Simon TaylorPersonal Details:

Address Flat 4 Maybury Rough, Woking, Surrey, GU22 8AF, UK

Contact Mobile +44(0) 7506 700 878 Email: simon.j.taylor@me.com

Head of Agile, experienced Product Owner, Relationship Manager & Certified Scrum Master with many years SCRUM experience and 4+ years of SCRUM Master & PO experience. Working towards fully implementing AGILE and SCRUM within HSBC and implementing and maintaining best practices, policies, procedures & governance. Successfully implemented SCRUM across BAU and project teams whilst also successfully rolling out and ‘Scaling’ of SCRUM programme wide across globally dispersed teams. Heavily involved with release scheduling, management and quality control due to governance and training of the Delivery/Implementation management team.

A successful global dev team lead experienced in ETL, database design/development and Microgen Aptitude & Accounting Hub, with a successful background within banking, financial services, infrastructure services, supply chain management, transport systems, HR and commercial & corporate sectors. Commercially aware, with a broad range of project experience having worked for world-class organizations such as Newedge (Société Générale), HSBC, Standard Chartered, Network Rail & Oracle.

Combining a wealth of experience with over 5 1/2 years of experience as a Microgen consultant working with the MAH/Aptitude ETL and Accounting systems/platform, reference data/data standardization, general ledger/sub ledger analysis and development. Also with extensive (10+ years) Oracle/MS SQL Server experience, including well-developed Unix, Excel, VBA, Access and both technical and data analysis skills.

Hands-on approach to successful project management & leadership, engaging with key stakeholders and third parties, delivering cost appropriate IT solutions and business process change via technology solutions; achieved through self-management, undertaking of the workload personally - or by taking a lead/management role - and controlling a team of both onshore and offshore human resources, whilst being able to manage up and down the chain.

Experience of business change management, business transformation, IT service transition, IT strategies, technology roadmaps, multi-functional team leadership, offshore resources, IT development, project delivery,IT upgrades & systems integration, delivering added business value through the adoption of new technologies.

Career to DateApr 2014 - Current PRODUCT OWNER & RELATIONSHIP MANAGER: HSBC, London, UK

Head of Agile/Product Owner/Relationship Manger – Project, programme & capacity management Oversight and ownership of the SPARC product as a whole Controlling the release cycles and contents of work delivered, therefore responsible for the overall

success of the product Collating and presenting MI per sprint/release for stakeholders to show success rates and to highlight

current/previous issues and areas of improvement Apply lessons learnt from previous incarnations, and ensure that scrum masters are handling the

distribution of requirements, work and enforcing process controls correctly Set the release/sprint goals Coordinate with internal and external stakeholders in regards to release cycle and incremental product

launch dates in order to develop an effective product roadmap Collaborate between external and internal stakeholders as well as the global development team to

ensure overall success of delivery and agree contents of work and timelines if roadmap alterations are required

Implementation, documentation and enforcement of overall Agile Framework with SPARC. Making continuous updates and improvements to said process to ensure greatest efficiency.

Roll out framework and training to stakeholders so that process is followed & adhered to and thus is fully understood on a global scale, ensuring smooth delivery

Scrum Master/ Global Dev Team Lead – Team/People, planning, project and programme management Management support, skills training & guidance, review & development work; On and off shore Parallel management of 5 - 8 teams (on average 50+ people globally) Global team development/guidance, integration, training and improvement Implementing, maintaining and improving process and procedure Prioritization of work items, work load, scheduling of work and release timelines

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Simon Taylor Production support & issue management/resolution Process and best practices design, development and management Data modelling/architectural design and development for; reference/trade/valuation/transactional data

ETL, plus sub ledger and reporting data layers. Development & performance review/updates utilising unix, SQL – PL/SQL and Microgen Aptitude ETL Defect management and resolution

Sep 2013 to Apr 2014 ETL/ORACLE DEV TEAM LEAD: Soc-Gen/Newedge, London, UK Management support, skills training & guidance, review & development of work; On and off shore Analysis, design and development of ETL process for EOD and real-time financial repository systems. Global team lead and developer for on-boarding of MUREX data. Production support and issue resolution. Cross team/time zone support and communication for successful delivery of integrated and standalone

projects. Effective integration with business and senior management in order to fully realise requirements and

timeframe for accurate, successful and on-time delivery. Performance updates and tuning within new or existing code utilising both SQL & PL/SQL techniques. Championing delivery of real-time MUREX feed into central financial repository.

