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Dubai, United Arab Emirates

Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland

• Ireland Country integration lead for the global merger of LeasePlan & ALD Automotive, managing and coordinating all aspects of Ireland’s integration to the new merged global company, Ayvens.• Lead yearly strategic review process with senior management through multiple workshops, meetings, and individual consultations, with a clear goal of setting objectives for the following year/s.• Track/ manage KPI’s to monitor success of transformation activities for the whole business following the Management by Objectives (MBO) methodology.• Develop/ present quarterly updates to senior management on programme/ project portfolio progress and plan for following quarter in line with priorities set. This forms part of the strategic cadence to allow senior management to review objectives set out in the beginning of the year and pivot should internal or external factors impact the original plan. • Engage with department heads to understand business needs, challenges and opportunities by promoting continuous improvement, contributing to the overall goal of operational excellence by helping to develop a culture of continuous improvement and lean thinking.• Provided direct support to Digital & IT Director in managing the SDLC process with an offshore development team. The main operating system used locally required continual development and updates to improve and transform with the business. Main role was to manage the Agile development process with local BA’s (2 FTE’s) and offshore dev team (3 FTE’s) to ensure sufficient sprint planning, backlog grooming and software development was done in line with business priorities, on time, and within budget. Led and managed sprint retrospectives to ensure continuous improvements sprint by sprint.

County Dublin, Ireland

County Dublin, Ireland

• Project manage multiple suppliers with on boarding and alignment to the to be solution (system testing, smoke testing, SIT, E2E testing) • Provide project wide support to streams, management contractors and 3rd parties• Support Primark Stream Leads in managing MPP’s for Project Oracle for weekly submission• Report weekly on slipped/ overdue tasks from MPP’s• Report on forecasted tasks and deliverables so as to provide the MPP owners a schedule of what is coming in the upcoming weeks• Work closely with Programme Planner in order to achieve project milestones and keep MPP’s accurate and in line with guidelines• Monitor and update the Deliverables Tracker weekly to ensure all Primark deliverables estimated delivery dates are accurate and provide an honest picture.• Work closely with 3rd party PMO to ensure that the Deliverables Tracker is up to date with accurate information.• Report weekly on the current state of deliverables based on milestones, e.g. approved, under review etc.

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

- Effective engagement planning and management of 3rd party teams and resources. - Monitoring project expenditure- Supporting the preparation of reporting packs for meetings- Reviewing, collating, maintaining and highlighting changes to project plans- Manage the deliverables tracker for 3rd parties- Collating information across a number of parties into a clear and concise document- Drive internal document review process- Develop relationships with existing system 3rd party suppliers to ensure a smooth transition to Oracle Retail.- Work with other areas of the business e.g. Buying and Merchandising, Retail and Finance to ensure all processes are achieved.

Dublin, Ireland

- Developed a PMO tracker for professional services for our UK entity.- Manage day to day tasks e.g. ensure resources are utilised with new project opportunities or existing projects awaiting to be scheduled, schedule and manage new requests/ pre-sale opportunities, manage the Resourcing email box.- Track revenue for all professional services.- Estimate and track actual monthly revenue number and report to senior management.- Support Project Managers to deliver projects on time and within costs.- Working with customers to successfully schedule large and small scale projects, manage some smaller projects and ensure resource bookings.- Develop multiple reports on time spent on projects to ensure that they have not run over the desired days.- Work with other areas of the business e.g. Sales and Finance to ensure all processes are achieved.- Involved with the UAT and implementation of SalesForce, in particular PSA within the business.- Ensure all customer expectations are met with resource limitations.- Manage and maintain a central resource schedule around the expectations and requirements defined in project scope by account managers, project managers, consultants and clients.- Negotiate scheduling with project managers and account managers to ensure optimum resource utilisation, achieve customer expectation and project success.- Monitor weekly utilisation and report to senior management based off operational targets set by management.

Bachelor’S Degree, Bachelor Of Business (Honours) In Information Technology (Level 8), 1.1 (3.83 Gpa)

Year 4 Project Management Business Research Methods Advanced Databases for Business IT Project 1 - Analysis and Design Strategic.

Bachelor'S Degree, (Ordinary) Business & Information Technology (Level 7), 2.1 (Gpa 3.10)

Activities and Societies: Pool society. Year 1 Accounting Business Mathematics and Statistics 1 Exploring Modern Enterprises Fundamentals.