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London, England, United Kingdom

London, England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

Providing programme governance , assurance, planning and management information to Executive Leadership for a large scale, complex, change portfolio. Stakeholder management at all levels of management often involving senior government officials with information gathering, communications, portfolio level planning, reporting and escalation managementOperational Readiness – facilitated workshops on operational readiness assessment for major change.Benefits Realisation - Ensure outcome based approach for planning in delivery creating an integrated collaborative culture for delivery which is not just policy initiatives.

London, England Metropolitan Area

• Setup of PMO function, processes for cell, share mailbox, Trello and Plans for Pop-up Directorate. • Produce daily situation report.• Triage and management of actions and commissions across the emerging policy areas.• Manage resource shift rota.• Liaison and coordination with Emergency Operations Centre

United Kingdom

Manage the PMO function for General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) Programme across UK National Sales Centre and liaison with central project team in Munich and other companies within Group across UK/Europe• Management and co-ordination of steering committee meetings and status reporting.• Facilitation of GDPR topic workshops and management of deliverables such as data processing agreements, register of processes, consent, subject access requests, right to be forgotten, data retention, data breach.• Planned, developed and managed project plans for UK and IE with interdependencies and deliverables between work streams including management of critical paths, baseline and change control. • Management of UK and IE GDPR budget.

Frimley

Manage the Project Controls function for Customer Funded Change for QEC programme• Revitalized change function for bid management, customer funded change, operational baseline management with reviewing and improving reporting, estimating, costing models and plans.• Governed Change requests for Operational and Customer funded change into core baseline core Programme with liaison across all industry partners.• Produced proposal material including finance models and plans

Hook, Hampshire

Responsible for programme management office functions for Air Command Account (approx. 300 people Rev $45M.) including resource demand, finance, delivery of portfolio/programme/project reporting.• Revitalized and setup PMO functions from 1 person to managing team of 8 within account to improve management and control.• Led Deep Dive of current programmes/projects, dependencies, risk and issues to in order to address late deliveries, identify missing interdependencies between projects and cost overruns. This has resulted in improved communication on deliveries timescales and manpower cost savings.• Improved the resource reporting tools to provide an integrated demand and supply forecasting for improving decision making for capacity management at senior level for sold and unsold projects.• Delivered new governance structure with monthly programme and project board structure/reporting pack which has been implemented across the sector for 4 accounts its 11 programmes and 71 projects.• Implemented new weekly/monthly review meetings, standardised status reporting, performance metrics, RAIDO and tracking on projects progress, milestones, escalations and dependencies for programme for management information. This resulted in improved communications across the programme and central functions. • Mentoring and development of graduates and modern apprentices.

Hampshire, United Kingdom

Primary responsibilities for ensuring all projects are governed effectively against the HPE programme and project management standards and processes.• Led planning quality initiative with team of 6 planners for carrying out health checks and audits of plans resulting in 60% improvement over 6 months from Red /Amber score of 50% to a Green score of 80%.• Reviewed and established new project planning / estimating templates with integration of Waterfall Lifecycle and Agile software development (SCRUM and KANBAN) into Microsoft Project plans. This resulted in improved forecasting of timelines, backlogs, iterations, sprints and resource management. • Implemented Scheduled Risk Analysis on all large projects resulting in re-scoping and revised timelines.• Reviewed Earned Value analysis reports to identify areas of poor performance and impacts which then led to Daily Go to Green meetings and reviews of scope, requirements, and project risks. • Led the defining, creating, schedule migration, testing and training activities for Microsoft Project Server 2010 rollout across Defence.• Provided consultancy to programme and project managers on planning best practice.

South East, United Kingdom

• Led and mentored the ATLAS - DIIF Tech Refresh Programme and its projects through the joint governance process and gates using PPM Framework, based upon Managing Successful Programmes and PRINCE2.• Maintained and coordinated high level portfolio plan with cross programme dependencies which resulted in war room/deep dive activities on troubled projects to recover programme schedule.• Took lead role in PPMF training material development and publication. Undertook roll out and classroom delivery to over 150 managers over a 3month period this resulted in improved consistency of approach.

South East, United Kingdom

• Lead programme assurance manager for ATLAS - DIIF Delivery Programme in management of boards/gates/reviews. Collaborative role, working as part of joint Governance team.• Reviewer of project documentation against business requirements and PPM framework before Gates whilst ensuring registration, health checks, corrective actions completed and lessons learnt recorded• Maintained and produced the ATLAS PPM Framework Handbook ensuring best practice and fit.

Swindon, United Kingdom

• Established, directed, coordination of central planning and regional PMO teams for ATLAS DIIF including the redesign of weekly planning schedule which improved the quality of delivery dates by 100%. • Developed consolidated programme level plans and site schedules in MS Project • Project managed the implementation of Enterprise project server.

United Kingdom

•Projects in UK, Europe, India, Africa and US, from GBP25K – 250K, 5 users to 1000 users for clients which include Lloyds of London, Standard Chartered Bank, Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Barclays Bank, Fortis Bank, Panasonic Mobile, Argos, Devon County Council,• Provided Pre-sales support, technical/product liaison with partners, onsite project management and consultancy on the implementation and configuration management of Hydra (PPM tool) including delivery of training workshops and setting up of PMO/PSOs.• My MSc project on risk and issue management for Programme and Projects was developed and incorporated into product for a customer requirement• Assisted in development of portfolio selection product with investment appraisal and benefit selection using finance background• Contributed to Gower handbook on programme management.

United Kingdom

• Planning, forecasting and reporting on all programme’s and projects GBP15M• Monthly management reports – revenue, costs and manpower risks and issues• Consolidate and review [roject plans and status reporting• Monthly/ quarterly manpower forecasts – GAP analysis and revenue projections• Fixed price projects - revenue recognition and profitability statements• Annual budgets and re-forecasts• Contract reviews• Resource management

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Master Of Science - Ms, Information Systems

MSc Information Systems (Part time) - Modules - - Research Project - Management of Programme and Project Risk My project Prototype.

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