David Cook

Product Owner Ba Delivery Manager in Digital Engineering @EY

London, GB

Working in the Digital Engineering teams:1. Current: Projects in insurance tech - delivery management / agile coaching / BA work.2. Project at Genomics England: As a Product Manager I led a team of 12 developers and QAs, delivering a back-end platform that serves two front end applications being developed by adjacent teams. These front-end applications form part of the NHS’s Genomic Medicine Service and are used by NHS clinical scientists to diagnose cancer and rare disease cases. Project at Kaplan: As a Business Analyst, I helped deliver the discovery phase of a programme to streamline Kaplan’s core business - which is supporting international students to find university places in the UK or US - through the implementation of a new CRM solution and through the creation of a bespoke new web app. I was responsible for creating a backlog of functional and non-functional requirements, based on running workshops with senior stakeholders, mapping requirements to business processes, and factoring in insights from over 100 user research interviews.4. Business development: Contributed to and helped coordinate the writing and editing of 12 proposals and bids, including several which resulted in EY winning projects.5. Providing coaching, mentoring and “counselling” (EY equivalent of line management) to more junior members of staff.6. Internal knowledge sharing: I have given talks on Agile in Multiple Teams, and Planning With OKRs, and I have helped set up and run the Product & Delivery Management Community Of Practice.7. Self-study: Using time between projects, I have completed approximately 25 hours of e-learning on each of the following “EY badge” topics: Artificial Intelligence, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Solutions Architecture, Cloud (AWS), Inspiring (Leadership), Management Essentials and Intelligent Automation. I am currently working on the Data Science is an FTE role, not a contract.