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Bradford, Gb

Wetherby, Leeds, West Yorkshire, Uk

Delivering project management, business consultancy, service management and account management services on multiple projects of varying sizes and complexity for external customers in the private, public & not-for-profit sectors across the UK.

Bradford, West Yorkshire, Uk

After receiving a free Workplace licence from Facebook in response to 2 tweets from me during a Twitter Chat in November 2017, I setup and managed a community of 300 professionals from many organisations and none on this enterprise social network (ESN) aka collaboration platform. This community ceased when the free licence was sunset-ed by Facebook in December 2020.Groups that ran in this community included Working Out Loud (WOL) circles, book groups, coaching and mentoring groups of varying sizes including 1:1s.My community consisted of groups with different access controls and objectives. These included “Open”, “Closed” and “Secret” groups as well as groups of groups to meet specific access requirements (e.g. running groups of Working Out Loud (WOL) circles with shared spaces and circle-specific private spaces).Over the period I used Workplace, I evolved, widened and deepened the design and use of this community reactively and proactively. This was from my own experience of running and using the platform as well as learning from various Workplace training webinars.I continue to be an active participant in the #ESNChat on Twitter since first starting in 2017. I have hosted the chat on a few occasions and I curate the chats using Wakelet (https://wakelet.com/@SimonFogg6032).

Bingley, West Yorkshire, Uk

Managed a team of 3 specialist Business Analysts, reporting into the Head of Business Change Management.Responsible for, as well as personal delivery of, requirements specification (including process mapping and definitions), functional specification, user acceptance testing facilitation, release management and benefits management services to all workstreams in Emerald’s programme of projects.Managed, and performed the lead business analyst role on, a procurement project in conjunction with a third party consultancy to source a customer (stakeholder) relationship management (SRM) system to be implemented across Emerald’s global sales and publishing teams (some 250 staff). This included requirements definition, candidate supplier identification, request for proposal and supplier evaluation resulting in the procurement of Microsoft Dynamics CRM and GP (Financials) and implementation via a £1.65m project.On that project, led the detailed requirements/ business design input, supporting a third party consultancy, and managed the user acceptance testing on:* Phase 1 that successfully implemented support for the global sales process from initial lead through to customer order as well as wider stakeholder relationship management functionality.* Phase 2 that implemented the remaining order fulfilment processes (payment processing, subscription management, paper copy dispatch and electronic access to web site content) for customers around the world as well as integration with the GP package.Defined the business requirements for the company’s largest acquisition to date (£1m+) that integrated a new content type (Book Series) within all relevant Emerald systems including product definition, content acquisition, content delivery to the company’s web site and changes to search, browse and authentication on that web site.Member of Emerald’s Academic Board overseeing the company’s in-house education programmes (including Certificate and Master’s Degree programmes).

Bingley, West Yorkshire, Uk

Performing a Head of IT role, reporting into the Finance/IT Director.- Responsible for a team of 15 IT professionals (comprising 5 Business Analyst/ Project Managers, 6 developers and 4 infrastructure engineers).- Opex responsibility for £1.7m per annum.- Stabilised the IT team following the resignation of the previous Head of IT and three developer/DBAs over a two week period.- Implemented a new process for project delivery involving facilitated design and specification workshops with a view to giving the Board of Directors more options for code build work packages being sourced internally and/or externally.- Managed the outsourcing of application support to an IT services provider to free up internal staff to work on new projects and major change requests.- Initiated with the CEO and Sales & Marketing Director a Customer Services Standards programme involving some 70 external customer-facing business staff.

Bradford, West Yorkshire, Uk

Set-up and ongoing management of a team with responsibility for providing project management, business analysis and procurement services to the business. Reporting into the Head of IT.- Successfully delivered the £1.2m Insight programme which replaced the company’s existing web site (an application service provider offering) with a bespoke solution (designed and hosted by a London-based company and developed by one of the largest Indian off-shore development companies). This went live in August 2005 with ongoing incremental releases of varying sizes and complexity to the present day.- Following on from the Insight programme, successfully delivered a project that moved that web site from a single data centre in London to a dual geographically-separate data centre solution (including database and SAN replication) in West Yorkshire that went live in May 2007. The web site usage, performance and availability continues to beat business expectations and is currently supporting 2 million downloads per month.- Took the lead role in radically transforming the business’s previously negative view of the IT team by the professional delivery of seamless service across IT to the business divisions, operating at Director and Head of Department levels.- Implemented Prince 2 project management processes, business process modelling techniques and procurement processes (including RFPs, formal supplier evaluation and engagement). - Successfully set up and established the team via transitioning staff from other parts of the company into a Business Analyst/ Project Manager role.- Graduated from a 6-month in-company action learning programme on leadership, business change and benefits management. - Graduated, as an Emerald-sponsored senior manager, from the 2004/5 Common Purpose Matrix Programme in Bradford.

