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Hounslow, England, GB

Digital Heathrow Delivery Lead, within the Digital Heathrow Programme, using MSP(Managing successful projects) to define the strategy, vision, capabilities, outcomes, blueprint and projects dossier, with the aim of delivering these project within set tranches, using Agile delivery methodologies, ensuring early delivery of business benefits to the Heathrow.

Hounslow, England, GB

• IT Projects Lead within the IT Programme Delivery department, I was responsible for leading multi-million-pound IT projects within the Baggage domain, to enable the airport to derive cost saving, efficiency in.
• Work with business to create business case and secure funding through Governance gateway
• Manage the Business, Airline and Senior stakeholders
• Assess and select Delivery partners and Project Managers for my projects
• Create a multi discipline team to support and assure the work of the delivery partner,
• Create a culture of ownership, responsibility and transparency within the project teams

Slough, GB

• The Ferries and Cruises division was failing to deliver projects, jeopardising the future of the FerryRes and CruiseRes products. I was brought in to give the projects and the team shape and focus, I had responsibility.
• Product ownership of the FerryRes and CruiseRes reservations and back office systems,
• Product development with complete oversite of the full Development life cycle (SDLC),
• Managing the team, to deliver quality application software and application support, to time and budget
• Implementation of Project control, including a weekly reporting mechanism, supported by Issues lists and a weekly progress call, to ensure sponsor participation, to manage customer expectations, project risk, scope.
• Day to day account management of the relationship, service management, application defect management, incident management, identification & support of business case for change with the client & software sales.

Oulu, Oulu, FI

• I concurrently project managed 6 - 8, £50 - £100k projects across 4 - 5 customers, customers & dates available on requestResponsibilities:-
• Product Manager and domain expert on PowerRes System customers and projects,
• Facilitate functional scoping discussions and workshops across multiple TourOp systems,
• Matrix management of business analysts, development and Support resource across multiple projects and multiple customers to effect project delivery,
• Implementation of a weekly reporting mechanism, supported by Issues lists and a weekly progress call, to ensure sponsor participation, to manage project risk, scope creep, change requests and customer expectations,
• Day to day account management of the relationship, service management, application defect management, incident management, identification & support of business case for change with the client, software sales. Key.

Oulu, Oulu, FI

Software Development Director for the PowerRes Reservations System, with Product, Development Team and Client responsibilities.

Oulu, Oulu, FI

Application Project Manager, overseeing projects in USA with Clipper Navigation & Alaska Railroad,

Delivering the new generation Integrated Selling System for AirMiles. My roles included Business Analyst, Development Team Leader, Testing Team leader and Assistant Project Manager. The solution was Java thin Client, with an Oracle Business logic Server and Database. Waterfall Project Management was used.

Overall responsibility for the PowerRes Application Architecture, Managing a team of developers and technical support programmers in developing and delivering Reservations Systems software working within the full SDLC. Management Reporting, showing progress against SLA’s and targets on Development & Technical Support

I lead a team of 4 developers as we designed and developed Booking Suite (Flight, GDS, Accommodation, Tours, Extras), Inventory, Pricing and Fare components.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science

'A' Level'S

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