PERSONAL STATEMENT
Professional and highly efficient individual skilled in the delivery of excellent customer experiences within Financial Services & IT Consulting industries. Exuding a warm approachable manner when liaising with diverse audiences – ranging from financial advisors, brokers, custodians, registrars, project managers, and all levels of senior management.
Demonstrates a flexible approach & motivation to learning new skills and will ‘go the extra mile’ when necessary. Poses an approachable yet professional manner with the ability to cope with fluctuations of workload volumes. Experienced in large project management, business change & delivering training and development.
FINANCIAL SERVICES BACKGROUND
Has sound knowledge of Life Protection and Investments products with an insight to SIPP’s, SSAS, Pensions and Annuities. Predominantly employed within the Investment Banking (stock market) Asset Management sector, hosts a wealth of experience in the Fixed Income, Equity, Funds and certificated environment both from an operational perspective as well as a settlements function.
ENGINEERING INFORMATION MANAGEMENT BACKGROUND
Currently employed as a Project Manager for an IT Consultancy & Software Development / Configuration firm, working across a diverse client base in industries such as Pharmaceuticals, Oil Gas & Nuclear, Engineering, and Construction. Well versed in both Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Demonstrates a deep understanding based on experience of Software configuration, large scale project management, change management, Quality Management (ISO 9001 Standard) Test Script Writing and UAT Execution processes.
CREATIVE
I am a keen semi-professional singer and musician, operating from my own sound studio at home & recording tracks for charity as well as personal pleasure. I enjoy graphic design by creating works in Adobe Photoshop, making a range of items from Business Cards, advertisement flyers, and paper stationery.
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Current role, dealing with large scale project management within the Pharmaceuticals, Oil Gas & Nuclear, Engineering, and Construction industries.
Tasks include as follows:
* Management of internal and external stakeholders.
* Exposure to using Altassian Jira to generate product back logs
* Exposure to Agile, Scrum, Prince 2 Methods
* Experience of working on end-to-end full implementation lifecycle
* Writing and reviewing technical documentation including software documents and blogs, help guides and release planning.
* Working closely with product management to create a clear product development plan and convey that plan to the engineering scrum team
* Ensuring the team has a clear and descriptive set of requirements and partnering with them to determine what can be delivered through balancing the need for new features, defects and technical debt
* Engaging frequently (80%) with the development team – manage progress, facilitate discussions, provide clarification, remove impediments, story acceptance and refinement, testing and validation, contributing to design activities and decisions
* Mentoring junior team members
* Resource management & capacity planning activities
* Management of cross-functional teams
We will review the reports from both freelancer and employer to give the best decision. It will take 3-5 business days for reviewing after receiving two reports.