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