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I'm a pragmatic, solutions oriented software delivery professional and business transformation facilitator. Passionate about agile and lean thinking and methods, delivering business value and increasing transparency across the project portfolio. My bag of tools draws on roles delivering projects and programmes in a variety of sectors and with many of the major frameworks (Prince2, PMI and SCRUM)....

I'm a pragmatic, solutions oriented software delivery professional and business transformation facilitator. Passionate about agile and lean thinking and methods, delivering business value and increasing transparency across the project portfolio. My bag of tools draws on roles delivering projects and programmes in a variety of sectors and with many of the major frameworks (Prince2, PMI and SCRUM). I have a history of engaging and influencing senior management, leading large international teams and managing outsourced suppliers from tender to delivery. Able to grasp new technologies and circumstances by drawing on a technical, development background and experience on a wide variety of technology environments and projects.Product Development Manager @ I have two major responsibilities: - ensuring our people, teams and department have the skills, frameworks and culture that lead to sustainable, successful and innovative product development - consulting on specific products to support delivery of key strategic initiatives In practice, this means any given day might see me doing a wide variety of things: helping develop a strategy for B2C acquisitions, recommending and implementing improvements to our analytics, facilitating workshops to prioritise delivery pipelines, working with potential suppliers to acquire new IT components or helping product owners lean out their backlog items to deliver quick changes and feedback. From September 2014 to Present (1 year 3 months) London, United KingdomAgile coach & Dev Manager @ Working on an agile transformation at BMJ, changing the way we create products and engineer software. As a passionate believer in agile and lean thinking and methods, I've been providing internal consultancy filling a variety of roles: directly acting as a Scrum Master; coaching scrum teams and business stakeholders; setting up new tools (JIRA); implementing new frameworks and promoting new thinking in the business processes that interact with our engineering functions. From November 2013 to September 2014 (11 months) London, United KingdomSenior Project Manager @ Joining as a Senior PM, I took responsibility for a portfolio of projects, principle of which was the greenfield development of an integrated back office management and online application system for a post-graduate online education business. This involved acting as the scrum master for an agile team just beginning to adopt the method, ultimately supporting that team in achieving a cadence of regular production releases. From May 2013 to November 2013 (7 months) London, United KingdomProgramme Office Manager @ Key Responsibilities • To manage all aspects of the project management function as it delivers the portfolio of digital publishing projects. Line management of project management team, matrix management of internal resources in EMEA and US, development of concepts and budgets with business stakeholders and management of all supplier relationships (capex budget c.£2M) Key Achievements • Developed and drove adoption of new tools for portfolio scheduling, resource planning and management reporting • Actively increased focus on risk and change management, resulting in improved senior management awareness and better control of spend • Played a significant role in supporting departmental strategy to pursue independence by empowering project teams to re-design documentation and bring knowledge back in-house, reducing our dependence on suppliers • Championed Agile approaches and a greater focus on the user experience through direct coaching of the PM team and knowledge sharing with peers in other business units From February 2012 to May 2013 (1 year 4 months) Andover, UKSenior Project Manager @ Key Responsibilities • Managing multiple, concurrent projects to create digital publishing products using web technologies (e.g. Java, Lucene, XML) Accountable for managing budgets of up to £700K and teams of 5-10 internal staff and 3-6 out-sourced, offshore suppliers. Responsible for leading teams to define requirements and tasks, monitoring and driving progress, removing impediments and ensuring risks are managed. • Project lifecycle encompasses: content digitisation; data structure design and creation; software UI design (using contextual design principles),agile development and test (JIRA, CI via Jenkins, SVN); software and data integration; release management. Key Achievements • Designed and lead process to tender, evaluate and contract with new