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London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Founded in 2018, NeedToCharge is the friendly way to share an EV charger.If a driver needs to charge, they simply enter your reg number at needtocharge.com to send you a notification. You can respond to let them know you'll be back. The other driver doesn't need to create an account or download the app, and no personal details are shared.

London, United Kingdom

Founded the MyFlights App in 2009 - MyFlights is the leading travel app that keeps you up-to-date with all your bookings.Available on iPhone, iPad and on the web - view all your trips in one place and be the first to hear about any changes to your Amadeus bookings, including changes to seat reservations, class of travel and flight schedules.

London, England, United Kingdom

Providing expertise to clients on all areas of IT and Business Delivery

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Leading the EMEIA delivery of a Global Learning Management System launched across iPhone, iPad, Mobile Web App and Desktop, delivering core training skills and product knowledge to a target audience of 2 million users. I worked closely with the Apple Sales Training leads across EMEIA, from requirements gathering and prioritisation, through to the detailed testing and launch of each major release. Owning the relationship between the business, worldwide programme, and the IT teams, I was able to use my technical knowledge to challenge detailed solutions and timelines, while balancing the business needs and priorities to ensure the product was fit for purpose in a rapidly changing and diverse environment.

London, United Kingdom

Leading a team of 40 across UK, US and Central Europe, I was accountable for the delivery of dunnhumby’s Strategic Pricing and Promotions programme. This involved aligning the organisation around dunnhumby’s recent acquisition of KSS, and leading the £15 million business transformation programme across Tesco’s UK and International Markets to deliver £250 million in incremental annual sales, and £125 million in incremental profit.As part of my role, I worked at the Tesco Global Executive level to secure budgets and mobilise a team to lead the strategic change across Tesco Commercial and Marketing.The programme required significant business change in the way Marketing and Commercial teams operate, and redefining the strategies by which they operate and are measured at all levels of the organisation.

As a member of the Core Delivery Leadership Team (dunnhumby’s global delivery centre), I was responsible for building and leading a team of up to 40 staff on 3 continents. I was accountable for ensuring the efficient delivery of all products across all solution areas (budget of £2.3 million per year), and providing first class support for the products once live.Key to the success of the role was defining a strategy for continuous improvement within the team, and defining change in the way all areas of Core Delivery operate together and in conjunction with the 22 global client retailers.Alongside delivering to market commitments, I initiated and managed a project to identify the root causes of the rising cost of product deployment, and worked with external consultants Gartner to propose strategic change across Core Delivery to radically reduce the effort required. This project has lead to the reduction in costs by more than 50%, as well as the ability to reduce the time to market of developed code by up to a year.Another significant team under my leadership was Product Support – a team with low morale and performance as a result of poor previous management. In the first 6 months the team met the challenge of improving SLA achievements from less than 70% to more than 98%, and continue to grow in strength with zero attrition.

As the expert in deploying our flagship product, I have been accountable for delivering the dunnhumby Shop to 5 new markets across 3 continents. Key to each successful deployment was developing a strong relationship with each market, working to build confidence in our ability to deliver.Running regular communications meetings with the markets ensured Core Delivery were always focussed on delivering to each market’s priorities, while efficient project management meant commitments were within the capabilities of the delivery team and resource constraints. Strong communications and a continuous drive on morale has been crucial to leading a team of 15 to 20 development and deployment resources across the UK, US and India, spread across multiple projects but working as a single team.Working closely with the Market Representatives and the Core Delivery Leadership Team has been critical to the success of each project, managing clear communications and escalations, empowering the team to resolve issues quickly and with minimum impact. My role also involved reviewing the budget each year for Shop delivery, understanding how we charge the markets, and driving efficiencies within the delivery process to help ensure high quality and cost effective deliverables. My background has also enabled me to deliver solutions to technical problems, in some cases identifying and resolving issues that would otherwise have meant failure to meet SLAs.

dunnhumby puts genius into making sure our clients get to know and treat their essential customers better than anyone else. We combine proven natural ability with big ideas to find clues and patterns as to what customers are buying and why. Turning these insights into something actionable is what makes a dramatic difference to business. dunnhumby is proud to work with a prestigious list of companies, including Tesco, Procter & Gamble, Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Nestlé. We employ more than 850 people in Europe, Asia and the Americas. For more information, visit www.dunnhumby.com

As the Consumer Lead for BT Retail’s ground breaking new Customer Data Warehouse, I am responsible for the development and exploitation of the business’ customer data, and driving BT Consumer’s MIS strategy. The system is at the heart of BT’s future, providing a solid foundation for the analysis of customer and product data, together with the tools to understand and improve the Customer Experience.Personally responsible for a budget of £10 million, understanding BT’s business focus and priorities is key to ensuring the system is always aligned with the direction of the continuously evolving company.Working closely with BT Business was vital to providing a solution capable of driving BT Retail forward as a whole. My role required working together with the CEO of BT Retail to secure budgets based on projected benefits to the business.Under my leadership, the Data Warehouse was delivered on time and under budget using traditional and agile methods. I also managed the delivery of exploitation solutions responsible for providing business critical information to Investor Relations and to The City.

Various team lead roles as part of a seven year, $750 million business transformation engagement with one of the UK’s largest FTSE 100 insurance companies. The project is been based across various sites in the UK and overseas. Based in Madrid managing a team of 10 multinational consultants and analysts to performance test a major software release prior to it being rolled out to the client.Critical to successful delivery has been my work ensuring conformity between the business need and the IT solution they are receiving. Gaining deep understanding of the business processes and working in close partnership with the client on a daily basis has been key. Communicating the business needs back to the IT experts and ensuring that they are met has been a core challenge in terms of managing the resources and capacity of my team.Positions: • Implementation Test Lead• Management Information Support Lead• Maintenance Release Test Lead• Quality Process Improvement Liaison

Project Manager of an e-business development project for a new client, from the early bid phase (including the development of a model office environment) through to the delivery and post-delivery support phases.The project was delivered to schedule and within budget, and was a fundamental selling point when the company was purchased shortly after project completion. Positions held: • Project Manager for Development and R&D departments• Resource Manager for Research & Technologies department• Software & Web DeveloperResponsibilities: • Management of project through complete lifecycle • Training of development team in web technologies• Design and build of corporate web site• Researching and understanding latest industry developments• Reporting directly to company CEO

IT Management for the UK’s largest private jet company with 100 employees. Projects managed included corporate web site development, operations staff training, design of operations software, and IT related purchase order management.Positions held: • IT Manager• Senior Web DeveloperResponsibilities: • Management of all IT hardware and software systems• Management and development of corporate web site• Training of operations staff on IT systems• IT purchase order management• Design of aviation operations software• Reporting directly to company CEO

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science

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