Program Manager
2019 - 2020AstraZeneca- Worked within a people, process and technology digital transformation and change program to deliver millions of dollars of savings, as well as saving and improving lives.
- Led the delivery and deployment side of a groundbreaking digital product.
- Provided strong direction and structure around Scaled Agile.
- Coached and mentored leadership team.
Senior Agile Delivery Manager
2019 - 2019Jagex- Worked with product owners, tech services, devops, core tech, and others to assist in agile ceremonies, shared backlogs, and delivery management with virtual and colocated teams.
- Utilized Jira, Confluence, Kanban, and face-to-face facilitation.
- Assisted with company-wide projects from external consultants to internal service desks.
Senior Executive Producer
2017 - 2018Sumo Digital- Led development of console video game, including programme management of a large Agile and stage-gated team - colocated, dispersed and in/outsourced.
- Redesigned and optimized deeply complex pipelines and processes required to bring together feature teams, component teams, and core tech teams effectively and efficiently.
- Led an Agile transformation where appropriate, but also recognized the need to merge with non-Agile methodologies.
- Managed multiple concurrent projects and dependencies, shifting deadlines, capacity planning, milestone deliverables, and resource futureproofing.
- Mentored a team of project managers and junior producers including coaching, training, advising and serving.
- Successfully engaged senior stakeholders and external customers, regularly communicating consistent messaging despite fluid high-level roadmap.
Operations and Project Manager
2017 - 2017Wargaming Inc.- Oversaw operations locally inside of HQ in Nicosia, Cyprus.
- Nurtured relationships with internal business partners and local operations staff.
- Managed tools and environments.
- Liaised with global operations within and between all WG studios and second and third-party mobile development teams.
- Project-managed creation and set up of the new Berlin mobile gaming studio.
Senior Project Manager
2016 - 2017Wargaming Inc.- Managed a high-profile project to recommend, evaluate and implement a PPM / EPPM system across the organization.
- Directed a team of process and business analysts.
- Collaborated with leadership stakeholders to ensure portfolio-level prioritization was considered and implemented.
- Ran vendor workshops and assessed RFPs.
- Led trips to multiple internal clients as well as vendor sites to collate information and ensure requirements were met.
Head of Operations
2015 - 2016Eyecon- Directed the operations of the new Guernsey office after setting it up from scratch.
- Led the project and program management, team mentoring, and coaching.
- Involved in operational and organizational management, customer and delivery management.
- Delivered compliance documentation and ensured reporting and analysis met regulatory expectations.
Senior Consultant
2015 - 2015East Harbour Associates- Handled requirement gathering and running of performance management projects.
- Analyzed and implemented KPIs/metric, business and process analysis, and knowledge management.
- Prepared and delivered CxO-level presentations and engaged in relationship building.
- Led projects from crowdsourcing education experts to selling and implementing Confluence/Jira packages.
General Manager / Programme Manager
2012 - 2014Sony Computer Entertainment Europe- Led a group of highly experienced technical architects, server service engineers, along with more traditional video games development teams.
- Ensured stakeholder requirements were kept in line with strategic needs.
- Engaged producers and project managers to form matrix-managed teams each of which utilized project methodologies from PRINCE2 to agile to lean.
- Held full strategic planning and P&L management.
- Reported to a senior director and program managed five direct and 40+ indirect reports.
- Provided inspiring leadership, directed creative as well as financial efforts, identified business opportunities and oversaw an ongoing strategic expansion and growth plan that required careful restructuring of the team.
- Established joint ventures/strategic alliances with other Sony Computer Entertainment groups and interfaced with regional business groups and game developers across the world, as well as VPs and directors.
- Maintained stable and secure platform and deliver cost-cutting initiatives to business regions and developers.
- Managed communications and relationships with key stakeholders.
- Delivered disparate projects across multiple cost/profit centers on time and within scope, handling all the various problems, opportunities, and temptations that come with that.
Head of Operations / Developer Support Project Manager
2007 - 2012Sony Computer Entertainment Europe- Oversaw operations, support, knowledge management and platform analysis.
- Built the developer support team from the ground up. Developer support generated the documentation, technical support, issue tracking and resolution, samples, and direct communication with developers.
- Managed the operations team. Operations handled the critical weekly content production cycle that published assets to the live environment, as well as issue tracking and resolution from internal regional business groups, and the entire infrastructure architecture and integrity underlying the platform.
- Took over the operations team resulting in adopting a semi-ITIL structure and handling critical publishing infrastructure and training of a service desk team, utilizing Jira and CMSs.
- Managed all projects such as documentation releases, the creation of samples, localizations, and developer support conferences.
- Created an Agile philosophy within the teams across departments, before Agile existed.
Consultant and Project Manager
1995 - 2006Various- Served as an E-Learning Project Manager for multiple companies.
- Contracted as a Web-Enabled Learning Developer for the UK Foreign Office and Hewlett-Packard.
- Provided freelance web development as an independent contractor.
- Hired as a technical author and intranet developer for Pfizer Inc.
- Provided services as a technical author and website developer for Network People.
Psychology and Sociology Teacher / Head of Department
1993 - 1995Kent College, Canterbury- Taught Psychology and Sociology to teenagers and evening class students.
- Led the Social Sciences department.