Uk-Wide

One of five consultants delivering specialist programme/ project management consultancy services for this professional services firm. Reporting into the partners.- Specific consulting assignment at GMAC-RFC * Lead Business Analyst, Exit Strategies Workstream, Premiership Plus Programme; Provided specialist business analysis and ITT production expertise to fast-track the requirements stage. Successfully produced Business Requirements Specification, Technical Scope and ITT documents to meet the required programme timescales. The workstream subsequently implemented a complete end-to-end solution to transfer mortgage loan portfolios off GMAC’s balance sheet.- Specific consulting assignments at Alliance & Leicester* Programme Office Manager, Behavioural Scoring Programme; Successfully implemented programme management processes for this programme, involving multiple business divisions across two sites and a third party solution provider. Specific deliverables included programme definition, programme governance and programme milestone plans. Ongoing delivery of Programme Office services for all programme personnel, including programme assurance and mentoring of business and IT project managers.* Stage Manager, User Acceptance Testing Stage, Marketing Data Mart project, part of a multi-million pound “Customer Insight” Data Warehouse programme; Successfully managed the business test team and liaised with the group IT team delivering the technical environment to ensure that challenging timescales for testing were met, despite the programme historically having a reputation for non-delivery.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Uk

One of three managers in the Supply Design Authority team of the Group Information Systems division leading a team of business and IS professionals supporting the Supply business and its IS teams by delivering consultancy and related services, reporting directly to the Group IS Director.Specific project roles- Project Manager, Repository Evaluation Project, Supply-wideEvaluated a number of third party meta-data repository offerings via a formal Request for Information process and produced a business case for proceeding to a pilot implementation.- Design Authority Manager, YE New Electricity Trading Arrangements Programme, Energy Trading Division. Part of a 3-strong programme management team for a £9m programme that successfully delivered changes required by the regulator and changes to give YE competitive advantage. Managed the end-to-end business process design and other programme-level design products. Assured the technical consistency of the application design. Ran the programme change management process.- Managed the Supply business’s enterprise architecture meta-data repository (including data, process, application and technology architectures) and its related intranet site.Managed the IS strategies, policies and standards including chairmanship of the IS Standards Working Group and membership of the IS Policy Working Group and Technical Infrastructure Board.Provision of IS market watch services via Gartner, Meta Group and Conference Board of the CIO.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Uk

Manager of one of six teams in the Business Systems department of the Information Systems Division delivering bespoke and package applications to multiple business divisions in competition with third party suppliers. Reporting to the Head of Business Systems.Recruitment and line/ resource management of permanent/ contract staff with skills in business analysis, data analysis and administration, design authority services, project management and systems development. This included performance review, competency profiling, objective setting and salary/ bonus determination.Performed customer engagement processes to agree the commercial terms and conditions for the team’s delivery of service and work packages.Team members were assigned to a number of projects and the design authority in the £60m 1998 Programme that implemented the requirements of the government’s deregulation of the domestic and small business market for the supply of electricity and gas. Developed and managed the Business Analysis service.Project managed the Account Management Implementation project that introduced account management for managing the IS/ business relationship across all YE’s business divisions.The technical environment included ICL mainframe (VME), Hewlett Packard and Sun servers running Unix/ Oracle, Compaq servers running Windows NT/ SQL Server (front ends included Visual Basic/ Access 97/ Oracle Forms), System Architect and CASEwise.

Manchester, Uk

Member of a small Business Change team that provided consultancy services to the board of directors. Reporting to the Head of Business Change.Defined the company's insurer trading strategy to strip out substantial costs from the Swinton/ insurer supply chain, making use of BPR techniques and electronic trading via EDI. This strategy was used to define requirements for the new retail system implemented in the existing UK-wide branch network and Swinton’s first call centre.

Manchester, Uk

Set-up and ongoing management of a team with responsibility for corporate data analysis, database design/ administration, systems development life cycle and CASE tools. Reporting to the Systems Development Manager.Managed the following projects:-- Insurance Premium Tax Implementation that involved major business process and system changes to branch (third party-supplied) and head office computer/ manual systems. - Systems Development Life Cycle Implementation that was an essential pre-requisite to Swinton successfully obtaining ISO 9001 certification.- Branch Reporting developed using Forest and Trees/ Oracle.- Managed database administration for the company's central IDS/II databases, held on a Bull DPS7000 mainframe, and the company's emerging Oracle databases.Provided data analysis support for defining:-- low-level data models for every project under development, including customer database- high-level data architecture for the central systems and data warehouse strategies.

Hull, Uk

Lead data analyst in a new team introducing corporate/ project data analysis and administration. Reporting to the Head of Data Administration.Developed a corporate data architecture that was used to scope all strategic and tactical application development projects.Defined low-level data models for all projects including store performance, product line profitability and supply chain replenishment.Provided input to the database design process for all DB2 projects.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Uk

One of 2 lead analysts in a project team that implemented a corporate data maintenance system.Produced data and process models for the buying, marketing, merchandising and supply chain business processes using IBM's Business Systems Development Method.Implemented the first phase (product group structures) using CICS/ DB2.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Uk

Systems analyst on a large conversion team that migrated all systems from two Honeywell mainframes on different sites to a single IBM mainframe.Led the report conversion workstream using IBM's "Managing Application Conversion Projects" methodology.

Leeds, West Yorkshire, Uk

Part of a project team introducing new methodologies and technologies to the business and IT.Gained systems analysis and programming skills by developing applications to maintain the company calendar, to maintain the company product group structure and to provide problem management facilities. These were developed using the Information Engineering methodology, CA/IDEAL (4GL) and CA/DATACOM RDBMS.

Leicester, Uk

One of the intake on Asda’s first graduate store management training programme. Gained first-hand experience of all operational areas of a modern, mixed food and non-food superstore, supplemented by a number of retail management training courses.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Strategy, Consumer And Organisational Marketing, Operations Management

This was a Flexible Learning course which was undertaken via sponsorship by my employers. At the time of my studies, Strathclyde was.

Ba (Hons), Business Studies/Management Science, First

This was the first First that Stirling had ever awarded for a Joint BA (Hons) degree in Business Studies/Management Science.

Exams, 4 “A” Levels, 1 “Ao” Level, 8 “O” Levels

Activities and Societies: NCO in the Army section of the school's Combined Cadet Force. Part of the Assault Pioneers team. Active.

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