Through his 12 years at EY, Mike has successfully led and contributed to significant and transformative data and technology projects for both EY and its clients, working with prominent clients across a number of different sectors and industries. Mike is dedicated to delivering high-value client outcomes, excels in team leadership and development, and values strong client relationships. Furthermore, his strong expertise in technology and data is now proving instrumental in helping EY and its clients address ESG sustainability challenges and meet regulatory reporting requirements. Key Responsibilities: Strategic Project Leadership: Demonstrates exceptional leadership in designing, managing, and implementing complex technology and data solutions, such as a global ESG reporting managed service, aligning with the overall product vision and strategy. Global Team Management: Successfully manages cross-functional teams on a global scale, encompassing technology, data, risk management, testing, communications, and service delivery. Technical Proficiency: Proficient in technical areas such as solution architecture, system integration, data management, modelling and visualisation, as well as user interface and user experience design. Client Delivery Experience: Demonstrates a wealth of experience in leading end-to-end project initiation, scoping, and delivery through Agile and Waterfall methods, serving as a trusted advisor to senior stakeholders. Industry Diversity: Adaptable and versatile across many different industries spanning professional services, power and utilities, banking and finance, government, public sector, oil and gas, and retail.Notable Projects: Global ESG Reporting Managed Services, EY: Overall Solution Owner and Delivery Lead for the creation of a completely new global ESG reporting managed service, Designed and built from scratch, this service offering leveraged resources across EY globally, and technology alliances and partnerships.

Notable Projects: Global Culture Assessment, EY – Solution and Delivery Lead for EY’s first ever global culture assessment, covering 300,000 people in 157 countries; sponsored by EY’s Global CEO and Chairman, with results presented to the Global Executive. Awarded first place in the UKI’s Regional Finals for Exceptional Client Service. UK&I Assurance Transformation Programme, EY: Led a major workstream to simplify Assurance and Audit processes, driving operational improvements through technology and automation. SAP CRM and Billing Programme, Water Company: Workstream lead for the high-level design phase of a three-year SAP ERP implementation, leading an extended team of consultants, system integrators, contractors and client resources. Smart Metering Programme, Energy Utility Company: A multifaceted role responsible for managing the solution architecture team, chairing design forums, managing requirements, advising on business process development and advising the Programme leadership team on gaps in the overall solution architecture. Digital Programme Workstream Lead, Transport Company: Lead EY and client team with overall responsibility for the deliverables including requirements analysis, high level solution design, functional design, business rules and data strategy.

Business intelligence and data management technical consultant and project manager working on a range of data warehousing, data visualisation, reporting and SharePoint implementation projects across the UK. Key projects include: Data Migration Quality Assurance, Major European Bank - Technical lead and project manager, responsible for the design and implementation of a business-critical Quality Assurance solution to allow the bank to successfully migrate the data between the incumbent and strategic banking platforms. Police Performance Analytics and Portal, UK Government - Senior project team member responsible for the design and build of several phases within the implementation including the data management architecture, data models, SharePoint deployment and custom web part development including Bing Maps integration. Procurement and Supply Chain Pricing Solution & Long-Term Planning Solution, Major Oil and Gas Company - Technical lead for the design and implementation of the solution enabling equipment and resourcing suppliers to submit pricing bids in a consistent format to be loaded into a central data model. Responsible for gathering requirements, scoping, designing and implementing the solution on site in Houston, Texas.

Project manager for a series of initiatives for the debt recovery arm of Faccenda Group known as Direct Legal and Collections (DLC). Key responsibilities:Review, analyse, and evaluate business systems and user needs. Formulate systems to parallel overall business strategies. Support the drafting of project documentation and ensure that these are developed and maintained to meet the requirements of the project management methodology. Implement systems, relational database and data analytics solutions. Lead and direct the work of others, when needed. Report directly to a project lead or manager outside of IT where appropriate. Key Achievements:Designing and deploying a company-wide SharePoint intranet solution and a data analytics and reporting solution providing insight into debt recovery process updates and recovery rates.

As a lead player in the asset recovery software industry, Fathom Technologies have provided solutions to some of the biggest companies in this space. As Operations Manager my responsibilities involved:- Overseeing support issue logging and assignment of issues to the appropriate helpdesk team members.- Managing support calls through to resolution to enable continued business-as-usual for customers. - Managing client relationships. - Identifying sell-on opportunities with existing clients.- Being involved in the pre-sales and implementation stages of new client projects.- Working extensively on site to either configure new software implementations or resolve support issues.- Being involved in marketing activities such as representing Fathom at industry conferences and assisting in writing website copy