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Working with up to three Agile scrum teams simultaneously, two front end and one feature team. In addition, leading a new feature team installing Agile principles.

London, United Kingdom

Contract with organisations and start-ups to facilitate bottom line growth through effective project management principals. Worked with a London-based media start-up to conduct market research and identify opportunities to develop a new event proposition. Sourced partners and venues, and put in place timescales and budgets for delivery.

London, United Kingdom

Managed the transition of moving the HR portfolio series from Osney Media to Red Jacket events and to prove the financial viability of the continuation of the event series by increasing profitability. Analysed project budgets, timescales and resources, identifying and highlighting risks and issues to the CEO. Led customer meetings with 25+ clients to fully understand their requirements, providing solutions and agree on baselines around cost, quality, sales and customer satisfaction. Put in place best practice procedures.Acted as a Scrum Master, led Agile Ceremonies and encouraged the use of Agile principles whilst removing impediments. Acted as a Product Owner managing the development of the event app software.Increased revenues by 37% through market analysis and effective management of budgets and project teams.

London, United Kingdom

Provided project stability during the funding process to understand clients requirements, put in place a sales and marketing infrastructure as well as project managing the delivery of the application software (JAVA). Defined product pricing, USP and market segments, ideated and implemented a sales and marketing plan to grow sales revenues. Recommended change requirements based on market feedback to drive forward product development design schedule. Worked with clients to understand, document and put processes in place to deliver the application software to meet their specifications.

Directed execution of 100+ conferences and digital products by managing multi-functional project teams and working with clients and external stakeholders to improve product quality and increase revenues. Acted as a Scrum Master by coaching project team members to work together to embrace agile methodology through organisation of timeboxes, kick off meetings, daily stand-ups, sprint planning and reviews allowing deployment at various stages of the event lifecycle. Removed impediments for project teams. Organised and led meetings with 50+ clients to fully understand their digital and event marketing requirements to set targets and communicate the delivery schedule to the project team. Improved product quality and increased revenues by executing and managing best practice procedures across business development, marketing, product development and logistics.Reduced marketing and event resource project costs by over 50% by changing event schedule matrix, encompassing digital marketing methods and identifying processes inefficiencies to lower head count. Collaborated with the CEO to ideate and launch new events and digital projects, managing project teams across all aspects of project lifecycle to increase revenue and brand.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom