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London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

Reading, England, United Kingdom

Reading, United Kingdom

Reading, Berkshire, United Kingdom

Landmark Valuation Services division offers a comprehensive suite of software products which cover all aspects of property valuation for Lenders and Surveyors, driving efficient and risk-controlled mortgage decisions through end to end cross platform workflow. In fact if you’ve applied for a residential mortgage on a UK home, there’s a good chance your case touched Landmark data or systems. Led delivery of Q-Mobile product enhancements – Windows 10 mobile app used for mortgage valuations and surveys. The app is used by surveying companies to replace the existing paper-based solutions to improve productivity and SLA performance. 18 product enhancement releases were successfully delivered during my tenure.

London, United Kingdom

The UK Government established the Water Act 2014 to increase competition in the provision of water and waste water services in England. The act will allow 1.2 million businesses and other non-household customers in England with a choice of supplier, creating a new market worth around £2.5bn. MOSL was created to deliver the operational capabilities to support the new market.• Joined the programme from the Design phase reporting to the IT Director. Managed the delivery of the Central Market Operating System (CMOS), the core IT platform and cutover to production.• CMOS was delivered on schedule for shadow market opening 10/2016 which was a key milestone date for Defra, Ofwat, MOSL and the whole water industry.

Nationwide is the world's largest building society as well as one of the largest savings providers in the UK and a top-three provider of mortgages in the UK.Project managed Actimize system delivery – Remote Banking Fraud solution and Watch List Filtering for Anti-Money Laundering regulations.

Achilles creates and manages a global network of collaborative industry communities, allowing trading partners to share high quality, structured, real-time data. • Managed the delivery of next generation cloud based supply chain management platform as part of a large scale business transformation – 4 Scrum teams, Microsoft technology stack.• Led Database / Data remediation project which was initially developed by offshore teams.• Worked with the Programme Governance, Scrum teams and Product Owners to continuously improve agile delivery processes which led to a significant increase in productivity.• Successfully delivered platform improvements for a blue chip client.

Visa Europe is a membership association and cooperative of over 3,700 European banks and other payment service providers that operate Visa branded products and services within Europe. I was engaged initially for 6 months and subsequently renewed 4 times as Senior Project / Delivery Manager, responsible for managing end to end delivery of high visibility regulatory projects driven at CIO level. • Led major VE payment stop service greenfield solution built from scratch and fully integrated with authorisation, clearing & settlement and service subscription platforms involving mix of technology and platform integrations including C++, Java, .NET, DB2, SQL, Oracle, Ab Initio. • Managed 50 staff across 6 concurrent projects with 9 onshore / offshore cross functional teams. Payment stop service was successfully launched on time (10/2013) enabling VE Issuers to meet obligations under payments services regulations. • Led major project delivering critical enhancements to Visa Account Updater system to meet new Government regulations offering customers the option to switch current bank accounts within a guaranteed 7 day period. Service was successfully launched 09/2013.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car has more than 6,500 neighbourhood and airport locations in the United States, Canada, UK, Ireland, Germany, France and Spain, as well as franchise locations throughout the world.I was hired as Software Engineer and subsequently promoted to Software Development Project Manager, responsible for leading projects delivered by a European software development team providing technical solutions for a wide range of business requirements that encompassed car event lifecycle.• Led delivery of B2B rental management system for corporate customers, fully integrated with back office systems and supported in UK, Ireland and Germany. Subsequently delivered successful multiple product releases. • Led project within European credit card services to allow credit card rental transactions.• Delivered various third party and business partner software integration projects including Cytric travel broker system, DVLA and Barclaycard. • Led development of in-house multi-lingual CRM system with subsequent multiple successful product releases.

• 06/2004 to 06/2006: Global Beach Group: C#, .NET, SQL Software Engineer• 06/2002 to 05/2004: Ashton Court Consultancy Group: .NET Developer / CRM Consultant• 07/2000 to 05/2002: King’s College London: ICT Officer