Jim Boyden Email & Phone Number

Shoreham-by-Sea, GB

Remote

A new role with DXC for the MOD!

Shoreham By Sea, England, United Kingdom

One of a group of like minded colleagues who have decided to branch out, to offer our own virtual Project Management solutions to companies in the UK through virtualPMO - the virtual change experts!

London, England, United Kingdom

Reporting to the Portfolio Director, I was responsible for a team of 50 colleagues to deliver the migration of 60,000 users from a legacy hybrid OS environment to a new cloud-based OS, resulting in a simplified End User Application Estate, greater leverage of existing products such as InTune, WVD and Cloudhouse and improved JML automation.Having.

London, United Kingdom

• Reporting into the Programme Director, I was the Delivery Manager for a number of decommissioning and re-platforming work streams valued at £2 mil total, within the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. I was.
• The logical and physical decommissioning of a legacy data centre and subsequent re-hosting of existing services on new cloud (M365) platforms.
• The logical and secure physical decommissioning and destruction of legacy Intranet and Extranet services, as well at the move of active data to new Intranet solutions.
• The physical decommissioning and secure destruction of legacy End User Devices.
• The move of legacy on premise SharePoint data and re-platforming of data onto SharePoint Online.

Shoreham By Sea, England, United Kingdom

The Director of The Zamiko Corporation Ltd, a Management Consultancy specialising in assisting companies with their management of Projects and Programmes. Clients include the Foreign Office, the Ministry of Justice, HCA Healthcare UK and INTO University Partnerships.

London, United Kingdom

Mergers and Acquisition Integration: Requested to stay on to restart the integration of 3 acquired sites of 1,000 clinical specialists from legacy networks and domains into the HCA environment within a limited budget and resource profile (<£1m) to realise corporate benefits of scale. I undertook a complete review of current “as is” status and helped define.

London, United Kingdom

W10/O365 Deployment: Parachuted into the IT Group for a major private Healthcare provider to restart a stalled £3m deployment of Windows 10 and O365 to a user community of 10,000 clinical users, I reported into the Infra Programme Manager with a brief to restart deployments immediately. The original PID was revised to a realistic scope that would fit the.

Brighton, United Kingdom

• 2 x Short Term Business Revenue Improvement Projects: Reporting to the Vice President (IT Projects), I was appointed the Project Manager for 2 short term Business Improvement IT Projects designed to increase sales and.
• Recruitment Tools Project. A £0.5 mil Project designed to procure and deliver a replacement Lead Data Capture Application to increase the robustness of the sales lead data capture process, to improve the number and.
• Conversion Project. A £0.25 mil technical upgrade to our Salesforce Marketing Cloud technology to facilitate more complex user journeys with behaviour-based variations, such as roll out beyond email.

London, United Kingdom

• National Office 365 & Windows 10 Rollout Project. Reporting directly to the Deputy Director, appointed as the Workstream Lead for the Ministry of Justice End User Computing Services Project Team, responsible for the.
• Operational management of a £3 million workstream, including the identification and delivery of a recurring £300k saving from the budget.
• Direct Line Management of 17 Regional Staff responsible for Training Delivery to Regions and 2 Assistive Technology Trainers.
• Conducted Department-wide Use Case Studies followed by detailed Training Needs Analysis to baseline the training requirement and outline the scope of training delivery, incorporating individual learning styles and.
• Designed and developed a bespoke Analysis Tool to enable planning and delivery of appropriate Learning Interventions to users prior to, and after, migration to the new solution as part of a bespoke National Training.
• Direct liaison with suppliers to ensure Proof of Concept, Early Release and Final Builds and associated Office, Line of Business or Assistive Technology Applications were correctly supported with End User Training.

Andover, Hants, United Kingdom

• Operational Management of Global Training Portfolio. Personally selected to lead a number of diverse IT Training Programmes with sensitive and technologically complex remits across the training product portfolio for a.
• Conducted multi agency liaison and thorough whole life programme planning and Governance for Talent and Workforce management resulting in improved Personal and Professional Development for all staff.
• Senior Change Authority responsible for setting and developing internal and external HR and training requirements for a community of over 9,000 MOD IT professionals ensuring training products remained relevant and VFM.
• Acted as Senior User, capturing, articulating and negotiating the requirements of the End User community to internal and external stakeholders, contracted training providers and sponsors and holding vendors to account.
• Reviewed all products (+100), their costs, validity, contracts, resources and processes with required remediation or re-engineering and mitigated identified issues through regular KPI reviews, process change and where.
• Full responsibility for a multi-skilled team of 5 direct and over 30 indirect staff on multiple UK sites ensuring availability of cross functional resources to execute each project across multiple business areas.

