
Alan Jones
Head of Enterprise, Operations and Services
I lead the delivery of the operations, products and services provided by COSMIC (Catalogue Of Somatic Mutations In Cancer) to the global oncology research community. As part of COSMIC's leadership team I am on the Sanger Institute's COSMIC Governance Board, to provide oversight, strategy and direction to COSMIC.
I have been successfully leading and delivering operational, project and programme teams for over 20 years. I am passionate about empowering and helping people and teams to be the best they can be to deliver amazing outcomes.
My timeline
Head of Enterprise, Operations and Products in COSMIC, Sanger Institute
Awarded Certified Scrum Master by The Scrum Alliance
Implemented Scrum software development in COSMIC, Sanger Institute
Senior Project Manager in COSMIC, Sanger Institute
Awarded Project Management Qualification (PMQ) from the Association for Project Management (APM)
Delivered whole-institute risk management review and improvement project
Awarded Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) Practitioner
Delivered re-designed website to the Sanger Institute.
Delivered new "X-Ten" DNA sequencing fleet to enable increased performance, yield, capacity and decreased costs and turn-around-times for the Institute
Project Manager in the Programme Management Office (PMO), Sanger Institute
Awarded PRINCE 2 Foundation
Global Robotics Programme Manager, responsible for global £10M programme to supply, deliver and install robotic broadcast systems for Vitec plc
Programme Manager, responsible for global £10M build and supply programme of automated cell culture platforms for supply to the life sciences industry at TAP Biosystems
Technical Support Engineer at The Automation Partnership (TAP) Biosystems