Programme/project management and consultancy for the development of bespoke applications and systems integration solutions to customers in the utilities, telecoms, airline, insurance and financial services industries.- Agile programme/project management- Business process engineering- Business analysis- Enterprise process architecture- Test and release management

2007-2009 Programme Manager2001-2007 Development/Project Manager1998-2001 Team/Project ManagerGE Smallworld, a division of GE EnergyManagement of the development of a portfolio of inter-dependent and compatible application products and software components for the design and management of electricity, gas, water and telecommunications networks. This covered programme management of the complete Smallworld suite of 20 products, management of the project management team, management of individual projects and outsourced developments, group finances, reporting to senior management and process improvement.My management style is very much facilitative to get the best from teams by getting them to work together, driving the development of simple solutions to solve complex problems through team-working, and encouraging innovation and creativity. Over time, the developments on which I have worked, and led, have increasingly taken a more lean approach, followed agile principles and moved to use a scrum framework, evolving best practice through driving teams to continually review and improve development and managment processes.I have met challenging business objectives and customer needs whilst developing more products, moving on to new technology platforms (including Oracle and SAP) and building up an increasingly larger team of permanent and contract staff, including establishing new teams in India. I have set up agreements for, and managed, outsourced developments, and put processes in place for the expansion of the IT infrastructure to support product development.

Management of a team developing and supporting the system that produced and delivered Reuters media services to 3000 client receivers worldwideThe main work involved managing development projects to implement a new routing network and a central client/server administration system for the global distribution of news and to provide open client receiver applications with integrated Intranet delivery on the client site. Also, focus on refining and reinforcing the use of a DSDM/RAD approach as the core element of the software development process and preparing for CMM certification.Before this, leading teams and developing products and data feed services for the generation and distribution of annual reports, quarterly company results and financial news.

Specification, design, development and testing of scientific and administrative database systems, technical consultancy; “Ingres Guru”. Worked on client site (BP Exploration) in London and Aberdeen to develop geological and cartographic analysis tools and database systems, and HR/recruitment systems.

Scientific, administrative, library and statistical work for the cataloguing, storage and retrieval of oil exploration data; user DBA role; French translation.