Gavin Keith Email & Phone Number

Gavin Keith specialises in consultancy, project and programme management of GIS and IT projects. He has more than 30 years' experience in the Scottish and UK public sector with expertise in programme and project management, business strategies, system procurement & implementation, supplier management, business requirements analysis, digital service delivery, coaching/mentoring, open source solutions and land & property information systems. Gavin is experienced in both PRINCE2 and Agile Project Management techniques.

Scotland

Currently the Project Manager of the Scottish Assessors’ Portal Project. Duties include:• Oversee and manage all Portal support and development activities for both the public site as well as back office administrative and data query tools for government users. • Establish governance for multi-organisational approach to project delivery and services.• Devise performance assessment and benefits realisation frameworks• Provide strategic advice to all components on the project including information management and business process re-engineering• Deliver webservice solutions, online forms for public use and back-office data management, query and export tools for staff and other users.

Forfar, Scotland, United Kingdom

Responsible for management, oversight and support of corporate IT Applications within the Council. Duties included:• Prepare, consult and implement IT Applications Strategy for the Council• Programme and project manage large-scale systems across the organisation• Establish SLAs for applications support and change management• Chair various Steering and Working Group meetings• Lead transformational change and improvement within and between Services• Team leader of 20+ staff responsible for system support, implementation and development• Liaison with suppliers for system implementation and support

Dumfries, United Kingdom

Responsible for management, oversight and delivery of all Corporate GIS activities within the Council. Duties included:• Establish effective governance and funding arrangements ensuring effective strategic oversight at cross-organisational programme level• Delivery of a wide range of multi-platform projects.• Engagement with senior managers, technicians and politicians. • Manage individual back-office, web-based and mobile GIS projects• Prepare / provide investigative reports on key issues such as planning, roads, grounds maintenance, education and health.• Manage, lead and mentor the Corporate GIS team.• Devise performance assessment and benefits realisation frameworks.

Dumfries

• Project Management of online data observatory for data and intelligence capture about the south of Scotland• Co-ordinate partnership involving local government, NHS, academia and other community planning partners.• Delivered open source solution for public website as well as back-office administrative and data loading facility. • Responsible for governance, supplier management, defining business requirements, organising a robust testing regime and delivery of final solution.

Glasgow

Responsible for management and delivery of the Access Glasgow Land and Property (AGLP) Programme. Duties included:• programme manage ambitious set of modernising government/IT/GI projects using PRINCE2 methodologies.• Establish governance framework with regular reporting to the Project Board and Working Group meetings.• Support / advise AGLP project managers in a quality assurance capacity.• Prepare / provide investigative reports on key issues such as electronic document management and GI management• prepare Operational Plans

Stirling

Senior Business Manager of GIS Unit that delivers GIS services to Scottish local authorities, National Park, Environmental Service and other central government agencies. Duties included:• Co-ordinated overall service GIS services for all customers.• Secured and formalised business contracts.• Technical director and project manager of European GIS Project titled EUROGISE• Managed team comprising 17 staff and responsible for staff recruitment.• Managed budget of >£550K revenue and various capital allocations. Advise customers on GIS expenditure.• Liaison with user base within all customer organisations from senior management to GIS users. Chair various Steering Groups. • Prepared GIS business reviews, strategy reports, funding proposals; data management plans and other related documents.• Developed corporate standards and methodologies for data structures; data management, programming code and documentation.

Seattle

Responsible for delivering project on corporate-wide street network database (SND). Duties were:• Managed large-scale data conversion project to create SND. • Supervised work programmes for a team of six employees.• Wrote annual budget proposals; feasibility analyses; database design documents and maintenance plans.• Advised on other citywide GIS projects

Ma, Geography / Gis - With Distinction

Ba, Geography/Cartographic Sciences - Summa Cum Laude