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Headley, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

I took time off for a career break.

London, United Kingdom / Bologna, Italy / Milan, Italy

• Managed the delivery of global Infrastructure integration & security projects for Group IT Infrastructure and Infrastructure & Security Programme as part of a post-merger architectural integration. Requirements were.
• Responsible for financial tracking, reporting and variance analysis against budgets up to €37m
• Responsible for delivery of project workstreams and planning and coordinating of eight internal technical teams, five 3rd party vendors and two consultancies needed to deliver the work across UK, Italy, US & APAC
• Performed risk assessments and issue identification, seeing these through to resolution within agreed timescales
• Managed the change management process and associated impacts on timelines, costs, and dependencies
• Produced stakeholder management updates in both written and verbal updates to C-level executives through respective Steering and Strategic Groups

London, United Kingdom / Bologna, Italy / Milan, Italy

• Set up the PMO to support three Programmes (Infrastructure & Security, Finance & Accounting and Product & Inventory Programmes) of the six Strategic Technology Transformation Programmes that were grouped to ensure the.
• Coordinated and tracked resource requirements and associated costs ensuring appropriate availability to complete deliverables including on-boarding and off-boarding processes
• Conducted weekly planning update sessions with Project Managers and Programme Leads from each of the programmes to feed milestone updates up to the End2End Strategic Technology Programme plan
• Supported Project Managers with maintenance of RAID log status updates and escalations up to programme level RAID. Chaired RAID reviews with emphasis on dependency management
• Collated workstream status updates to produce various financial, resource and planning status reports and Working/Steering packs for various reporting levels up to C-level executives
• Facilitated Working and Steering Group meetings, planning meetings and workshops capturing decisions and managing actions to closeAchievement: Implemented and managed new processes required for the merging of status.

London, United Kingdom

• As deputy to the PCI Programme Lead, provided a key support role in managing the delivery of the £14m PCI DSS Compliance Programme across the Sainsbury’s WebSphere Commerce online platform and local stores. This.
• Owner of programme financial management:- Processing work orders, approvals, raising requisitions and receipting- Managing supplier and resource forecasts, reporting actuals each period through invoices, timesheets and.
• Owner of the Change Control Group (CCG) and change process. Chaired meetings, processed CR’s and impact assessments. Managed submissions and approvals through the Steering Group and Portfolio PMO
• Managed the programme plan, updating CR impacts and tracking key deliverables and milestones
• Tracked and maintained the RAID (Risks, Assumptions, Issues and Dependencies)
• Managed the Watch List (deliverables and open issues critical to delivery) chairing weekly meetings and collating status updates

United Kingdom / South Africa

Sourcing and importing/exporting cycling components and accessories for a family cycle business in South Africa.

London, United Kingdom

• Continued as PMO Manager on an interim basis until suitable replacement was hired and was directly involved in the design, collection and reporting of management information and metrics across the portfolio of.
• Tracked Portfolio Delivery Objectives, reporting on actual versus planned costs, timescales and quality
• Monitored spending against budgets and refined Project Manager workbooks for financial reporting
• Supported IT Business Partners with project pipeline planning and cost management ahead of go-live approval
• Collated and reviewed Project Manager Status Updates to produce weekly Programme Status Reports and monthly IT Portfolio Summary Reports for CIO’s update to Executive Committee
• Chaired weekly Programme Review meetings and Key Projects Portfolio meetings with programme and Project Managers, tracking project progress and milestones against baseline plans, Finances, RAIDs and Changes

London, United Kingdom

• Successfully managed the transition of the IT PMO Portfolio team from an outsourced IT Consultancy to an internal Ladbrokes permanent staff team within 4 weeks thus reducing resource costs by 50%. The new PMO team was.
• Managed the outgoing team and permanent team (10 resources), ensuring the successful knowledge transfer between them to continue BAU functions on the exit of the outsourced team
• Obtained an understanding of the complete set of duties and tasks performed by the team and evaluated workloads to produce a scope document of responsibilities and procedural documentation, used to establish resourcing.
• Consulted with the CIO, IT Business Partners and other senior stakeholders through IT workshops and one to one sessions to obtain an understanding of their reporting needs and requirements

London, United Kingdom

• Assisted the Portfolio Manager to implement the Investment Management (IM) project methodology and provided PMO and Finance support to two Business Change programmes working alongside 3rd Party vendor project managers.
• Responsible for IT department procurement, invoice processing, queries and receipting in Proactis
• Monitored programme spending against CAPEX/OPEX budgets and submitted forecasts and tracked actuals
• Liaised with Finance department to validate the G/L; cost controllers and wider business to confirm nominal codes and cost centres and costs being charged/allocated or re-charged to the departments, projects and.
• Produced monthly cost allocation sheets to Finance for IT hardware & software services purchased
• Compiled information for auditors as part of year end audit processes

London, United Kingdom

• Administered the NSPCC’s telecom estate and provided an administrative role within the IT department.Key Responsibilities:
• Maintained the voice and circuit estate inventory of switches, lines and numbers to reconciled associated billing
• Administered the Society’s voice line estate including ADSL, ISDN2e, ISDN30e & PSTN lines and managed the telecom carriers and delivery teams for all IMAC requests
• Undertook headcount tracking, recruitment and expenses analysis for MI reporting purposes

London, United Kingdom

Short term contract configuring and rolling out new desktop computers, printers, switches and patching network cables.

Uitenhage, South Africa

Managed the IT operations for the JCI South African Head Office and Uitenhage regions. This included leading small projects and work packages and coordinating the requirements for any business programs and infrastructure launched into the business.

Cape Town, South Africa

IT Field Technician servicing all the clients' IT requirements, services, repairs and issues within the Western Cape region.

Uitenhage, South Africa

Technical Support role to the IT Coordinator supporting all manufacturing production lines, IT equipment and software and business IT requirements.

Port Elizabeth, South Africa

IT field support provided to the businesses clients within the Eastern Cape region.

London, England, United Kingdom

Daily inputting and posting of invoices to relevant budget / department accounts and resolving queries to and from internal departments and freelance employees regarding payments of all currencies.

London, England, United Kingdom

Responsible for the statement reconciliations of the University main account and Residents account, daily inputting and posting of invoices to relevant budget / department account and daily banking and transfers of US, Euro and Sterling amounts.

London, England, United Kingdom

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

Certificate, Prince2

PRINCE2 Practitioner Certified - 15/01/2010 PRINCE2 Foundation Certified - 07/10/2009

Matriculation Exemption, English, Afrikaans, Maths, Science, Biology, Geography

Activities and Societies: Toastmasters, Student Leader, House Captain