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Reading, Reading, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Elgood Effective Learning specialise in the design of management games and business simulations• Accountable for the delivery of the company website, including the project management, design, SEO, copy writing and testing. • Managing internal project, developing processes and procedures to support company growth. • Facilitation of existing Business Games and Simulations on a variety of subjects (Business Acumen, and Ethics).• Supporting projects across the company’s diverse client base.

Reading, United Kingdom

Elgood Effective Learning specialise in the design of management games and business simulations.• Work with leaders and manager to identify issues limiting organisational performance• Create a Business Simulation Game to addresses the issue and align with the key business drivers • Facilitate groups from small groups to large conferences across cultural and linguistic barriers• Provide clients with an experiential activity that will change the actions and behaviour of individuals and teamsPast projects:• Inland Revenue learning. Design of a Business Simulation Game for the Inspector Development Programme and Employer Compliance Officer Training courses. Provision of practical experience of how a commercial business operates.• National Grid. Design and deliver a Business Simulation Game based on new strategic goals for this industry. Increased staff understanding of changes and enabled them to adjust their actions and decision making to meet new goals. • Infineum. A conference activity to support leaders operating in new markets. The focus was on different requirements for building relationships in the new region. The be-spoke product provided a shared understanding between managers from different regions. • Institute and Faculty of Actuaries (UK, South Africa and India). Facilitation of a Business Simulation to develop business acumen and improve communication between technical specialists and their clients with wider business responsibilities. The course is part of the Institute’s qualification programme. • CPA Global. A key member of the project team working with internal staff to increase commercial acumen over a two-year period. Attendees developed an essential understanding of the business which enabled them to better understand the decisions senior management made and the actions required to support the commercial strategy.

Basingstoke

I successfully managed the transformation programme to split Portals Paper from De La Rue (DLR), to plan and budget. The Portals Paper business was created by the sale to Epiris LLP in a circa £70M deal. The resulting relationship between the two companies being complex, given: • Portals being a customer of DLR (Security features)• Portals being a supplier to DLR (Substrate/paper)• DLR holding a financial stake in the new business.As Programme Transition Manger I was accountable for: • Separation of Portals from DLR according to the separation plan• Ongoing control and governance of Transition Service Agreements between DLR and Portals to ensure exit from Transition Service Agreements at earliest possible opportunity.• Maintaining programme governance ensuring on or off plan visibility to target for all stakeholders• Managing escalations and issues management in accordance with programme deliverables • The Programme budget of £1.4M

Basingstoke, United Kingdom

De La Rue is the world's largest integrated commercial security printer and papermaker and a leading provider of cash sorting equipment and software solutions to central banks worldwide.Programme Manager, Bank of England.Accountable for the overall management and delivery of the Programme to deliver the capability and physical polymer based family of new banknotes.Defining and delivering the overall Programme.Stakeholder management up to and including the Chief Cashier.Managing dependencies between major change programmes.£5 Series G (Winston Churchill) polymer banknote, delivery of the following elements.* Pre-production proof of concept. (Zero Production Run (ZPR)).* Production Initiation, to time.* Quantity of exemplars to time, quality and budget.£10 series G (Jane Austin) polymer banknote.* Delivery of design and origination for Pre-production proof of concept (ZPR2).* Delivered UV Curing feasibility project.* Intaglio Document Recognition (DR) embedding feasibility delivered.£20 series G (J M W Turner) polymer banknote.* Delivered the concept design to time to plan.Methodologies: MSP (Managing Successful Programmes); PRINCE2; Agile (Atern); DSDM.

Basingstoke, United Kingdom

* IS Project Delivery* Programme Management* Benefits Realisation* Across multi sites and multi countries.* Security manufacture and printing.* Methodologies: MSP (Managing Successful Programmes); PRINCE2; Agile (Atern); DSDM.* Accountable for the management and delivery of a number of IS based projects. - Delivered the relocation of R&D department to a new building with no interruption in service due to IS issues. - Successful managed the migration of MS Dynamics v4.0 to v2011, including the implementation across two new business units. - Defined and ran the RFP process for a company wide ERP application. - Defined and ran the RFP process for a Field Service Management application. - Programme managed the HR and Payroll department IT requirements. - Implemented a SaaS based customer survey tool. - Delivered a company wide common Chart of Accounts, managing 18 accountants across the Group and SBUs.

Eastleigh, Hampshire, United Kingdon

Specsavers is the UK’s number one optical retailer with over 1250 stores, also in Republic of Ireland, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Spain, Australia, New Zealand and on the Internet.Accountable for: Programme Management; Project Office; Programme Office; Store Pilots; Customer Service Desk; Resource Management; Training and Quality Assurance.* Managed the “Tailor Made” varifocal lens introduction across multiple business units (IT, Marketing, Product, and Retail).* Maintained the annual budget position for IT as a whole (circa £26M), ensuring information was available to allow corrective action to be taken to prevent significant over/under spend. * Implemented the Compiere ERP Finance Application. * Successfully introduced Project Management controls, process (Agile Development with PRINCE elements), capabilities and culture shift.* Successfully managed the development and delivery of the largest project undertaken by Specsavers. This involved the complete re-write of the store based application, including the EPOS application (circa £10M). Managing internal and third party external suppliers.* Consolidated and expanded a number of different web sites into one, enabling the Marketing Department to maintain data interactively and in real time. Introduced innovative technology such as “frame on face”.

London, United Kingdom

Woolworths Group the UK’s largest variety retailer with over 800 branches; ‘Big W’ out of town stores and the Internet.* Productivity improvement achieved at Head Office by initiating, planning and completing a major Data Centre upgrade, including the provision of Ethernet on a fibre backbone.* Initiated and completed a supplier survey, reviewed and agreed with key suppliers’ methods of moving relationships from supplier / customer to that of partnership, achieving an 8% improvement during first six months.

London, United Kingdom

Woolworths Group the UK’s largest variety retailer with over 800 branches; ‘Big W’ out of town stores and the Internet.* Defined and ran the RFP process for a companywide ERP application, with Tier One consultants.* Defined, implemented and rolled out the Category Management Programme, resulting in more customer focused business. This included process change, change management and the development of applications.* Successfully implemented the Master Data module of SAP.* Completed the implementation of business to business Internet site, to time and budget, with £44k saving achieved on one sku identified as a non-working promotion.* Implemented the Makoro Merchandising tool and successfully integrated it with the Manugistics Demand Planning tool.

London, United Kingdom

Woolworths Group the UK’s largest variety retailer with over 800 branches; ‘Big W’ out of town stores and the Internet.* Introduced competency centres, ensuring project managers generated and maintained their own standards and skills sets.* Implemented the Dynasty Objected Orientated development tool and DSDM RAD methodology, enabling business need to be matched more closely.* Led a review of the project management skill available and defined the level required. Introduced structured project reporting, enabling professional levels of project management and control, defined, built and presented the training. Standards rose by 14% after the first six months of the initiative.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the management of a team of 18 through the total project life cycle. Defining and planning the roll out process across the central call centre, all stores and external suppliers.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for the entire project life cycle from initial requirements to implementation. The roll out of an application to 355 stores, and reactive and proactive support.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for elements of system design; integration, business user and system testing. The design, support, development and maintenance of code.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for elements of system design; integration, business user and system testing. The design, support, development and maintenance of code.

Grantham, Lincolnshire, United Kingdon

Responsible for the management of a number of Design and Production projects.

Bsc Ba, Engineering & Business Studies

Ond Technology, Engineering