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Jason McNeil BEng(hons), MBCS, MAPM, CITP |
DIRECTOR AND PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT CHARTERED IT PROFESSIONAL SENIOR PROGRAMME, PROJECT, INTERIM MANAGEMENT BUSINESS/SYSTEMS ANALYSIS TECHNICAL ASSURANCE |
Director and Principal Consultant
Mosaic Consulting Associates Ltd.
- www.mosaic.co.uk
January 1997 – Present (12 years 5 months)
A Business and Technology Management Consultancy successfully delivering 'accountable' business benefits through innovation and managed change; operating in private and public sectors since 1997.
Competencies include: Interim Management, Programme/Project Management, eBusiness, eGovernment, Business Case Development, Requirements Specification, Bid/Procurement Management, Benefits Realisation Management, Change Management, Business Process Modelling (BPM)/Reengineering (BPR), Solution Implementation.
CLIENTS INCLUDE: Adobe, British Airways, BT, Compaq, KPMG, Motorola, Racal, CODA SciSys, South West Regional Assembly, Texaco, The Charity Commission, The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, University of Wales, Wandsworth Borough Council, Virgin.
Integrated Regulation Delivery Manager
The Environment Agency
November 2009 – Present
Delivery Manager at the Environment Agency on the Integrated Regulation (IR) Programme.
The IR Programme provides a range of frontline and back-office thin client services enabling full lifecycle electronic application, permitting and regulation of environmental permits for a range of environment regimes and regulated facilities.
Jason was responsible for a range of Programme functions including designing, establishing and chairing a Programme wide Change Control Process.
Jason also managed the Initiation/scoping of a major software release, including establishing key processes, procedures and controls to ensure effective programme governance and accurate planning and forecasting, e.g. Release Milestone Planning, work stream deliverable tracking and dependency management.
KEY BUSINESS SKILS: Release Management, Change Management, Supplier Management.
Consultant Bid Project Manager
Department of Health (DoH) e-Learning for
Health (e-LfH) - Adobe Systems
July 2009 – October 2009
Engagement Delivery Manager at Adobe for the Department of Health (DoH) e-Learning for Health (e-LfH) Validated Case Archive (VCA) Project.
The VCA is a Rich Internet Application (RIA), delivered using Adobe’s Flex and LiveCycle Technology, supporting the authorship, validation and publication of anonymised Radiology, Pathology, Dermatology and Ophthalmology clinical images for training and evaluation of diagnostic skills in trainee healthcare professionals.
Jason was responsible for engagement management of the joint Adobe/Computacenter proposal to DoH to secure funds for the delivery phase of the project.
SKILS: Business Development, Bid Management, Engagement Management, Project Management.
The Charity Commission for England and Wales
Government Administration industry
December 2008 – June 2009 (6 months)
Engagement Delivery Manager for the Charity Commission’s Electronic Charity Registration Project.
The Project delivered a fully adaptive dynamic and accessible user experience with full validation and workflow based on Adobe LiveCycle ES Technology.
Jason managed the full project life-cycle from inception, bid, delivery and customer acceptance into live service. KEY BUSINESS
SKILS: Business Development, Bid Management, Engagement Management, Project Management.
PACS Release Delivery Manager
BT Global Services (BT Health)
October 2008 – March 2009 (5 months)
Consultant Release Delivery Manager (Senior Portfolio Release Manager) for BT’s Picture and Communications System (PACS) Solution for the NHS Connecting for Health (CfH) London Programme for IT (LPfIT).
Promoted into role from Release Engineering Manager to direct the delivery of multiple large scale (circa £200M to 2015) clinical infrastructure change releases, directing cross organisation resources from Design, Build, Test and Service Management to ensure programme delivery to time, budget and according to corporate governance.
KEY BUSINESS SKILS: Portfolio Release Management, Large Scale Clinical Infrastructure Release Management, Customer/Supplier Management, Costs Estimation and Budget Control, Risk and Issue Management, Corporate Governance.
PACS System Engineering Release Manager
Consultant Release Engineering Manager (Senior Portfolio Project Manager), System Engineering workstream, for BT’s Picture and Communications System (PACS) Solution for the NHS’ Connecting for Health (CfH) London Programme for IT (LPfIT).
Heading up a 10 strong team of Solution Architects, Requirements Engineers, Business Analysts and a Technical Project Manager, delivering large scale Infrastructure solutions into down-stream Build, Test, Deployment and BAU Service Management functions.
