2015 AGM/Elections/Statements

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This page contains the statements of the candidates for the board of Wikimedia UK. Please submit questions for the candidates on the 2015 AGM/Elections/Questions.

Neil Andrew Babbage

I'm standing for election as I am willing to help address the identified skills gap of software/technology project management. Starting in IT in 1989 I have spent most of my career working either in IT itself or in related fields, such as business programme management. I've spent time as an IT auditor responsible for overseeing large scale project delivery.

For the last 10 years I've been an IT director for a large financial services company. A particular feature of my job has been the delivery of many successful major technology programmes of different types. These have included multi-year programmes, some with as many as 10 overlapping projects, with highly complex deliverables. Within these programmes there has been the full range of solutions from in-house developed applications to package installations, large platform to platform conversions and even application service provider implementations. I've delivered or overseen the delivery of back office mainframe platforms through to mobile and web based solutions. I've used many different project methodologies and I've seen the good and the bad way to deliver projects. As well as financial services my industry experience includes web start-ups, retail and hospitality

I have an MSc in Computing for Commerce and Industry and an ISEB certification in managing IT projects. With all of this experience of first delivering IT projects, then programmes of projects and finally overseeing the delivery of projects I think I can effectively close Wikimedia UK’s identified skills gap.

I am a committed Wikimedian having first edited some nine years ago and still going strong with 50K+ edits across the projects, mainly the English Wikipedia and Wikibooks.

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