Rebecca Wright

Leader within a large scale digital transformation programme, hybrid predictive and agile environment, managing risks, issues & changes through the full project lifecycle into completion.   Steering & maintaining programme team focus on strategic priorities, creating momentum and measuring success.  An adaptable servant leader that brings forward logical, no fuss proposals that are easy to understand and transferable.

EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE

Full cycle Project Management, supplier relationship management, Early Life Support lead, First Occurrence planning, Release Management, Product bug process implementation and resolution, Commercial contract negotiation, tender and renewal process, Legal Due diligence lead, Employment contracts, Contractor agreements in line with ir35 guidelines.

Current Employer: Manchester Metropolitan University

Current post: Programme Management Office Lead, Student Journey Transformation Programme

Previous position: Senior Project Manager, Project Analyst

The development of a new student management system, which captures information from point of enquiry. The Programme aims to deliver a self-service student led application streamlining and improving the student journey, replacing multiple solutions with one system focusing on a customer-centric approach; Removing duplication from processes, improving data quality and in turn promoting cultural change and efficiencies. 

• 2022

Programme Management - Responsible for Programme plan for a multi-million pounds Programme, management of key deliverables in order to satisfy milestones. Managing delivery of builds from multiple teams using a hybrid of predictive and agile methodology.

Led and tactically executed three projects this year: 

*Cloud migration project *Curriculum API *Placements system.

• 2020 - 2021 

Project Management - End to end project delivery for the Integration of a cloud document management product supplied by a supplier called Digitary. This would provide all students with an electronic copy of their final award and transcript upon graduation.

Tasks: Contract negotiation, introduction, activities and resource matching, timeline planning and action delegation and follow up. Design documentation, Integration Requirement Documentation, Technical Design Authority, System Integration prep and testing, User Acceptance testing staff and student, Deployment from test environment to live.

Early Life Support lead – proposed and agreed a standardised ELS format for the Programme and lead on this activity for multiple project deployments. Comprehensive document inclusive of First occurrence document and resource requirement overview taking into account preparatory tasks.

Release Management lead – review, Impact assessment, implementation through to deployment lifecycle management.  New Programme process design into implementation using DevOps adding increased visibility to the business and other stakeholders showing a change lifecycle.

Bugs process implementation and reporting – setting up a Programme wide process to track and monitor bugs produced from the Student Management system, tracking progress, resolution timeline and testing outputs etc.  This process takes in to account Business as Usual (Admissions and Curriculum) and Product build, which will take the remaining product live to the entirety of the Business at the final stage known as GoLive4. The output of bugs resolution, then testing of that resolution will determine if the product is considered stable enough for Go Live.

Agile PM Foundation & Practitioner certified June 2022

Recent training refreshers completed: 

Project Manager fundamentals May 2022.

Agile project Management introduction May 2022.

Agile project management foundation May 2022.

PMI agile certified practitioner May 2022.

Agile PM project management practitioner June 2022

LEADERSHIP ROLES: Programme Management Office Lead, Senior Project Manager, Facilities/Office Manager, Team manager, Reception Manager.