Loughborough University, UK

• Reporting to the National Director of a Nationwide IT Engineering Apprenticeship Scheme, managed a wide ranging engineering programme at a top UK University, plus the complete through life, end to end HR administration.
• Personally responsible for diagnosing and implementing a training package to meet individual learning styles and ensuring every staff member met the Governance and Entry standards of 3 MOD Initial Training Establishment.
• Managing a budget of over £300k per annum and daily management of Individual, Programme and Project RAID.
• Radically re-engineered and delivered 6 keystone personnel exercises, including the transportation, training serials, HR support and assessment criteria for over 100 personnel and 50 support staff while eliminating.
• Audited and repurposed a full training and education programme of over 5000 man training days achieving 33% in year efficiency savings while meeting user needs.
• Ran an annual programme of short term detachments of staff to International stakeholder organisations to facilitate a mutual understanding of business objectives and facilitate strategic goals, including personnel.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

• Senior Change Programme Manager on loan to the Government of Saudi Arabia in a small multicultural, multinational team. Sole UK Government representative in the clients’ workspace, personally responsible for the.
• Acted as Senior User. Researched, collated and represented the customers detailed change management requirements to the UK Prime Contractor Paradigm GPT Special Projects Team, Defence Equipment and Support and the.
• Identified likely project risks and shortfalls and wrote Business Cases, reviewed commercial tenders and change proposals and implemented remedial action when required to ensure programme success, increasing customer.
• Successfully delivered a £10 million suite of communications capabilities with a bespoke, modular management control platform, including IP voice telephony, satellite data and desktop IT systems, plus associated Level.
• On site trouble-shooter for any issues faced by a highly demanding customer including HR issues, IT provision and facilities and estate management, holding the Prime Contractor to account for delivery of over 100 KPIs.

Nanyuki And Nairobi, Kenya

• Reporting directly back to a Senior Change Manager in the UK, trusted to deliver and act as the sole IT representative for establishing and leading a diverse, multicultural team of 65 IT professionals while.
• Site Lead directly reporting to UK Programme Board members for complete start up, implementation and delivery of secure Windows based IT systems at 2 major dispersed sites for a user community of 100 personnel as part.
• Procured, trialled and implemented a GPS tracking facility from SmoothTel Ltd, renegotiated contracted commercial mobile phone service provision with Orange (Kenya) and reviewed, tested and commissioned a safety.
• Personally responsible for the maintenance and upgrade of a fleet of over 100 mobile vehicle communication platforms ensuring high levels (90%) of equipment availability to facilitate operational training for soldiers.
• Liaised with British Government representatives in the wider East African area to facilitate strategic communications and planning.

Defence School Of CIS, Blandford

• Directly accountable to the Divisional Manager for the effective HR administration, discipline, welfare and career management of a team of over 600 (100 Instructors and Mentors and over 500 trainee IT professionals).
• Devised and championed a renewed, definitive and visible management structure following reorganisation overcoming morale and retention issues, improving transparency and efficiency during a period of change.
• Managed career development of personnel, identified and nurtured talent and ensured key positions were filled by correctly SQEP personnel to enhance legislative duty of care, resulting in the team being graded.
• Planned, designed and implemented regular change management of the organisation to meet temporary business needs to cover short term projects, staff absence and priority tasks.

Kabul, Afghanistan

• A short six month Project to deliver operational training, mentoring and liaison to the fledgling Afghan National Army Officer Academy. Personally accountable for the development of a team of 30 trainee Officer.
• Personally reviewed Personnel and Logistic policy Governance structures in order to identify and include best practice for new strategic and tactical capabilities.
• Successfully maintained a 100% training pass rate in accordance with HMG Objectives for the project.

Dhekelia, Cyprus

• Sole IT Leader of a team of 30, reporting to the Country IT Manager for the provision, supply and assurance of a diverse range of IT services ranging from desktop IT support, telephony and mobile radio communications.
• Led and facilitated IT Team operational planning and events to define agendas, priorities, goals and change.
• Successfully implemented use of REMEDY system to improve IT Service Desk efficiency
• Conducted and delivered manpower efficiency savings of 33% over a 12 month period.