Employment History

Employer:	Lloyds Banking Group (UK Private Banking)
Location:	1 Lovell Park Road, Leeds, LS1 1NS, United Kingdom
Dates:	May 2011 – Present Day (3 Contract Extensions)

Job Description:	Project Manager Project Manager role working on the Lloyds & HBOS account migration: one of the largest bank integrations completed in Europe over the past last 5 years. Migrating 31m customer accounts (1 in 3 UK current accounts) onto a consolidated Lloyds Banking Group Systems.
	Responsibilities Planned "command and control activities" for the governance of migration events affecting the UK Private Banking Group. Lead the Command and Control workstream Managed the plan and schedule of events for private banking migration, and assurance activities during the migration events Worked with business area experts and IT teams to develop a robust schedule of events plan for each migration Secured and mobilised the required levels of resources to run the Command and Control Model Created the Monthly Steering Group Information Pack
	Achievements Gained buy-in for regular structured walkthroughs for migration event Introduced project governance to the UKPB programme Audited team project plans Acted as a mentor and subject matter expert for Project Management principles within the group.
Reason For Leaving:	End of contract

Employer:	Good Morning English Language Academy
Location:	Independent Travel in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize
Dates:	May 2005 – July 2005
Job Description:	ESL English Instructor Teaching Korean students from 5 – 13 years old using the “Little Fox” English Teaching Software and syllabus. Included planning and conducting lessons and conducting classes alone.
Reason For Leaving:	End of contract.

Location:	Independent Travel in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize
Dates:	May 2005 – July 2005


Employer:	Deutsche Bank AG
Location:	Winchester House, 1 Great Winchester Street, London, EC2N 2DB, United Kingdom
Dates:	June 2008 – September 2008 (3 month contract)
Job Description:	Project Manager Defined the scope of a large programme of work for the improvement of risk architecture. This role also required defining the Programme Management Processes and setting up PMO for the ensuring programme.
	Responsibilities Defining the Programme of work Designing PMO processes for the constituent projects and management information and reporting required.
	Achievements Defined the scope of a large Risk Architecture Programme Made improvements on PMO and project management processes of in-flight projects.
Reason For Leaving:	End of contract.

Employer:	UBS Investment Bank
Location:	1st Floor, Mercury House, Triton Court, 14 Finsbury Square, London, EC2A 1BR, United Kingdom
Dates:	February 2008 – May 2008 (3 month contract)
Job Description:	Business Analyst A Business Analyst role, working on incremental changes for a cross-functional provisioning system in UBS Investment bank:
	Responsibilities & Achievements Performed ad-hoc Business Analysis on a cross-functional provisioning system. Liaised with users and development teams to define and design an exceptions process to provision Equities Research for up to 1000 worldwide users. Performed ad-hoc support and analysis to China users during a specific Chinese local implementation
Reason For Leaving:	End of contract.

Employer:	Dresdner Kleinwort Investment Bank
Location:	30 Gresham Street, London, EC2P 2XY, United Kingdom + Theodor-Heuss-Allee 44-46, 60486 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Dates:	May 2007 – February 2008 (3 month contract - 3 Renewals)
Job Description:	Project Manager PM role in Dresdner Kleinwort Investment Bank. The role was based in Middle Office Risk Architecture involving strategic improvements via a number of “Change the Bank” (CTB) projects and also involved improving the group’s operating processes.
	Responsibilities Represented Risk in a large cross-functional change program - involving the simplification and consolidation of cross-functional systems into a layer structure, to improve data quality and reduce redundancy. Managed a number of projects as part of the “Risk Platforms” CTB initiative in London and Frankfurt locations.
	Achievements Defined and implemented an effective Change Management Process, which was adopted across all Risk Management applications. Defined and implemented an effective Business analysis methodology, which included the creation of deliverable templates. Managed the definition and development of an Emerging Markets Early Warning tool for the front office utilizing Cognos 8. Managed the software development project to create consolidated Local Market Risk reporting system, which utilized Cognos 8 Business Intelligence software. Defined and managed a "clean-up" solution - tracing and improving process and accountability to reduce the number of not-rated counterparty risk classes reducing risk capital and increasing trading potential by 172,250 Euros.
Reason For Leaving:	End of contract


Employer:	Accenture
Location:	1 Plantation Place, 30 Fenchurch Street, London, EC3M 3BD, United Kingdom
Dates:	July 2005 – Jan 2007
Job Description:	Management Consultant / Project Manager Worked for a team driving consistency across the Global Delivery Network - delivery centres in 11 different worldwide offshore locations running initiatives to create and improve working practices and processes.
	Responsibilities Managed and mentored resources in a distributed work environment – including offshore resources and acted as a global Point of Contact / Relationship Manager. Managed the training plan and co-ordinated the global training for relevant tools. Chaired and administered 2 Global Change Control Boards for tools used worldwide.
	Achievements Led, Managed and successfully delivered the creation of a global Quality Assurance tool: Gathered requirements at Global Requirements elicitation meeting in India Led and performed Functional Design Created test scripts for functional test and led and performed Functional Test Co-ordinated UAT Designed and created training materials Successfully designed and implemented a controlled and robust change process Identified and designed a best practice process and successfully implemented a tool to support this process - across 11 disparate worldwide locations and cultures.
Reason For Leaving	Left to find a new challenge as an independent contractor.
Location:	Independent Travel in Mexico, Guatemala and Belize
Dates:	May 2005 – July 2005

Employer:	Abbey
Location:	Abbey House, 2 Triton Square, Regent’s Place, London. NW1 3AN, United Kingdom
Dates:	September 2004 – May 2005
Job Description:	Programme Office Support (PMO) Graduate management trainee based in the IT department of the head office of Abbey - a large retail bank, based in London. The role involved being the sole assistant (and deputised in his absence) of the Programme Manager in setting up and running a programme office.
	Responsibilities Assisted in setting up a large programme office Ran and maintained the program office Ran and maintained status reporting and measurement and analysis Ran and maintained project plans and costs Acted a Configuration Librarian and maintained project library
	Achievements Deputised for the RTB Project Manager: which involved: Chairing progress meetings Running risk workshops Prepared stakeholder communications and presented programme progress to a board level Steering Group
Reason For Leaving:	Following a take-over the graduate management trainee scheme was cancelled.

Employer:	BNP Paribas
Location:	10 Harewood Avenue, London. NW1 6AA, United Kingdom
Dates:	July 2003 – July 2004
Job Description:	Trade Floor Helpdesk Analyst Helpdesk Analyst based in an outsourced IT department in a large European Investment bank.
	Responsibilities Provided IT Support for up to 2000 Traders via phone, email and at desk-side on a busy trade floor Logged up to 150 calls a day on the Remedy call logging system Worked to strict Service Level Agreements
	Achievements Was selected for the dedicated trade-floor support team Developed attention to detail in the high-pressure environment of the trade floor. Gained the Comptia A+ Certification for hardware and software

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