James Maygate

James Maygate

Sales Consultant

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  • About me

    Delivery Lead

  • Education

    • University of Reading

      2007 - 2010
      Business Information Technology

      Activities and Societies: Football, Kickboxing, Swimming, Business Society

  • Experience

    • Oka direct

      Jul 2007 - Oct 2007
      Sales Consultant

      I was a sales consultant, selling furniture face to face, over the phone and taking Mail Order's.I was also in charge of stock control and the IT infrastructure in the showroom.

    • Hewlett-Packard

      Oct 2010 - Jul 2014

      Activities:• Worked as a technical consultant implementing software for companies ranging from secure government contracts to public and private companies • Worked on good mix of small engagements and large engagements all over the world and within different time zones• Had to manage entire projects and deliver them all on my own• Client interaction such as, regular project updates, regular comms and most importantly, keeping the client happy• Led Software Instructor courses all over the world to a mixture of cultures and people• Helped write the software instructor training manual and labs• Led a test team, including writing test plans and seeing them through to successful completion• Worked with pre-sales on a number of occasions to win work. Successfully won all bids I was involved with• Worked in a lead support role in one contract dealing with all and any request from a large organisation• Involved with leading requirements workshops, scoping the requirements and implementing the requirements• Worked with a number of different technologies such as, Asset Management, Service Management, Connect-IT, DDMi and UCMDB• Production of detailed documentation such as, requirements matrix, implementation guides, support documentation, training/lab guides, project plans and testing plans Show less

      • Certified Instructor

        Mar 2013 - Jul 2014
      • Technical Consultant

        Oct 2010 - Jul 2014
    • Interactive Investor

      Jul 2014 - Jun 2016
      Business Analyst

      • Project managing small to large projects from start to finish• Contract negotiation with suppliers and service providers • Saving the company 10% on annual contracts due to successful negotiation• Business analysis work on all projects – Setting up and running business requirement workshops, developing the requirements and obtaining business sign off• Help with on boarding new team members, making them welcome and setting the scene for their role• Working with agile sprint project management• Dealt with difficult situations/conversations when supplier/client relations go wrong Show less

    • ANDigital

      Jun 2016 - now
      Delivery Lead

      ANDigital is a new way for digital delivery.With ANDigital there’s a certain buzz. It’s the buzz of brilliant, curious people setfree to imagine the impossible. A hubbub of ‘what ifs?’, ‘why nots?’ and ‘let’strys’ all working together to push boundaries and create the future of digital forsome of the world’s leading brands.In a nutshell, we help our clients reach their digital aspirations. We do this inthree ways; first we transform their digital delivery functions, second, we provideadditional super-powered people into those teams and lastly, we upskill clients’permanent team members with our one stop shop digital learning Academy.Simple. Show less

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • ITIL v3 Foundation

    • Certified Software Instructor

      Mar 2013
    • Professional Scrum Master

      Scrum.org
      Jul 2016
  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to James Maygate
      Delivery Team member of the Quarter for Q3 2012 HP Sep 2012 I received the Delivery Team Member of the Quarter in the UK Professional Services department for Q3 2012. This was for all my hard work across several different projects and for additional effort outside of these.