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London, Gb

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London , Gb

Spearheaded the engineering efforts for EE’s consumer app, focusing on a significant greenfield re-platforming project aimed at enhancing user experience for over 5 million monthly active users. My leadership encompasses strategic planning, team development, and the integration of agile methodologies to ensure the delivery of high-quality digital products.Key Achievements:- Directed the complete re-platforming of EE’s consumer app, resulting in a 20% increase in user engagement and satisfaction.- Expanded the engineering team by 60%, integrating new skills and capabilities that contributed to a 350% boost in productivity.- Implemented modern DevOps practices, achieving a 99.99% crash-free rate and reducing development costs by 20%.

London, Gb

Tasked with leading BT's largest digital transformation, my role was to supercharge the company’s technology capabilities, transition to a data-led business model, and transform traditional ways of working into agile, efficient processes.Key Achievements:- Successfully delivered BT’s largest digital transformation, which enhanced technological capabilities and positioned the company as a leader in innovation.- Initiated a company-wide adoption of data-driven decision-making, improving operational efficiency and customer insights.- Led the transition to agile methodologies, significantly reducing project delivery times and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

London, Gb

Responsible for the delivery of weekly trading changes, managing the migration to a new CMS, and driving the transformation of the digital operating model to embrace agile practices.Key Achievements:- Managed the delivery of weekly trading changes on BT.com, supporting the UK’s fifth-largest e-commerce platform's growth and operational excellence.- Led the successful migration to Adobe Experience Manager CMS, enhancing content management efficiency and website performance.- Championed the transformation of BT Digital to agile practices, improving project delivery speed by 50% and team productivity by doubling it.

Bonn, Germany, De

Head-of level role responsible for delivery of the Digital Media Category Roadmap and New Business Developments. Direct P&L responsibility ensuring delivery standards and processes enforced.Scope & responsibilities:- Manage entire software development lifecycle from requirements to product deployment & maintenance- Conduct project level resource planning & performance tracking- €8 million budget responsibility to manage department/project budgets and prepare annual forecasts- Develop and maintain “best practice” within the Software Lifecycle embracing transition to Agile delivery- Enforce culture of Quality Assurance ensuring standardisation of tools, processes and techniques wherever possible - Vendor management from RFI to software delivery ensuring supplier meets departments expectations- Risk management to communicate, log & assess project related risks effectively - Team & Line management for technology department - 30 technical staff – onsite and near-shoreAchievements:- Successfully transitioned department to Agile Scrum/Kanban delivery methodologies- Improved the software development, testing and release processes enabling projects to Continuously Deliver- Managed outsourcing of technical delivery roles resulting in 25% decrease in annual cost and improved quality- Established Engineering Review Board ensuring efficiencies and Quality Assurance in software lifecycle - Scrum Master: self-service data platform (responsive web & native app): £80M revenue/year, 1.4M transactions/month- Scrum Master: consumer facing browser based portal (responsive web): 4M users - Scrum Master: platform aggregating multiple service feeds to one single entry point - Product Owner: Content Management System supplying content to over 30M customers

Bonn, Germany, De

Responsible for delivery of Deutsche Telekom Mobile Internet high priority and complex projects across 13 countries including: a high volume portal, App Store billing integration and platform enabling propositions.Scope & responsibilities:- Multiple online and mobile app projects across 13 countries- Actively contribute to a joint culture/methodology of project management excellence- Set up and manage project plans for proposition launches across all 4 marketing P’s (product, price, place, promotion)- Ensure project scope and deliverables defined unambiguously, resources committed and risks transparent - Manage project delivery across relevant T-Mobile national companies to time, cost and budget- Identify and manage project risks & changes ensuring resolution before delivery impacted- Establish effective programme governance structure up to CXO level- Review the projects of fellow project managers within the team to ensure best practice is followed - Scope across Germany, UK, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, Czech Republic, Romania and GreeceMost recognised achievement:- Launched a Mobile Portal across 13 countries resulting in +25% increase in Unique Active Users- Launched Operator Billing via mobile phone bills resulting in new revenue of over €1.5 million per month- Launched WLAN Programme ensuring improved customer data user experience by increased use of wireless LAN.- Increased control and stability in the business by establishing a governance structure with Total Cost of Ownership - Installing Key Performance Indicators and risk detection programmes that increased target performance by +15%- Partnership managed 50+ international digital entertainment content and service partners that maximised revenues +€1 million per month

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Globally responsible for delivery of multiple Nokia Nseries smartphones (e.g. Nokia N97 mini) resulting in combined net revenues of multiple billion Euros globally.Scope & responsibilities:- Managed delivery of flagship phone achieving target of €1 billion revenue in 3 months- Owner of programme plan including market modeling and forecasting, competitive environment, pricing, promotion, ecosystem, and channel strategy.- Based in Finland, managed large cross-functional global team including teams in Russia, USA, Europe, MEAMost recognised achievement:- Responsible for global launch of Nokia’s 2009 flagship solution: delivering over €1 billion profit in first 3 months- Introduced compelling new services such as Map Navigation over achieving service activation targets by +12% with focused marketing and out of box experience

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Managed the billion Euro global lifecycle business by developing portfolio and product strategies, business cases, country tactical activities to maximize lifetime and value of portfolio.Scope & responsibilities:- Managing handover to R&D Maintenance Programme and identifying cost reduction roadmap by product- Work closely with country teams to identify sales opportunities based on local events - Line management of UK Nseries Product Management team & functionally managing teams in USA, Europe, MEA, SEAP, India, Latin AmericaMost recognised achievement:- Responsible for delivery of Nokia N70, N72, N73, N76 infield product refreshes.- Consistently achieved target of reducing portfolio cost by over 45% to maximise margin

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

Tasked with bringing increased levels of style to the Nokia NSeries high-end brand. Remit to disrupt internal processes to quickly realise mission of delighting the consumer and increase market share.Scope & responsibilities:- Capture consumer insights, test concepts, Market Research, Competitor Analysis build business cases, define user stories, define all marketing activities, manage delivery & in-life.- Definition and management of product feature sets in collaboration with R&D, design, mechanics, UI, SW and services- Carried out necessary training and product presentations to global & regional management, sales teams and operatorsMost recognised achievement:- Delivering world’s thinnest smartphone N76 resulting in 1.5m global sales and net revenue +€650m- Pioneered new working practices that directly inspired a 4P delivery culture and new processes across Nokia

- Co-founded a start-up company called Buzzuco. The mission: profit from mobile content and in-house developed services- Created sustainable Business Plan resulting in gross revenue of £200K P/A year one- Designed multiple brands & premium addictive mobile content and services including UK’s first group text chat with +45K transactions/month

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- Responsible for extending Sega’s European gaming experience into the online arena by making all games multiplayer and creating the world’s first TV based gaming community Dreamarena- Launch of Europe’s first console gaming service: 2 million European registrants in 8 countries- Managed department budget of €3 million, line managed internal team of 20 and external development team of 30

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- Localised & delivered over 12 gaming titles into European market

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Bsc, Computer Science And Psychology

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