Muslim Aid UK

•	Overseeing and driving the growth of the UK corporate donor portfolio, ensuring the development of strategic, long-term partnerships.
•	Leading the creation and execution of innovative fundraising campaigns, leveraging CSR collaborations and digital platforms to diversify income streams.
•	Implementing and managing a CRM system tailored for corporate donors, enhancing relationship management and data-driven decision-making.
•	Collaborating with cross-functional teams to craft compelling content and marketing strategies that amplify Muslim Aid’s impact and corporate appeal.

Corporate Partnerships Manager

Capture Minds (CIC)

Initiated in 2020, Capture Minds embarked on a profound mission to alleviate the cycle of poverty within the UK, with a primary focus on the Hounslow Borough. Our drive for positive change propels us forward as we craft innovative education/training programmes intended to support the futures of young people in Hounslow Borough all aimed at empowering Gen-Z and Millennials through a blend of creativity, originality, and cultural resonance.

• Fostered and managed enduring relationships with key stakeholders, including schools, community groups, and local authorities, offering strategies to enhance engagement with the young people in Hounslow Borough

• Supported the launch of a filmmaking initiative aimed at backing underprivileged creatives aged 18-25 in London, aiding their journey into the media industry with a focus on creating purpose-led original content such as docu-series, shows, podcasts, and branded narratives.

• Introduced community programs offering youth mentoring and educational support classes, alongside pathways in media, advertising, fashion, entrepreneurship, and sports through our weekly interactive workshops, fostering a climate of responsibility and creative leadership.

• Enhanced fundraising capabilities to ensure the sustenance of our long-term projects, while cultivating community-driven solutions to address the numerous adversities faced by vulnerable youth in our neighborhoods, incrementally advancing towards our overarching aim of youth empowerment and poverty mitigation.

Co-Founder 

Ealing Council (London Borough of Ealing)

Strengthened connections with residents in Ealing borough by incorporating their perspectives into decision-making and fostering co-collaboration with the council on service improvements.

• Led estate pop-up campaigns that not only improved resident satisfaction by 45% but also enhanced cross-departmental collaboration, laying the groundwork for effective community partnerships.

• Formed and facilitated collaboration with 3 new resident associations and over 17 existing ones, significantly boosting community engagement—a critical foundation for my transition into managing corporate donor relations.

• Amplified the Resident Engagement Team's social media presence, resulting in a 25% increase in online engagement.

• Revitalised direct mail communication, leading to increased resident engagement and sign-ups, a testament to my ability to craft compelling narratives that resonate.

Strategic Engagement Officer

London Borough of Hounslow

• Led diverse forums including tenants, leaseholders, and residents, fostering a collaborative dialogue for improved housing services.
• Orchestrated community-centric campaigns, drawing insights from residents' feedback to shape strategy, enhancing service delivery and satisfaction.
• Facilitated training and developmental opportunities for community members eager to engage in community and housing services, nurturing an empowered resident base.
• Monitored and analysed social media engagement, leveraging insights to optimise campaign strategies and foster a strong community rapport.

Corporate Community Engagement Officer

Ferrovial

Site supervised the renewal of the bravo taxiway of the southern runway at Heathrow Airport and ensuring project was delivered below budget and on time.

•	Using Microsoft Excel to track critical pathway activities and compiling reports for the q6 Heathrow Airfields project team.
•	Automating repetitive payroll/manhour tasks for project costs (labour, materials and subcontractors) using Python.
•	Carried out relevant inspections and testing of materials to ensure conformance of works during my time as a site engineer.

Graduate Civil Engineer (Summer Placement)

Jackson Civil Engineering

Worked as part of the team on the slip off road lane extension project at South Mimms (Junction 25) on the M25 in collaboration with Highways England
•	Developed site diary’s, trial hole registers and material requisitions while adhering to health & safety on site at all times 
•	Carrying out relevant inspections and testing to ensure conformance of the works and understanding basic take-offs.
•	Maintaining and enhancing my progression as an engineer with my continuous personal development (CPD plan) for the ICE as well as my quarterly progress report for my mentor

Site Engineer (Undergraduate Placement Year)

Unite Students

•	Providing a welcoming front of house reception service to ensure the customers always feel at home as I was Free to act on my own initiative using my natural enthusiasm to provide the best service to customers.
•	Providing a decisive and effective response to customer complaints and disputes; escalating where necessary and with the appropriate support and guidance.

Front Of House Manager

I Journey Through Brand Stories

I'm a Community Weaver—a path I’m carving out myself, driven by a passion for cultivating meaningful connections. From grassroots youth work to strategic partnerships, I’m all about shaping communities that thrive.

👷‍♂️ Transitioned from a Civil Engineer to a Social Fabric Engineer, I’m now diving into the realm of corporate fundraising. Here, I bridge the gap between corporate donors and impactful charitable causes, ensuring that every partnership fosters genuine community growth.

🌟 At the intersection of stakeholder engagement, corporate partnerships, and public involvement, I’m crafting narratives where every voice is heard and valued. My vision? To enhance the community feel of brands, non-profits, and local government, both in the real world and online.

🚀 Through my role as Co-founder of Capture Minds, I continue to hone these skills by fostering spaces where education breaks barriers and ignites change. I’m all about building vibrant communities and questioning the invisible structures that hold us back.

