Lead complex projects, coordinating diverse teams across functions and departments from start to finish. Manage project portfolios, ensuring timely and budget-compliant delivery in collaboration with cross-functional teams. Foster relationships with product development leads for timely project completion. Collaborate with Agile teams on product delivery, track project progress using tools like Jira and Confluence. Address issues promptly, lead mitigation efforts, manage project schedules, risks, budgets, and resources efficiently. Facilitate effective communication, stakeholder management, and steering committee engagement to meet client and project team expectations

In a cross-functional capacity, I engage resources across the organization and manage complex project initiatives. I oversee vendor and remote resource management for global projects, coordinating communication among cross-functional teams and third-party partners. Prioritizing resources, I ensure project and program deliverables are timely and within budget. I develop communication plans to update stakeholders and sponsors, providing recommendations to senior management as needed. I prepare project documentation, report project statuses, and ensure deliverables align with agreed scope, managing mitigation efforts when necessary.

As Project Management Manager, I collaborate closely with our First Data Service Delivery Organizations, ensuring adherence to Corporate Security Strategy and Standards. Responsibilities include directing and managing a team of project managers, conducting regular meetings, overseeing time and attendance, tracking project allocations, recruiting, developing, and coaching staff, hiring new team members, ensuring compliance with global project management policies, standards, and procedures, supporting the corporate project management strategy globally, ensuring projects meet deadlines and budgets, and performing all duties inherent to management.

Lead Security Projects, internal or client-based, on time, within budget, meeting Corporate Security Standards. Coordinate cross-functional teams from initiation to closure, ensuring adherence to project methodologies and delivery processes. Responsibilities include project charter, resourcing, scheduling, risk management, change management, implementation, and closure.

Deliver Security Projects be they internal or client based on time, within budget meeting with Corporate Security StandardsLead and coordinating Cross‑Functional, Cross‑Departmental, Cross‑Company Teams who are responsible for all aspects of a project, from the Initiation Phase to Project ClosureEnsure Project Methodologies, Project Delivery Processes, and Implementation Management Processes are followed

As a GIO PM at First Data, I collaborated with various service delivery organizations, overseeing product development, client projects, infrastructure operations, global service delivery, and information services. Responsibilities included delivering technical infrastructure projects within budget and meeting corporate standards, leading cross-functional teams from initiation to closure, and ensuring adherence to project methodologies and delivery processes.

As a Regional Project Manager at Tesco EMEA, I ensure efficient project delivery aligned with Tesco’s global strategy. Responsibilities include full project lifecycle management, proactive communication with stakeholders, risk and issue identification and mitigation, proactive scope management, schedule management, adherence to project governance, and oversight of change and release management.

Oversee client relationships and service operations. Continuously improve customer service by understanding their needs. Conduct regular reporting meetings. Handle requests, defects, and incidents. Lead and mentor team members. Provide quarterly performance reviews and feedback. Coordinate software updates for UK, Australia, New Zealand, and USA sites.

In this role, I coordinated third-party network engineers and technicians across Africa for retail store IT setup and upgrades. Acted as the primary contact for retail site leads and management. Conducted training sessions for retail and in-store staff on IT systems and procedures. Implemented system changes and ensured adherence to procedures locally and internationally. Provided new store implementation experience and training across various countries in Southern and Central Africa.

In various roles with SJS Electrical, IVC, and Squall-Star, my responsibilities centered around the installation of data networks, telephonic networks, and broadcast networks. This included setting up radio and television studios throughout the United Kingdom.