Delivering agile projects at scale covering software development, quality assurance and end to end provisioning.Demand Planning, Forecasting and Reporting on effort and cost through innovative spreadsheet.Oversight of Development, QA and Environment provisioning teams

Delivering agile projects at scale covering software development, quality assurance and end to end provisioning.

Business Partner within Pearson Technology for UK Learning Services comprising of UK Schools, Higher Education and Teacher Training. I work with senior managers to understand their business strategy, their service needs, benefits and how this connects with Pearson Technology strategy to deliver the best solutions. • Point of contact and escalation point for technology needs and service performance matters• Adviser to the business on Technology matters• Identifying appropriate technology solutions to meet business needs and defining enhancements• Developing relationships between business and technology based on trust and mutual respect• Supporting development of business cases, providing cost and benefit analysis • Roadmap planning, Financial planning, and Resource planning for Technology• Working with project teams to prioritise requirements according to clearly laid out goals• Presenting requirements and strategy to engineering development and architecture• Managing team of permanent and contract Product Owners and Business Analysts• Management the UK Schools Platforms Technical Delivery team, delivering solutions on the ActiveLearn platforms.

Managing a team of Project Managers and Technical Project Managers based in Poland delivering the Pearson English Language Teaching platforms: My English Lab and Pearson English Portal.Working closely with the Engineering Teams we deliver requirements from the backlog created by Product Managers and Product Owners, ensuring timely and effective delivery using Scaled Agile (Safe) methodologies.Building relationships based on committment and trust with business stakeholders and resolving technical delivery and performance issues.

I lead the team of Product Owners, Scrum Masters and Architects responsible for Pearson's Learning Platforms for UK Schools.Working closely with the UK Schools Business Stakeholders we deliver new functionality and products across all areas of the curriculum on our ActiveLearn Platforms using agile methodologies.Working with Security and Performance teams we deliver highly stable, secure and high performing platforms capable of supporting millions of learners and teachers.I work closely with our business stakeholders, our offshore suppliers and technology teams around Pearson.

Technical management for all of Pearson's platforms for UK Primary Schools. Product Owner for the Active Learn Primary platform encompassing market leading products such as Bug Club for guided reading and Abacus for maths, plus other reading, English language and Science products. Over two million accounts and growing fast.I project manage platform improvements using Agile methodologies, working with onshore and offshore development teams, publishers and support teams to deliver a quality service.

Management of a development team for the scoris Assessor eMarking productTechnical project management for development deliverablesTask management for 20 people in UK and IndiaLine Management

Setting up and development of Development Team in IndiaWorking with RM's international companies to develop internationally relevant products

Responsible for the delivery of technical projects within the department.Resource manamgement of technical resourcesLine Management