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Guildford, United Kingdom

Providing project management consultancy and project services to small to medium enterprises in Surrey and the South East.

Frimley, Hampshire

BAE Systems provide wide-ranging products and services covering air, land and naval forces, as well as advanced electronics, security, information technology, and support services.Sub-Contract Manager:• Management of sub-contracted products and services for major ship build programme• Coordination of integration, ship installation, and acceptance testing activities

Surrey, Uk

Providing project management consultancy and project services to small to medium enterprises in Surrey and the South East

West Sussex, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Providing network, IT, and engineering services to airports and airlines.Management of projects for new services, and transitioning from legacy systems.• Managed core infrastructure projects including core-based server and virtual systems (VMWare), hosted in a remote data centre. Migrated 30 resilient Cisco MPLS WAN connections connecting remote hosts.• Managed offshore software development projects for security system and bag tracking system. Using waterfall method, managed requirements, detailed specs, integration testing, and user testing and acceptance. Staged design reviews to assure quality and compliance, and scheduled within plan.• Created PMP/PID, risk and issue logs, and financial baseline plan. Established tools and methods to analyse and monitor performance. Used MS Office macros and programming to automate tools and templates.• Created MS Project plans, structured on WBS and project deliverables, allowing all stakeholders to track progress and critical path. Functional managers were able to see the scope and quantity of their work, and the internal/external interdependencies.• Prepared and gave presentations (MS PowerPoint) to business managers, customers, stakeholder groups, and project teams. Topics covered status updates and proposals for new working methods, sometimes with unpopular content.• Matrix managed a global team of 12 specialists, delegating work packages and responsibilities. Managed a small team of direct reports, providing service delivery and post sales support on three major accounts.• Full financial accountability for EBITDA and cash-flow on €6M project. Tracked all project spend and commitments, completed monthly forecasts of outturn costs, and reported back to business. Highlighted any variance outside tolerance.• Worked with technical and procurement specialists to produce procurement specifications and Statements of Work (SOW). Negotiated RFP with selected vendors through to placement of order/contract.

Engaged to rescue troubled project, and manage newly won projects.• Audited a failing project, found issues with poor planning by the network vendor which were addressed and resolved with a detailed and updated plan. Communication problems, technical, and process issues were turned-around by re-aligning the project team, establishing new reporting framework for vendor and customer.• Line-managed local team providing service delivery on three major accounts. Created the ITIL based plan incorporating reporting, SLA management, capacity management, and KPI’s. Managed early in-service phase, establishing support tools and processes, and pro-actively managing incidents and escalations.

Slough, United Kingdom

Led the EMEA wide $9M programme providing a global managed WAN infrastructure. Delivered call centre network, and data centre for applications & content from M&A.• Managed the build of a data centre and web farm, integrated the applications, and migrated data content acquired from the corporate M&A programme. Deployed an Agile management method due to time criticality.• Recruited and directly managed a team of 4 project managers to deliver the pan-European network migration programme. Matrix-managed multi-functional teams of up to 25, across a number of organisations in the UK and US.• Responsible for $9M budget, provided monthly reports and financial analyses and forecasts to senior management. Conducted regular reviews with customer at board level, and international vendors.

Reading, United Kingdom

Managed £25M national IP network, and other Telecom projects. Chaired the board governing the development of new voice and data products and services.• Worked pro-actively to build a relationship with the major vendor, dealing effectively with day-to-day issues. Managed major issues by escalating into their senior management.• Organised the programme and set up five key projects and managers in a matrix organisation to deliver main work streams, including service design (encompassing operations and IT).

West Sussex, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Project manager for major infrastructure project to renew the en-route radar network, delivering security, resilience and safety, and enabling the launch of the new Air Traffic Control Centre. The seven radars in the network cover the whole UK airspace.* Achieved major milestone and enabled the new Air Traffic Control Centre's schedule to be kept. Delivered access network and core data processing system on time, including critical Safety Case.* Managed 2 major vendors, resolving key issues, and delivering on time. Vendors provided bespoke hardware, with significant software development.

West Sussex, United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Project manager and bid manager for the design, development, and manufacture of sophisticated defence systems.

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom