Tom Shooter
Qualifications Services Director @Pearson
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WORK HISTORY
Qualifications Services Director @Pearson
London, GB
Responsible for a multi-disciplinary team of 100+ technology professionals with budgets of circa £20million+ across a range of technology services in support of the high-profile process of high stakes qualification delivery. Led re-organisation of team to meet challenging business goals under new leadership, including moving legacy on-premise systems to managed data centres and cloud services with high availability DR capability to reduce significant risk to business delivery within one year. Initiated modernisation and transformation strategy with 5-year re-architecture roadmap in line with industry best practice to provide secure, stable and configurable services suitable for changing education market. Responsible for producing multi-million pound business cases for product development and long term investment programmes underpinning transformation goals. Leading on implementation of significantly enhanced security capabilities, including multi factor authentication in line with close regulatory scrutiny.
EDUCATION
Bournemouth University
Master of Arts (M.A.), Digital Media Practice
University of Oxford
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE)
Birkbeck, University of London
Continuing Education Certificate, Web Design Technologies
SKILLS
ABOUT TOM SHOOTER
Experienced technology leader, working in a wide variety of senior roles at the forefront of transformation and organisational optimisation in high pressure scenarios. Instrumental in the delivery of a series of flagship and business critical technology projects in a commercial environment. A highly developed strategic outlook with a comprehensive understanding of a range of project management and software delivery methodologies, providing inspirational leadership across a variety of multi-disciplinary on-shore and off-shore teams. Confident communicator of complex issues to a range of different audiences including technical and non-technical executive stakeholders. Excellent problem solver and disruptive thinker who works effectively in the pressurised environments of high profile, time and budget-dependent delivery programmes.
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