Daren Scott

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ABOUT DAREN SCOTT

Over 30 years experience in the IT Industry, Highly motivated Technical Delivery Lead/Development Manager with extensive offshore management experience who consistently delivers value to large mission critical government and industry projects, including productivity, cost and scale improvements via enterprise integration design and management within Agile and Waterfall approaches. Cultivates top technical talent delivering award winning industry leading solutions via multi-location teams onshore and offshore with year on year growth. Creates a high ROI of team knowledge and expertise as a result of zero team turn-over. Proven ability to negotiate and project manage complex IT project scope, costing, design, implementation and delivery across the media management, police, space and defence, oil and gas, pharmaceutical, local authorities, and more recently foreign exchange and financial services- Successful PM leading a team of 40 for a replacement Foreign Currency ordering and management system in the North American region (£3m+)- Improved development processes and architecture vision for Camden Council whilst seamlessly continuing activities when permanent Head of Development and Solution Architect left the organisation- Built and led development team from inception to live for a new Global Wholesale and Partner Foreign Currency exchange system for one of the leading global ForEx companies- Redesigned and managed offshore development (India) of a major new multi-tenanted product (Mio), winning major product innovation award at IBC conference- Successfully designed and delivered major footmark management system for various police force (FSS), 20% under budget and with no significant outstanding issues- Initiated, designed, and influenced stakeholders for a new Scene of Crime Module enabling potential significant revenue increases- Raised ISO9001 Quality Management Standards scoring from 60% to 95% within 2 years at Northgate Socrates Team