Experience

Exception

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Head of Digital Experience DX

  • May 2022 - Present

  Leading DX service at Exception, enabling the delivery of end to end Digital solutions. Through business engagement, service design and Agile development. Supported by CoE, data centricity and modern IT operational design for the Cloud.

• Senior Consulting Manager

  • Jun 2019 - Present

  Graeme is a consulting senior manager at Exception, delivering digital transformation consultancy and the management of expert services to enable enterprise-scale transformation and adoption. Key responsibilities:- Principal Transformation Consultant - DX for CIO- Modern IT operations- M365 CoE- Cloud Operational model design- Business engagement strategy - Agile delivery practices- Service Delivery- DevOps consultancy- Data and Insight strategy for Cloud- Adoption and Change management delivery



Sopra Steria

• France
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Consulting Manager

  • Apr 2016 - May 2019

  Graeme was a consulting senior manager at Sopra Steria working with the public sector, his remit was to lead large delivery teams and form digital transformation strategies and recommendations for organisations, working with key stakeholders and delivery teams.Graeme was lead consultant at Scottish Water and at the Scottish Government digital directorate. Being responsible for the delivery and enactment of transformation strategies. Key responsibilities: - Digital transformation consultancy- Senior leadership- Stakeholder management and communication- Business analysis and problem-solving- Project presentations and communication- Business case development- Project management- Agile delivery- Data, Information, intelligence and knowledge



Tsumanga Studios Ltd

• United Kingdom
• Computer Games

• Start-Up Founder and CEO

  • Jul 2012 - Mar 2016

  Tsumanga Studios is a games and media company (TMT domain), which Graeme founded in 2012, focussed on licensing of entertainment media rights to design and publish games for PC, XBOX One and Mobile devices, whilst working with IPTV distribution companies.The company developed new titles under the Winx Club brand, and is focusing on emerging technologies including Augmented Reality, to bring the brand to life on mobile devices. The team has achieved over 100 million downloads of their game portfolio and it continues to grow, with a range of premium and free-to-play titles. Graeme provided guidance to the team and help provided investment know-how and strategy, particularly around new technologies. The company raised over £ 2 million in investment from a family investment firm.



HuzuTechologies Ltd

• Start-Up Founder and Managing Director

  • Apr 2009 - Jul 2012

  As Start-Up Founder and Managing Director of Huzutech, Graeme focussed on the development of a suite of Digital Products to support branded social networks and online virtual worlds for some of the biggest brands including TUI and international publishers Scholastic and Oxford University Press. The company was venture capital-funded by Collar Capital Ltd, who specialise in the investment of start-up technology businesses. He was responsible for the management of a large team of programmers, UI designers and the business development team.



HarperCollins Publishers

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Digital Publishing Manager

  • Oct 2006 - Apr 2009

  Digital Publisher at HarperCollins. Responsible for the creation and management of the first digital team for the language division. The role was focused around developing Digital Product Solutions for both consumers, businesses, and value add digital products for printed dictionaries.I was responsible for the creation of the first online and digital download dictionary products - supporting datasets such as English, COBUILD, Spanish, Chinese, Italian, German, and French. These products were available either as a FREE download for print customers or available to buy via the Collinslanguage.com e-commerce platform.I was responsible for the following areas:- Defining Digital Product Strategies for the division- Digital Product conceptualisation and sales.- Management of 3rd party suppliers such as WIPRO, Trellisys, and Ultralingea (API)- Licensing Support and approaching Dictionary.com for partnership discussions.- Managing third party distribution agreements and relationship for mobile products for NOKIA - Development of e-book publishing strategy via mobi-pocket.- Supporting print publisher partners such as LangenScheidt/Le Robert/Random House with Digital Product Solutions.- Contributing the overall direction of the business via the annual publishing schedule.



seventy7

• United Kingdom
• Advertising Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Project Manager

  • Feb 2001 - Oct 2006

  Communications agency based in Manchester, providing digital brand strategy, technology, and project management. I was responsible for initially setting up the digital team at Photolink (Seventy Seven) in 2001, mainly building web solutions for Photolink's suppliers with the fashion model industry. The team then expanded to support e-commerce giants Littlwoods.com and Kitbag.com, whilst developing the business to support local government project work such as Kent Tourism Authority, VisitManchester and Norwich City Council.The role at Photolink involved:- Managing several digital projects at once and being responsible for the full lifecycle delivery.- Managing resources and budgets internally.- Prince 2 project methodologies.- Digital Product development (defining product requirements for clients)- Working closely with clients and further developing the relationships.- Working with the internal resource team of designers, developers and business development.- Qualified Prince 2 practitioner.



VIRGIN

• Russian Federation
• Telecommunications
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Application Support Specialist

  • Jan 2000 - Feb 2001

  3rd line - Application Support Specialist for e-commerce and financial applications. 3rd line - Application Support Specialist for e-commerce and financial applications.