Herman Cheung

Experience

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  Cathay Pacific Airways

  Dec 2009 - Feb 2010

  Engineering Intern

  • Proposed, designed and implemented a program to automate and optimise the scheduling of Cathay's entire fleet of aircraft for Base Maintenance. This solution significantly reduced the labour hours required to complete the planning process.

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  IBM

  May 2016 - Feb 2017

  • IBM multi-sector Project Manager versed in both PMP and PRINCE2• IBM Management Consultant in the Financial Services and Healthcare sector• Certified Scrum Master and Advisor to IBM New Zealand on the adoption of Agile for internal and client projects• Managed teams up to 20 FTE - including global delivery (offshore) resources from China and India.• Specialist in the recovery of troubled projects and the adoption of Agile delivery. I managed projects in the sectors of:- Telecommunications- Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG)- Utilities - Government Entities- Insurance- Banking- Healthcare Show less • Certified Scrum Master (PSM1) and Senior Business Analyst within a distributed Agile team (Australia, New Zealand and China) for Suncorp in Brisbane Australia delivering and enhancing their insurance technology platform used by their New Zealand brands• Delivered 3 crucial software releases - moving the majority of the NZ general insurance business onto a unified platform - winning the Suncorp Group quarterly team award for this successful implementation• Drove and improved team performance across the various geolocations within the distributed Agile team• Transformed business requirements into manageable technical stories Show less

  • Management Consultant, Agile Scrum Master, and Project Manager

    Feb 2013 - Feb 2017

  • Managing Consultant & Senior Agile Business Analyst

    May 2016 - Dec 2016
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  Suncorp Group

  Feb 2017 - Mar 2018

  Senior Business Process Improvement Consultant

  • Senior internal strategy consultant and Product Owner for Suncorp NZ• Established and led a business improvement pipeline as the Chief Product Owner – modernising and digitising the operations for the general and life insurance businesses resulting in $NZD1.5million of cost savings• Future-proofed Suncorp by digitising and automating operations, led Insurtech POCs, and successfully delivered and launched a new go to market brand in only 8 months• Designed and led an outsourcing and automation project that improved internal operations as well as front line response times while reducing total cost of ownership• Founded and Chaired Suncorp New Zealand’s Diversity Board to give millennial employees greater influence in an ageing NZ insurance sector – the board represented 350+ colleagues Show less

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  KPMG UK

  Jan 2019 - Dec 2020

  Agile Consulting Lead & Director of Agile Learning

  I led the Agile Consulting Capability and Lean Agile Centre of Excellence (LACE), growing the Capability from 0 to 300+ people across the entire KPMG consulting business.I established and directed the Agile Learning function (team of 12 trainers). I also performed as Lead Trainer for entry and advanced level Agile courses (Intro to Agile, Scrum Master, PSM, PSPO, Leading SAFe, SAFe Lean Portfolio Management (LPM) and SAFe for Teams). Courses had ratings of 9.5+ out of 10 and were delivered to all levels including Senior Partners and clients. Show less

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  IE Business School

  Jan 2021 - Dec 2021

  MBA Graduate

  • Focus on Strategy, Entrepreneurship, and Digital Innovation • Ranking: Dean's List for graduating in top 10%• Beta Gamma Sigma Honour Society• IE Foundation Fellow (top 12% of all scholarship recipients) • Awarded IE Scholarship for Diversity & selected for the IE High Potential Award• IE Business School MBA Ambassador • Finalist in start-up competition for launching MenosMeats• Agile expert and Certification Trainer for Tech & Innovation Club and FMCG Club

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  Menos Meats

  May 2021 - Mar 2022

  Co-founder & CEO

  I co-founded the digital health business MenosMeats - a behavioural modification solution to help people reduce their meat consumption to achieve their health and sustainability goals

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  1928 Diagnostics

  Aug 2021 - Nov 2021

  MBA Consultant - Product Go-to-Market Strategy

  • Go-to-Market / Market Entry Strategy, and Readiness Assessment for 1928 to enter into a major European Market• Project delivered key market insights, Go-to-Market strategy, execution roadmap, financial analysis and projection, and Product-Market fit assessment.

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  KPMG UK

  May 2022 - Mar 2024

  I headed Product Management Consulting for KPMG UK, looking after clients across Healthcare, Media, UK Public Sector, and Financial Services. The majority of my clients were large global house hold names that needed support in digitising their product and services to remain competitive and to improve their internal product operations.My team consisted of 20 product specialists from Senior Product Managers to Product Analysts. We transformed and enhanced our clients' digital product delivery capabilities including developing and supporting products with over 50 million users. Show less I was the practice lead for Enterprise Agility, and for Financial Services IT Effectiveness. In each of these roles I looked after a portfolio of engagements, pipeline, financial performance, and people performance of the consulting practice.Enterprise Agility covers consulting services in Agile Transformation, Agile Operating Model, Agile Portfolio Management and Value Stream Management. Financial Services IT Effectiveness covers services including: Digital Strategy, IT ESG, IT Cost Optimisation, and IT Operating Model. Show less

  • Management Consultant - Agile, Product, Digital Operations, and AI

    Jul 2018 - Mar 2024

  • Head of Product and Portfolio Management

    Dec 2022 - Jan 2024

  • Associate Director - Enterprise Agility

    May 2022 - Dec 2022
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  IE School of Science and Technology

  Sept 2022 - now

  Adjunct Professor

  I am an Adjunct Professor at the IE School of Science and Technology, and IE Business School. I run highly interactive classes teaching Agile Mindset and Agile Development for students in the MBA, Master Digital Business & Innovation, Master in Big Data, and Master of Computer Science

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  Corci

  Apr 2024 - now

  Managing Director

  I am a co-founder at Corci and the MD leading the Corci Academy. We enable our clients to have the capabilities needed to operate in the digital and AI era.