Jon Ray

Experience

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  JBA International

  Sept 1996 - Jan 1999

  Business Consultant
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  Geac

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2000

  Presales Consultant
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  Siebel Systems

  Jan 2000 - Sept 2002

  Presales Consultant

  Presales consultant working for Siebel midmarket division. The role covered configuring Siebel solutions to meet customer requirements, selling and promoting the solution and dealing with technical requirements.

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  Oxford City Council

  Jun 2003 - Jul 2006

  Project Manager

  Project Manager leading the design, development and implementation of IT projects covering application implementation (customer relationship management) and infrastructure (mobile working, active directory and storage solutions). This was was completed as part of the eGovernment agenda.

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  Oxfordshire County Council

  Jul 2006 - Nov 2011

  Senior Project Manager

  I worked as the senior project manager for the Council's Transforming Adult Social Care programme. This delivered a major change programme to redefine the role of social care in Oxfordshire, redesign the organisational structures and supporting processes in addition to delivering major efficiencies.

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  Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group

  Nov 2011 - May 2012

  Programme Manager

  Worked as Programme Manager for the ACE Programme (Appropriate Care for Everyone) as part of the NHS and Social Care in Oxfordshire. The programme aimed deliver a joint health and social care model for Oxfordshire to ensure the right resource are available at the right time in the right place.

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  Oxfordshire County Council

  May 2012 - Jan 2013

  Programme Manager

  I worked as a Senior Project Manager for the County Council. I delivered a various of business change projects and programmes such as delivering broadband infrastructure across Oxfordshire (£40m procurement) and reviewing the Council’s approach to its investment in transport (annual spend of £31m).

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  John Wiley and Sons

  Jan 2013 - Aug 2016

  Worked for Wiley within the scholarly journals business (~$900m). My role had two main aspects - drive global transformational change and helping our organisation be the best it can be through talent development, continuous improvement and engaged colleagues; I also sat on the Leadership Team. As programme manager I focussed on delivering our major transformation initiative, Project 17, which was tasked with reducing the cost of operations. This involved restructuring the organisation, over 1500 staff, across US, EMEA and Asia and redefining business processes. I was responsible for programme managing Project 17 (over 20 separate initiatives) which included shaping, planning, resolving issues and liaising with stakeholders across the organisation.

  • Director, Change & Organisational Effectiveness

    Dec 2014 - Aug 2016

  • Programme Manager

    Jan 2013 - Dec 2014
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  Independent Consultant

  Sept 2016 - Jan 2017

  Programme Management & Change Management - consultant

  Worked with the Board of a UK major retailer to define and shape their transformation strategy. Delivered approach, framework and programme of work to translate their strategy into a series of actions.

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  University of Oxford

  Jan 2017 - Jul 2019

  Programme Manager

  Programme Manager within the University's Libraries, Museums and Gardens. My role was accountable for the delivery of the digital strategy - democratising access to our collection of over twenty million objects. Delivered projects overhauling the IT infrastructure of the museums and gardens (new data centres, cloud based infrastructure, server rooms and managed desktops), new audience facing framework and associated digital services (main websites, commercial systems and researchers services).

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  Wiley

  Jul 2019 - Dec 2023

  Led our Go Green program tasked with understanding our environmental footprint and delivering changes to reduce our impact as part of Wiley's drive toward carbon net zero. I also ran Wiley's overall Climate Taskforce driving us towards net zero and developing our other environmental goals. Led change initiatives around business optimisation and environmental sustainability. Delivered major changes to our print infrastructure enabling significant reduction in Wiley's environmental and financial footprint.

  • Director, Environmental Sustainability - Research

    Jul 2022 - Dec 2023

  • Senior Program Manager

    Jul 2019 - Jul 2022
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  University of Oxford

  Feb 2024 - now

  GLAM Environmental Sustainability Manager

  Developing and implementing environmental strategies, policies, and action plans in line with the University and Garden, Libraries and Museums' (GLAM) Environmental Sustainability Strategy.