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.
• 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.

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.

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