Ben Kemble

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  • About me

    Senior Delivery Manager at Ordnance Survey

  • Education

    • South Downs College

      2004 - 2007
      BTEC National Diploma in Music Technology Distinction/Distinction/Merit
  • Experience

    • John Wiley and Sons

      Aug 2008 - May 2015

      • Day to day project management of the overall teams commissioning process, prioritising tasks and organising schedules to meet the needs of the department.• Project Management of a range of media including print, eBooks, Mobile Apps and Audiobooks.• Constructing and developing new workflows and processes for bespoke publishing products.• Special Project - Implementation of ‘Book Project Management System’ - selected as Super-User for the new online management system for the company. This included overseas training and support to the division for the roll out of the new system. Show less

      • Associate Commissioning Editor

        Mar 2013 - May 2015
      • Assistant Editor

        Jan 2010 - Feb 2013
      • Production Editor

        Aug 2009 - Jan 2010
      • Production Assistant

        Aug 2008 - Aug 2009
    • Smart Labs Bournemouth

      Jul 2015 - Feb 2017
      Project Manager

      * Project Managing the end to end delivery of a range of commercial business and web development projects. Monitoring projects, ensuring they are delivered on time, within budget and to the highest quality. * Working directly with a range of stakeholders at various levels to communicate project priorities, define scope and identify risks and issues. * Organising regular project meetings and allocating team tasks to Designers, Web Developers and Marketing colleagues ensuring project milestones are met. * Maintaining project workflows by updating key project documents and software, using Gantt Charts, Kanban Boards, producing Project Flows as well as monitoring team sprints within a SCRUM methodology environment. Show less

    • Ordnance Survey

      Mar 2017 - May 2019

      Managing a range of IT and business change projects across the company's investment portfolio.Working with Project Sponsors to understand scope and managing business benefit realisation within the delivery of the project.Ensuring project delivery via agile and waterfall methodologies.Stakeholder management, at project team and director level - via project status reporting.Managing budgets and tracking finances across multiple projects with £1M+ multi phase budgets.Identifying risks and managing issues across the project lifecycle.Working with 3rd Party suppliers to agree contracts and deliver services. Show less Providing support and cover for Snr Project Managers and Programme ManagersManaging a range of IT and business change projects across the company's investment portfolio.Stakeholder management, at project team level with up to date project reporting.Managing budgets and tracking finances across multiple projects with budgets in excess of £250k.Identifying Risks and managing issues across the project lifecycle.Ensuring Scope is identified and managed throughout the project, to ensure project benefits are realised. Show less

      • Project Manager

        Apr 2018 - May 2019
      • Associate Project Manager

        Mar 2017 - Apr 2018
    • Specsavers

      May 2019 - Dec 2019
      IT Project Manager
    • Ordnance Survey

      Jan 2020 - now
      • Senior Delivery Manager

        Aug 2022 - now
      • Senior Project Manager

        Nov 2020 - Aug 2022
      • IT Project Manager

        Jan 2020 - Nov 2020
  • Licenses & Certifications

    • APM Risk Certificate - Level 2

      Association for Project Management
      Apr 2018
    • Agile Project Management - Foundation

      BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
      Nov 2014
    • PRINCE2 Project Management - Foundation

      BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
      Mar 2015
    • PRINCE2 Project Management - Practitioner

      BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
      Mar 2015
    • APM Project Management Qualification (PMQ)

      Association for Project Management
      Oct 2017