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Malpas, GB

London, England, United Kingdom

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

• Lead for the Natural Capital & Ecosystem Assessment Programme; a DEFRA led 21/22 partnership, including Forest Research, Natural England, and JNCC to redefine the reporting methods on the environment.
• Focus on building effective relationships with the broader programme and DEFRA to ensure seamless delivery.
• Leading the EA response to secure future funding for the NCEA programme through the 2021 Spending Review.
• Controlling the EA NCEA Programme by managing Programme Office and Senior Project Managers, including matrix management of circa 40 staff for project delivery.
• Creating and managing the EA NCEA Programme and project-related plans, including financial monitoring.

Warrington, England, United Kingdom

• Led the business change project associated with the upgrade to the EA telemetry system – a business-critical system that supports the essential services to England, such as flood warning.
• Defined and implemented a new business structure to optimise work methods and provided a more robust service management framework to accommodate the latest software and hardware solution by managing external contractors.
• Ensured that the newly defined work methods were accepted and embedded into the organisation by recruiting and leading a formal business change structure.
• Set up and led a project to define and implement a roadmap towards an efficient service delivery framework.

Warrington, United Kingdom

• Responsible for leading the flagship project for the Strategic Monitoring Review change programme – the Sentinel network project and a monitoring programme to enable national reporting on the quality of the aquatic.
• Handled project management schedules, including securing and applying controls to resources, financial control and change management.
• Defined and led a business change structure to enable effective embedding of outputs from the programme.
• Managed programme level benefited realisation and defined a new system which became an exemplar for the EA.

York

• Developed and led a team to manage the new EA Hydrometric Archive IT system embedment, affecting approx. 600 staff in the organisation.
• Defined core processes for effective hydrometric data management, including the complete data flow of archiving, validating, analysing, and reporting.
• Worked with stakeholders across the organisation, established strategy with Directors and enabled implementation with operational staff. Conducted multiple workshops to design a future course of action.
• Set up and matrix managed a virtual team of experts to complement the team of direct reports, gained consensus on changes to ways of working and enabled a smooth transition to the new IT system.

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Managed the implementation of the EA hydrometric archive upgrade project to upgrade the IT systems and analyse the national dataset for EA providing functionality to approx. 600 users.
• Responsible for project management, including securing and applying controls to resources, financial control and change management. As a senior business resource, managed direct reports and a virtual team of business.
• Led virtual team spread across multiple business units and EA areas to enhance resilience, shared the importance attached to the projects and ensured they had clarity on their roles which led to exceptional results.

Yorkshire & South Wales

Various roles managing the regional field hydrometric network in both Yorkshire region and South Wales, including experience of;- Project management of hydrometric installations.- Project management of field telemetry systems for water resource management, flood warning and control structures.- Hydrometric field measurements, including latest acoustic.

Ocean Science, Applied Geophysics

Apmg International Change Management (Practitioner Level)

Lean Six Sigma Black Belt

Association Of Project Managers Introductory Certificate