Peter Warner Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

Coleshill, England, United Kingdom

Birmingham, United Kingdom And Tauranga, New Zealand

Hired to massively accelerate the delivery of new products to facilitate the large growth opportunities identified for 2020 and beyond. Quickly revitalised a static product delivery environment by realigning development time focus whilst ensuring the customer base service was maintained.After 6 months, the rate of new product development increased from having delivering only one new beta level product in 6 months for a single geography (NZ) to delivering a further 5 products spanning all 3 geographies (UK, NZ, AU).• Worked to outline the business and product strategy for the year ahead o Define the aspiration - what does the business want to achieve for its customers o Where to play – what markets and customer size does the business want to target o How to win – what will make a customer buy from us instead of a competitor o Conditions for success – what must be true for the strategy to succeed• Defined the products that would be required to address the strategy via Product Discovery.• Agreed prioritisation.• Encouraged the Development team in New Zealand to be more self-managing and independent in operation.• Removed blockers from team day to day work to facilitate efficient working and communication.• Inspired a sense of pride and ownership in where they worked and what they delivered.• Focussed on a quarter at a time and only ever 3 sprints ahead to allow for changes in priority.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Working closely with the CTO and Exec Board of the HAS Group to:• Move away from a consultancy/dev for hire business model to developing more ‘off the shelf’ products in new mobile enabled technologies• Restructure the development teams into ‘old world’ product support and ‘new world’ product development• Broaden the company vision to deliver a 3 year migration strategy to a replatformed product set, supported by Agile product development to deliver regular product value at the end of every 2 week sprint• Form a Product Owner team, empowering them to make decisions and communicate why that decision has been reached, but ultimately not needing to go ‘higher up’ to seek permission• Set product direction and maximise new product development through effective prioritisation, user story slicing, setting achievable sprint goals and gaining regular user feedback• Communicate the roadmap to the entire business on a regular basis and ensure that development is on track and aligned to quarterly product delivery objectives• Manage the ANZ based development team to align them to an Agile Scrum sprint cycle and deliver upon realistic, market lead sprint goals.

Corby

Following a period of growth for the business (£11.7 million in FY15 and projected £12.5 million in FY16), CMI found itself without an effective Product development process or team to deliver new market aligned product innovations. As such, the first year in the role was focussed on developing the processes, structures and products to support growth in the year ahead, but to also equip CMI to make more sizeable product developments in the future.Key responsibilities:Initially tasked with 3 core issues to address:• CMI has a lot of products - audit all product lines, recommending which we keep, enhance or discontinue.• Answer the question “Why has CMI had less success in the corporate market?”• Answer the question “Why does the online learning portal (ManagementDirect) get good feedback, but not sell?Following on from this, based on my recommendations, my responsibilities looked more to the future direction of the team, how we develop products and drive growth in the year ahead:• Ensuring there is clear product ownership and support to all business areas (Corporate, Membership, Higher Education and Education Providers)• Budget setting for qualifications, online and content development teams• Roadmap definition, business cases and exec buy-in for the product plan• Delivery on the product roadmaps with agreed milestones, comms plans, sales briefings and progress updates

Rugby, Nottingham, London

For FY15, tasked with focusing on one global product for identity document verification (AutoDoc-ID). This is a relatively new product to Experian, with high growth potential. Key objective to significantly grow the product revenue from only £250,000 in FY14 to £1,000,000 in FY15. At the time of leaving the organisation, pipeline for the product had grown to over £4,000,000 for the UK in FY15, with closed business at over £800,000.Key responsibilities:• Identify where the existing unaltered product can be marketed to Experian clients to support sales pipeline and closed business growth in the current FY.• Identify gaps in the product based on client feedback, competitor functionality and from liaising with all regions within Experian (UK&I, USA, EMEA, APAC).• Build business cases for enhancements to the existing service based on feedback from clients and business regions.• Identify new data sources to support the global expansion of the Identity product set within Experian• Provide confidence in Experian’s long term vision for their solutions within the business and to our customers via a realistic and market driven product roadmap.• Engage with the development team, ensuring that there is adequate ownership of the technical delivery and buy in for the required functionality and delivery dates.• Define product position and pricing.

Rugby

Represent Experian’s international identity verification products within the UK, providing guidance and insight to Sales, Marketing and establishing business cases for enhancing the products to better serve our UK clients. Tasked with ensuring the existing £8 million base revenue is protected and to feedback enhancements required to grow the product revenues within the UK&I region.Key responsibilities:• Identify where existing products add value and how they can be marketed to new clients.• Address new business problems to support sales pipeline and closed business growth in the current FY.• Identify gaps in our products and services, delivering enhancements to functionality and data to support specific markets. • Build business cases for strategic development, partnerships and acquisitions.• Manage relationship between the Product and Development Teams to ensure timely progress updates on existing work.• Manage relationship between the Global Experian business and the UK, identifying opportunities to work together in delivering product enhancements and marketing messaging.• Define product position and pricing.

Rugby, Nottingham, London

My core role is to operate as the hub within each of my sectors to provide guidance and insight to Sales, Marketing and Product Development, and to work with the 192 Business product team (192 Business was a recent acquisition by Experian that specialises in the Retail and Gaming markets). Because I understand the technical ramifications of new product ideas and concepts, I am able to propose new solutions that are technically feasible and realistic:• Help support an existing customer base currently worth £4 million per annum and increase new business revenue by an additional £1.5 million in FY13.• Understand where our existing products add value and how they can be marketed to new clients or to address new business problems to support sales pipeline and closed business growth in the current FY.• Identify gaps in our products and services, building business cases for strategic development and/or acquisitions.• Facilitate a more joined up approach between Development and Product so that it is more transparent what the Development team’s schedule looks like and so that Product can engage with the Development team on a regular basis for updates on progress of existing work and to help build business cases for new work where required.• Communicate to our clients and the wider business what we’re doing and when (our product roadmap for our products), giving our clients confidence in our long term vision for our solutions and our sales teams confidence in what they’re selling• Provide a bridge between the Global Experian business and the UK so that where appropriate we can work together rather than in isolation from each other in delivering product enhancements and marketing messaging

Manage existing payments products and identify opportunities for new product developments within the Experian Payments validation products suite.• Requirements analysis• Define product position and pricing• Sales training and consultancy as required.

Analysis of business requirements as defined by Business Product Manager, translation into technical requirements and ensure delivery of software product, training of Support team and handover to Sales team.

I worked as a senior developer on all product lines within Eiger Systems. I was heavily involved in the requirements capture and development of the Experian Payments Gateway (formally EigerPAY Gateway) BACSTEL-IP product and in the design and development of the latest version of Eiger Systems’ flagship product – Bank Wizard v3.

Worked as a software developer in a team of 20 to design and develop B2B logistics software solutions.

Worked as a consultant with military personnel at all levels within Defence Research Agency (DERA) to design and implement military simulations, control systems and logistical planning tools for use within the military.

1St, Cybernetics And Control Engineering

Bsc Cybernetics And Control Engineering, Cybernetics And Control Engineering