Patrick Marchington

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

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ABOUT PATRICK MARCHINGTON

Extensive experience in all aspects of project delivery including but not limited to the below: Project Management o Management of delivery plans to ensure projects are on track, working in cross functional teams to align priorities and road maps to achieve targets and objectives. o Ability to adapt to unexpected changes to the project both internally and externally, proactively organising and rallying the team to move towards positive outcomes in adverse situations. o Owned and maintained RAAIDD logs, managing risks with external stakeholders and taking appropriate action where necessary. o Organised and methodical approach to stakeholder management, adapting approach utilising both informal and organising regular forums to effectively communicate change, applying RAG statuses and giving visibility of project progress to senior stakeholders (Heads of departments and COO).o Experience in impact analysis, tracking and supporting operational readiness; planning and delivering effective training for seamless deliveries. o Completing and managing governance milestones to ensure all due diligence is completed ahead of go live and required sign offs are obtainedo Post production implementation monitoring, ensuring post go live any incidents that are raised are handled appropriately and collecting MI to allow project to effectively tack KPIs. Business Analysto Experience in working within agile and waterfall teams to support and develop business cases, road maps and scope of deliverables. o Utilised problem-solving skills to fully understand root issues and help define effective solutions. Presenting a range of options, assessing and reporting benefits and limitations to each. o Employed a customer eccentric, data driven approach to define project priorities and personal work load. Working with relevant stake holders to elicit and document requirements in the form of user stories. o Effective management of backlogs holding refinement and pointing sessions, utilising Kanban to effectively manage team workload and identify and resolve bottlenecks and blockers. o Supported in defining and validating test scenarios and acceptance criteria for both PRE and PROD test environments. o Analysed user feedback to ensure continuous improvement and define ways novel ways to improve complex problems. o Ability to communicate both with IT and Business colleagues, where necessary facilitating conversations between the two areas to allow a shared understanding of issues and solutions.