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Project Director - Biosecurity, Borders and Trade Programme at DEFRA

Senior Project Manager delivering a key enabler for the transformation of the DWP’s counter fraud and compliance directorate. Delivering a new digital service to over 5,000 staff, replacing legacy IT systems and transforming business processes. Using agile delivery to ensure new technology meets user needs and moves DWP towards its vision of a digital.

Senior Programme Manager leading delivery of solutions to enable recovery of DWP, HMRC and local authority debt from Universal Credit payments to enable the on-going recovery of over £9bn of debt.Leading a blended approach of agile and waterfall methods to deliver changes to existing IT systems, new IT solutions and improved business processes within DWP.

Agile Delivery Manager for the DWP use of RTI digital project, which enabled the prevention and detection of income-related fraud and error. Leading the project to meet a high priority strategic objective for DWP from inception, I successfully managed delivery from inception, through a Discovery phase and to completion of an Alpha phase. Oversight of.

Project Manager for a Proof of Concept to test the value of earnings data to DWP to improve detection of fraud and error. Utilised skills in planning, risk management, governance and stakeholder management to successfully deliver the project at pace, managing a broad range of stakeholders and suppliers to deliver within challenging timescales.Successfully.

Lead responsibility for governance and control of a major DWP programme. Responsibilities included managing programme planning, monitoring and reporting, governance reviews and risk management. Significantly improved reporting by successfully implementing a new planning and monitoring regime to focus on exception reporting. Successfully introduced risk and.

Managed the implementation of the DWP Central Payment System (CPS) Programme, which was a £250m programme delivering the largest integrated payment and accounting system in the world. I led the work to develop integrated implementation plans, coordinating complex and inter-dependent activities of multiple suppliers, external partners and DWP business.

Managed the Technical Assurance Strand of the CPS Programme, with responsibility for assuring supplier delivery, including achievement of non-functional requirements, operational assurance testing and implementation of Service Management processes. The delivery included the introduction of two new applications and significant change to existing IT.