Mar 2011 to Sep 2013 DEV TEAM LEAD/SCRUM MASTER: Microgen @ HSBC, London, UK Analysis, design and development of sub ledger process and extracts/reports utilising SQL-PL/SQL plus

trade standardisation/enrichment/validation ETL code utilising Microgen Aptitude and PL/SQL. Analysis/design/development and/or recommendations for strategic, technical and/or functional

approaches for required resolutions to new and existing problems/requirements. Data and business analysis of existing issues and/or new requirements regarding reference data and

sub-ledger. Data modelling/architectural design and development for; reference/trade/valuation/transactional data

ETL, plus sub ledger and reporting data layers. Performance updates within new/existing code utilising both SQL – PL/SQL and Microgen Aptitude

tuning techniques. Taking a local and global lead position within technical aspects of projects, whilst also involved on a

wider basis with overall programme development. Achieved by taking an active role in managing process flow & making recommendations to senior management, by aiding project/programme management and taking an active role in employee advancement, knowledge transfer & training.

Leadership, management and motivation of both onshore and offshore human resources. Championed the delivery of merging forked production systems into a common code base and updating

of production code release process flow.

Jun 2010 to Mar 2011 SENIOR DEVLEOPER: Microgen @ UK MAIL, Birmingham, UK Client-facing role, liaising with client management functions and managing top-level client relationships. Dual roles of project manager and senior developer. Test management and maintenance of code progression through testing lifecycle. Release management. Systems migration management. Systems maintenance management and also hands on maintenance. Training and development of client personnel. ETL and MS SQL Server architectural and systems design and development.

Sep 2009 to Mar 2010 DEV TEAM LEAD: Microgen @ Standard Chartered First Bank, South Korea Client-facing role, liaising with client management functions and managing top-level client relationships. ETL & Oracle PL/SQL development, data modelling/architectural design and development for;

reference/trade/valuation/transactional data ETL, plus sub ledger and reporting data layers. SQL - PL/SQL performance turning. Undertook a technical liaison - within senior management meetings – and a relationship management

position during the project lifespan; this is as it was just as important to plan and undertake the work as it was to keep the lines of communication open internally and externally to the project for the benefit of the Client and the Consulting firm (Microgen).

Documentation and requirements gathering and creation for data requirements, DDL, project release management/cycles and environment version control.

Apache/Tomcat and vendor software rebuilds/install on UNIX/Solaris boxes.2

Simon Taylor Database maintenance plus environment builds/rebuilds.

Mar 2008 to Sep 2009 Senior Consultant: Microgen @ Network Rail, London, UK Ownership of a separate project (TODS) to the main body of work (Track-Access-Billing-System), which

was a feeder project into the main work for the client, without which, the main project would not have received the data required from sub-systems in order to go live.

Business Analysis. Database design and development. Project management. Microgen Aptitude and Oracle PL/SQL ETL development, plus Oracle Warehouse Builder development. Infrastructure configuration and maintenance. Code release/deployment and release management. Systems/database maintenance and administration.

Education & Qualifications:Academic Institution QualificationStafford University BSc Information Systems

HND Internet Technology

Key Skills, Training & Technical Capabilities:AGILE/SCRUM Experienced and Certified Project ManagementBusiness Change & Delivery Management Programme ManagementIT Departmental Leadership and Management Microgen AptitudeIT Strategy, Definition, Implementation & Execution MAH (Microgen Accounting Hub)IT Best Practice Methods and Frameworks Oracle 8i/9i/10g/11g, MS SQL Server 2000/2008IT Networks and Technology Oracle Coherence(basic), MY SQL, MS AccessIT Security Policies, Processes and Protocols SQL, PL/SQL, VBA, XML, HTML, UNIX(flavours)Third Parties, Stakeholders, Vendors and Suppliers TOAD, crystal reports, jasper reportsBusiness Architecture, Infrastructure & Applications Control-M / UC4 (Automation ONE)Business Intelligence (BI) Solutions Select Case toolsOutsourcing and Offshoring Initiatives Data Warehousing and Systems ArchitectureManagement Information Systems MS ProjectTechnology Evaluation, Review and Selection Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint,SharepointDisaster Recovery (DR) and Business Continuity

Personal Details & Additional Information:Interests includeMountain Biking, Rugby, Football, Martial Arts, Climbing, Music, Social events & Travelling

Flexible on location for the right opportunity

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