Lloyds Banking Group

Engineering Lead• Present

Leading engineers in a workplace digital lab - focused on building a high performing engineering team in the development of strategic projects using best in clast cloud tools and modern web technology.

Lloyds Banking Group

Full Stack Software Engineer• Oct 2018 – 2022

Developing web solutions for the Insurance Division's agile Digital Lab, primarily using JavaScript, ReactJS & NodeJS. Currently part of a major programme of work improving journeys for our Workplace Pension customers.

Programme Manager• Mar 2017 – Sep 2018

Responsibility for a team of business and IT project managers delivering multiple concurrent change projects for our Corporate Pensions & Retirement Account proposition. I am responsible for ensuring that customer focus is paramount within workstream delivery and that time, budget and quality standards are met. I serve across Insurance brands but primarily Scottish Widows and SWWP.

Senior Project Manager• Mar 2016 – Mar 2017

Leading a team of business and IT project managers in the delivery of insurance change projects across multiple business units and products (Lloyds/Halifax/Bank of Scotland, Clerical Medical & Scottish Widow brands). Multiple concurrent projects ranked up to and including Gold (+3m). I assist with managing interdependencies within our portfolio and serve as a point of support/best practice and escalation for risks/issues. I lead on a range of continuous improvement activities within the division/BU and serve as a process auditor on behalf of the Group. I am also responsible for scoping, planning and managing change projects through the project delivery lifecycle. I ensure that time, budget and quality standards are met.

Lead Project Manager• Nov 2013 – Mar 2016

Delivery of insurance change projects across multiple business units and products (Lloyds/Halifax/Bank of Scotland, Clerical Medical & Scottish Widow brands). Multiple concurrent projects ranked Silver/Bronze (up to £3m). I am also responsible for scoping, planning and managing my own change projects through the project delivery lifecycle. I ensure that time, budget and quality standards are met. I also lead on a range of continuous improvement activities within the division/BU and serve as an agile ambassador within the Division.

Microsoft - Windows and Windows Live International - Lionbridge

Global Project Manager• Oct 2011 – Nov 2013

Working with a leading provider of translation, development and testing solutions. We enable the creation, test and maintainance of technology applications and web content globally. Based in Dun Laoghaire and then more recently working remotely from Edinburgh, I hold a Project Management role. The focus of my work has been servicing a number of high profile Microsoft programs but particularly the Windows Operating System. Our team co-ordinate translators and software engineers in local and international offices (e.g. Mumbai, Beijing and Slovakia) in the localisation of core software and web services into over a hundred major and long tail languages.

Irish Non Profit Knowledge Exchange (INKEx)

Project Manager• Sep 2010 – Oct 2011

Irish Nonprofits Knowledge Exchange (INKEx) was an independent, nonprofit technology project working to build a comprehensive, live database (MS SQL) to present Irish non-profit organisations to the web. As the Project Manager, I provide an important leadership role in the development of a new web based service (Irishnonprofits.ie) and a comprehensive data services infrastructure for and about public benefit entities in Ireland. Along with providing technical/business analysis, quality assurance (including test management and execution) and leadership within the full development life cycle - I am responsible for engaging with the community, funders and stakeholders.