2014-16Agile coach and lead during the establishment of feature teams to deliver the Aviva Health Change Portfolio using scrum and kanban. Matured the Distributed Agile Scrum teams in partnership with outsource supplier based in Bangalore.Created and presented agile educational materials specifically focussing on business stakeholder agile overviews, scrum team refreshers, product owner essentials and Impact & User Story Mapping.Member of the Aviva Agile Transformation and Coaching teams dedicated to spreading the use of agile methods across the organisation and developing team member skills and agile maturity.Supported expansion to 7 agile feature teams from project teams in 2016 to specifically align to business goals with one team entirely based offshore.In 2014-15 transitioned from co-located to distributed agile teams across multiple locations and timezones to incorporate partnership with GSP (Wipro).2010-14Programme Manager for Quote & Admin system for Corporate Life & Income Protection business with a budget of £9m and forecast benefits of £20m over 5 years. First phases live as scheduled in Mar 11 (Systems Thinking processes) and Aug 12 (Quote system). Plan baselined for next phase delivery.Management of detailed vendor (aquila) selection process and ongoing relationship and deliveries, governance and reporting, stakeholder engagement at all levels, team resourcing, coaching and line management, Aviva Group IT relationship, budget control, CARDI, business readiness, decommissioning, and primarily outcomes delivery. Scrum master for in-house development using agile.2006-10Release/IT Build manager for 3 major integrated systems releases.Manager for 3 year programme to deliver transformation of the PMI new business, renewals, and administration processes and systems with a budget of £10m delivering benefits in the region of £4m/year.Responsible for the delivery of two efficiency driven programmes using lean techniques.

Programme definition and delivery for Corporate Banking and Financial Markets Change Management.Delivery manager for portfolio of 20 change projects for Lombard Business Finance managing an investment budget of £7m in 2005.Implemented a programme governance model and work reception process.Managed vendor selection team for a strategic new business booking system for Lombard.

Based in the Channel Islands and Bahamas. Change managed migration from legacy bank & trust systems to new client/server architected system involving diverse stakeholder management and all technical aspects during the implementation.

Devised, implemented and maintained a development and product release strategy for private banking and trust management software packages to 150+ offshore customer installations.Contributed £3m over 5 years to revenues via product enhancement, auditing and controlling processes, exploiting appropriate technical advancements and producing technical and functional roadmaps to give control and clear visibility of long-term plans. Negotiated a contract with Mastek of India and set up partnership to deliver Internet capabilities.for the private banking products both in europe and the US.

Specialist IT Developer and Project Manager/Leader who specified, designed, developed and implemented financial software for risk management and front office derivatives trading teams globally.Enabled adoption of a common platform by migrating Asia branches of Chemical Bank derivatives deals and risk management data onto Chase applications following merger. Implemented a new Bonds & Securities system (WILCO) for the UK, rollouts and functional enhancements for Asian branches, and worldwide rollout of OPUS derivatives pricing systems and sophisticated risk management reporting products.

Onsite product development for automated warehouse systems for Sprecher & Schuh in Aarau, Switzerland.System development of a motorway control and signalling system onsite in Hilversum, The Netherlands for Philips.

Application development for control and management of automatic test equipment.