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Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Project Manager in our Flutter UK&I Infrastructure & InfoSec division.Flutter is the parent company, and our Sky Betting & Gaming brand now sits within our UK&I division, alongside Paddy Power, Betfair, Tombola and others.Delivering Projects across our Physical and Virtual IT Infrastructure.Recent Projects include Hosting Strategy, Data Centre exits, migrations to AWS Cloud, renewal of our Load Balancers, refresh of our Firewall estate, upgrades to our existing… Show more Project Manager in our Flutter UK&I Infrastructure & InfoSec division.Flutter is the parent company, and our Sky Betting & Gaming brand now sits within our UK&I division, alongside Paddy Power, Betfair, Tombola and others.Delivering Projects across our Physical and Virtual IT Infrastructure.Recent Projects include Hosting Strategy, Data Centre exits, migrations to AWS Cloud, renewal of our Load Balancers, refresh of our Firewall estate, upgrades to our existing Infrastructure tech stack, and setup of shared data access initiatives between various Global Office Locations. Show less

Leeds, England, United Kingdom

Project Manager in our Infrastructure Tribe.Delivering Projects across our Physical and Virtual IT Infrastructure.Recent and current Projects include renewal of our Load Balancers, refresh of our Firewall estate, new office building fit-out (Networking, Server room equipment, Data Access Points, WiFi Access Points, UPS etc.).

Leeds, United Kingdom

Project Manager for the Customer Tech and Product - CTAP Tribe (formerly Core Services, Enterprise Services) within our head office in Leeds.Our team is responsible for supporting the technology upon which our Customer Experience Centre, HR & Finance, and Marketing platforms are built upon. This includes Salesforce CRM, telephony platforms, Workday HR & Finance, and a range of marketing products.I typically deliver Projects alongside a number of delivery squads as part of a… Show more Project Manager for the Customer Tech and Product - CTAP Tribe (formerly Core Services, Enterprise Services) within our head office in Leeds.Our team is responsible for supporting the technology upon which our Customer Experience Centre, HR & Finance, and Marketing platforms are built upon. This includes Salesforce CRM, telephony platforms, Workday HR & Finance, and a range of marketing products.I typically deliver Projects alongside a number of delivery squads as part of a wider Tech Roadmap and Delivery Programme across the Tribe.Recent projects have included decommissioning of retired systems, on-boarding of new suppliers and software, delivery of compliance initiatives including GDPR, SOX and PCI DSS.Day to day, I manage both internal and external stakeholders - including 3rd party suppliers, and business stakeholders across our parent company Flutter Entertainment. Show less

