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Sutton And Aberdeen

Project Management of Asset Management initiatives. Integration of Master Data and Asset Management processes and solutions with SAP S/4..

Surrey, England, United Kingdom

Providing no fuss programme, project and change management services to help large and SME organisations deliver successful outcomes.The right approach and attitude to transformation and delivery is key and our professional experience will help ensure new, in progress, completing or even slightly dented (‘benkled’) initiatives are delivered successfully.Please do get in touch if you are looking for calm and reassuring delivery support.Programme management: strategic thinking and planning, leadership, stakeholder management, communication and collaboration, financial management, risk management and building close knit & collaborative teamsProject management: project planning, forecasting and estimating, monitoring and reporting, risk and Issue management, finance management and budgeting.Additionaly Benkled can provide subject matter expertise in data strategy, data organisation, and data & analytics delivery.

As Principal Consultant conducted data maturity reviews, prepared data strategy and data delivery roadmaps for local authority and housing customers. Secured business in the region of £4.5m. Transitioned to a Head of Delivery to use extensive programme and project management experience to ensure successful delivery of data and analytics projects in Microsoft Azure and Power BI.

Provided digital leadership to further the use of technology (LMS / eLearning / Zoom) to support students and teachers across a 25 campus school groupDelivery of classroom teaching across Mathematics (GCSE & A-Level), IT and BusinessPromotions: Assistant Curriculum lead Mathematics (across 25 OneSchool sites) and Associate Assistant Head Teacher (6th form and timetabling).

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for leading Regulatory and Ledger initiatives including management of a Global Portfolio Delivery function across APAC, EMEA, NA (delivery of 400+ projects pa, reduced annual running cost from $7m to $4m). Line management of a Project Management function, responsible for mentoring and development of PM staff. Development of EMEA Regulatory Data strategy and roadmap.

Director, reporting to Managing Director. Responsible for the project implementation of SmartAgent, a numerop developed contact routing and service response solution.Established a professional services consultancy function of 25 staff to provide pre-sales, software implementation and configuration, customer care, and education support. Implemented a project management office (PMO) to ensure defined delivery standards and governance were applied to all projects. Provided account management and client advocacy.

London, United Kingdom

Programme Management: management of Regulatory Introduction (Mortgage and General Insurance Regulation) and Business Intelligence (to leverage financial return data) Programmes. Role involved significant relationship and supplier management.

I was responsible for managing a consultancy team, a portfolio of consultancy projects for KMS (provider of knowledge management and collaboration software products) spanning both global alliance partners (US and Europe wide) and direct customers.

Formerly GA Information Systems (a Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence consultancy). Service Delivery Management within Professional Services Department. Management of a consultancy function and delivery of portfolio of projects across the GA client base. Management of eCommerce solution delivery function post merger with Acuma.

Aberdeen, Nottingham, Leicester

Project Lead / Management roles focussed around data initiatives which included Informix Data Warehouse and Business Objects development.

Lerwick, Shetland Islands & Aberdeen

Various summer employment 1987, 1988 & 1992.

Honours Degree, Computer Science

Pgce, Mathematics & Computing, Pgce (With Merit In Mathematics)

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