The PACS solution is based on fully resilient/redundant distributed system architecture delivering clinical radiological information systems (Phillips/Sectra) and a grid-computing Petabyte central storage Solution (HP/ByCast) into London Trusts.
KEY BUSINESS SKILS: Portfolio Project Management, Large Scale System Engineering, Customer/Supplier Management, Costs Estimation and Budget Control, Risk and Issue Management.
Consultant Bid Project Manager
Responsible for managing Adobe’s commercial/technical responses to the Scottish Executive’s E-Planning Efficient Government Programme opportunities.
Duties included:
KEY BUSINESS SKILS: Business Development, Prime Contractor Management, Negotiation, Partner Development, Project Management and Business Analysis.
KEY TECHNICAL SKILLS: Technical skills employed throughout include: Functional/Non-functional Requirements Analysis, Enterprise wide technical solutioning, costing/estimating.
Planning and Regulatory Service OnLine (PARSOL) National Project Manager
Responsible for the delivery of a Programme of six Projects, to implement government funded e-enabled planning services.
The PARSOL National Project delivers the following outcomes:
Key stakeholders include Central/Regional/Local Government and professional planning bodies, e.g. ODPM, Regional Assemblies, Statutory Consultees, Local Authorities, RTPI, POS, IDeA, PAS, DSA, etc.
Senior Technical Consultant
Business skills: Business Case Development, Project Management, BPM/BPR, Supplier Management (IBM), Contract Negotiation, Change Management Technical skills employed throughout include: Multi-project Project Board Technical Assurance, Specification and subsequent management of nationwide system integration activities covering all English Local Authorities and their associated ICT vendors.
KEY TECHNOLOGIES: Application Servers, SOAP Web Services and XML Schemas, Credit Card/Debit Card Payment Engines, Government Connect (Gateway and LGOLnet) Senior Business Analyst
The Charity Commission for England and Wales
Government Administration industry
January 2004 – October 2004 ( 10 months)
Responsible for production of deliverables into the E-Business Programme, Online Services Project (OSP), including:
Identification of cost reduction opportunities in existing business processes through eBusiness Electronic Services.
Post Implementation Review of an interim pilot study into the use of e-Forms and automated Workflow for key business processes.
In support of the Office of Government Commerce (OGC) Gateway procurement review procedures, Jason authored the required Benefits Realisation Plans and related Business Case documentation required for programme board approval of the specified eBusiness Systems.
Jason, also conducted a detailed Post Implementation Review (PIR) of an interim pilot study into the use of Electronic Forms and automated Workflow for key business processes, e.g. Travel and Subsistence claims, Training Requests/Feedback, Purchase Requisition, IS Service Requests, etc. The assignment required Jason’s frequent liaison with incumbent Framework Agreement suppliers; assessing technical proposals submitted in response to the specified business/technical requirements.
KEY SKILLS: Requirements Specification, BPM, BPR, Change Management, Business Case, Benefits Modelling, OGC, OeE Gateway, Web Services, CMS, E-Business Portal, ERDMS, Call Centre Operations, CRM, PIR
Senior Software Engineer CODA Science Systems July 2003 – December 2003 (6 months)
Analysis, Design and Implementation of ‘proof of concept’ HCI Demonstrator for the Raytheon Consortia Joint Effect Tactical Targeting System (JETTS) HCI Bid.
KEY SKILLS: JAVA, Ant, Swing, XML, Sun ONE IDE, Source Safe, UML.
Project Management
University of Wales College of Medicine (UWCM)
February 2003 – July 2003 ( 6 months)
Project Management, Business/Systems Analysis, Requirements Elicitation/Capture/Specification of Business, User and Functional Requirements for the UWCM, Wales Gene Park (WGP) Website.
Responsible for Project Managing a team of Business Systems Analysts, Receiving Engineers, End-Users and Domain Experts through a study into WGP Website requirements.
The study consisted of numerous ‘requirements elicitation workshops’, i.e. executive sponsors, end users and strategic partners. The Workshop resulted in a large number of functional requirements focused around the selection, procurement and commissioning of an ‘off-the-shelf’ CMS to provide workflow, version control, personalisation, and metadata features.
