A proven contractor who brings his broad experience and consultancy knowledge across engagement leadership, programme, portfolio & project controllership, programme management, project management, stakeholder management, business change, risk mitigation, and vendor management to all new roles.Excels at leading both IT and Business Change delivery teams, and in leading and operating on major IT/Vendor package enabled business transformation programmes.Primary focus is now on delivering transformation initiatives to the Insurance sector (Life and Non-Life) covering Claims and U/W PAS transformation implementations and deliveries; including the London Market.Strong capacity to manage high volume project delivery portfolios to aggressive delivery schedules and is comfortably managing £25M+ budgets. Skilled in establishing portfolio management governance, and reporting processes. Highly adept at programme assurance providing tangible improvement recommendations. Articulate communicator, and trusted mentor, coach and facilitator, who can fluently speak the language of both people and technology. Appropriately blends knowledge, details and interpersonal skills when leading and building teams, and interacting with different audiences from CIOs down to an individual team member. Maintains ongoing client relationships to support business development. Trained historically in the scaled agile framework (SAFe) and has held previous SC clearances.Highlights of Expertise• Full Life Cycle Project Management• Agile, Waterfall & Hybrid Methodologies• IT & Vendor Package Enabled Business Transformation (Claims, PAS, Core Banking)• ERP & Finance Reporting Transformation• Digital Portfolio Management• Programme Assurance• Vendor & Supplier Management • Financial Services - Banking and Insurance• Business Change• Business Analysis and Process Design• Business Process Management & Workflow• Application Migration & Consolidation• M&A / Divestiture programmes• Guidewire ClaimCenter, PolicyCenter & IPLM• Verisk Sequel Claims & Eclipse, Genius, IRIS, Cascade