Curriculum Vitae
Professional Summary
ConnectAccomplished Strategy Planning Manager with a proven track record in telecommunications, currently leading strategic initiatives at Community Fibre. Successful in accelerating the build program to pass 1 million homes, I specialize in data-driven decision-making, financial modeling, and innovative tool development. Noteworthy achievements include creating sophisticated data models to optimize builds and ensure adherence to finance budgets.
I have a history of developing automation tools, including a pre-planning/prospecting tool, reducing inefficiencies and wasted resources. In my prior role as MDU Insight Manager at Virgin Media, I created and led a team, developed bespoke workflow and reporting systems, and played a key role in strategic planning.
Experience
Responsible for the creation of data models and tools to predict costs and build types, and identification of new MDU & SDU build areas and have enabled acceleration of the Community Fibre build program to deliver 1 million homes passed, this includes:
- Managed work on short-term opportunities while organising long-term strategic planning.
- Creation of data driven strategic build plans to support board level sign off and future financial investment.
- Build cost data modelling to enable build to adhere to finance budgets to within 1% for 2023
- Openreach PIA data modelling to predict connection types for all premises (E.g. Pole/Underground fed) PIA modelling enabled build to be targeted to meet available processes and partner resource levels
- Created a pre-planning/prospecting tool to automatically create high level plans, fibre capacity requirements and costs for a selected area, contributing to a more efficient plan and build process, reducing wasted work/resource in the end-to-end process
- Identification of new build areas for MDU and SDU work streams using the above tools.
- Trained partners (both onshore and offshore) in the pre-planning tool using their resource to increase output
Within network expansion, I was responsible for MDU opportunity creation. As part of this I identified the need to create and train a team, develop bespoke reporting & systems to enable delivery of builds always strive to improve processes, this includes;
- Mentored and developed 4 direct reports upskilling existing members of staff into a new team and role
- Spatial MDU opportunity modelling to identify potential opportunities, including predicted build costs based on building location, surrounding buildings and civils routing using road networks
- Detailed MDU market analysis to enable commercial business cases
- End-to-End reporting tools for complex processes spanning multiple teams & systems
- A bespoke CRM/Workflow tool that enables;
- Strategic account/wayleave creation from land registry data
- Central build opportunity identification & storing
- Real-time feedback of wayleave & opportunity statuses
- Plan & Build reporting integration to enable effective account management
- Strategic planning build sequencing, considering geographic location, volume and attractiveness modifiers to automatically generate a national multi-year roll-out plan
CarPriceExpert is a new & used car price tracking website with daily price tracking, having tracked over 10 million car adverts since 2020. Created out of my passion for cars and a keen eye for future collectibles, the site aims to empower buyers with comprehensive price insights and trends.
- Full stack solution design and implementation
- PostgreSQL Database design
- Automated data collection with Python
- Statistical models
- Back end design
- Front end design