Sarah Patel has worked in operational, programme and project roles in a variety of sectors over the last 25 years including local authority education, higher education, financial services and now in a Senior Project Lead Delivery role within a data science arm of the UK Health Security Agency.
Sarah has been involved in transformation and change programmes impacting institutions numbering up to 300,000-plus employees and involved in migrating to new system and application software as well as managing service delivery because of those migrations.
Sarah's earliest career role was as a secondary school teacher of economics, business studies, and IT.
Sarah is also a keen volunteer supporting her local community through local authority engagement work with FACT Bucks Parent Carer Forum and is professionally interested in mobilising higher quality and robust data analytics and its application and improving process.