Mark Sard
Senior Project Manager at Munich Re
Waterlooville, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolMark Sard is a Senior Project Manager with over 8 years' experience leading complex change and transformation programmes across insurance and financial services, routinely managing portfolios up to £50m using PRINCE2 methodologies. He combines programme delivery, process re-engineering and organisational development with strong corporate communications skills—able to translate board-level strategy into shop-floor action and training. Mark has driven ERP and finance/HR transformations at Lloyd’s and led delivery roles at Convex, Chaucer and Munich Re, demonstrating consistent stakeholder leadership in regulated environments. He pairs business analysis and taxonomy/metadata expertise with hands-on vendor, budget and risk management to de-risk large-scale change. Unusually for a programme lead, he also contributes to embedded systems open-source work (keyboard firmware adaptations), reflecting a pragmatic, technical curiosity that informs his approach to tooling and user experience. Trained as an MA in Learning in Organisations and a licensed NLP Master Business Practitioner, he designs learning and “train‑the‑trainer” interventions to embed sustainable change.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MA Learning in Organisations, MA Learning in Organisations at University of Brighton
Github Skills (12)
c1710
firmware10
avr10
keyboard-layout10
qmk10
cpp10
atmel10
c1110
cplus10
qmk-firmware10
atmel-studio10
git4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
qmk/qmk_firmware
Jul 2018 - Sep 2020
Open-source keyboard firmware for Atmel AVR and Arm USB families
Role in this project:
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT Developer
Embedded Systems Engineer / IoT DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 24 commits, 24 PRs in 2 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Mark contributed to the development of a keymap for the Helix keyboard, specifically adapting it for Japanese JIS layout. The work involved refactoring existing code and supporting the display of an exchange layer, which suggests a focus on optimizing the keyboard's firmware for usability and supporting different keyboard layouts. The user's commits demonstrate a good understanding of embedded systems and keyboard firmware.
rp2040firmwareavratmelkeyboard-support
marksard/re-drevo-calibur-v2-te
Sep 2021 - May 2022
Contributions:8 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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