Sarah Cannon

• Led a Process Improvement Working Group for PMO and Engineering
• Tailored Airbus Processes, designed for manufacturing, to be more appropriate for the scale and complexity of the Airbus D&S GBUK business.
• Working with the wider Quality Management team helped prepare the local teams for ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 audits by providing awareness of Airbus processes and their application into product and project activities.
• Designed and developed a PI/Sprint Report tool to improve status reporting from Engineering to Project and Business Managers
• Analysed data and information to identify issues and create tailored solutions.

• Provided guidance and support to PMO team to ensure that appropriate Project Management processes and quality gates were followed.
• Responsible for the delivery of small consultancy projects, ensuring on time, on quality, on cost delivery and customer satisfaction.
• Support bid activity through the preparation of delivery cost estimates, schedules and risk analysis
• Provided a centralised service for Temporary Workers and sub-contractors ensuring timely engagement, that work packages are in place, in-situ guidelines are followed and that both the teams and the workers have a good working relationship
• Prepared detailed reports timely to aid strategic planning.
• Fielded calls and resolved general queries to limit disruption to senior team members.
• Enhanced office efficiency by streamlining administrative procedures.
• Managed multiple tasks to meet strict deadlines.

9 month sabbatical. Due to world wide events, plans to travel were cancelled. Instead, I took the opportunity to volunteer with Fareshare as a Warehouse and Driver Assistant.

• Developed a centralised resourcing process, to ensure that the Airbus D&S Geospatial Business UK units were allocated the required technical resources to deliver their projects within an agreed timescale.
• Developed a skills matrix to support the work with Technical Team Managers to ensure that their teams were fully utilised and that any holes in the skillset were identified. A strategy for continual improvement was devised.
• Responsible for managing the procurement process for software development services for the Newcastle office including establishing and maintaining the relationship with outsource partners and overseeing the publication of RFP’s and evaluation of the responses.
• Responsible for facilitating recruitment activity across Airbus D&S Geospatial Business UK. Liaising with internal HR and recruitment agencies to ensure that CV's are supplied, reviewed and feedback is provided in a timely manner. Scheduling and supporting interviews as required and checking Right to Work documents.
• Worked with Airbus HR and Recruitment agencies to understand the implications of the revised IR35 rules on the Temporary Workers within Airbus D&S Geospatial Business UK and to implement any changes.
• Organised and led two Innovation events where employees across the business were invited to come together to share and explore new ideas for ways to develop the offerings portfolio. Teams developed ideas into business proposals for presentation to, and feedback from, influential people across the business.

• Project Manager responsible for the delivery of a range of mobile data and back office solutions to approx. 10 UK Fire and Rescue Services.
• Product Manager for a Hydrant Asset Management System responsible for planning and delivering a roadmap strategy in line with the needs of key stakeholders.
• Pre-bid Project Mangement Support for National Fire Contract.
• As the primary trainer, developed and delivered training courses for solutions developed for the UK Fire and Rescue Services.
• Consultancy for a Water Company for the provision of a Field Information System (GIS and Works Management)

• Bid Support
• Software Development
• Management and co-ordination of the Y2K testing programme for all products.