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Coventry, England, Gb

Stratford-Upon-Avon, Gb

Project management of IT transition services to Unimetals (UK) from Sims Ltd, systems development whilst continuing with aspects of UK non-trade procurement responsibilities.

PMO governance management supporting global business transformation programmes.

PMO Lead for the global ERP and HR systems implementation programme.

Long Marston, Warwickshire, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Accountable for all aspects of project management and governance during a service transition across support, development, and testing services. This included leading the transition project team to ensure an effective knowledge transition for service take-on with minimal impact to the customer business as usual activities.- Develop the knowledge transition curriculum and knowledge transition plans including resource and infrastructure plans- Stakeholder management and reporting - Defining the acceptance criteria and toll gate reviews for each transition phase- Performed an integral role which attributed to the success of a large transition programme for a major, leading financial customer across application support and development services. This was over a period of 8 months and involved the ramp-up of 130 resources - Implemented the governance and planning foundations for a Cyber Security service take-on- Rolled out the UST transition project mobile application which enabled customer stakeholders to view the project status real time

London, United Kingdom

Primarily acting as the account liaison between the customer and cross-functional internal teams in the management of the early contractual relationship. Operating on-site with the customer to then ensure the timely and successful delivery of the contractual commitments within budget.- Define and agree deliverables, contractual agreements, timelines and commercials through statements of work- Ramping up technical teams, knowledge transition planning and execution, and solution delivery according to the customer needs- Proactively assess, clarify and validate the customer needs on and on-going basis- New account management responsibility for a leading insurance customer including ramping up an agile delivery team of over 50 people- Engagement management for a leading parcel delivery customer including ramping up a team of nearly 30 software developers and testers

Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

Fulfilling a number of high profile roles managing people, processes, technology and projects:• Accountability for the financial management end-to-end IT service as the finance business engagement lead including being the IT sponsor for finance business "wants" and "needs"• Managing the primary outsourced service provider and supporting the IT management teams on outsourcing requirements• Responsible for IT procurement and key vendor management with an IT budget of circa £25m annual spend• Service transition project lead for legacy finance solution migration to Oracle EBS R12 into business as usual support• Accountable for the post-release Oracle Service Improvement Project with a resource spend of £800K over 10 months • Responsible for the software test, quality assurance and release management function• Interim Design and Development team manager responsible for the solutions management, development and test & release management teams

Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

Manage the team who are the primary business contact point and liaison for all UK ‘demand side’ IT activities and opportunities. Capture functional requirements, understand the problem and provide options / recommend a solution – business analysis. Work closely with IT subject matter experts and business sponsors to prepare and present business cases and demand management documentation in order to prioritise and seek funding approval

Newport News, Va

Design and implementation of the purchasing and supply chain planning functions as part of the project team responsible to deliver a global SAP software solution (US-based international assignment). Working within the Software Development Life Cycle – defining user requirements, developing and approving the functional design/process docs and acceptance testing. Developing and facilitating design sessions with IT and business users. Working closely with senior business owners to ensure they are engaged, updated and also involved in any decision making processes.

Newport News, Va

Leamington Spa, Warwickshire

Business owner for Supply Chain systems responsible for improvements, development and requirements either internally, with internal IT or the APS provider. Managing the UK’s Distribution Centres’ Advanced Planning and Scheduling tool (MerciaLincs Enterprise) across 2 sites and approx. 30 users

Bsc (Hons), Statistics And Maths

A-Levels, Maths, Economics, Physics