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An accomplished & dynamic individual with over 10 years’ experience Project/Programme and PMO management within the Utilities sector.Currently leading the PMO on a U.K. wide major utilities contract, leading a team of 10 managing a £32million point annual portfolio. Managing the transition of the account onto new integrated tools and process and transitioning to a new contractural model.Previously managed two large programmes within telecoms on another major utilities company with two teams of project managers delivering five million in annual projects, all while handling the pmo activities and my own projects within the power utilities space. largest achievement was commencing an £8.9 Million Large Capital Project and recruited the team, all while new the organisation, Which delivered: Mux, Cisco, Radio & DC power systems. Seven new radio towers. 120km of fibre and Civils works. Negotiated 28 new commercial wayleave/planning consents along with 19 site sharing agreements. Managed 200 project changed requests resulting in £2.6 million in positive change. Managed over 50 different suppliers. Built, tested and handover over 295 circuits. Also delivered the telecoms for Scotlands largest offshore windfarm Seagreen (£2million project).I relish being involved in business development projects. At every stage of my career I have taken on extra internal project works using my PMO, Governance and analytical skills to improve business maturity.I love learning new skills and industries. Although I've worked in the telecoms industry predominately, when I started I knew nothing about the technology and am now regard as a technical project manager. If I have the chance to learn a new technology, methodology, skill or industry then I jump at the chance to learn and grow. Starting on reception and working my way up. Family is the most important thing to me, ensuring a healthy work life balance while at the same time working hard, growing and progressing to ensure that my family have a role model to look up to.Professional SkillsProject & Programme Management | PMO | Leadership | Team Development | Stakeholder Manager| Strategic Planning | Conflict Resolution | Risk Management | Portfolio Strategy | Business Development | Communication | Critical Thinking | Ownership & Decision MakingDomain KnowledgeUtilities Environments (Substation, Power Station, Wind Farms, Hydro) | UHF Radio | MUX | Fibre | Civils | Overhead Fibre& Lines| Power Control Systems | Telephony | Ethernet | Cisco | AC/DC Power Systems | NRSWA | CDM | IT | Datacentres
Magdalene
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Program ManagerMagdalene Apr 2024 - PresentGlasgow, Scotland, United KingdomLeading the PMO for a major utilities’ client, with a team of analysts and co-ordinators. Main duties include driving improvements to increase the effectiveness of the PM Delivery team to drive project delivery and revenue. Driving process and business improvements, through mapping current processes and identifying gaps and waste. Along with contract transition to a new account methodology. • Spearheaded the deployment or a new project management system (Site Tracker), moving all projects from a manual spreadsheet driven culture to a one tool.• Site Tracker resulted in the move away from cumbersome monthly reporting to weekly reporting at a portfolio level.• Moved projects from spreadsheets to PMP Tools for real time financial data forecasting and one source of the truth data on project delivery. • Owner of Portfolio Profit and Loss, strategically analysing future risk and opportunities• Process development & improvements through work instructions, process flow and guides for the new tools.• Trained delivery staff on using the new tools and processes.• Consolidated RAID, Lessons and other individual project trackers to SharePoint for a future move to Site Tracker, allowing tracking across projects & the ability to report and ability to view trend, completing a 360 view of risk.• Implementation of Governance controls at each project lifecycle stage, improving the data quality of project documentation• Developed the approach and controls to change management governance and delivery, including process, tools, methodologies, and systems.• Developed the centre of excellence for PMO and projects• Strategic management to transition the delivery function to a new contract
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Senior Project Manager / Programme ManagerNeos Networks Mar 2021 - May 2024Perth, Scotland, United KingdomManaging SSE Renewables and Scottish Hydro Electric Transmission Programmes with a combined value of £7.7million, encompassing 90 projects and expanding sales pipeline. My roles include project allocation, escalation, financial control, Pipeline management, Line Management, aiding in sales, project delivery and customer facing reporting/meetings at multiple organisational levels on programme delivery. Actively monitoring programme progress, resolving issues & initiating appropriate corrective action and defining the programme's governance arrangements. Continually reviewing the programmes, monitoring sales pipeline and customer need while looking for improvements to the network and service to delivery greater value to customers and company. Along with ensuring that delivered work is handed over operationally for seamless transfer of new projects to business as usual. In addition to mentoring and coaching team members on the projects being delivered.• Skilled negotiator in conflict management• Experienced Team Manager and Leadership skills• Highly experienced in managing vendors, 3rd parties and stakeholders• Highly experienced in Resource Management• Experienced in building programmes and management of programmes to fit within company/customer objectives• Development of new products into BAU, such as LTE, SD Wan and StarlinkIn addition I complete PMO related tasks, including financial monitoring / forecasting, staff utilisation, sales demand pipeline, staff training and data analytics. I was key to the developing the standard processes and modelling for all customer facing projects delivered by Neos. During this role I was seconded to helping the Business Process Improvement, where new tools and project management methodologies were developed and deployed. -
