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London, England, United Kingdom

- Creating business opportunities and generating operational efficiencies via digital transformation and automation for clients in the financial, retail, manufacturing, construction, agriculture, food industries. - Consulting clients on cloud migration strategies focused on achieving higher levels of scalability, versatility, security, and reliability..

Atlanta, Georgia, United States

- Facilitated the creation of the program plan for integrating user-facing websites, mobile apps, streaming set-top boxes, and smart TVs with the backend Media Asset Management (MAM) system.- Contributed to the optimisation of the delivery and scalability of digital cable, satellite channels and mobile app streaming offering a diverse array of original.

London, England, United Kingdom

- Helping streamline and manage the end-to-end acquisition and integration programme of a recent corporate acquisition, as the organisation lacked a mature framework and expertise.- Implementing governance for programme and project management, consulting and working with vendors to implement the necessary toolset, and structuring the work and roadmap.

London, England, United Kingdom

- Led the digital transformation including a new target operating model and tools for the Business Insights division. - Drove the development of governance, policies, procedures and tools for data strategy and a single source of truth for data company-wide.

London, England, United Kingdom

 Leading the business discovery, requirements definition, vendor selection, contract management, and the end-to-end implementation of a Digital Asset Management (DAM) platform by OpenText Media Manager with online video production capabilities via IPV Curator deployed on the Amazon AWS cloud. Generating efficiencies and faster time-to-market by.

London, United Kingdom

 Developed the strategy and executed plans for the digital transformation of the IT & operations process framework of Risk Management in London, Paris, New York, Brussels, Hong Kong. Restructured and optimised ITIL, Dev and other BAU & operations management processes, designed a new operating model (TOM), updated organisation structures and roles &.

London, United Kingdom

 Effectively managed a £multi-million project implementing a digital asset management (DAM) platform using OpenText Media Manager aimed at creating a unified golden source for all digital media assets across the company brands in 9 countries. Contributed to process workflows and operating model to support the end-to-end integration with the product.

London, United Kingdom

 Successfully managed all activities leading to the launch of Elysee Wellness (start-up) including the business model, management structure, financial, legal, HR & marketing plans, and online presence. Efficiently led the Agile development of a responsive web application with complex booking and account management, coupons, loyalty tiers, API integration.

London, United Kingdom

 Brought on board to manage and deliver a Global Governance Framework transformation programme for Corporate and Investment Banking (CIB) that included the definition and deployment of policies, processes, technology and organisation structures across key functional areas in IT and operations:- Architecture- SDLC & PLC (Agile / Scrum / Kanban, Waterfall.

 Managed a portfolio of high visibility programmes for Capital Markets, Corporate Lending and Risk Management. Accountable for budgets in the $10 million - $20 million range, managing multiple vendors and over 30 internal stakeholder groups. Consistently delivered envisioned business benefits through the successful execution of programmes including one of.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Led a top critical initiative of addressing hidden issues and fault trends by creating a BI data analytics platform that provided centralised insight into data from suppliers, production and assembly lines, dealerships and service centres, following a dramatic series of car failures and accidents followed by federal investigations.

 Successfully revived and delivered a struggling multi-million programme for RBC Dexia’s asset servicing portal by restructuring scope, adopting Agile, reorganising and integrating 10+ teams, 7 suppliers and 3 consultancies (including Big 4). Streamlined a challenging vendor, employed additional specialist expertise and successfully integrated two.

 Generated 7% savings and delivered early a multimillion business intelligence solution aimed at identifying opportunities for process improvement, increasing productivity and reducing operational risk and cost.  Directed multiple vendors, 11 internal teams and 1 Big 4 consultancy in a cross-functional environment. Managed the end-to-end project.

 Successfully managed to restructure and deliver a highly visible programme sponsored by AMEX Membership Rewards. The platform was the first in the industry to allow cardholders to claim reward points towards flights and rooms from eligible Airline and Hotel partners.  Accountable for the multimillion budget, end-to-end scope, schedule, procurement.

 Successfully delivered on budget on time the User Access Management Programme, a Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) Regulatory Compliance initiative. The scope included implementing security controls for access rights to 130+ American Express and Ameriprise Financial systems.  Managed the $10 million budget, 25+ resources and 150+ process users in a global.

 Successfully delivered the company’s flagship Business Intelligence suite and positioned it as a niche market leader against competitive platforms like Cognos, Business Objects, Informatica, Microstrategy. Played a key role in defining sales plans and marketing strategies specific to company’s target niche.

• Developed the winning Business Plan landing the 1st place in Microsoft’s top sales in Romania. Championed the Open System License programme nation-wide achieving 37% market share in FY01. Grew the revenues for my line.

 Managed sales team, responsible for the development and the implementation of various sales & marketing strategies. Developed and managed large customer accounts. Managed large projects.

 Direct sales for the start-up company (at the time). Coordinated and implemented IT projects.

 Created and managed regional distribution channel.