Derek Blackwell Mbcs, Citp is a Senior IT Applications Project Manager at Next Retail LTD. He possess expertise in project delivery, stakeholder management, prince2, pmo, change management and 39 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I worked alongside Derek at Next in the Finance Systems department where he managed several of the technical development projects over a period of 6 months. Derek picked up the projects at various stages, including ones that were already in-flight, and ensured that the deliverables were made available to the end users in line with the agreed timelines. He managed the engagement process with the senior stakeholders and product owners within Finance and developed some really good working relationships, kept everyone informed of key challenges, their solutions, and any impact to overall timelines. He also ensured the different squads of developers, analysts and testers were focusing on priority tasks and allowed them to focus on delivery by working to remove any blockers often through negotiation and conversation. It's been really helpful having Derek available to take on and deliver against the tasks assigned to him and I've enjoyed working with him." and "Derek is a very diligent and professional project manager. Very calm under pressure and very good at dealing with ambiguity. Derek very successfully delivered a digital project into Italy and France despite some tough challenges I would highly recommend Derek as a senior project manager."