Project ManagerSse Enterprise Oct 2017 - Mar 2021Working with SSE Telecoms/Neos Networks on SSE Large Capital Projects. Primary Project Manager on the BT21CN Programme. Senior Project Manager on SSE Renewables Offshore Windfarms. Within BT21CN; defining the delivery solution, standardising documentation, third party contractor relationships, customer relationship management including kicking off the programme, while combining the overall programme deliverables and piloting project a new product of 90 sites connected Circuits and end termination kit. BT21CN had an eight-million-pound budget along with 2.6 million pounds of positive project change. For SSE Renewables I delivered the Telecoms for the largest Windfarm offshore windfarm in Scotland worth three million pounds. As the first Project Manager to deliver a program of work over eight million pounds in revenue I was at the forefront of how SSE ET delivery large capital projects and programs.• Proficient at engaging at all business levels, from Senior Stakeholders to 3rd parties and Support Staff• Experienced in contract management, Contractual Negations of new 3rd party vendors and Commercial negations around existing contracts• Adept working within the utilities sector• Experienced working with HV/LV, Substations (Transmission & Distributions), Overhead line, and Pylon works.• Highly experienced in delivery and commissioning of SCADA, Protection circuits for the utilities sector• Highly Experienced in Offshore Windfarm connectivity and Renewables Networks• Skilled in delivery of new technologies products and projects e.g., 4G/5G IOT• Experienced working with Construction phase management (wayleaves/Road noticing), particularly with large civils and fibre projects• Development of standard working methodologies such as Engineering Work Packs, PIDs, RAID Logs etc -
Senior PartnerThe Glasgow Gin Club. Apr 2014 - Dec 2017Glasgow, United KingdomThe Glasgow Gin Club is an exclusive Gin events company to promote and share our love of small batch gin.The Glasgow Gin Club creates exclusive events catering from 30 to 80 attendees, all sharing our love of gin.Past events have included Brew at the Bog, Three Hidden Lane Gin Parties and working closely with Brand launches from No.3 London to Abandon Ship Clothing.
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Project ManagerVodafone Aug 2015 - Oct 2017Glasgow, United KingdomWorking within Vodafone’s Technology and Enterprise department in the Utilities sector. As a project manager my main responsibilities are on large fibre civils projects for the replacement of copper cables to new fibre with the delivery of telecoms equipment in electrical substations, power stations and offices.• Successfully delivered two large projects worth over two million pounds for civils, ducting and fibre between Hunterston Nuclear Power Station and three other sites. These works were extremely complex through busy areas such as Largs and Hunterston, requiring in-depth knowledge of health and safety.• Successfully aided to close a legacy programme reliant on outstanding Standard Build documentation, health and safety audits and end of programme reporting resulting in 1.5 million pounds of revenue• Highly experienced in delivering projects under CDM, from minor works such as standard kit deployment to civils excavations along gas pipelines or nuclear power stations• Experience working with 3rd party civils contractors, electrical contractors, Telecoms contractors and logistics across the UK• Highly experienced in working with Wayleaves and Council Road Noticing departments• Highly experienced in deploying telecoms equipment such as Cisco, Nokia, Avara and IT• Highly experienced in deploying electrical equipment such as DC Chargers and electrical infrastructure• Highly experienced at Programme Planning, with the complete planning of three large programmes covering 2015, 2016 and a new 2017 programme totally 14.2 million of business to Vodafone• Experience working on off shore and remote civils projects such as windfarms• Experience in building new programme tenders• Project experience is based on tailored versions of Prince2 and Agile methodologies -
Pmo Analyst / Project CoordinatorVodafone Mar 2012 - Aug 2015Glasgow, United KingdomWorking within Vodafone’s Technology and Enterprise department (fixed telephony) on the Scottish Power account. The Project Co-ordinator role addresses several key PMO activities; project tracking, reporting on programmes, producing weekly and monthly customer reports, attending and charring customer meetings, spread over two accounts with 220 active projects plus new proposals throughout the year.• Developed and created online reporting tools for quick and accurate data analysis of project and programme status• Increased P3M3 account maturity: Utilising tools created to capture project costs vs actuals• Highly experienced in Project and Programme Proposal creation and review • Highly experienced in training programme team members on process’s and methodologies• Highly experience at delivering minor projects such as decommissioning of substation equipment• Creation of Centre of Excellence with standard documents; Communication Plan, configuration management, accurate roles and responsibilities, stakeholder management and evaluating lessons learned.
