Experience

NHS Digital

• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 700 & Above Employee

• more to follow....

  • Sep 2015 - Present

• Head of London PACS Programme

  • Mar 2014 - Sep 2015

  • Managed the exit of all London trusts from the BT PACS contract onto replacement contracts• Managed the largest data migration exercise in Europe from a Data centre; consisting of 1.3 PB over 2 data centres and approx. 2.4 bn images.

• Head of London Exit Programme

  • Nov 2012 - Mar 2014

  • Created the Exit approach for the trusts in London• Modelled complex financial and commercial scenarios • Acted as SME and single point of contact for Exit and Transition in London,



NHS Connecting for Health

• United Kingdom
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 700 & Above Employee

• Programme and Exit Manager

  • Jul 2008 - Nov 2012

  • Managed the delivery of the PACS(Picture Archiving and Communications System) programme in London, • Successfully delivered data and image sharing capability into London and connected 29 Acute Trusts to the London Central Data Store for archiving (Medical Image Archive)• Devised the exit strategy for all trusts from the data centre and the BT contract

• Senior Release Manager

  • Dec 2007 - Jun 2008

  Successfully managed and deployed multiple releases of PACS into NHS trusts into the Southern and North West and West Midlands areas, including specialist compression software into both cluster areas.

• Senior Project Manager

  • May 2006 - Dec 2007

  • Managed a team of 6 resources, to introduce standardised working practices in ‘User Acceptance Testing’ methodology across all 5 NPfIT cluster (local) teams. The key challenge was to overcome the “hostility” and “reluctance to change” at the local level by the managers. • Connected all cluster teams to a Central repository to promote intra team working and sharing of lessons learned• Managed budget for resources against the plan



Accenture

• Ireland
• Business Consulting and Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Project Manager

  • Jun 2003 - May 2006

  I held a variety of positions on numerous project assignments during my time with Accenture:eg.Project Test Manager - Lloyds TSB Registrars Project Manager - NPFiT, NHS local Data Migration Test Manager - NPFiT, Liquid Logic SAP ApplicationTeam Lead – NPFiT, Synergy Application I held a variety of positions on numerous project assignments during my time with Accenture:eg.Project Test Manager - Lloyds TSB Registrars Project Manager - NPFiT, NHS local Data Migration Test Manager - NPFiT, Liquid Logic SAP ApplicationTeam Lead – NPFiT, Synergy Application



Logica

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

• Team Lead

  • Jan 2001 - Mar 2003



West Midlands Taverns / Bass Taverns

• General Manager & Operations Manager

  • 1991 - 1998

  Established and successfully developed new ‘Flagship’ Bar & Restaurant operation in Birmingham, from conception, into a high volume business with turnover in excess of £1.5m pa.Grew the business in Leeds increasing turnover by 20%; Pioneered the ‘Al-Fresco’ wining & dining concept for Leeds City Council.Appointed as ‘Trouble Shooter’ for the company.Wrote company handbooks on ‘Operational Procedures’ and ‘Standards of Performance for staff’ and implemented NVQ system for staff training and development.Key activities included: business management of operations- P&L accounts, budget forecasting, planning & staff scheduling, risk assessments, ensuring compliance with statutory rules & regulations, recruiting & training of up to 60 staff and managers, developed new business threads and revenue by running large scale internal & external corporate catering events.