suppliers for several key services • Played a leading role in developing and documenting the internal project management methodology, taking aspects of good practise from Prince and PMBOK • Rapidly absorbed and utilised knowledge of new technologies and specific implementations within the organisation, quickly making a productive contribution to the business From January 2011 to February 2012 (1 year 2 months) Project Manager @ Key Responsibilities • Project management of 30+, co-located staff delivering data centre infrastructure and solutions as part of a £50M+ technology transformation programme, with individual project budgets between £1m and £5m. Responsible for facilitating workshops to define requirements and tasks, reporting internally and to clients at director level, management of risks and issues, planning and optimization of resources and budgets • Projects managed included: implementing VMWare, CISCO/Juniper Remote Access System, IBM and Symantec virtual tape library backup and a Lotus Notes email archiving solution; re-platforming Oracle and Wintel applications; building a bespoke disaster recovery solution utilising HP Radia Key Achievements • Improved working relationship with a lead supplier to resolve a critical project issue saving £250K • Lead an effort to rationalise and reprioritise the risks and issues, resulting in greatly improved focus on those which were project-affecting • Brought cost forecasting and reporting under control on an inherited and over-budget project, enabling most efficient use of resources and lowest cost-to-complete From June 2008 to January 2011 (2 years 8 months) Stage Manager @ Key Responsibilities • Managing multiple desktop infrastructure and software projects with values to £75K and durations of 3-9 months. Responsibilities included: requirements definition; cost estimation and control; planning and negotiation for matrix-managed resources; negotiating schedules with suppliers and managing delivery against these; risk identification and management Key Achievements • Proactively pursued several initiatives to improve team processes, including refinement of metrics and introduction of a new diary system From July 2007 to June 2008 (1 year) Snowboard instructor @ Teaching snowboarding to students from complete beginners to riders seeking to improve specific skills. Required quick thought for rapidly constructing lesson plans on the fly and confident presentation to groups. From December 2006 to April 2007 (5 months) Network Operations Centre Administrator @ From May 2006 to December 2006 (8 months) Business/Systems Analyst @ Key Responsibilities • Authored requirements and recommended approach documents, designed system testing stages and provided consultancy support to business areas for user acceptance testing • Sole analyst for a project to deliver an XML-based, B2B Pensions and Bonds query system, using a Javascript and HTML PST, Java BST, interfacing with a legacy mainframe through IBM MQSI Key Achievements • Formed excellent relationships with senior business stakeholders, becoming their preferred point of contact within the development team • Successfully planned and executed a medium-sized system test, managing a 3-strong team From August 2003 to August 2004 (1 year 1 month) Developer @ Key Responsibilities • Responsible for the creation, documentation, testing and deployment of software code in Java and Cobol, employing XML as a data exchange medium, interfacing with legacy systems, including DB2 and IMS databases, using IBM MQSI hubs Key Achievements • Made an effective contribution to trouble-shooting early on, finding debugging especially rewarding for its problem-solving aspects • High standards achieved from joining combined with excellent interpersonal and organisational skills, lead to selection for a management training course at Cambridge University • Developed a tool for dynamic re-estimating and tracking on the complex Euro preparation project used by 10-member team, leading to increased accuracy of management reporting From October 2001 to August 2003 (1 year 11 months) Master of Arts degree, Television and Video Production @ Bournemouth University From 2000 to 2001 Bachelor of Arts degree (with distinction), Communication @ Edinburgh Napier University From 1997 to 2000 Queen Mary's College Scott Hogan is skilled in: PRINCE2, Project Management, Project Planning, Scrum, ITIL, Team Leadership, Project Delivery, MS Project, Agile Project Management, SharePoint, Stakeholder Management, Software Project..., Program Management, Business Analysis, VMware, XML, Risk Management, Citrix, Win 2003, Data Center, Visio, JIRA, Lucene, Workshop Facilitation, Coaching, Java, Matrix Management, Offshore Outsourcing, Digital Media..., Lean Software..., Kanban, Agile Methodolgy, Business Transformation, Change Management, Agile Methodologies, Outsourcing, User Acceptance Testing, Requirements Analysis