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United Kingdom

The ME Group is a provider of litigation funding, insurance and legal representation for consumers facing complex legal problems.Reporting CEO and CTO, helping to define the strategy and policy for new revenue-generating products and transformation of the business from innovative start-up to a professional entity. Leading the business case, definition, design, development and business deployment of a portfolio of innovative products and supporting systems in the finance… Show more The ME Group is a provider of litigation funding, insurance and legal representation for consumers facing complex legal problems.Reporting CEO and CTO, helping to define the strategy and policy for new revenue-generating products and transformation of the business from innovative start-up to a professional entity. Leading the business case, definition, design, development and business deployment of a portfolio of innovative products and supporting systems in the finance, insurance, bulk claims, legal technology, pensions and mortgage market - complete with associated compliance processes and supporting systems. This role involved the definition and delivery of market leading projects, including Funding, Credit origination; SIPPs claim calculations, Risk & Compliance and Arbitration platforms. Methods and technologies. Agile development with C# and SQL Server using JIRA, Wrike and MSP. Show less

Uk

Provided key leadership and direction overseeing Portfolio, Programme and Transition Management working in Atos IT Services, working across a diverse portfolio of clients.Managing a portfolio of 100 projects for nuclear energy site which included Office 365 deployments and SharePoint developments.Led a major Re-Plan & Re-Price activity for a UK logistics company, overseeing the full-life-cycle of the transition programmeSpearheaded the Application Migration Portfolio for… Show more Provided key leadership and direction overseeing Portfolio, Programme and Transition Management working in Atos IT Services, working across a diverse portfolio of clients.Managing a portfolio of 100 projects for nuclear energy site which included Office 365 deployments and SharePoint developments.Led a major Re-Plan & Re-Price activity for a UK logistics company, overseeing the full-life-cycle of the transition programmeSpearheaded the Application Migration Portfolio for 90 application moves, which included considerable re-development/re-factoring of migrated/updated applications.Joint Recovery lead on an £85M Banking Agile Development Portfolio which included a team of 60 architects, developers, testers and sub-contractors, ensuring effective communication to deliver on time and within budget. Show less

London

Transition and Transformation Programme for a leading multi-channel retailer.Businesslink.gov.uk - Delivered the Content Simplification Programme which improved the user experience accessing Content/Tools. This had a £2.4m budget covering 37 internal and 20 external staff. This amended 40% of the over 4000 pages of UK government content.Programme Manager for nine theme areas for the businesslink.gov.uk website which is one of the three UK government Super-sites. Managing a portfolio… Show more Transition and Transformation Programme for a leading multi-channel retailer.Businesslink.gov.uk - Delivered the Content Simplification Programme which improved the user experience accessing Content/Tools. This had a £2.4m budget covering 37 internal and 20 external staff. This amended 40% of the over 4000 pages of UK government content.Programme Manager for nine theme areas for the businesslink.gov.uk website which is one of the three UK government Super-sites. Managing a portfolio of 50 Projects with a team of 25 including 8 PMs. Drove the transformational government agenda for these assigned portfolio projects working closely with department stakeholders at Director level.Planned and created a large section of the business plan for the next phase of the Programme. Member of the Business Management Group which directs and steered the organisation. Show less

Deployed as a trouble-shooter on a high profile Retail Risk SAS Data Warehouse implementation. This £8m SAS platform was delivered on time and to budget.

Bsc (Hons), Electronic And Electrical Eng.

Diploma, German