Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master at Orbis Investment Advisory
London, --- Select A State ---
United Kingdom

January 2011-Present

• Leading a team of 10 cross-functional developers to create a high-performance platform to display and report financial market and investment performance data (orbis.com) using the .NET Framework / SQL Server • Working with the Product Owner to identify and prioritise requirements • Identifying and implementing Agile (Scrum & XP) process improvements and best practice. Ensuring continuous improvements. Coaching and receiving buy-in from corporate management • Planning Sprint and Release Plans • Facilitating Daily Stand-up, Sprint Planning / Review / Retrospective meetings • Managing Scrum artefacts and ensuring project visibility to all

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Project Manager at Selfridges
London, --- Select A State ---
United Kingdom

February 2011-June 2012

• Managing a portfolio of 6 on-line / e-commerce projects (Selfridges.com) • Projects included delivery and improvements to usability, payments, search, mobile-commerce, CRM, WMS, SEO, Customer Services and integration • Managing multiple 3rd party suppliers (IBM WebSphere Commerce, Salmon, DAI, Omniture) • Writing business cases for capital investment • Stakeholder management up to board level

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Project Manager at Debenhams
London, --- Select A State ---
United Kingdom

July 2011-September 2011

• Implementing a Chip & PIN EFT card payment solution for mobile kiosks • Obtaining EMV bank accreditation for card payments • Commercial supplier management (NCR, NetKey, Verifone, The Logic Group) • Integrating EPoS with multiple core back-end settlement systems • Justifying capital expenditure of £1m+ • Stakeholder management up to board level

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Agile Project Manager / Scrum Master at OpenBet
London, --- Select A State ---
United Kingdom

March 2010-February 2011

• Leading a portfolio of client-facing B2B, e-commerce projects including providing service management • Line managing a core team of 8 in an Agile/Scrum environment • Helping to negotiate improved commercial contracts and providing financial management • Developing high-profile, high transaction online arcades / Flash games / virtual casinos to online gambling operations • Developing and launching new products • Ensuring compliance and owning the technical documentation • Delivering business-as-usual improvements

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Project Manager at John Lewis
London, --- Select A State ---
United Kingdom

March 2007-March 2010

• Leading large, high-profile projects, and portfolios of multiple smaller projects • Managing the relationship with third party consultants/support and development resource • Identifying business problems, gaining user requirements, and developing and implementing solutions • Creating business cases and carrying out investment appraisals • Formulating and managing the project plan • Monitoring and controlling project, managing budgets, risks and issues • Engaging and managing stakeholders, and reporting to project sponsor and board • Energising and motivating the project team

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Senior Programmer at John Lewis
London, --- Select A State ---
United Kingdom

September 2003-March 2007

• Web development (Java, JavaScript, HTML,CSS, UML) • Batch mainframe systems development (COBOL, SQL, DB2, JCL) • Unit, system and end-to-end testing • Systems analysis and design

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