KEY SKILLS: Project Management, Business Systems Analysis, Requirements Engineering, RedHat, JBuilder, ANT, OOD, OOP, Tomcat, JSP, TagLibs, Struts, JDBC, MySQL, XML, XSLT, XPath, CSS, Public Sector, UML
Senior Software Engineer TNT Newsfast November 2002 – February 2003 ( 4 months)
Development of Transport Management System (TMS) for TNT Logistics’ Newsfast business. KEY SKILLS: Java 1.3/1.4, Swing, JBuilder, ANT, OOD, OOP, Servlets, JDBC, Oracle 8i, XML, UML.
Project Management South West Regional Assembly (SWRA) September 2002 – November 2002 ( 3 months)
Project Management, Business/Systems Analysis, Requirements Elicitation/Capture/Specification of Business, User and Functional Requirements for the South West Regional Assembly ICT Enterprise.
Responsible for Project Managing a five strong team of Business Systems Analysts, Receiving Engineers and Representative End-Users, Domain Experts through a study into the SWRAs ICT requirements.
The study consisted of ‘requirements elicitation workshops’ with all project stakeholders. Each workshop resulted in a large number of functional/non-functional requirements organised into the following ICT sub-systems:
Also, the following non-functional requirements, i.e.
The findings of the study were recorded in a Requirements Specification Document detailing the 800, or so, individual atomic requirement statements. Considerable attention was given to ensuring that all Functional/Non-functional requirements could be traced back to the supporting Business Requirement/s.
The reverse traceability process ensured that the ‘stated requirement’ reflected the true scope of the solution, to be procured/development, correlated with the vision held by the executive sponsors. Conversely, the process also ensured that vital areas of the ‘business mission critical’ functionality were not inadvertently omitted.
KEY SKILLS: Project Management, Business Systems Analysis, Requirements Engineering, Public Sector.
Senior Software Engineer
Motorola
November 1999 – September 2002 (2 years 11 months)
Development of 3G Mobile Phone Network Planning Tools, delivered internationally via the Motorola’s world-wide Intranet system.
KEY SKILLS: Internet Application Systems Architecture, Business Systems Analysis, Java 1.3/1.4, Swing, JBOSS, JBuilder, ANT, OOD, OOP, J2EE, EJB, JSP, Struts, Servlets, JDBC, MySQL, XML, JAXP, XSLT, DOM, XPath, JChart, Applet, Swing, CSS, UMTS, CDMA1X, UML.
Managing Director
Mosaic Internet
September 1997 – January 2002 (4 years 5 months)
A ‘start-up’ Internet Service Provider focused on the provision of Internet Consultancy, Connectivity and Internet Application Development from their Bristol based Network Centre.
Jason was responsible the creation of a business plan to gain financial backing. The plan contained both financial and marketing projections for the next three years of trading. Also, a cost-effective upstream supplier of Internet bandwidth and leased line connectivity was sourced to provide the raw Internet data feed into the Bristol based Network Centre.
An out-sourced National Local Rate dial-up service was identified and configured into the MCL network infrastructure.
KEY SKILLS: HTTP, SMTP, POP3, DNS, FTPD, Routing, SNMP, Firewalls, PERL, Shell Scripting, UNIX System Administration (Back-up, Security Patch Application, System Log Monitoring), IIS, ActiveX, COM, ASP, VBScript, Visual Basic, SQL Server, HTML, ODBC.
Project Manager
Virgin Mobile
September 1999 – November 1999 ( 3 months)
Project Management, Business/Systems Analysis, Requirements Elicitation/Capture/Specification of Business, User and Functional Requirements, Product Selection, for the Virgin Mobile v.Web 2000 eCommerce Platform.
Responsible for Project Managing a five strong team of Business Systems Analysts, Receiving Engineers and Representative End-Users, Domain Experts through a study detailing how to best solve these technical interfacing issues through the introduction of Content Managements Systems (CMS), COTS eCommerce Platforms and Transaction Management Middleware.
Subsequently responsible for conducting a Product/Vendor selection study. The study involved researching the marketplace for a shortlist of suitable products closely meeting the ‘specified requirement’.
Project Management, Business/Systems Analysis
Texaco
July 1999 – September 1999 (3 months)
Project Management, Business/Systems Analysis, Requirements Elicitation/Capture/Specification of Business, User and Functional Requirements for the Texaco eComputex Asset Management and Maintenance Application.
Responsible for Project Managing a seven strong team of Business Systems Analysts, Receiving Engineers and Representative End-Users, Domain Experts, through a study into an ‘Online Service’ for Internationalised delivery.
