Experience

globalCOAL

• United Kingdom
• Financial Services
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Programme Manager

  • Nov 2005 - Present

  - Manage a diverse set of business and IT projects from start to finish, including new products such as physical and financial futures, iron ore products, website and intranet re-design, data feeds to Reuters, Bloomberg and an in house built Blackberry and I-phone application, and an office move.- Project budgets, business cases and resource planning - Responsible for quality controls and testing.- Ensuring disaster recovery and business continuity processes are robust and regularly tested.- Contract management and negotiations, working closely with our legal time to ensure critical commercial terms are understood and included.- Regulation and compliance requirements. Show less

• Market Manager

  • Nov 2005 - Dec 2006

  - Broking of our financial and physical coal products, both on screen and by voice.- Working closely with other team members in both London and Singapore to ensure deals are closed.- Maintaining and promoting client relationships.- Marketing and maintaining our existing products.- Assit in the development of new products.



EDF (UK)

• United Kingdom
• Utilities
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Manger

  • Apr 1998 - Nov 2005

  Managed a variety of projects across multiple commodities: • Coal Fuel Management: Time bound project to select a supplier and implement a new coal stock management system, from procurement, through to contractual negotiations. • Gas Shipping Programme: From initial impact assessment and business case, managed the integration of all aspects of this new commodity into the existing portfolio after the acquisition of Sutton Bridge power station. This covered set up in existing trading, MO and settlement systems and processes, as well as third party systems to cover gas storage (Storit) and working with Transco. • Renewables Programme: Troubleshooting an existing project, by holding a 3rd party to their contractual obligations. Organisational restructuring for new system builds. • Other: Server Move; System Upgrades; Established company project management quality standards. • Dual Fuel Programme: Facilitated user workshops, using techniques such as brain-storming, de Bono’s ‘hat’ thinking and fishbone and documented requirements. • Archiving and Disaster Recovery: Streamlined processes and monitored the IT delivery to guarantee quality and auditability. Managed all testing. Show less