Experience

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  House of Commons

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Director of Information Management

    • May 2009 - Mar 2019
    • London, United Kingdom

    Responsible for Indexing & Data Management, Curator's Office, SPIRE Benefits Team, and Library Resources Sections, SRO for Core Parliamentary Information Management and Information Services Programmes, Project Executive for the Meridio Replacement Project, responsible for the Information Management Directorate of Department of Information Services

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  House of Commons

  • Programme Manager, Web & Intranet Programme

    • Jul 2007 - Dec 2008

    Programme Manager for a programme to redesign and rebuild Parliament's Website for the public and internal Intranet and build capacity and applications to sustain these sites in the longer term.

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  House of Commons Library

  • Director of Service Delivery & Development

    • Dec 2004 - Jul 2007

    Responsible for Reference Services, Education Service, Commons Information Office, Client Relations teams of the Library. Member of Group on Information for the Public.

  • Business Architect, Change Project

    • Mar 2003 - Nov 2004

    Responsible for the process modelling (as is/to be) of all aspects of the Library’s business, developing and implementing proposals for change arising from the project.

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  House of Commons Library

  • Head of Information Services Secttion

    • 1995 - 2003

    Responsible for the Library’s IT/IS services, including service delivery to MPs and staff, managing a team of 16 staff. In that role I delivered a range of Library/corporate IT projects, chaired Parliament's IT/IS managers group, and was a member of the Commons IT Strategy Board.

  • POLIS Project Manager

    • 1992 - 1995

    Project manager for the POLIS3 project (POLIS was Parliament's information retrieval system for procedural & research content). I was responsible for drawing up the requirements, managing the procurement and implementation, and contract and service management. I managed the implementation of the first generation of the Parliamentary Network within the Library, alongside Parliament's central IT team.

  • Systems Analyst

    • 1990 - 1992

    General systems analysis for IT projects, project manager for the a new stock management system and an e-pos system for the new Parliamentary Bookshop, and member of the planning team managing the Library’s move into 1 Derby Gate.

  • EO/HEO, Statistical Section

    • Dec 1983 - Mar 1990

    Responsible for IT, providing statistical & resources support, and answering enquiries on selected subjects

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  St Thomas Hosptial

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Statistical Assistant

    • Sep 1983 - Dec 1983
    • London, United Kingdom

    Carried out statistical analysis as part of a team based in the medical school