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London, England, United Kingdom

Recovery of and delivery of a major Salesforce development and migration project for a global asset management client. Managing a Programme of Projects supporting the strategy of the sales and distribution teams including Automation of Client Presentations; Website publishing and Fund Centre Enhancements; Multiple integrations with third-party administrators to build a client book of record and the ongoing evolution of the clients Salesforce platform to support Distribution Opperations.

Remote

A short engagement to manage a cloud migration for the organisations primary rating engine including shaping & managing:- Standing up integrated test and production environments- Negotiating 3rd party contracts- Home & Motor product testing and deployment- A schedule of go-lives with 3rd party broker and software house partners- Migrating 80% of the quote volume onto the new cloud service- Design of the support service and transfer to BAUIn addition assisted the client with shaping a regulatory project to deliver 3DS2 online card compliance including:- Project definition and scoping- PID & stage plan signoff- 3rd party engagement- Project Initiation

Southampton

A valued team player working within the Solution Delivery and IT function of a financial services organisation to deliver significant and measurable benefit to the wider organisation. Definition and successful implementation of multiple programmes of work while simultaneously taking full responsibility for major software releases into production. Engagement in Strategy discussions with the business leadership team and crafting business cases to implement the chosen strategy.Shaped the business case and delivered against time, cost and benefit profile for the Wealth Interactive Improvement Programme (Budget £4.6m, 42 FTE reduction in operations, Tripled online adoption to 60%, reduced process based mistakes by £700k p.a.)Defined the business case for an automation programme, achieved funding and delivered environments, an agile development practice which delivered smart forms and robotic process automation (RPA) into Production for a wide range of business processes (targeting 36 FTE reduction in Operations).

Responsible for a wide range of project deliveries including 2 fully integrated WRAP platform implementations with budgets over £10m; FCA regulatory compliance projects and digital transformations for Life and Pensions.

Directly managed the implementation of a variety of projects including application roll outs (Communications solutions, storage & clinical systems), enterprise system upgrades and a new data center. Ran a team of 4 IT project managers with a wide range of IT projects including application implementation, systems development and infrastructure projects. I was also responsible for putting in place a system to bid for and allocate the annual IT capital budget of over £4.5m.

London, England, United Kingdom

Consultant to a wide range of customers including Connecting for Health, University College London Hospitals NHS Trust and Aiva insurance.Managed a range of software development projects including bespoke system developments and migrations. This included clinical decision support systems, one of the first PACS implementations in the UK, an integrated pathology solution and a consolidated electronic patient record system.Managed an onshore and offshore Application Architecture function as Chief Technical Architect for a major London Insurance Broker.

London

A fixed term engagement to cover a secondment as the Oncology Head of IT. During this time I optimised the IT support and service management function within oncology, implemented a new chemotherapy prescribing system with decision support and consolidated IT services for oncology to reduce the expense base.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), With Merit

Llb, Law

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