John Mountain Email & Phone Number

Bircham Newton, England, United Kingdom

- Operational Delivery Governance- Driving transformational change supporting 2020 strategy, focussing on industrialisation of project management and service management capabilities.- Overall Line Management responsibility for 70+ project managers, service managers and test managers.

• Acting as a 3rd party supplier, John successfully managed 3 outgoing transitions to other offshore 3rd parties, with some services going inhouse to the end client. In addition, he managed a project transitioning in SAP.
• A number of transitions included the transfer of UK based staff and required strong relationships to be forged with the HR team to ensure TUPE regulations were adhered to.
• Compliance, Security and Fraud teams were key stakeholders, especially when dealing with sensitive data, including payroll data, submissions to HMRC and FCA.
• Strong governance was employed across all transitions to report effectively on progress, manage risks/issues and to seek support from senior stakeholders via timely escalations.

York, United Kingdom

• Working onsite at the FSA, re-energised an existing portfolio of IT infrastructure, platform and application change projects, to align to original requirements and deliver through Acceptance Into Service to the.
• Supported the development of a new Programme/Project Management framework based on MSP and PRINCE2.
• As part of a pre-sales function, supported the production of the first tranche of proposals which was to form part of a new IT Roadmap programme for 15/16.

Leeds, United Kingdom

• Over the 10 years, John performed various programme/senior project management roles. The most recent of which are summarised below:-
• Managed a portfolio of data cleanse and software change projects within the Data Quality CoE area. (capex budget £3m for 13/14 and £2m for 14/15). Applications were typically built on an Oracle 11g database with Oracle.
• The largest project, Network As Master, involved managing a group of parallel work packages that aimed to align the network configuration data stored in the Operational Systems Stack with the data installed on the.
• During Q4 14/15, John led the transition of IT services between offshore suppliers, each deploying approximately 200 FTE. The success of this transition was due to effective stakeholder and supplier management..
• Contributed to the production of the Business Case via input of cost estimates and proposed benefits.

Sheffield, United Kingdom