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Founder & Organiser at Northern Data Forum Manchester - a North West community Meet Up designed to bring together data professionals in the region to talk about data & business intelligence.

I am accountable for the data, analytics and data science strategy for Travel Counsellors and lead the Business Intelligence, DBA, Data Analyst and Data Science teams. I work closely with CEO, CFO, Head of Strategy and other board members to deliver data products that support our Strategic Pillars.I joined Travel Counsellors at the start of their data journey and have since introduced self-service BI, their first data analytics function, data science & machine learning and the formation of a Data Board. I am also a member of our digital transformation team, helping to introduce product ownership, better ways of working and data literacy.

- Implemented and set up Autosys jobs to automate a number of BAU tasks resulting in more time for projects/development work.- Automated the delivery of Reports to a central SharePoint site including setting up permissions for certain reports and areas improving control over our reports.- Developed an Outlook Web Service script to automatically email users when certain daily source reports were not uploaded to SharePoint saving around 30 minutes per day.- Improvements and bug fixes to SQL Stored Procedures and SSIS Packages as per Business Requests.- Implemented Golden Source static data feeds using RBS strategic applications and sources improving the data quality within the MI System.- Set up a Team SharePoint site consisting of an automated task list, issues and enhancements log and team calendars.

Management Information consultancy work for a Tier 1 Investment Bank.

•Map and Gap, Risk and Issue Identification and Project Initiation Documentation.•Chairing Workshops to gather ideas, gather/review requirements, test packs and plans. This resulted in quick sign off of key documentation with little pushback•Worked on integrating legacy ABN Amro branches on to the RBS System Stack and/or renaming the branches under RBS. Ensuring that all downstream impacts were assessed.•Trade Migration Runbook Coordination with stakeholder management over Migration weekends.•Managing Client novations which meant playing a key role in coordinating between the Project Manager and Operations Middle Office.•Ensuring that bug fixes and functionality requests are prioritised and signed off. Also managing UAT and Regression Test cycles with the different Business areas.•Delegating Test Case and Cycles to Line Users and coordinating any feedback.•Producing and maintaining an internal reconciliation application for Middle Office. The application was created in Access with a GUI to load and reconcile the two files.

Key stakeholder within Foreign Exchange for all project and development work.. I worked on a number of process improvement projects to either increase “right first time” rates, reduce waste or identify risks within a process or procedure. Whilst working in this role I mentored a summer intern to complete a project around “straight through processing”

•Administration for three Health and Safety Advisors.•Document Control for Health and Safety Information.•Delegation of work to colleagues when necessary.•Contact with consultants and clients on a daily basis.