Experience

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  Metropolitan police

  Feb 1984 - Jun 1998

  Project / stage manager, development manager, programmer analyst.

  1995 >1998 – Project / Stage Manager • Project Management, EC tender evaluation, 3rd party relationship management.1992 >1995 – Development and Support Manager • Development Team Leader, Creation and enforcement of documentation and programming standards; monitoring project progress against timelines; Test Co-ordinator,1985 > 1991 – Programmer Analyst / Project Specialist• Systems analysis, Programming, Test management, installation training and user support.1984 > 1985 – Team Leader • Lead team of 10 people, meeting daily quotas, cut-off times, and avoiding back-logs. Show less

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  American express

  Jun 1998 - Nov 2009

  • Engagement, Portfolio, Program and Project Manager for the Foreign Exchange suite of applications with a minimum yearly budget of around $700K, • Implemented formal engagement, planning and reporting process for all projects and small fixes and carefully monitored program finances; • Built up and managed a new team spread across US, India and UK and ensured appropriate and optimal use of these resources.• Worked with numerous technology groups in US, UK and Australia in order to update the infrastructure, and implement two new external business partners. • Automated support activities so as to meet business and external customer Service Levels and to enable hand over of all support activities to the appropriate support group(s); • Kicked off project discussions regarding the replacement of Express Change and Express Wholesale with outsource suppliers and 3rd parties. Show less

  • Lead Project Manager

    Jun 2008 - Nov 2009

  • Lead Project Manager

    Jun 2006 - Jun 2008

  • Project Manager

    Jun 2004 - Jun 2006

  • Project Manager / Senior Business Systems Analyst

    Jan 2001 - Jun 2004

  • Senior Business Systems Analyst

    Jun 1998 - Jan 2001
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  American express

  Jun 2010 - Dec 2011

  Lead project manager (contract)

  • As part of multi-million dollar program, project managed the production, secure transmission & integration of data from multiple, diverse corporate sources into a 3rd party product to implement a call centre performance monitoring system for 3 unique markets.• Program managed a number of infrastructure, telephony & network changes in diverse European offices

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  The disabilities trust

  Dec 2013 - Jun 2014

  Business portfolio and programme manager
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  Rocc computers

  Sept 2014 - Nov 2017

  Senior project manager
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  Looking for new opportunities

  Jan 2018 - Jul 2018

  Project manager
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  Lumesse learning

  Jul 2018 - now

  Senior project manager
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  Looking for new opportunities

  Sept 2018 - now

  Project manager
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  Brighton & hove city council

  Apr 2019 - Jul 2024

  It project manager
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  N/a

  Jul 2024 - now

  Retired