🔨 Whether it’s amplifying the pulse of a neighbourhood or steering a brand’s digital presence, I’m there, laying the bricks for cultures rooted in authenticity and engagement. Now I bring this same energy to building impactful relationships with corporate donors.

🤎 Passionate advocate for BAME communities, I staunchly believe in representation and equal opportunities.

🔍 Sharing my journey, insights, and the fascinating interplay of marketing, creativity, and impact on LinkedIn. I’m all about brands that narrate tales that captivate!

💬 Let’s connect, collaborate, and redefine the essence of community together. Join me on this unique journey to a future where community curator isn’t just my role, but a shared mission.

Adnan Ali

Smart DCC

Guiding national initiatives to link homes and businesses through a unified and secure smart metering system, empowering consumers to make informed choices about their energy use, thereby advancing Britain’s Net-Zero goal and safeguarding our environment.

Program Director

Reporting to the Programme Delivery Director to manage the Order management and Logistics  transformation programme on a £1.8bn initiative to rollout smart energy meters on a dedicated National Cyber Security Centre (GCHQ) approved network to connect homes and business to drive UKs net-zero targets.

Programme Consultant

Guy's and St Thomas'​ NHS Foundation Trust

Reporting to the Director of Technology Services to manage a team of 30 PPM professionals delivering a Portfolio of £100m+ high profile digital and organisational change programmes, including:
- Southeast London Patient Centric Supply Chain – Working across 3 acute trusts to establish inventory management system to improve collaboration and efficiencies in medical supplies using DevOps delivery method.
- Strategic Network Modernisation programme to transform Trusts core and community IT network.
- Care Innovation Programme to develop new and enhanced clinical applications delivered using agile process.
- Datacentre and Telephony refresh programme to upgrade Trust Telephony and Datacentre capabilities.
Cloud Services and End User Technology programme migrating services to the cloud while providing our clinicians with technologies to better care for our patients.
- Estates Development providing IT fit out into new locations, wards & COVID-19 Vaccination centres.
Key Achievements:
• Successful completion of 2 onsite datacentres with disaster recovery capability to maintain critical patient services.
• Delivery of numerous services into the cloud including Office 365 and Clinical systems.
• Overseen the delivery of numerous tactical COVID-19 response including building new COVID-19 wards and vaccination centres. Rolling out collaboration tools to support remote working for safety and wellbeing of staff and patients.
• Securing investments for several digital transformation Programmes such as Network Modernisation & Windows Evergreen.

Head of Programmes

Monitor

Costing Transformation Programme. A 5-year strategic initiative setup to improve the quality of costing information in the NHS with a budget of £5.7m and team delivery team of 26. The aim is to deliver a digital and analytics platform providing visual reporting and analysis to identify efficiencies and support providers to deliver better service for all users of the NHS.

Programme Manager - Costing Transformation Programme

Thomson Reuters

Financial & Risk Division is responsible for company’s flagship transactions products deployed in financial institutions across the globe generating revenue in excess of $3.2bn. 

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS:
• Trade surveillance & compliance financial reporting system for trading & transactions systems. £2.5m multi-phased programme of work with dispersed global team of 16 to ensure all trading and transactions systems conform to global financial regulation.
• Datacenter migration of transactions services, leading to service improvements through improved resiliency & ease of management bringing cost savings of £2m a year. 
• Leading a team of 32 people across 3 regions for delivery of state of the art low latency networking & load balancer solution across 6 datacenters. Enabling capacity to introduce product enhancements and to rollout Matching and Dealing to new markets achieving revenue growth of £5m a year.

Portfolio Manager (Financial and Risks)

Collaboration Services is responsible for Thomson Reuters Messenger, an instant messaging and real-time collaboration product suite designed for the financial markets. Led a team of 3 project managers to deliver a large portfolio of programmes and projects with distributed teams across the globe.

• Awarded Thomson Reuters great service award for delivery of Eikon programme.

Project Management Lead - Collaboration Services

Managed a global team responsible for service delivery for a number of high profile transactions products achieving annual revenue of over £12m. This included Reuters Electronic Trading - Automated Dealing is a strategic solution that enables banks to offer their corporate and institutional customers the ability to trade directly with them over the internet and leverage on the full benefits of Straight through processing.

• Awarded Thomson Reuters great service award for implementation of the Disaster recovery programme.

Global Implementation and Support Manager (Transactions)

A leader with a successful history of delivering strategic digital and business transformation. Managing portfolio of projects and programmes with total value exceeding £100m. Possessing proven expertise for translating complex visions into tangible business plans to deliver change in highly regulated financial, health and energy sector.

My core competencies include business case development, procurement and third-party supplier management, stakeholder management up to executive level, technical knowledge of platforms and networks, service design, readiness and transition into BAU, financial management of CAPEX and OPEX, project and programme office (PMO) setup, cloud readiness assessment and migration, portfolio roadmap, prioritisation, and reporting, team development, mentoring and PDR, big data, BI and data warehousing systems, agile, DevOps and waterfall delivery, and driving uptake of new capabilities and processes. I hold certifications in PMP, Prince2, and ITIL, and have a well-established expertise in translating intricate visions into concrete business cases, comprehensive roadmaps, and meticulous plans to drive transformative change. My mission is to enable organizations to achieve their strategic goals and deliver value for their customers and stakeholders through innovative and sustainable solutions.

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