Platform & Applications strategy with the associated programme’s of work, with the introduction of architectural principals covering Enterprise, Solution, Platform and Security architecture, with the adoption of a people, process and technology approach. Collaborative working to delivery of the company's digital transformation agenda, and its associated business change initiatives. Platform management (azure) and migration of IaaS to PaaS for in-house applications. FinOps framework and delivered significant cost savings. Developed and embedded a demand management process and associated controls to streamline business development demands, into a pragmatic and repeatable approach, where incremental delivery lead to increased delivery velocities, with improved levels of defects and rework. Introduced and embedded agile/CI/CD/TDD approach to delivering with on and offshore development teams. Offshore service delivery team, introduction of ITIL best practice around Incident, Problem and change management. Delivery of multiple (25) business acquisitions, enabling synergies between people, process and technology,(Major acquisition integrations c400 additional staff) along with re-platfom and data migrations Platform strategy and management responsibilities for the Azure IaaS and PaaS related global platformIntroduction of a dedicated API platform for internal and external platforms, with modernisations of platform integrations Introduction of RPA technology for finance transformation initiatives, automated testing, supply chain and automated auditing and power apps, for rapid application development - utilising the advantages of low/no code developmentsERP transformation with the integration design with legacy/3rd party solutions, and delivery of AP/AR/R2R/Finance Transformation incl. Parts Inventory Management global solutions. Established NIST security framework and its associated components around application and platform vulnerability management.

As part of Discovery's acquisition of TVN, engaged in providing consultancy to define their target IT services platforms, processes and workforce gap/impacts.Achievements:• Definition of a TOM for IT service delivery, identifying gaps and appropriate organisational, process and solution platform changes.• Define transitional plan, including business change/ways of working• Provide options for decommissioning, consolidation and integration

Online food and payment gateway services solution provider to 12k+ outlets, in UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand & USA, fulfilling 1.2M+ orders per month, £20m profit.Overall responsibility to lead the technology strategy, operational services and new product delivery, working with the senior management team stakeholders.Achievements:Set up the unified product roadmap, with consolidation and re-defining the solution landscapeProduct management of existing and new applications and services in the fintech payment area.Achieved startup status of the business brand and customer offering, MyPay, building out the technology platform, services, development, sales and support teams.Re-engineered the technology platforms adopting CI/CD with React native, NodeJS utilising automated testing and using AWS, Zendesk support, zoho crm.Chatbot and advanced IVR technology to increase customer engagementManagement, coaching and mentoring of the multi site teams (Bangalore and Moldovia) adopting automation in testing and code control and setting up DevOps capabilities as well as driving improvements within there customer support team, supporting multi geographies of customers (uk, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand and USA)

Renovation project on house in France, along with provision of professional coaching/mentoring.

Family owned national shoe retailer, £120m turnover, 170+stores, online, TV and catalogue (Pavers, Jones the boot maker and Herrings)- Board level responsibility for end to end IT services, working collaboratively with senior stakeholders whilst mentoring and coaching to deliver a business aligned IT strategy, to positively influence the performance and profitability of the company.Achievements:- Creation and delivering a rolling 3-year IT strategy, to provide a platform to match the growth of the company. Including fit for purpose organisational structure (service management, programme delivery and architecture), with the associated organisational and process changes (internal and external to the IT department), adopted TDD/incremental/continuous delivery along with defining product roadmaps and transparent delivery against, - Set up and managed a change to delivery, by the introduction of Agile best practices around incremental and test-driven delivery, across a portfolio of application, machine learning, warehouse automation related projects, utilising Kubernetes.- Delivered the acquisition of Jones bootmakers into Pavers, covering web, warehousing, retail, HR and other associated business functions along with the IT solutions.- Delivered the acquisition of Herrings shoes into Pavers, covering web, warehousing.- Delivered GDPR and PCI compliance- Introduced data analytics and the associated ownership for enabling the company to have insight into the fundamental aspects of how the company is performing.- Roll out of o365 and introduced collaboration tools

