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Hampshire, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for the successful programme management of CityFibre's end-to-end Full Fibre Network rollouts in the South of England, playing a key role within the CityFibre senior leadership team. Leading matrixed regional teams in identifying, prioritising, escalating, and resolving delivery and performance constraints to support strategic business and commercial objectives.Key Responsibilities: - Leading the coordination of a portfolio of projects and their associated dependencies, ensuring effective scheduling, appropriate resource allocation, timely delivery milestones, and alignment with strategic business priorities to achieve optimal benefits realisation.- Conducting detailed investigations into key performance indicators (KPIs) to identify current and future opportunities and risks, with a specific focus on executive and board-level reporting.- Acting as a bridge between the business and technology, ensuring system requirements and designs remain aligned with business needs.- Maintaining financial oversight through budget tracking, forecasting, project evaluation, and monitoring to support the realisation of business benefits.- Actively supporting the implementation of Continuous Improvement methodology, process standardisation, and the enhancement of process efficiency and effectiveness, all while promoting effective governance.Accountable leader playing a crucial role facilitating successful programme management, improving project outcomes, and strengthening business operations, to result in significant benefits for CityFibre.

Responsible for informing, tracking, and working with Regional Portfolio Managers to identify, on-board and manage a range of Business strategic programmes and projects to support Customer and Company commitments across the United Kingdom. Accountable for objective insight and analytics of key measures and metrics, with regular reporting on progress, risks, issues and opportunities at executive and board level. Additionally, focused on maturing the Business Reporting and Governance within the central PMO function increasing efficiency and effectiveness of processes and procedures to support Continuous improvement.Achievements- Solution proposed and adopted for Company Regional Portfolio Management EOY report, with successful implementation and roll out.- Implemented Regional Analytic reporting across key measures from multiple data sources. This enabled the effective visualisation of data from LAG indicators to enable trends analysis, with additional functionality built to incorporate future modelling (LEAD indicator) of outputs based on performance.- Guided immediate team to interpret and understand the value around technical aspects of the Communications transmission solutions proposed and highlighted dependencies to meeting overall company and customer objectives.- Proposed and successfully rolled out a Governance gate in line with Business KPI’s to ensure transparency and understanding by the business of risk and opportunities at a key phase of City Full Fibre rollout. Solution proposed utilised systems to reduce the time required by key project team members to support, in turn enabling the ability to collate and analyse data to report and present on trends.

Portsmouth, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading the project management of several Full Fibre Network rollout in Southeast cities in the United Kingdom. Accountable for the control and management of the project with transparent and accurate reporting of the overall status and performance of the city projects. Key focus areas included progress, risks and issues to senior internal stakeholders throughout the project’s critical stages of mobilisation, delivery and closure, maximising opportunities to exceed the business Key Performance Indicators including time, cost and quality.Achievements- Recruited and built a team of 4 junior project managers to manage the day-to-day aspects of Projects, whilst managing a matrix team supporting the delivery of projects across the Southeast with a total a combined project value of over £100m.- Efficiently identified activities to realign the build mobilisation plan, enabling a rapid, yet thorough, city mobilisation of build, connecting the first homes against the planned business baseline targets. This saw a reduction of the 12- week timeline to 9 weeks (25% reduction).- Established strong in city and regional relationships enabling effective transparency of progress across all departments, resulting in key team members directly requesting support for other cities.- Established effective in city governance resulting in the city weekly call becoming a model on which other future south coast cities modeled against.- Provided expertise in the field of project management to both the FTTH and PSN project teams by establishing effective and clear planning, progress and cost management to ensure effective highlight reporting within city. This has enabled the delivery and customer project manager to have a more focussed clear report to internal and external stakeholders.- Exceeded the Company’s first year homes delivery target in 2020 by 50%.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Responsible for managing multiple IT projects varying in sizes for customers in both leisure and public sector markets to ensure mission critical networks are robust, resilient and future proofed to meet continual business requirements, whilst using various project methodologies in line with customer needs. Key Achievements and Example Engagements ▪ Onsite delivery, integration and commissioning of multiple EPOS platforms to a number of different outlets in Ireland, for a UK based customer in the Leisure and Hospitality sector. ▪ Responsible for managing the build and deployment phases across a portfolio of villages, replacing of end of life equipment, simplifying and connecting villages over the company WAN whilst reducing ongoing maintenance and operation cost to the business. ▪ Managing the delivery of cable remediation activities and a single converged network to support guests and corporate network traffic. Enabling the customer to have a cost-effective and resilient network capable to support current and future requirements. ▪ Management and delivery of a mission-critical front end software solution within a ‘blue light’ operational environment ensuring the customer has a robust resilient solution to meet current operational demands and also capable of allowing the police force to transition onto the future new emergency services network (ESN) radio network.

Ashby De La Zouch

Planning, coordinating, designing and managing Fixed Telecoms and GSM-R engineering projects for the £6.6bn government-sponsored Thameslink Programme to transform north-south travel through London Bridge, within a £10m project budget.• Actively monitored installation staff on site to ensure works completed safely, competently and efficiently to achieve scope, programme and budget, in compliance with HSE legislation and policies.• Designed, installed and commissioned WAN bearer links for rail telecoms on project upgrades.• Designed reference system for Derby Station Remodelling, identifying telecoms requirements ready for roll-out project-wide.• Reviewed and suggested changes to departmental folder systems• Built GSM-R test area • Worked closely with sub-contractors, checked work in scope and meets required standards.• Compiled Work Package Plans, Health & Safety documentation and task briefs • Collated estimates, assessed and recorded costings to ensure work remains within set budget.• Produced Scope of Works for East Coast Mainline cable testing.

Led and managed teams of up to 8 multi-skilled telecommunications engineers, delivered a range of projects including cross-site links and complex office relocations and provided 3rd line support for 600 users of secure, insecure and top secret computer and telephone systems and 1000+ individual devices.• Owned key projects and gave clear, concise customer communication, including:o £1m Project to move large military Headquarters from Lash Kar Gar to Camp Bastiono Complex project to complete drawdown of infrastructure and rationalisation of Camp Bastion• Identified and managed project scope, change control and risk, escalating issues where necessary.• Tracked projects to ensure delivery on time, on budget and highest level of customer satisfaction.• Interpreted user requirements, identified solutions, project-managed installation testing and commissioning of LAN IT and telecoms infrastructure.• Managed on site installation and commissioning of communication platforms within data centre environment

Hm Forces

Managed IT/Voice Data Solutions installation and cabling project to update communications infrastructure of NATO HQ, Afghanistan and key establishments across France, Italy and Germany, enabling transition to new environment without loss of service to military operations, and provided 3rd Line support to 300+ NATO commanders.

Junior Command, Leadership And Management Course Parts 1, 2 And 3

Training is broken down into 3 parts. Part 1 - Assessment of knowledge and suitability to attend, including basic maths and English. Part.

Telecommunications Engineering, Installation Technician Class 1, Junior Management And Project Plann

City and Guilds Level 3 Diploma in designing and planning communications networks – Internal. 4 months training which involved.

Telecommunications Engineering, Basic Installation Technician Class 3

Advanced Apprenticeship in Communication Technologies (Telecoms) NVQ Lv3 Communications Technologies (Systems) City and Guilds Optical.