TRANSFORMATION PROGRAMME DIRECTOR
Smith & Nephew
Total years of experience :24 years, 4 Months
Cloud based solutions, incl. Azure and AWS.
5
SaaS & COTS implementation
12
Industry/Sector
Yrs
Industry/Sector
Yrs
Media & Adverting Experience
10
Banking & Financial Service Experience
4
Public Sector & Government Experience
Budget £20m+
Responsible for large scale programme delivery of a global data platform for major clients
•Overall Programme budget £20m+, reporting to Global President and Global PMO Director.
•Delivery of a large global data platform to drive greater analytics and insights for key major global clients such as P&G, GSK and Samsung etc.
•A client facing role in ensuring stakeholder and client management are at the forefront of the role.
•A significant amount of hands on backend work with Product teams, Development teams and offshore teams to ensure time critical the client delivery.
•Programme ran with no client delivery for 2 years, and was assigned to me to recover the project into delivery mode, which satisfactorily took 4 months to ensure client delivery after significant changes made as mentioned above.
•The solution implemented required and overhaul of processes, changes to existing structure with strong governance, together with the introduction of a client engagement model, a new change management framework, and a robust stakeholder reporting mechanism, in addition to help in setting up a PMO Office.
Budget £5m+
Responsible for large scale programme delivery of SaaS Implementation.
•Delivery of a large global SaaS implementation for an insurance client, Generali Global Health.
•The solution implementation that incorporates complex IT development, interfaces and processes.
•Client facing with significant amount of client management
•Accountable for the Programme Budget with regular internal programme status and financial reporting.
•Management of internal teams of consultants and development team.
•Established Programme Governance framework, engaging with key stakeholders.
•Reporting to COO and CEO together with the Steering Board.
AZURE/AWS Cloud & Office 365
Responsible for large scale programme delivery of cloud projects in AWS/Azure and also Office365.
•End to end delivery of large, complex customer Cloud/ IT Infrastructure Programme.
•Cloud solution implementation in Azure/AWS within an agile environment, including infrastructure.
•Implementation of Office365 with end-to-end delivery from inception to end user support.
•Accountable for the Programme Budget with regular internal programme status and financial reporting.
•Successfully for reviewed and improved processes to drive greater efficiencies.
•Management of approximately 10 internal and external resources.
•Established Programme Governance framework, engaging with key stakeholders.
•Strong focus on Change management, including comms, readiness, adoption and benefits management.
•Reporting to Director and the Steering Board.
Budget £7m+
Responsible for programme delivery, driving software implementation, and transformation initiatives
•Headhunted personally by the CIO to undertake GroupM's key initiative.
•Delivered changes across 5 OpCo's, resulting in 28%+ increase in output
•Budgetary management of circa £7m, successfully realising ROI of £1.2 m per annum via savings
•Established effective governance frameworks, engaging with key stakeholders & board executives
•Successfully delivered key transformation to digitise all media planning and buying activities.
•Delivery of cloud-based solution with 3rd party vendors, and in-house development to AWS Cloud
•end to end, and infrastructure.
•Delivered a portfolio encompassing multiple projects across 5 OpCo's, consisting of 2000 users
•Defined of Programme roadmap, aligned with overall business strategy, reporting to C-Level Board
•Leadership & management of 3 project managers - overall accountability for a 15+ member team
•Owned the change management strategy, framework & processes, to ensure full benefits realisation
Business & Digital Transformation - Budget £5m+
Responsible for programme delivery and software implementation for SSP's key client LV=
•Delivery of proprietary SaaS product to a key client, LV=.
•Defined Programme plan, scope, control processes, costs, benefits, and resources,
•Assembled and built effective software teams, delivering the software technology roadmap & plan
•Reporting directly to the Managing Director.
•Established the joint governance framework, in line with client and board expectations.
•Successfully implemented & delivered large-scale SaaS product across multiple areas in LV=
Budget £6m+
Responsible for programme delivery, driving software development and transformation initiatives
•Definition of IT / technology vision and technology roadmap, aligned with overall business strategy
•Delivered changes across development, resulting in 42%+ increase in output & 28% quality boost
•Budgetary management of around £6m, successfully realising ROI of £1.9m per annum via savings
•Established effective governance frameworks, engaging with key stakeholders & board executives
•Leadership & management of 4 project managers - overall accountability for a 30+ member team
•Successfully implemented & delivered large-scale global technology platforms across the business
•Drove the change management strategy, framework & processes, ensuring full benefits realisation
•Assembled and built effective software teams, delivering the software technology roadmap & plan
SaaS - Budget £700k+
Responsible for all aspects of programme delivery, implementing a Global Cloud product (SaaS)
•Leadership, management and motivation of a team of 20+ staff, including staff mentoring issues
•Management of both offshore and onshore teams, overseeing both Development & QA activities
•Full budgetary management responsibility, with budget spend of £700k, realising £215k ROI p.a.
•Focused on adoption of appropriate governance frameworks and reporting structure for delivery
•Instrumental in defining the roadmap, technical solution and quality approach for overall delivery
•Spearheaded all aspects of technical development, business analysis, testing & software delivery
•Successfully embedded an Agile SCRUM methodology and process for delivery of SaaS solutions
•Drove development of Risk and Change Management approach, underpinning successful roll-out
Budget £10m+
Responsible for all aspects of programme leadership, including rescue, turnaround and deployment
•Hand-picked by the Executive Team to lead turnaround of underperforming programme initiatives
•Focused on delivery of a large-scale software development and BI programme across the business
•Full budgetary management responsibilities, controlling budget of £10m, achieving £3.1m ROI p.a.
•Established enhanced governance, control and reporting structures, ensuring strong IT governance
•Successfully delivered E2E cloud based global DMP on Azure, with custom applications & BI solution to
•10, 000 users, including infrastructure. Significant 3rd Party vendor management.
•Definition and execution of a roadmap & technology strategy, aligning IT with core business needs
•Leadership, management & control of 8 Project Managers and a resource of 100+ team members
•Key contributor and mentor for a PMO office, overseeing software system and application delivery
Oracle Finance Programme
Programme Business Change Manager - Finance
Home Office - Oracle 11i Project
Global Delivery 11 Programme Management & Recovery skills 17 Risk & Issue Management 22 Governance Frameworks and Processes 17 Business Process Management 17 Change Management, TOM 17 Data Migration 8 Budgetary Management (OPEX & CAPEX) 17 Contracts management and negotiation 22 Offshoring, Outsourcing, Vendor Selection & Vendor Management 12 ERP, Oracle Financials, AP. AR, GL, FA, CM, INV, SOM, Procurement 9 Software/Applications Development (SDLC) 12 Agile 9 Building Global Data Platforms 9 Building teams for effective delivery
Professional Accreditation & Memberships Chartered Insurance Institute Financial Planning Paper 1 and Paper 2 PRINCE2 PRINCE2 Qualified Institute of IT Training Trainer Assessment Accreditation Neuro-Linguistic Programming NLP Practitioner