The findings of the study were recorded in a Requirements Specification Document detailing the 800, or so, individual atomic requirement statements.
The Requirements Specification Document was then used to guide the design of a high level architecture system/software architecture solution based on J2EE technology.
KEY SKILLS: Project Management, Internet Application Systems Architecture, Business Systems Analysis, Requirements Engineering, UML.
Senior Software Engineer
Compaq
October 1998 – July 1999 (10 months)
Development of BT’s TrafficHawk ‘Near Real-Time’ Network Monitoring System.
KEY SKILLS: Requirements Engineering, C++, MOTIF, OOA, OOD, OOP, UML, XML, XSLT, UML.
Project Management, Business/Systems Analysis
KPMG
April 1998 – October 1998 (7 months)
Project Management, Business/Systems Analysis, Requirements Elicitation/Capture/Specification of Business, User and Functional Requirements, Implementation of KPMG’s Online Event Management System (OEMS).
The Online Event Management System (OEMS) runs over KPMG’s existing company Intranet enabling their geographically distributed Marketing departments, to share information on regionally organised Public Relations events and corporate seminars.
Jason was responsible for the Project Management, Systems Analysis, Requirement Elicitation/Capture/Specification, Architecture Design, Implementation and in-life Support.
KEY SKILLS: Internet Application Systems Architecture, Business Systems Analysis, Requirements Engineering, Microsoft's Distributed interNet Architecture (DNA) utilising MS Access, NT Server, Internet Information Server (IIS), Visual Basic, VBScript, Active Server Pages (ASP), ActiveX and HTML.
Lead Engineer
Racal-Thorn Defence
April 1997 – April 1998 (1 year 1 month)
Lead Engineer in User task analysis, prototype, architecture, design, and code software development for the Tactical Air-Traffic Control Centre (TACC) Graphical User Interface (GUI).
KEY SKILLS: Systems Architecture, Project Management, Requirements Engineering, C++, Sun Solaris UNIX, MOTIF, UML.
Senior Software Engineer
British Airways
October 1996 – April 1997 (7 months)
Human Computer Interface (HCI) analysis, user task analysis, design, prototype, code and test software for the Integrated Scheduling Information System (ISIS) Graphical User Interface (GUI).
Analysis, design, implementation and testing of ISIS application code.
KEY SKILLS: C, MOTIF, Oracle, VAX VMS.
Software Engineer
BAeSEMA
October 1993 – October 1996 (3 years 1 month)
Ptarmigan Modelling Facility (PMF) Project: HCI analysis, user task analysis, design, prototype, code and test software for the PMF GUI. Analysis, design, implementation and testing of Ptarmigan network subscriber OPNET models.
KEY SKILLS: OPNET, C, X-Windows, MOTIF, X-Designer, Sun Solaris UNIX.
Land System Reference Centre (LSRC) Project: Technical bid proposal studies for joint venture with VEGA Group Plc.
KEY SKILLS: Technical bid studies with third party Partners and Suppliers.
Landing Platform Dock Replacement (LPDR) Project: Design, coding and integration testing of HCI software.
KEY SKILLS: C, X-Windows, MOTIF, X-Designer, Sun Solaris UNIX.
Communications Systems Network Interoperability (CSNI) Project: Design, coding and integration testing of software for the Defence Satellite Communications System (DSCS), NATO IV, High Frequency Line of Sight (HFELoS) & Ultra High Frequency Line of Sight (UHFLoS) tasks of the CSNI Project.
KEY SKILLS: C, Sun Solaris UNIX.
- Mosaic Consulting Associates
- Environment Agency
- Adobe Systems (Europe)
- BT Global Services (BT Health)
- The Department for Communities and Local Government (CLG)
- Wandsworth Borough Council
- The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) Planning Portal
- The Charity Commission for England and Wales
- CODA Science Systems
- University of Wales College of Medicine (UWCM)
- TNT Newsfast
- South West Regional Assembly (SWRA)
- Motorola
- Mosaic Internet
- Virgin Mobile
- Texaco
- Compaq
- KPMG
- Racal-Thorn Defence
- British Airways
- BAeSEMA
Jason is awarded Chartered IT Professional (CITP) status by the British Computer Society (BCS)" - May 2009
Jason delivers Online Charity Registration solution, based on Adobe Technology, to the Charity Commission for England and Wales” - April 2009
Jason delivers £200M NHS PACS/RIS Solution for BT Global Services (Health)" - March 2009