Geoff Hunt Email & Phone Number

Portsmouth, Nh 03801, Usa

London, England, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

• Leading the Smart & Traditional Metering workstream during the Integration planning phase for the potential merger or acquisition to separate SSE Energy services from SSE Plc.• Supporting the preparation of the initial public offering, gaining invaluable experience of working within a clean team environment. Responsible for assessing financial and business performance as well as highlighting potential synergies to support the Joint Business Plan.• Leading on all Smart & Traditional metering deliverables and planning decisions including target operating model, prospectus, day 1 readiness and integration phasing.• Leading on all cross workstream planning activities including strategy, org design, data migration, customer service, HR and other key areas of the integration planning team.

Havant

• Led the overall delivery of SSE’s smart foundation programme including SMETS1 smart meter solution, CGI Instant energy head end, mobile workforce solution & in-home display.• Achieved the installation of SSE’s first compliant SMETS1 smart meter enabling mass rollout with over one million now installed.• Led a portfolio of projects utilising internal and external 3rd party resources across multiple suppliers and locations.• Built and led a high-performing programme team of over 200 to deliver the complex challenges of the programme.• Presented programme status reports and verbal updates to senior management.• Management and control of the overall programme budget with a lifecycle value of over £100m.• 3rd party management including supplier selection through to issue resolution and performance management.• Ability to prioritise work & resources in a pressurised environment.• Responsible for realising the benefits stated within the business case.

Havant

• Led through industry best practices a centralised Project Management Office (PMO).• Re-structured the PMO operation to enable the senior leadership team to have greater transparency on progress, automated reporting.• Recruitment of PMO staff including planners, risk managers etc within the retail transformation programme.• Aligned PMO to the SSE Major Projects Framework and rolled out across the Retail Transformation Programme.• Aligned with IT PMO manager to ensure compliance to IT processes including highlighting efficiencies.• Facilitated the Major Project Gate reviews within the Retail Transformation Programme.• Programme lead for the implementation of Oracle project cost accounting within the Retail Transformation Programme.

Havant

• Implementation of effective infrastructure planning processes.• Creation and maintenance of a consolidated plan which controlled all infrastructure project demand.• Developed standard deliver templates for repeatable activities such as server installs significantly reducing deliver times.• Managed and coordinated multiple infrastructure delivery teams to eradicate delay points and ensure on time delivery.• Proactively worked with Project management team to capture infrastructure project demand and set realistic and achievable deliver dates.

Responsible for delivering several high-profile IT Infrastructure projects for external clients to time cost & Quality using Prince 2 and PMI methodology. Projects Included: -• Data Centre installations and Mainframe workload relocations.• Implementation of Chip & PIN and online Mainframe banking transactions for finance industry clients.• Data Centre Infrastructure technical implementations including business critical servers and related Network connectivity.• Implementation of online banking fraud detection software.• PC refresh programmes.

Portsmouth, United Kingdom