Alexander Omand

• 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.

•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

•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.