Mark Schofield Email & Phone Number

London, England, Gb

London, United Kingdom

As a seasoned IT professional and experienced Project Manager, I have established Elifin Consulting to provide IT Project Management consulting to clients.

London, England, United Kingdom

Coming off a long illness, took on an internal role of defining and implementing development and project management best practices across development teams in IFPI and an affiliated organisation (RIAA) in the USA, that shared the responsibility for developing the same Content Protection system.- Improved communication between teams, the global record company stakeholders and within IFPI.- Worked with the USA based development team and management to implement best practice.- Installed application development discipline in the IFPI development team.- Introduced an Agile development approach using Jira and Confluence.- Introduced application deployment and environment management best practice.- Set up a DevOps rota for the development team to balance the need to support the business users and develop the applications.- Provided additional leadership and motivation to the IFPI development teams.

London Area, United Kingdom

In a client facing role, took on the management of projects to replace existing customer facing commercial systems and migration of data feeds to new client platforms.Managed 3rd party suppliers and on-shore/near-shore development teams.Worked with Client SMEs, project team members to focus on solution delivery.Managed and reported on the financial status of the projects to senior client and internal management stakeholders.

London Area, United Kingdom

An internal role, working with internal Business and Technology teams to ensure they are ready and able to launch and support their new data analytics platform.Acted as a focal point for co-ordination of business and technology teams to ensure business and technical processes were in-line with delivery of the new data platform.Facilitated business agile ceremonies worked with management to overcome issues.Managed the development of the migration of existing data feeds to the new platform.

London, United Kingdom

In a Client facing role, managed a portfolio of projects covering Agile Application development, data integration, data analytics platforms and Cloud infrastructure deployments.Worked with Client teams to develop Cloud based data ingestion and analytics platforms.Collaborative development with and upskilling of client development teams in Agile practices for a UK insurance company. Implemented Azure Active Directory and user migration projects for a major Car manufacturer.Implemented an internal Project planning and financial management system.Implemented data integration platform for a multi-national packaging company.Engaged with and reported to senior client stakeholders via Sprint Reviews and Retrospectives and traditional Status meetings and reports.Carried out the usual Sprint ceremonies (Standups, Planning, Refinements Reviews, and Retrospectives).

London, United Kingdom

As part of the Digital Transformation group, managing a portfolio of integration and migration projects.Working with French and UK technology and business teams to integrate new marketing capability as part of a Transformation programme to build a new Single View of Customer system.Building capability to allow improved marketing to Corporate clients by integrating multiple data sources.Liaising with and co-ordinating the activities of several different development, business and regulatory teams.Reporting to senior UK and French management and stakeholders.Providing input to improvements to Agile development methods and processes.Managing budgets of upto £500K Working with Product Owners and onshore/offshore development teams.

London, United Kingdom

In a Client facing role, managed a portfolio of projects covering Application Development, Application upgrades, data integrations and 'big data' analysis.Worked with 3rd Parties to create an integrated solution based on data generated by passenger interactions for the main UK airport to help them improve their customer experience and service and generate additional revenue from their CRM system.Seconded out to a leading UK Mobile and Cable company to plan and co-ordinate the activities of their Marketing Operations group and Acxiom, as part of a major Organisation Transformation programme.Reported to Senior Client stakeholders and other senior management in pre and post sales roles.Worked with several 3rd Party development partners to deliver solutions.Worked with Near-shore development teams using a mix of agile and traditional methodologies.

Docklands/London Bridge

Delivered a varied portfolio of infrastructure and development projects covering Finance, Tax, Audit and Corporate compliance business areas with a value of upto £1.5M.Managed Business teams and offshore Development teams in a multi-team, matrix managed on-shore/offshore environment, using both Waterfall and Agile methodologies.Delivered Mobile applications liaising with 3rd Party Software houses and managing offshore Agile, development teams. Attended daily standups, sprint planning and retrospectives and monitored progress using burn down charts.Built strong relationships with Stakeholders and managed expectations with regular communications and excellent proactive risk management.

Marlow

Re-established the presence and functioning of this Strategic group and created strong ties with the Business teams across D&B, by implementing key Global Customer and strategic scoring projects as part of the Web based Risk Management solutions provided by D&B. This was a cross-functional, global role that required strong Relationship and Stakeholder Management to deliver projects across a wide portfolio.

Marlow

As a key member of the Programme Team in a global multi-million dollar programme at this leading corporate information provider, I acted as Delivery Manager of several Projects in this Digital Transformation programme, covering a suite of strategic, highly integrated systems at the heart of what D&B delivers to its Customers. Defining Governance and communicating effectively with all stakeholders, in a global on-shore/off-shore, multi-functional, multi-project environment, matrix managed the delivery these projects and directing Business and IT specialist teams was a key part of my role. In addition to this I had Line Management responsibility for my Project Management team.

Marlow

I was responsible for improving the robustness, capability and Customer Experience of the Customer facing, Strategic monitoring platform and integrating it into other strategic, US and Asia-Pac based platforms producing a truly global solution, to improve Customer Satisfaction. In addition I implemented several multi-location, complex, Point-of-Arrival scoring projects in the International, US and Canadian businesses.

London, United Kingdom

Within this thought leader in the field of public transport information systems on the web and mobile devices with a turnover of around £2.5M, I was responsible for end to end delivery of a programme of key projects for customers including National Rail Enquiries (NRE), Transport for London (TfL) and Department for Transport. These projects were delivered using the XP agile methodology.

Slough, United Kingdom

Working, in both project management and business development roles, for the consultancy group of Progress Software I was responsible for managing bid processes, client relationships and end to end delivery of business critical solutions for clients like the BBC, RBS Car Division, Specsavers and Lastminute.com using a combination of traditional and agile (DSDM) methodologies.

Mba (Technology Management), Strategic Management Of Technology

Ba (Hons), Computing In Business

Activities and Societies: Fencing Club - Member and Chairman