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Music And Events BookerBloc+ Sep 2009 - Sep 2013Glasgow, United KingdomIn this role I have been responsible for re launching the now successful Glasgow Slow Club which had ended in December 2009. I am responsible for booking, organising equipment, load in, stage times and sound. I also play and host the night, handle all promotions, manage the website and press releases. The role requires a high level of organisational skills dealing with a diary six months in advance and over 200 acts.
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Network Optimisation CoordinatorCable&Wireless Mar 2011 - Mar 2012Glasgow, United KingdomA newly created role designed to optimise the local network and manage the asset database for large utilities company the end result being OPEX savings and an enhanced asset register which was significantly out of date.• The identification of multiple large gaps in the current processes and feeds for updating the client’s asset database, these gaps were resulting in several variances of yearly customer charges which resulted in a loss of revenue to the business.• The identification of several quick win and large OPEX savings where circuits could be migrated from old or local networks onto a Cable & Wireless network resulting in annual savings.• The creation of a whole new set of processes and work instructions for all the “feeds” into the asset register. Following identifying the large gaps in the updating of the asset register I development a process where by all those who should feed updates in were doing so and so that all changes going forward would be capture. Resulting in the asset register accuracy going from 60% to 95% over a six month period.
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Music BookerThe Roxy Sep 2011 - Feb 2012Glasgow, United KingdomBooker of events and musical acts
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General AssistantGenuine Feb 2011 - Oct 2011Glasgow, United KingdomWorking with a busy PR agency, mainly working in the fashion sector. Work on London Fashion week for Scottish Textiles. Worked with clients such as Harris Tweed and Bebaroque. -
Order Manager AdministratorThus Mar 2009 - Mar 2011Glasgow, United KingdomMonitoring and updating of a variety of telecoms orders from some of the UK’s largest companies.I was entrusted with the handling of a new customer Centrica, where I developed the end to end process of their home worker broadband orders. This included the process charts and standardise communications of three individual teams located throughout the UK and India. I was heavily involved in the training for new colleagues in Chennai and Bangalore
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Vice President Marketing And CommunicationsUniversity Of Abertay Dundee Oct 2004 - Sep 2006Dundee, United KingdomDuring my third year I was appointed Vice President of Communications and Marketing for the University. I took responsibility for organising Freshers week and other University events. I coordinated the communications and advertising for said events and liaised with both private firms and press to ensure the events were successful. This position also allowed me to sit on the University senate and discuss and resolve student grievances.
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Student AmbassadorUniversity Of Abertay Dundee Oct 2002 - Sep 2006Dundee, United KingdomThis position gave me the opportunity to promote my university to potential students. I provided private tours of the university for families and potential students. I was essentially a personal assistant to visitors of the university and had to make sure that all their needs were met.
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Graeme Macdonald works for Magdalene
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Graeme Macdonald's current role is Program Manager Utilities @ Magdalene | PRINCE2 Practitioner, P3O® Certifications. Utilities Projects and Programmes Lead | PMO Leader | Managing Multimillion Programmes.
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Graeme Macdonald attended Abertay University, Abertay University.
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