Digital business consultancy, specialising in retail, utilities, financial sector clients, around their digital transformation initiatives.Responsible as the solution lead on client engagements around Agile and digital transformation. Working with the clients and advising on Agile adoption, Kanban methods, PMO re-engineering and portfolio technical solution consulting. Engagements: Programme lifecycle re-engineering, PMO process review and redesign, Portfolio streamlining and introduction of incremental delivery/product management. KPI dashboard and governance framework introduction

Britain’s 4th largest food retailer, £7.6 billion turnover, over 480 stores, 14 manufacturing sites and more than 125,000 employees.• Responsible for the end to end strategy, delivery and service for the Manufacturing, Supply chain and Logistics Business Divisions, driving all IT programme initiatives (ERP - Oracle, NAVison, Redprarie, Manhattan, BI), from developing the business IT strategy road-map to capturing requirements, developing business cases and initiating programmes to completion. Having overall accountability for the delivery of IT solutions to the business.• Management and coaching of architecture team, business demand and requirement management, building business cases for IT programmes and projects, prioritisation and planning. Especially around legacy systems integration/standardisation.Achievements:• Responsible for the creation and delivery of a number of major IT related business programmes c£24M (e.g. Manufacturing ERP implementation for 3 major sites, supply chain and logistics digital transformation positively affecting store availability, Logistics Warehouse management solution for 21 distribution centres).• Redefined the Solution Architecture landscape for the Manufacturing group, with changes to integration and introduction of a SOA approach to the solution portfolio. Allowing for reusability amongst other Business Units and deployment of this approach in an Agile framework.• Programme managed a significant BI initiative, introducing Agile and turning around a £5M programme, delivering to customer expectations.• Own and manage relationships with key stakeholders within the business units. Promoting the use and exploitation of IT, aligned with on-going IT and technology strategy development and planning.• Successfully defined and agreed the levels of IT services, and introduced a framework to manage and communicate the on-going service/programme level measurements.

Leading news & media player in the UK, delivering 80 printed, 140 digital brands and local tv, with £120m T/O and 2,200 employees.■ Defined the strategy and managed the delivery of Group-wide MIS and Business Intelligence solutions; standardised and modernised the Sales/Advertising booking solution to 760+ employees redefining CRM to allow for greater Customer insights, driving improvements in targeted marketing/lead generation campaigns and introduced the corporate social networking solution for 2000+ employees. ■ Defined and led the successful delivery of the Digital Strategy; increased brand awareness and developed new customer channels Homes24, Jobs24, Drive24, online classifieds, self-service customer booking solution and B2B/B2C web based solutions, which contributed to £7.5m increase in revenue along with significant YoY growth in audience (utilising SEO techniques, analytics, defining content strategy with the redesigning to a responsive web platform). More recently extended the expertise and personally led the IOS Application development programme delivering a number of key brands and products to the consumer market adopting Agile.■ Initiated 20% headcount reductions and significant cost avoidance benefits by leading key BPR/efficiency projects; deployed a CRM system to 650 employees and a new Editorial and CMS solution to 900+ employees/120 websites. ■ Developed the strategy and created a feasible business case, gaining Board approval to develop and implement a new IS delivery model over 5 years, which accomplished a £500k YoY saving in capital, maintenance and staff costs. ■ Developed the technology strategy and architecture to reduce the number of data centres from 15 instances to 3 (1 of which is an Amazon hosted environment) in parallel with the virtualisation of the server estate decreasing the volumes of physical instances. Lead the contract negotiations on all the high value services and solutions (e.g. WAN £1.2M/annum down to £600k/annum)

Reported to the Head of Solutions Delivery; managed a major IS and business change programme over global locations, leading a multi-disciplinary project team of 30+ to deliver an £8m Enterprise GIS technology and business re-engineering solution for 9000 employees.

Reported to the Director of Engineering Systems; successfully managed a budget of £15m to deliver significant IT technology and business change projects via an international multi-disciplinary team of 50+ staff (co-located in Canada, Germany, UK and Belgium).

Reported to the Group Finance Director; delivered all IT services and projects (£6m budget) including CAD solutions and Analytics in support of Lotus Cars and Engineering business units (UK, USA, Malaysia) via a team of 36 multi-disciplinary staff.