Delivery Manager, responsible for key tasks of rationalising two separate legacy teams into one. Alignment of tooling, processes and the workforce. Responsibilities include People and Organisation management duties whilst accommodating the changing environment. Managing pools within the Workforce Management Programmes and sensitively delivering the requisite information to those affected.The role continuously evolves with the introduction of new strategies; analysing the productivity and performance of our team structures in order to introduce digital concepts of working. Amalgamate our teams into Agile Sprints and DevOps environments to transform our delivery strategy. Embracing the different working cultures of the previously separate organisations and transforming them together.Engaging with Training of educational hires onto the Degree Apprentice Programme allowing them to complete a full degree whilst in work over the next four years.

Monitor and control the span of the business within a layer of the Industry Tower. Conduct regular reviews and approvals for proposed solutions. Develop solution concepts to satisfy the evolution delivery processes in meeting the changing business needs. Accountability for the delivery strengths and weaknesses of the team.Align the team objectives and business plans to the company strategies; and tag against the business targets.Manage the resource assignments and utilisation in tandem with Team Leads and managers, rotating resources across the domain to meet career objectives and to refresh skills.Conduct regular reviews with the Team Leads and managers against the Account and Programme Plan of Record to offset any escalations and pre-empt issues.Rolling out of an IT apprenticeship scheme within the tower from concept and recruitment through to on boarding, training and final graduation. Transformation of the labour pyramid and produce business justifications and costings for approval at senior levels of leadership. The programme required many skills initiatives from across the wider team.

Test Programme Delivery across multiple accounts in the UK Public Sector. Focussing on Go to Green plans and improvements in productivity. ‘Best shoring’ of teams working across diverse non co-located geographic regions.Promote new methodologies and technologies across various teams; AGILE, Automation toolsets, Virtual Workrooms and Transformation.Key Skills Employed:• Cost Modelling and Scheduling• Stakeholder Management and formal Presentations• Management of Migration Activities • Management of Best shore team deliveries • Production and Agreements of SOWs • Strategic Planning of Knowledge Transfer• Mentoring and Coaching of Test Project Managers.• Financial Reporting.

Resource ManagementCost Centre ManagementLine Management responsibilitiesDelivery Management to multiple accounts (Rolls Royce, Vodafone UK, Kingfisher, Autonomy)Key Skills Employed:• Cost Modelling and Scheduling• Assessment and approval of sub-contractor supplied systems and software deliveries • Customer facing skills and formal Presentations• Management of Migration Activities o Onshore to Offshore o Site to Site.• Management of offshore team deliveries • Production and Agreements of SOWs • People Management of staffo Career Development, o Performance Management, o Operations management,o Workforce Reduction Programmes.• Financial Reporting.

Oversight of Testing Projects across a Programme of work.Software Team LeadershipFinancial reviews for testing projects.Proposal preparation and review for testing projects.Test Consultancy.Requirements Validation.

Systems Test Engineer - Team LeadRequirements analysis, review and approvalTest Documentation production, review and approvalDefect Management and ControlTest Team technical leadership and managementTest Case and Procedure preparationTest ExecutionTest ReportingSME in the following; Data Link, Radar, Weapons, HUD, MIL STD 1558, MIL STD 498