Peter Lancaster Email & Phone Number

Manchester

Wilmslow

Project manager and business analyst for an in-house team of up to 6 software developers and testers, developing internal applications for one of the UK's largest care home chains. Responsible for:- Understanding of business requirements and specification (including prototypes).- Phased delivery planning.- Sprint planning and management of stand-ups using Jira.- Project documentation in SharePoint and Page Tiger.- Stakeholder management.- Rollout across central management teams and up to 280 care homes across the UK.

Manchester

Project manager for a ground-breaking market research study to understand how U.S. families consume media across multiple platforms. The project was undertaken for a consortium including Disney, NBC and Google and used passive monitoring software to collect usage on TVs, Game Consoles, PCs, Macs, Tablets and Phones and “big data” mining techniques to analyse the data.- Overall scoping and planning for project worth $520k.- Fortnightly updates to the steering committee.- Specification of requirements and features for Windows, OS X, iOS and Android apps.- Interface to the product engineering teams using Agile / Scrum.- Use of Jira and Confluence.- Risk management.- Third party supplier management.

Adlington

Senior Project Manager / Scrum Master responsible for the delivery of a website for all used car sales at the UK dealers of a major vehicle manufacturer. The site was implemented using responsive design techniques for mobile, tablet and desktop use.- Scrum Master for a team of 10 developers, designers and testers.- Programme and project management using Agile / Scrum.- Sprint planning with user stories managed in Microsoft Team Foundation Server.- Running sprint reviews and retrospectives.- The sites were implemented using .NET, C#, HTML5, CSS, JQuery, Javascript, Sitecore and SQL Server.

Liverpool

Scrum Master for the development of an e-commerce system for The Football Pools.- Overall requirements and sprint planning.- Scrum Master for a team of 8 developers and testers.- Site was launched to tight timescales dictated by the football season.Programme management over a two year period for a series of projects to successfully implement the vernons.com e-Gaming sites processing £350M worth of bets annually.- Project requirements analysis, scoping and planning.- Stakeholder management.- Management of third party software suppliers.- Offshore management: liaison with 8 teams in 5 countries.- Managed the relocation of the CRM team from an overseas supplier to an in-house team.- Migration of the existing customer base from legacy platforms and brands.- Compliance management, secured approval from the regulator to operate.

Warrington

Project Manager responsible for all aspects of delivering applications for the company’s online gaming business. Projects included:- Implementation of a new Affiliate Management System to replace 3 legacy systems. The project integrated a third party solution with an internally developed data warehouse, gathering activity data from five separate gaming systems. The system was developed using .NET and SQL Server.- Overall management of a development project by a third party supplier to implement a sports-betting mobile phone application. This application integrated with the existing core systems via a web services interface.- Migration of the Bingo product and all customers to a new software supplier.

Manchester

Senior Project Manager responsible for the development of software applications for mobile phones. Projects included:- Implementation of a messaging system on a range of mobile phones for a large handset manufacturer. The project was worth £2M in a series of phases over 2 years. I managed the team of software developers and testers with a peak team size of 15. The project was implemented according to an ISO9000 certified development methodology, subject to 6 monthly external quality audits.- Development of an iPhone app providing a London Underground tube map and latest operational information on tube services.

Ashton-Under-Lyne

Bracknell