Key Acheivements

PRODUCT DELIVERY DIRECTOR: Deloitte Digital

October 2022 – Present

●  Working with Public Sector Clients to deliver Digital Services, and support Business Transformation.

●  Developing and leading Public Sector Product Training Courses for clients.

●  Supporting development of the Public Sector Product Practice within Deloitte Digital; developing the Career pathway and training material to ensure consistency across the practice.

Public Sector Consultancy Lead: Kainos

June 2021 – October 2022

●  Leading a team of 70+ kainos staff to deliver digital Transformation and delivery leadership coaching for a large government Department.

●  Securing a £150k contract with a new client; to provide business transformation consultancy experience to a government agency to help them identify their pain points and develop their vision, workforce strategy and delivery roadmap. 

●  Leading drive for improvements to recruitment of candidates from Diverse backgrounds. Part of the Xpression (LGBT+) and Neurodiversity ERG working groups.

●  Part of Kainos Education outreach team. AWS Get IT ambassador. 

DIRECTOR of DELIVERY: Difrent

October 2019 – June 2021

●  Managed multi-million client contracts to ensure the delivery of outcomes within a timely fashion

●  Lead the delivery of large scale complex digital services across multiple client contracts to millions of users using agile methodology

●  Landing multiple teams into the NHSSBA and NHSX to lead on COVID-19 work within 72 hours

● Turned a new client around from failing to passing their GDS Beta Assessment within 3 weeks.

● Successfully leading multiple services to pass their Assessments; with everything from Discovery > Alpha > Beta > Live.

● Supported the delivery of the Home Testing Service, working with NHSX to deliver a nationally rolled out service in under 6 weeks.

DEPUTY DIRECTOR – Head of Product & Delivery: Care Quality Commission

 June 2018 – October 2019

●  Successfully led the delivery of both the Register with CQC’ and the ‘Give Feedback on Care’ Products into Beta.

● Working with the Head of Architecture to agree on outcomes and develop the roadmap for the new Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system. Working with the Programme to develop the vision, scope and process map to help develop the new business case for the CRM system.

● Led the cultural and governance change needed to enable agile delivery. Setting up and growing the new Product and Digital Delivery function within CQC.

DEPUTY DIRECTOR – Head of Product & Design:  DWP Digital Group

Apr 2015 – Jun 2018

● Established the Product Design directorate; bringing together over 350 staff; including product owners, business analysts, researchers & Designers. Managing a 4M pound budget nationally across 5 programmes of work.

● Led the cross government work to develop the Product Management community. Developed the Product Management Foundation training course and DDaT Capability framework now used across government; as well as Supporting Scottish Gov to develop their own Product Management community and development of the Practitioner course.

● Led on embedding user-centric design into all Programmes, prioritising digital projects and highlighting risks to the Executive team.

● Led the Digital Health portfolio; delivering the transformation agenda fro DWP Health and Disability digtial services. Developing the vision and scope, working with policy and operation teams to set priorities, establishing the strategy and Target Operating Model for DWP Health and Disability Services

● Development of the Health and Disability programme roadmap, working with NHS Digital and stakeholders across DWP Operations to agree on areas for investment.

● Led on the delivery of innovative products and services, including the DS1500 digital service to better support terminally ill claimants, integrating with the NHS spine, the “Access to Work service” and the “Send your Fit Note Service

● Achieved £1m+ savings in the first year, with 1.4m+ users annually, 10+ days reduction in customer journey time within 6 months, including 3-minute online completion, and 80% reduction in avoidable calls for the ‘Apply for a Budgeting Loan Service’

● Held operational accountability for end to end transformation of service design, back end processes, and customer journeys; including client-facing paper, telephony and digital access channels

● Stopped development of the “Funeral Payments online service” due to a lack of user needs, identifying that better value for money and user satisfaction could be achieved by improving an existing telephony line.


SENIOR PRODUCT OWNER: DWP Identity Team

Mar 2014 – Apr 2015

● Re-engaged by DWP to lead agile delivery teams, plan and prioritise delivery estimates, develop user stories and Epics, identify, analyse and monitor risks, and escalate issues relating to the strategic design or delivery

● Led multidisciplinary teams to test the introduction of Gov.Verify into DWP; to support the roll out of Universal Credit.

● Working across departments to understand risks, constraints and timescales for Verify role out.


TRANSFORMATION LEAD: Government Digital Services

Sep 2012 – Mar 2014

● Seconded to liaise between GDS and Office for Public Guardian (OPG) digital transformation teams to ensure effective delivery of the digital Programme and resultant cultural and organisational changes

● Developed Target Operating Model, establishing future-proofing of organisation’s vision and standards

● Worked with multidisciplinary teams to help design and develop the Lasting Power of Attorney service, and their Case Management system Sirius  

My Qualifications and Skills:

Qualifications:

  • APMG Agile Project Management Foundation & Practitioner
  • APMG Principles of Change Management 
  • GDS Service Manager training
  • GDS Lead Assessor training
  • GDS Product Management training  

Skills:

A track record of delivery: ● Delivering Products and Services that meet users needs, designing for vulnerable users and ensuring Products are accessible, in line with Digital Design Standards. ● Using data to drive improvements in performance deliverables to deliver the right outcomes for users ● Managing full life-cycle agile projects from inception & Discovery into Live & post Live continuous improvement

Leading and implementing Digital Transformation: ● Collating & analysing data, user needs & business requirements to scope, plan & evaluate complex projects & programmes to aid prioritisation at the organisational level. ● Skilled in reviewing processes to identify transformation opportunities based on user and business needs ● Experience of developing innovative strategies and visions based on user needs ● Evaluating potential system and process developments to mitigate risk and maximise ROI.

Blending agile and waterfall delivery: ● Developing roadmaps for programmes bringing together agile and waterfall work streams to identify commonality and dependencies and timescales, especially when working with commercial suppliers. ● Leading multidisciplinary teams within projects and programmes, working with senior leaders and stakeholders to scope and deliver work that delivers value agnostic of the delivery methodology.

Empowering myself and others ● Experienced in the leadership and management of diverse, multi-skilled and cross-functional teams nationally ● Challenging hierarchy and governance to ensure teams are empowered to deliver, removing blockers & issues ● Mentoring, coaching, working in the open to show good leadership, sharing best practices and opportunities to learn ● Skilled in influencing others, developing relationships with stakeholders and internal/external users to ensure alignment. ● Liaising between operational, policy, strategy, financial and customer facing business areas and project teams to agree outcomes and ensure successful delivery.