Member of Group Ethnic Minority Network (now called REACH) , designed and delivered week-long capability training programme to encourage aspirational development by ethnic minority colleagues, including presentation confidence, goal achievement, career progression.

Hired at launch of wholly owned direct insurance wing of Royal Insurance to create Marketing and MI Reporting Suite and managed technical migration of entire company systems from IBM MVS to Hitachi VM.

Led a team which migrated entire company systems source code and JCL between mainframe environments (DOS/VSE to MVS) using custom written text processing software (REXX) and automated compilation/linkage to provide ready to use object code and MVS JCL.

Supported JIIGCAAL Careers Advice System and Housing Benefits System

Accepted onto Graduate Scheme for Fast-track to Senior Management. Trained in Jackson Structured Programming Methodology with PL/1 and Sybol (Specialised Warehousing Logistics)