Leeds, Uk

Tribus Digital are a Digital Agency based in Leeds, specialising in delivering Business Transformations through digital technologies, whether than be in the form of web or mobile applications.I am currently Project Manager and delivery lead for one of our major new products, an innovative new software platform designed to help our clients in the Construction Industry manage project costs and improve their own customer experience.Day to day I manage the client briefs, change… Show more Tribus Digital are a Digital Agency based in Leeds, specialising in delivering Business Transformations through digital technologies, whether than be in the form of web or mobile applications.I am currently Project Manager and delivery lead for one of our major new products, an innovative new software platform designed to help our clients in the Construction Industry manage project costs and improve their own customer experience.Day to day I manage the client briefs, change requests, scoping, project costs, testing and review workshops, and a team of in-house web developers and designers. I also act as the Product Owner for this particular product, I own and maintain the Product Requirements Document, the Product Backlog, User Stories, and Project Plan. Our team operates in a semi-Agile manner, and runs weekly and fortnightly Sprint Cycles, with regular Stand-ups, and Sprint Retrospectives. I maintain the team's Kanban board, with which we track and organise our development tasks and progress. I also conduct and support our internal product testing, and have recently begun producing Acceptance Tests and test scenarios written in Gherkin, which our Development team are then able to quickly and easily convert into Cucumber automated testing scripts, as part of our BDD testing approach.Elsewhere, I also support new business development - supporting the production of development cost and time estimates, briefing and requirements documents, and pitch proposals. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Multi-site Masters is a new Podcast audiobook focussing on how to better manage and grow multi-site businesses. Making a better success of your business through the art of managing at scale! Learn how the industry's best manage their multi-site estates, lead their people and plan for a successful future.What does it involve?Each week we'll be interviewing an established, successful multi-site leader from the retail and hospitality sectors. Our Podcasts delve into the challenges,… Show more Multi-site Masters is a new Podcast audiobook focussing on how to better manage and grow multi-site businesses. Making a better success of your business through the art of managing at scale! Learn how the industry's best manage their multi-site estates, lead their people and plan for a successful future.What does it involve?Each week we'll be interviewing an established, successful multi-site leader from the retail and hospitality sectors. Our Podcasts delve into the challenges, insights and best practices of leaders from some of the UK's best known high street brands. Hopefully as our listeners, you'll find something new of value to take away and help elevate your business to the next level. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Yapster is a mobile messaging app designed to bring the benefits of fast, open communication to staff who rarely, if ever, have access to a desktop computer, especially those in front line service roles. My time at Yapster saw me shape the design and delivery of a new social chat app for the workplace. I worked in collaboration with key clients and senior management, owned the Product Roadmap and led the weekly development sprint cycles with a small in-house but distributed development… Show more Yapster is a mobile messaging app designed to bring the benefits of fast, open communication to staff who rarely, if ever, have access to a desktop computer, especially those in front line service roles. My time at Yapster saw me shape the design and delivery of a new social chat app for the workplace. I worked in collaboration with key clients and senior management, owned the Product Roadmap and led the weekly development sprint cycles with a small in-house but distributed development team.In this role I was responsible for the Product Requirements Document, planning and prioritisation of new product features, product testing, and managing weekly development sprint cycles using Kanban boards, Agile and Scrum practices. My day-to-day work involved product strategy and road mapping, research and requirements gathering, design sketches, wire-framing, liaising with key stakeholders and external clients, and coordinating the vision to the development team (mostly remote workers).I also worked alongside the CEO in a key business development role – pitching the product to new clients, and working in-house with existing clients to understand their needs, collect and prioritise new feature requests, and then communicate these back to the development team. Show less

London, United Kingdom

Starcount is a brand building platform. Using global social media data to help businesses understand, match and activate the communities required to reach new customers and build credible brands in this new social world. The business is led by Edwina Dunn and Clive Humby, who founded data analytics business Dunnhumby, and helped transform the retail sector most notably with Tesco in the UK and Kroger in the US.As Programme Lead I owned discrete parts of the Starcount product roadmap and… Show more Starcount is a brand building platform. Using global social media data to help businesses understand, match and activate the communities required to reach new customers and build credible brands in this new social world. The business is led by Edwina Dunn and Clive Humby, who founded data analytics business Dunnhumby, and helped transform the retail sector most notably with Tesco in the UK and Kroger in the US.As Programme Lead I owned discrete parts of the Starcount product roadmap and on a day-to-day I worked towards bringing exciting new products to market. I reported direct to the Chief Product Officer as part of the Product Team within Starcount. Show less

London / Warrington

Project Manager for a strategic, multi-year piece of work to consolidate, upgrade and improve a large Inbound Voice Telephony platform serving both TalkTalk Business and TalkTalk internal customer bases. Coordinated an existing team of SME's and business leads, to help deliver customer migrations, system upgrades, and business assurance handovers.Introduced structured project management rigour around existing work, and lead high level discussions and investigations into… Show more Project Manager for a strategic, multi-year piece of work to consolidate, upgrade and improve a large Inbound Voice Telephony platform serving both TalkTalk Business and TalkTalk internal customer bases. Coordinated an existing team of SME's and business leads, to help deliver customer migrations, system upgrades, and business assurance handovers.Introduced structured project management rigour around existing work, and lead high level discussions and investigations into additional pieces of scope.Owned all project documentation and reporting, and lead fortnightly project team meetings.Delivered Project Brief, Charter, RAID Log, High Level Plan / Roadmap, and detailed Project Plan prior to handover and leaving the business. Show less

