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United Kingdom

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Successful delivery and launch of 1500+ scholarly books and 20 journals onto a SaaS hosting platform, including access management integration for 1000+ institutions and their students, content migration and UX/UI management and CMS set up. I managed the platform partner, 3rd party integrations, internal teams and stakeholders reporting to the Platform Steering Committee. Post launch I've successfully managed quarterly releases, downstream services integration, post launch releases and helped establish BAU processes.

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Scrum Master to the Internal Business Integration value stream delivering a high value product release within the scrum framework. Facilitating all scrum events, supporting the PO in backlog management, coaching the value of the Scrum artifacts, commitments and events. Defining Definition of Done and Definition of Ready with the teams

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

Scrum Master to 2 scrum teams facilitating the scrum ceremonies and supporting the PO and development team all matters scrum. Worked with technical and testing teams for the introduction and evolution of CI/CD processes within sprints. Launching new Scrum teams for new emerging work-streams and working with the delivery manager to onboard new people to the company during a period of rapid expansion.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Successful initiation of eLearning technical pilot for Thoroughbred Breeders Association’s including project kick offs, planning workshops, platform set up and content preparation.

Brighton, United Kingdom

Scrum Master to a team working on a technical re-architecture release followed by the ramp-up of a platform migration and relaunch of their Global Application Form. Running standard agile ceremonies, story mapping and planning workshops with 2-week production deployments and weekly reporting to senior stakeholders.

London, United Kingdom

Working onsite with the client (Upfield and Unilver) and SI partners (Accenture & PwC) for global divestment project. Managing PMO team and establishing tracking and reporting processes for 9 internal work streams and reporting and liaising with client and partner teams. Working with multiple internal, partner and client teams throughout the delivery cycle for on-time launch of MVP in Canada.

Brighton, United Kingdom

(Semantico was acquired by Highwire Press in December 2016). I successfully delivered 2 high profile, challenging SaaS projects with complex bespoke features, AMS, ecommerce and third party integrations for McGraw Hill Education and Springer Publishing, putting hundreds of scholarly books and journals online for STM undergraduates, post graduates and professionals. Ran daily stand up, sprint plannings, retros and sprint demos with the client every 2 weeksSpringer - connect.springerpub.com // MHE - Access Engineering - accessengineeringlibrary.comWorked with multi-functional and co-located teams (including BA, UX, PO, UX, design, engineers & QA) from initial scoping to project delivery and liaising with internal and external stakeholders working within an agile framework. Managing budgets, schedules and resource allocation. Programme manager for all of McGraw Hill's platforms and workstreams which included managing other PMs, ensuring on time roll out of all projects and implementing centralised financial, scheduling and status reporting for all projects. Won internal prestigious peer-voted recognition award (Winners Circle Award).Familiar with all main project delivery tools - Jira, Confluence, Basecamp, Slack, SalesforceClients - McGraw-Hill Education and Springer Publishing, both New York based.

Brighton, United Kingdom

I accepted a permanent position and was promoted to Senior Producer. I became the programme manager for McGraw-Hill Education, planning and leading updates, improvements, new features and larger projects across their platforms delivering Science (encyclopedic content) and Engineering (books) content to undergraduate and postgraduate students. This also included delivering a complex bespoke data visualisation application which won a Prose Award (2017-Best eProduct Physical Science & Mathematics) - www.accessengineeringlibrary.com/datavis/material-properties Client - McGraw-Hill Education

Brighton

Hired for 4 months initially to plan a large project for Dawson Books/Bertrums to migrate their books online. Contract was extended to deliver a 9 month project for Bloomsbury, adding theatrical audio and video content to their DramaOnline site. Also worked on McGraw-Hill Education's sites.Clients - Dawson/Bertrums, Bloomsbury, McGraw-Hill Education

London, United Kingdom

Set up and management of ecommerce channel and acquisition and retention strategies for start-up selling covers (‘skins’) for laptops, smartphones, ipods and games consoles for consumer and corporate/trade and promotions markets. Achieved significant year on year growth in traffic and sales from a standing start. I managed our corporate/trade clients, delivering bespoke skins in bulk for events and promotions and I oversaw the roll-out of skins into Three stores. Operationally, I sourced and managed our product manufacturer, digital, graphics and print agencies, and defined and implemented effective supply chain, end to end production, fulfilment and customer service processes for online and corporate clients.

London, United Kingdom

Managed a senior account team with a portfolio of key agency clients across high street retail, banking and travel sectors. I successfully lead pitch teams, managed key clients and cross agency teams and set up long term retained site development and digital marketing business. Clients includedBlacks Leisure Group (Blacks, Millets), Signet (H.Samuel, Ernest Jones), Henderson Global Investors, Ted Baker, Betfair, Land Rover, easyCar, Tourism Ireland, Opodo, NS&I, Royal Doulton

London, United Kingdom

Managed a portfolio of key agency accounts across retail, banking and entertainment sectors, managing cross-agency teams and multiple client stakeholders for large scale site development, ecommerce site builds and digital marketing strategies. I coordinated pitch teams and was part of a core cross agency team focused on successfully growing the agency’s ecommerce client base. Clients includedBlacks Leisure Group (Blacks, Millets), DSG International (Dixons, Currys, PC World, The Link), Signet (H.Samuel, Ernest Jones), Laura Ashley, Ted Baker, Henderson Global Investors, Disney, easyCar,

London, United Kingdom

I worked across key accounts in the luxury, entertainment and health sectors. I was involved in all aspects of budgeting, scoping, implementation and delivery of site build, customer acquisition and retention projects and managed and grew some of the agency’s long term clients. I worked on new business initiatives and pitching and was part of a small team responsible for establishing and successfully growing the luxury brand clients within the agency. Clients includedAsprey, Garrard, YSL, Boucheron, Disney, BVI/BVHE, MGM, Persil, BT, Sport Relief

London