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United Kingdom

Swindon, England, United Kingdom

Swindon, United Kingdom

• Consistently delivered over £5 million of annual cost savings and avoidance, in adherence to procedural standards and improving controls, from erroneous supplier billing and invoicing during a time of transformational.
• Achieved £3.5 million of cost avoidance for a strategic supplier through risk identification and process optimisation across supplier service lines whilst maintaining operational efficiency and service.
• Leads a team of 6 specialists, reconciling billing and invoicing for an annualised £200 million of services delivered by blue chip service partners and suppliers in line with contract commercial and service operational.
• Improved morale and operational service levels by 40% in the Accounts Payable and Purchasing Operations teams during a sustained period of restructuring, team change, record volumes and heavy workloads.

Swindon, United Kingdom

• Executed the commercial model within the £250 million outsourcing contract, designing and implementing the end to end operational process with approval from and collaboration with senior stakeholders, procurement.
• Design and creation of MI for the operational Testing Service, identified service improvements and resource utilisation efficiencies reducing annual cost of Test by over £7.5 million.
• Implemented the contractual governance model, streamlined resourcing processes and improved data quality to ensure accurate and efficient resource supply fulfilment for 750 FTE to meet portfolio demand.

Swindon, United Kingdom

• Key contributor of operational knowledge, data and MI, supporting senior Nationwide stakeholders and directors, procurement, legal, and finance with vital decision-making ability during the outsourcing programme for.
• Worked alongside Procurement and Legal teams through the contracting process from business requirements and tendering to contract drafting and signature.
• Responsible for operational management and performance of over 500 Test practitioners, including third party offshore managed services with IBM, comprising budget and risk management, demand forecasting, management.
• Developed reporting for accurate timely practitioner MI to enable and support the delivery of effective testing services to programmes and projects.

Swindon, United Kingdom

• Operational control of a multi-functional team providing system application management and support to a sector of the Society’s IT estate. Accountable for department budget and risk management, people development.

Swindon, United Kingdom

• Led software configuration management, environment and build management, with release planning and implementation for the complex and highly integrated iCRM system supporting over 8,000 concurrent users with 24-7.
• Identified the need and developed the system Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) process, which contributed to process maturity initiatives becoming the Society’s Change Framework.
• Instigated and led migration of test environments to a stable virtualised platform, achieving supported growth of the test environment estate, in recognition of the real potential risks of losing availability and being.
• Reduced system upgrade outage by over 50%, having created and led the review of release deployment, delivering improvements to cross-team working relationships, enhanced implementation planning, installation.

Cheltenham

Responsible for all software CM activity and production of build packages and release artefacts for the Mortgages software division. Replaced in-house defect tracking system and software source respositories with IBM Rational systems.

Cheltenham

Responsible for all software CM activity and production of build packages and release artefacts for the main product of the Mortgages software division.

Bristol, United Kingdom, Dublin, Ireland

• Responsible for identifying and supporting the implementation and monitoring of service and process improvements for large telecom service providers worldwide, with specific responsibility for Swiss and Dutch customers.

Birmingham, United Kingdom, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany, Colombo, Sri Lanka

• Led the Quality Assurance, Testing, and Audit team for the Manufacturing ERP modules of System 21, an integrated IBM AS400 server-based ERP solution with customers worldwide.
• Secondments to offshore development centres in Sri Lanka and Germany, to build offshore capability improvement and support integration of new third party modules for specific manufacturing industry sectors.

Birmingham, United Kingdom

Birmingham, United Kingdom

• System, Integration and end-to-end Business Acceptance testing for integrated ERP Manufacturing, Distribution and Financial modules.
• Internal audit, pre-sales and customer support responsibilities, leading team of product support, system testers and technical authors.

Responsible for shopfloor production scheduling systems and throughtput of over 600 concurrent work order batches.

Bsc (Hons), Technology Management

Hybrid degree comprised of elements from the schools of business and engineering, as well as elements of computing. Graduates are.

A Levels, Business, Maths & Stats, Human Biology.

Pure Maths and Statistics, Human Biology, Business Studies