Talktalk Hq, Shepherds Bush, London

Day to day work involves providing direct support to both the Director of Strategic Products, and the Director of Group Change. Within this role I am helping to manage and coordinate a number of large pieces of transformational change within the business. I am responsible for weekly reporting, risk and mitigation, and coordination of governance meetings for a number of key strategic projects. To date this work has seen me closely involved in the programme management and delivery of a major new… Show more Day to day work involves providing direct support to both the Director of Strategic Products, and the Director of Group Change. Within this role I am helping to manage and coordinate a number of large pieces of transformational change within the business. I am responsible for weekly reporting, risk and mitigation, and coordination of governance meetings for a number of key strategic projects. To date this work has seen me closely involved in the programme management and delivery of a major new piece of change within TalkTalk, right at the transition phase from design to implementation and group wide roll-out.Responsibilities and objectives for FY15:Business Engagement - Design and execute effective and measurable business engagement and communications plans for priority change programmes – to sustain support and effective delivery of these. Includes owning, designing and executing Comms & Engagement plans for both Group Change, and a major multi-year internal change programme.Benefits Realisation - Design and execute effective financial and non-financial benefits tracking and reporting of priority programme delivery. Support design and development of benefits focused annual business planning process.Delivery Governance - Actively support first class delivery governance to plan – through reporting, tracking and management of issues and risks in the priority programmes. Show less

London

The New Entrepreneurs Foundation (NEF) aims to provide the UK’s leading entrepreneurial training programme to fast-track young, talented, aspiring entrepreneurs to start their own businesses. They do this by selecting the UK’s brightest and most entrepreneurial young people and by providing them with a unique, 12-month programme which consists of five main components: a paid work placement in an entrepreneurial company; an intensive fast-track learning programme; monthly speaker &… Show more The New Entrepreneurs Foundation (NEF) aims to provide the UK’s leading entrepreneurial training programme to fast-track young, talented, aspiring entrepreneurs to start their own businesses. They do this by selecting the UK’s brightest and most entrepreneurial young people and by providing them with a unique, 12-month programme which consists of five main components: a paid work placement in an entrepreneurial company; an intensive fast-track learning programme; monthly speaker & networking events; an executive coach and a business mentor. Through this programme, New Entrepreneurs are equipped with the hands-on experience, skills and networks to build scalable businesses. Show less

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Member of the Strategic Consultancy team based in Newcastle. Supported Project Directors on a number of major procurements including two new UTCs (University Technical Colleges) - one in Newcastle, and one in Cumbria. Team's core competencies included Project Management and Technical Advisory on major civil/structural procurements for clients including the Education Authority and NHS. Day to day work involved face to face liaison with client, project sponsors and other key… Show more Member of the Strategic Consultancy team based in Newcastle. Supported Project Directors on a number of major procurements including two new UTCs (University Technical Colleges) - one in Newcastle, and one in Cumbria. Team's core competencies included Project Management and Technical Advisory on major civil/structural procurements for clients including the Education Authority and NHS. Day to day work involved face to face liaison with client, project sponsors and other key stakeholders, preparation of tender documents and contracts, coordination of surveys, site meetings, organisation of bidder's days etc. Show less

Durham, United Kingdom

Graduate Project Engineer working on multiple varied projects within the regional water team, based in the Buildings & Infrastructure division. Roles and responsibilities included: Technical design, design collaboration, health and safety risk assessments, site visits, client liaison, structural and condition assessments, feasibility studies and report writing.

Master Of Engineering (Meng), Civil Engineering, 2:1

Activities and Societies: Durham University Cycling Club, Durham University Triathlon Club

Exchange Programme, Engineering

Summer exchange placement with Durham University School of Engineering, Summer 2008

A-Level (As-Level), Mathematics, Physics, Design & Technology, (Chemistry), A, A, A, (B)

Activities and Societies: Rock Climbing

Gcse, 11 Gcse'S, 6A*, A, 3B, C