Alexander Omand, Project Manager (Payments)

Alexander Omand

Project Manager (Payments)

Marks & Spencer

Location
United Kingdom - London
Education
Master's degree, Computer Science
Experience
12 years, 10 months

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Work Experience

Total years of experience :12 years, 10 months

Project Manager (Payments) at Marks & Spencer
  • United Kingdom - London
  • My current job since October 2014

• IT project manager for medium and large projects both Agile and Waterfall
• Management of complete project lifecycle from inception to implementation.
• Management of technical team including Architects, SMEs, Developers and Business Analysts
• Project planning and task management to ensure timescales are agreed and met
• Identifying analysing and managing project risks
• Management of budgets and project finances
• Liaison with external parties such as WorldPay, VISA, MasterCard and American Express

Key Achievements:
Acting as an ‘Agile Champion’ within my department and wider IT teams. I help teams share best practices and promote cross pollination of knowledge and experience as well help teams who are newly formed to adopt agile and put in place a suitable framework.

Project manager in Payments working on a large multi-million-pound programme to maintain and improve PCI compliance for M&S. This involves management of multiple projects with interlinking dependencies and timescales and a combination of in house and outsourced ‘black box’ development. I work closely with cyber security and the IT Leadership Team balancing business, security and IT requirements while ensuring budgetary constraints are well communicated and understood.

Agile IT Business Analyst at Marks and Spencer
  • United Kingdom - London
  • October 2013 to October 2014

•Involved alongside senior management in building an Agile scrum team from the ground up
•Performing Scrum Master, Delivery Lead, test and Business Analyst as required
•Writing and relaying User Stories and Acceptance Criteria
•Facilitation of Planning, Review, Estimation and Retrospective meetings
•Running daily stand up meetings
•Heavily involved in the development of the Scrum team and the process and practices used

IT Business Analyst at Marks and Spencer
  • United Kingdom - London
  • May 2011 to October 2013

•Working across largely on internal POS and payment systems though I was also involved in other retail IT projects
•Business and system requirements gathering and documentation
•Process modelling for both the ‘As Is’ and ‘To Be’ states
•Capture and presentation of business requirements and User Journeys
•Capture and presentation of technical and non-functional requirements
•Working closely with users and systems architects to ensure projects deliver business needs
•Involved in triaging and identifying solutions for issues and bugs found through projects
•Working closely with the business to define and execute UAT
•Involved in QA testing of the POS systems and working with the POS system test teams.

Education

Master's degree, Computer Science
  • at University of Hertfordshire
  • July 2011

MSc in Computer Science achieving top distinction grade. My main focus was on software engineering practices and processes. My thesis, for which I was awarded a distinction was on the subject of software evolution.

Bachelor's degree, Aerospace Engineering and Astronautics (hons)
  • at Kingston University
  • July 2007

Bachelor of Engineering in Aerospace Engineering and Astronautics. My main focus was on the mathematics of orbital mechanics and space vehicle design. My thesis included the production of a mathematical model for the ballistic re-entry of a space vehicle.

High school or equivalent, Mathematics, Physics, Design Technology
  • at Sir Henry Floyd Grammar School
  • July 2004

Specialties & Skills

Stakeholder Management
IT Project Management
Process Modeling
Business Requirements
Requirements Gathering

Languages

Finnish
Beginner

Training and Certifications

Scrum Practitioner (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2013
Systems Development Essentials (Certificate)
Date Attended:
November 2012
International Diploma in Business Analysis (Certificate)
Date Attended:
July 2013
PRINCE2 (Certificate)
Date Attended:
October 2014

Hobbies

  • Studying Finnish
    I have been studying the Finnish language for 3 years and have am now competent at A2 international level.