Daniel Foster
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Summary
Project manager with 9 years delivering software and operational change programmes on time and on budget.
Experienced in Agile and Scrum delivery, risk management, roadmap planning, budget control, and keeping stakeholders aligned through complex launches.
Experience
Senior Project Manager
Beacon Digital | London, UK | March 2021 - Present
- Lead delivery of a customer portal programme across 4 Scrum teams and a 1.4M GBP budget.
- Improved on-time delivery from 68% to 89% by tightening sprint planning, dependency tracking, and risk reviews.
- Maintained a risk register and mitigation plan that prevented 3 critical launch delays.
- Ran roadmap and budget reviews with executives, keeping the programme within 2% of forecast spend.
- Coordinate engineering, design, QA, and support across fortnightly releases and launch readiness checks.
Project Manager
Crestline Retail | Leeds, UK | May 2017 - February 2021
- Managed an ecommerce replatforming project across 6 vendors and 5 internal teams.
- Delivered the migration with zero checkout downtime over a phased 9-week cutover.
- Introduced a Scrum cadence and Jira boards that improved sprint predictability by 22%.
- Tracked budget, scope, and timeline in weekly steering reports for senior stakeholders.
Project Coordinator
Avian Telecom | Birmingham, UK | September 2014 - April 2017
- Coordinated network upgrade projects across 30 regional sites and multiple contractors.
- Maintained schedules, RAID logs, and status reports for a portfolio of 12 concurrent projects.
- Reduced overdue actions by 41% by introducing a weekly tracking and escalation routine.
- Supported go-live planning with checklists, training, and post-launch hypercare reporting.
Skills
Delivery
Agile, Scrum, Kanban, Roadmap planning, Launch readiness
Control
Risk management, Budget control, Scope management, RAID logs
Leadership
Stakeholder management, Steering reports, Dependency tracking, Escalation
Tools
Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Asana, Smartsheet
Education
- MBA, Warwick Business School
- BSc Information Systems, University of Bath