Assigned ownership of in-flight Consumer Duty project which was determined by the business to be their top priority project in the portfolio. Reported to COO / CRO. Key contributions and success:• Moved the project into delivery to enable work to commence promptly• Identified cash releasing benefits which far exceeded the project’s cost.• Project delivered successfully and the business was deemed to be substantively compliant by deadline• Project spend >£1M and peaking at ~100 assigned staff.

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Reporting to the operational sponsor within a multi-year multi-million pound data governance investment. Built and managed relationships with business decision makers, technology and risk stakeholders. Contributed to re-planning the investment and substantial savings.

Financial Services / Regulatory Change

Consultancy and knowledge transfer

• Managed engagement activities across the sales and implementation lifecycle • Point of contact / escalation for senior stakeholders• Supported customer migrations of data to cloud based repositories• Generated knowledge and messaging used throughout the business• Led and delivered engagements to stakeholder groups (CISO / IG practitioners)

Building upon existing safeguards, I successfully led and managed the scoping and delivery of 40+ individual activities to achieve those controls required by GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. All activities completed to schedule, budget and the customer's specification.

Accountable for the delivery of several projects and change initiatives. These ranged from relatively routine activities to preparing RfPs for estate-wide transformations. I worked alongside and maintained relationships with a range of business stakeholders and third parties. A principal aspect of my role involved working directly with IT engagement managers to ensure that technical deliverables and resource plans can meet the requirements of the business. Significant involvement with the bank's preparations for GDPR.

RWE npower, Leeds, West Yorkshire Project Manager – Multi-million pound infrastructure transformation• Project manager for infrastructure upgrade within one of the country's largest utility companies• Quickly implemented process which added value and accelerated delivery• Delivered significant pieces of work on specification and on budget with up to 10 direct reports• Provided consultant level input to £14M investment paper ensuring board level sponsorship• Owned and managed the resolution of key programme issues• Developed and maintained decisive relationships in the business ensuring operational business units continued to function smoothly throughout migration activities• Provided quality assurance and oversight of major suppliers and their services • Consistently able to translate the strategy and requirements of senior leadership and the business into delivery

Project Manager – Finance and Accounting Shared Services Implementation 2011 - 2012• Project manager for £40 million shared service initiative for 15 separate organisations• Instated project management controls and corrective action• Managed the delivery of professional services worth £80-100K / month• Re-positioned stakeholders with new and better information• Developed a suite of governance products which reduced risk and improved value for the customer• Instated controls to better manage the supplier and their delivery• Routinely communicated at board level to effect policy changes and influence decision making• Created detailed options appraisals to guide stakeholders through decision making

Project manager for enterprise desktop refresh for 1200 end uses across 5 sites. Conceived the project and wrote the business justification to secure funding (£1 million) for an estate-wide upgrade to Windows 7. Accelerated delivery through the implementation of processes including a full application packaging and release life-cycle and end-to-end defect management. Managed 6 project team members.• Delivered a fully automated ‘at desk on demand’ migration experience for end users.• Project managed migration of live services from legacy facilities to new data centres• Quest Archive Manager– project managed implementation of email archiving solution • Messaging and collaboration uplift – NHSmail implementation successfully delivered • Novell ZenWorks – project manager for refresh of customer’s Infrastructure Management tool-set• HP Quality Center implementation – managed the implementation of HP Quality Center• Project managed the development and delivery of document management solution • Authored and secured approval for business cases valued at £6 million

• Responsible for numerous design and implementation activities including; a patch management solution, application virtualization and a number of security based initiatives• Developed and instated testing mechanisms used within the department• Contributed at consultant level to several ITTs and enterprise procurements (up to £1mil)

Solely responsible for onsite WinTel Systems SupportDesigned and deployed a standard Windows XP SP2 Desktop Build

Part of a small team supporting 50K+ mailboxes in a Microsoft Exchange EnvironmentEnhanced the Service Desk's fix rate by documenting and devolving fixesAchieved numerous customer plaudits within the company plaudit schemeEmployed in a post of extraordinary trust and sensitivity

A member of a four person team supporting one thousand users in a highly controlled finance environmentWorked as an enabler within the business supporting projects and implementations PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS, COURSES & SKILLS

Within a desktop infrastructure upgrade programme I worked in a small team tasked with porting applications from legacy operating systems to Windows NT 4.0.