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Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

Managing projects using MS Dynamics 365 to connect Chelmsford’s citizens with the council’s numerous services.

Ongar, England, United Kingdom

Contact role, covering maternity leave. Teaching GCSE and A-level computer science to Year 10 to 13 and computing to Y8 and Y9, running after-school computer club.

Chelmsford, England, United Kingdom

Re-training to be a computing teacher, teaching computer science and IT to years 7-11.

London, United Kingdom

Contract role to lead an Agile digital transformation project to drive the adoption of MS Office 365 collaboration tools across a global organisation of 220,000 users.

London, United Kingdom

Delivering multiple concurrent IT projects including GDPR compliance, organisation-wide transformation projects for new document management and resource management tools and an innovative website rebuild, using Contenful CMS, Node.js, React and graphql, driving content and development through to launch in less than 4 months.

London, United Kingdom

Managing multiple concurrent projects delivering value to UK SMEs in emerging digital sectors, such as Internet of Things, Personal Data & Trust and Data Aggregation. Employing advanced skills in Consortium and Stakeholder management to ensure multi-party projects were delivered successfully on time and to budget. Managing grant funded budgets in excess of.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Managed a program of projects developing and deploying ISO 27001-002 Compliant Secure Production Build environments to multi-national Product Divisions.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

Managed consecutive 35+MY projects developing Open Source GNU Tools, Linux kernel and File System support for new ARM CPU architecture to bootstrap the OSS ecosystem and increase the value proposition for ARM’s customers.

Actively supported an Agile development organisation of approximately 150 engineers to predictably deliver high quality software assets by sharing best practice, encouraging and tracking improvement activities and promoting a quality culture. Influenced and facilitated the uptake of RCA for defects, Quality Improvement planning and tracking with task.

Leadership of multi-disciplinary teams within Product Delivery, working closely with internal Symbian stakeholders, customers and partners. Led, inspired and performance managed a team of Project Quality Managers and Analysts that worked across project and development teams to successfully engineer and utilise a well trusted and reliable set of processes.

Software Integration planning and management of Symbian OS Products for a multi-site organisation of more than 20 technology development teams. Working closely with lead customers to ensure alignment with their plans and minimise integration impact. Developed and promoted an effective peer-to-peer integration process between internal and customer.

Project Manager for a multi-site team of 20 designers and testers, developing embedded C++ software to provide remote Device Management and initial bootstrapping of mobile devices to OMA (Open Mobile Alliance) specifications. Delivered large high value software projects (>20k mm) to schedule and budget, working from project specification to maintenance.

Technical Lead for a team of designers, developing OMA Client Provisioning bootstrap mechanism. Developed Component Architecture design and specification. Conducted Customer Use Case analysis. Designed, coded and tested core functional components.

Software system architect with overall design authority for embedded C++ system providing network control (SNMP, TL1) of optical subsystem components (Amplifiers and OADMs). Technically led team of designers in developing a feature-rich optical switch module from concept to fully working prototype in less than 12 months, contributing personally to.

Responsible for leading a team of designers developing embedded C++ and Java software features. Part of multi-site project developing next generation DWDM SONET/SDH optical switch and ITU G.709 line systems. Developed several innovative solutions to customer system upgrade issues, one of which was put forward for patent application.

Responsible for planning and developing own work within team of designers developing C++ software features for world leading DWDM SONET/SDH optical switch. Predominately focused on OAM&P (data management) features. Received Award of Merit for Quality from VP.