Delivery of a portfolio of IT projects.

Leadership of a team of Project Management specialists and delivery of a portfolio of Microsoft cross platform projects.

Leadership of a Project Management team also responsible for standardising project delivery approach and implementing quality measures over infrastructure services and software development project portfolios.

Senior Project Manager responsible for a portfolio of complex projects supporting delivery of the platform workstream of a Programme to build a multi site data centre to supply cloud based services PAAS, IAAS. Managing a virtual team of 50 staff PM and Techncial.

Managed product launches into the BT Global Services Product Portfolio; responsible for a £2.5m CAPEX budget per year.• Managed a multi discipline matrix team.• Conducted full lifecycle delivery using an Agile-based release schedule.• Carried out business case analysis, financial management, product launch readiness and benefit tracking.• Stakeholder management; this included liaising with senior leadership teams, product managers, technical architects and external suppliers. • Optimisation of resources and cost control.

Leadership and line management of 11 Project Control Managers based in North East England and Scotland. The team provided PMO Governance across multiple BT accounts using a work packaged delivery model. Responsible for; control of the team’s portfolio of work packages, budget, quality & delivery on time.

Part of a Programme team of 12 PMs managing delivery of high speed network services to all Lloyds Banking Group High St Branches across the UK. Responsible for managing deployment and migration of legacy WAN services. I had additional responsibility for; change management, scoping and costing of responses to RFCs, planning and delivery of larger or complex sites and ownership / management of technical issues.

Project manager responsible for full lifecycle delivery of a portfolio of in life changes to BT supplied WAN, LAN and IPT infrastructure serving Lloyds Banking Group.

In life project portfolio, responsibility for 'full life cycle' project delivery including; design, pricing, production of response to customer and delivery of the work packages. This involved management of risk / issues, planning, change management, stakeholder management and responsibility for cost management within the individual work package.

Project Team Leader, delivered a project to establish a proactive alarm monitoring capabillity on the (then Syntegra) DWP Programme. The team managed alarms from the DWP LAN / WAN IP clear and HG IPCC estate (IP Contact Centre). This project was completed in March 06. During the course of this assignment the emphasis switched from a Project Manager (in a delivery role). To line management of the technical team. During this period I also took on short term project delivery responsibility.

Responsible for management of the voice & data infrastructure at a large pharmaceutical manufacturing facility (800 users). Role encompassed defining technical strategy, production of business cases to support upgrades, project delivery, supplier management , contractor management on supervision and technical support.

Responsible for product development and 3rd line support of WAN services to servicing the business comms portfolio. Introduced ISDN2 product based on Nortel CS2K platform, via GPT SDH Infrastructure. Provided presales technical support and design supporting complex bids.

Formal technical apprenticeship over 3 years, specialising in telecommunication infrastructure design and installation. Leading to a role in project office design & delivery of telecom and data infrastructure.