Successfully revitalised an understaffed, under-utilised portfolio delivery team in the Academic Portfolio Office. Increased the use of change management in project delivery. Facilitator for the Scrum aster Community of Practice.

Responsibilities include: Supplying support, advice and guidance to programme and project managers* Collating and reporting project status to senior management * Providing standards, methodologies and a set of PM tools * Promoting project management within the organisation * Providing estimating, scheduling and risk management expertise to PMs * Coordinating plans between projects and monitoring resource use * Implementing and operating a project information system * Quality monitoring and enforcement of standards * Developing competencies of personnel, including training and mentoring for project managers * Recording, analysing and disseminating lessons learned * Monitoring and reviewing PMO performance and its effect on project delivery

Defining robust performance measurement criteria, developing and imbedding project management toolkit, facilitating development of effective CRM system, project managing the implementation of innovative sectoral engagement mapping mechanisms, co-ordinating consultative business planning processes, management data collection, analysis and reporting

Editing of abstracts and technical analysis of patents to create records for inclusion in a database searchable by subscribers.

Managed editorial production teams across a spectrum of technical fields to achieve timeliness and productivity targets.Member of change team tasked with delivering operational and cultural change project to break down silo working and implement ‘one person, one document’ production process.• Improved efficiency by 15% in own team and improved morale• Managed projects related to process improvement, culture change and enhancing employee engagement.• Increased documents processed weekly by 5%, and improved morale in a depleted team of technical experts, by tackling issues regarding training and recruitment using a positive leadership style. Persuasive stakeholder management resulted in trainees completing their training in 6 months rather than 9, and a new approach to recruitment filled 4 long term vacancies.

Technical analysis of pharmaceutical patents to create records for inclusion in a subscription database (DWPI)• Identified potential benefits of formal quality assessment and presented convincing business case for change to departmental manager, who authorised trial of proposed new system.• Led cross functional team to introduce consistent quality assessment across organisation. As result of recommendations made by the team to the Board, a dedicated quality control department was set up.