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Liverpool, Gb

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

To oversee the governance and reporting for the building safety regulator programme

Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

To provide a PMO service in a complex governance structure across multiple government organisation for the building safety regulator programme. Servicing 6 plus boards and working with colleagues in DWP and DLUHC as part of the Government Major Projects & Programmes GMPP, plus supporting the Infrastructure Project Authority IPA for stage gate reviews within in the programme.

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Providing all aspects of PMO Governance, MSP Planning, RAID Management and Change Management

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Break for Surgery with Recovery Period

Worcester, United Kingdom

To provide planning support for large transformation programme including 9 workstreams with multiple inter dependencies to allow weekly reporting on Level 0 Milestones at both weekly checkpoint meetings and monthly board meeting. To provide RAID management support and experience for the programme aligning to the Enterprise PMO processes to allow reporting at each level.

Warwick, United Kingdom

To provide RAID management experience across multiple portfolios for IS department. To develop and test RAID items for transformation roll-out across department for Project On-Line (POL) worked alongside National Grid Team and PCubed in developement, Test and Implementation. Worked on a global PMO aligning delivery processes, schedule of events and reporting both in the UK and US. Supported multiple projects for both planning and governance whilst building working relationships with the National Grid Finance Team to develop and implement a robust and transparent monthly finance process at multiple levels supporting both the PM's and Management Team for Reports and Board Packs.

Nottingham, United Kingdom

Enhancement of pre-existing resource management tool as limited ability to provide MI for new and in-flight projects to the support supply and demand Developed and implemented an enterprise level Risk Management Framework Alignment with Experian Corporate Risk Manager and Department Heads to ensure the correct exposure, ownership and management of reported risks within framework. Developed risk framework documents, logs and templates with diarised risk meetings for each risk level with process flows and guides to support new process. Developed risk MI for reporting packs produced by the PMO to reduce manual input by Project and Delivery Managers, this providing a consistent view and scoring. Training and support to the PMO team and Manager in new risk process, assisting Project and Delivery Managers, Department Heads and Finance team with Q&A sessions to support the implementation and process. Aligned existing issue MI to mirror the new risk MI layout for PMO population decreasing manual input from both Project and Delivery Managers for the weekly/monthly reporting packs.Designed and implemented a PMO SharePoint Information Hub for quicker navigation between the department delivery framework documentation, processes and templates Facilitated SharePoint workshops and drop in sessions across department to build business case for departmental SharePoint project, providing feedback to Executive Board on progression and authority to proceed to next stage. Developed MSP plan with resource, dependencies and critical milestones to support business case to gain full financial sign off of the SharePoint project under the FCA Transformation Programme.Authored multiple on a page guides (OAPG’s) to support the use of the new PMO functions.Created documentation for Project Health Checks to support the PMO function in project reviews.

Liverpool

Break from Work & Travelling Commitments for Health

Wolverhampton, United Kingdom

Establish efficient PMO governance structure for an Agresso ERP Transformation Implementation within Public Service sector. Delivery of all PMO governance within WCC Corporate PMO guidelines for multiple on-going portfolio frameworks. Develop and knowledge share with 2 WCC Project Support Officers and 1 Agilisys Junior Consultant. Weekly reporting against plan slippage, escalation of areas of concern Provide good news stories at end stages for the achievement of critical and commercial milestones. Daily risk and issue management, facilitation of lessons learnt, planning and end stage workshops. Production of weekly, bi weekly and monthly reports for Programme Board and Strategic Executive BoardMaintenance of all programme logs, central libraries to ensure compliance with quality assurance. SharePoint maintenance with workstream leads with set up of document repositoriesSharePoint training within PMO and Programme team, Weekly timesheet monitoring and approvals to external agencies Co-ordination of programme interviews and participation of PMO interviews with external audit company Price Waterhouse for end stage and gate reviews.

Newcastle Upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Set up of PMO for Oracle ERP Transformation Programme within public service sector. Delivery of all programme governance set out within the council guidelines for Risk, Issue and Change Control management. Set up of all document libraries with central logs within team storage facilities (introduction of SharePoint to NTC) to ensure correct documentation, version control and audit trails for all stages within each phase. Creation of project documentation unique to council partnership to align with BBW documentation. Development of all MSP plans, within full investment/transformation plans to BAU Service Delivery plans. Daily plan management, highlighting achievements and potential areas of concern to enable mitigation actions to reduce plan slippage. Facilitation of planning and lesson learnt workshopsCo-ordination of weekly Project Board and Change Control meetings providing documentation and updating outcomes across all central logs feeding communication outputs.Introduction of weekly timesheet submission to Finance team to monitor weekly spend against budget

Knowsley, Warrington, Bolton, Manchester, Glasgow, Cheltenham

Planning and co-ordination of multiple projects for Private, Public and Financial Service sectors. Conduct monthly project deep dives. Change control owner for major project for the removal of Vertex data centres from United Utilities to Swindon Supported delivery of Utilities, Government and FSA Regulated Programmes of work ensuring all Programme Office activities carried out within agreed timescales.Tracked plans throughout project/programme lifecycle, delivering audit trails for internal/external audits.Supported VOP approval for Tesco Bank Mortgages, supported external audits with Navigant.Supported Project Manager with project budget monitoring Monitored and produced weekly tracking of project budgets against cost models MSP planning support to Project Managers for project mobilisation, transition and transformation.Quote production, request of purchase orders and project invoicing. Adhere to all account and project SLA’s, and deadlines with limited supervision. Quality monitoring and training of PMO administrators.Author for office end-to-end procedures.Monitoring of account central areas and logs for quality and version control, set up and maintenance of document libraries with access and restricted access rights and daily ad-hoc account and project requests.

Information Technology, Pass

Night school for introduction into computers

Gcse

Activities and Societies: Art Club