Sam Harper-Wallis Email & Phone Number

Penkridge, Gb

Penkridge, Gb

United Kingdom

- Support the AI strategy development to ensure the proposed development plan and schedule is feasible and in line with client’s expectations- Define and agree project objectives with all stakeholders- Analyze and develop procedures for management and delivery of technical projects- Ensure resources are allocated according to project requirements- Support in budget allocation and tracking- Be responsible for organising scrum meetings, retrospectives and reporting- Ensure projects are delivered on time and in line with the agreed strategy

- District Councillor for Penkridge North & Acton Trussell- Member of the Planning Committee and the Licencing Committee- Member of the Licensing Committee

Worcestershire, England, United Kingdom

- Create and implement monthly deadlines, projects goals, expectations and workflows to ensure a smooth production process with on-time delivery- Scheduling for the agency for all marketing related activities- Oversee the production process in the agency and coordinate all activities to ensure there is sufficient resource in place- Manage the data to day servicing for the project management tool Monday.com- Lead and continuously improve the internal production process- Ensure the output of the team meets standards and deadlines- Proactively monitor production throughout the business to resolve issues such as sick leave or urgent client tasks- Organise workflows development workflows to enable efficient cross department tasks- Work with Client Services to shift and balance priorities based on volume of work and client deadlines.- Proofing and reviewing designs / documents before they are shared with the account team / client.- Assessing, interrogating and clarifying client briefs and assigning the appropriate designers / marketers to a project.- Managing all aspects of the budget for each project, along with financial tracking and controls.

United Kingdom

- Responsible for the team that maintains the management information around the status of projects, working with resourcing and traffic management, identifying key issues that need fixing and escalating- Lead and deliver a suite of different larger scale, higher complexity digital projects on time and to budget, or managing by exception when required- Responsibility for the consistent and professional execution of digital projects undertaken by the agency, ensuring practices are in line with agreed ways of working- Full oversight of operations, ensuring all digital project deadlines are met monitoring and reporting on operational performance against agreed quotation and responding to any issues or risks that may hinder the efficiency and output of the agency- Management of a highly effective team, ensuring that the tools are adopted and adhered to, organising personal development reviews, gathering 360 feedback, dealing with performance issues, and ensuring team members have access to appropriate learning, development and training opportunities- Provide operational advice and support to the Head of Client Services, Head of Creative and Finance Director- Attend and provide reporting into monthly Management meetings, including project level reporting at a macro level to include utilisation and profitability

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

- Line management of development and digital project management team- Ownership of all digital project management processes- Ownership of all development processes- Identifying value add features for clients- Day to day management of projects and tasks- Identification and implementation of workflow/process improvements

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• The coordination and delivery of projects on time, within budget and within scope• Being the first point of contact for clients during live projects, including daily coordination (as needed) between client and the Made production teams.• Assessing project plans for new work and working with production, design and strategy teams to carefully monitor scope and feasibility.• Arranging and chairing regular client status calls.• Assisting in the presentation of work-in-progress from design work to demonstrations• Monitoring project delivery and running internal project catch-ups, sprint meetings and retrospectives;reporting internally as required.• Reviewing weekly resource allocation and contributing to resource planning meetings.• Grooming product and QA backlogs.• Carefully managing project risk, and escalating issues in a timely manner as required.• Delivering training to client personnel on platforms such as the SilverStripe CMS and BlocksOffice ticketing path.• Assessing and monitoring quality, including testing and bug/issue reporting as appropriate.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

On a day-to-day basis, I am responsible for:• Leadership on all software development projects being briefed into and delivered by the 383 studio • Ensuring product and feature specifications have the correct technical detail, by working with engineers to scope • Supporting Project Managers with translating user requirements and client requests into development ready tasks • Management of software development tasks through Jira, from ticket compilation to queue management, delivery and archiving • Managing engineering tasks and outputs, and communicating challenges and remedies to studio stakeholders • Lead on internal communications for all software development releases • Ownership of clear and client friendly specifications for delivery of project assets, and enforcement of the same specifications • Full ownership of Engineering capacity and achievement of utilisation targets • Being the gatekeeper of project scope, setting clear parameters of what will and won’t be delivered by the studio team

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• Confidently leading projects - from managing clients, schedules, budgets, assets and adhering to scope.• Using meticulous attention to detail and organisation• Strong alignment with client side product owners, and internal strategy and creative teams, to produce innovative and scalable digital products.• Decisive and solutions-minded, able to progress a situation forward independently with ease.• Comfortably accommodating fast pace of changes, and implementing new procedures and ways of working into your project teams at speed

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Responsible for the companies complete end to end project management• Ensured full project compliance with the client's requirements, deadlines and budget restraints.• Developed and maintained client relationships including large accounts such as ITV, IKEA and Lloyd's register• Collaborated with the creative and web development teams to implement project ideas and plans.• Managed all existing client commercials from proposals to invoicing.• Managed client relationships through-out the project life span and encouraged clients to provide billableadditional new work/scope.• Implemented a system to accurately predict project timescales within the development team.• Encouraged client collaboration, technical changes and generally working in an agile way.

Manchester, United Kingdom

• Involved in the full life cycle and development of the Digital SAS• Gathering requirements from internal stakeholders• Managing product improvement drives• Trade show organisation• Collaboration with Marketing• Interviewing and building a development team

Manchester, United Kingdom

Bsc (Hons) Microbiology And Molecular Biology, Cellular And Molecular Biology

The degree involved the investigation fundamental and applied aspects of microbiology and molecular biology. Emphasis was placed.

Education record

Haybridge High School and Sixth Form is an 11–18 mixed academy school with approximately 1,250 students (420 in the sixth form) in Hagley.

Education record

Activities and Societies: Part of the schools Rugby team Wolverhampton Grammar School is a co-educational independent school.