Product owner responsible for defining the entitlements, privileged access, user consumption patterns and core infratsture component build out for the azure Data Hub. Responsible for building out the controls and standards for data curation, consumption, sharing and egress on an Enterprise wide Azure Data Hub being built as a greenfield implementation. Led a team of engineers in technical discussions in evaluating and building a prototype using graph databases to validate a business unit’s needs of building an intelligence solution. Evaluated the graph databases available in the market place and led vendor discussions in evaluating suitability of the product for business requirements.Delivered a Proof of Concept which established the integration between the AWS Data Hub and Foundry Data Marketplace. Defined the data cataloguing strategy for an internal business unit and led a team of engineers to refactor data pipelines in Palantir Foundry.Challenged conventional thinking around the pipeline and defined the process to enable large scale pipeline refactoring. Worked to define a migration strategy for the business unit to migrate away from Foundry to AWS.

- Led the DevOps ways of working for the Enterprise teams and deployed a weekly release schedule for the Enterprise applications resulting in faster time-to-deployment of business requirements. - Working with Technical Environment teams, Project Delivery teams, Business stakeholder & vendor teams to successfully deploy SAP applications & other critical applications to the IaaS & PaaS environments.- Led the creation of IT&S-wide Global & Local Release Management policies for over 7000 applications. Leading the adoption of the defined principles by the application teams & ensuring reporting & auditing capabilities are built into the principles & the ways of working. Responsible for the coordination of monthly & quarterly release deployments into production. Leading the simplification of the current process to enable faster Business Requirements-to-Production Deployment cycle times for the programme, project & support delivery teams. - Leading the development of Agile Release principles to suit the needs of an evolving delivery & support methodology of the organisation’s IT&S projects. Responsible for the defining the ways of working that would work with the diverse application landscape of the organisation & would remain adaptable for the different delivery methodologies being used. Responsible for in-depth project engagement specifically with key BP strategic projects, assisting project to deliver by adopting a cost-effective release & change approach. Accountable to driving general Release Planning Process Improvements. - Heading the Availability Management team & responsible for the managing the availability of global applications & holding service managers accountable for the availability of the applications. Ensuring that the availability metrics for applications are comparable to the best in class as reported by Gartner.

- Responsible for the introduction of the new services into the Application Centre of Excellence engaging with different stakeholders, standardising the services, transferring the headcount and budget across the business units and embedding the service within the centre of excellence- Providing Service Strategy and Planning leadership towards the introduction and embedding of new services into the centre of excellence organisation. Leveraging best practices and transition expertise to ensure safe and reliable introduction of services.- Led the successful delivery of a challenging transformation project involving migration of people, budget, technology and business processes from the German Business Unit to the Centre of Specialized Operations and Delivery. Managed the expectations of multiple stakeholders based in Germany, UK and France to complete successful delivery and ensure zero business impact during the project execution and stabilisation periods.

- Successful delivery of an Operational Disaster Recovery of SAP application used by multiple refineries in different geographic locations. Demonstrated the never-before-tested capability of the SAP applications and infrastructure in place to support this scenario. Recognized as a major achievement by the Leadership team in building a new capability and service on offer to the business units.- Delivered the project as silent running by operating the application from secondary site for one week without the end users realising a shift in the underlying infrastructure. Zero incidents raised on the environment due to the project. Delivered the Operational Disaster Recovery project by working with vendors from IBM, HP, SAP, Oracle and internal stakeholders.

The Cranfield MBA Programme specializes in Leadership Development, Organizational Behavior and Personal and Professional Development and Teamwork in addition to core business skills.Recently rated as the 3rd highest accelerated MBA worldwide by The Wall Street Journal, Cranfield offers a dynamic and pragmatic learning approach. The Economics department is ranked 2nd in the world by category in the Financial Times. Additional subjects include Accounting and Financial modelling, M&A’s, Risk Management, Advanced Negotiation, StatisticsAchievements:- Cranfield Scholarship awardee- Provided consulting to SMEs in Uganda as part of the Cranfield International Business Experience- Active participant of the Cranfield consulting club

Migrated software development processes related to manufacturing of aircraft to facility; Assessed risks and opportunities and recommended appropriate courses of action.

Supported complex manufacturing and pharmaceutical projects and supported team in creating project plan and design, data collection, infrastructure design, analysis, and presentation of results. Spearheaded major development projects for 3M and GlaxoSmithKline. Developed business architecture for applications, facilitated user acceptance testing and trained end users, and ensured efficient inclusion of all functional requirements.

Supported technical development teams of up to 12 developers. Evaluated client organizations, their issues and challenges, and their risks and opportunities. Gathered, reviewed, and edited project requirements and business processes related to proposed solution and developed functional/system design specifications. Managed documentation and testing.

Spearheaded software development across entire system requirements life cycle. Liaised between business and technical teams. Provided solutions to client companies Boeing and General Motors that automated manual processes, increased access for end users, and allowed management to track profitability and costs.