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Woking

Councillor for Knaphill ward

Woking

Offering Programme, PMO and Project Manager services, including consultancy, underpinned by wide-ranging experience on Business Change and IT Programmes across multiple industry sectors.

London, United Kingdom

Responsible for Planning/Management of Bid Submission, Risk Assessment and Delivery Assurance for a Joint Venture bid for a major, multi-year outsourcing opportunity in the Justice sector.

Telford, United Kingdom

PMO Manager for a programme to transform Admin Re's Customer Services and Commercial Solutions Delivery operations, delivering enhanced customer service, improved productivity and reduced failure rates.Responsible for Programme / Project governance and support, including Reporting, Reviews, Change Control, Risk / Issue Management, Document Management.

Holborn

Responsible for planning a Project Portfolio for a group with a £30m p.a. Budget within Sainsbury's IT organisation. Development of an integrated portfolio plan, addressing business priorities, timescales, resources and budgets. Process re-engineering activities in areas including Resource Management, Status Reporting and Project Management and Governance.

Woking

Responsibilities for Schedule Management, Dependency Management and Reporting on a major transformation Programme for Gala Coral, which included offshoring of business functions, outsourcing of all technical development and migration of all online gaming activities to new platforms.

Canary Wharf

Lead for managed PMO service provided by Xceed into Thomson Reuters Elektron Price Discovery (EPD) Business Programme. Establishing Change Control, Risk & Issue Management, Dependency Management, Plan and other disciplines. Xceed Associate Partner.

Paddington

PMO Manager for Ceridian in delivery of HR-related services and IT systems into Marks & Spencer's HR Transformation programme. Contract role

Heidelberg / Maastricht

Interim PMO Manager at Life Insurance / Pensions company in Germany. Responsible for PMO Team delivering Project Governance / Assurance, Project Support and Business Support Services in respect of portfolios of Applications and Infrastructure Projects. Migration of functions from PMO location in Netherlands, and transition to new PMO Service Model.

Established and operated processes for managing change to Programme scope and requirements which met specific needs of very large, complex infrastructure deployment programme for UK Defence Industry.

Part-time role with responsibility for Quality Management on major internal organisational transformation programme. Produced Programme Quality Management Plan. Organised and led Health Checks of overall Programme and main Workstreams.

Responsible for specification / documentation of OGC-compliant (MSP, PRINCE2) methodology for Programme and Project Management which met specific needs of very large, complex infrastructure deployment programme. Provided coaching / mentoring on its use to Programme and Project Managers.

• Represented central Programme Management Group in Financial Services and Civil Government business areas, with overall responsibility for Programme Management and Governance structures, processes and resources within.
• Selection, appointment of and support to Programme Managers
• Participation in Programme Governance Boards
• Support to Bid teams, focussing on Programme Management solutions

Responsible for Programme and Project Management standards within Applications delivery organisation across EMEA. Development of detailed Delivery Engagement Model, defining key delivery roles and interactions. Ran workshops with senior leadership from across EMEA to develop model. Delivery of seminars to 1st, 2nd and 3rd line EMEA leaders.Undertook.

Responsibility for establishing and improving Delivery Capability across 900-person applications group. Areas included Project / Programme Governance, Issues Resolution and policies, processes and tools for effective delivery.

Managed Programme delivering web- and applications-hosting solutions, based on standard modules and processes, to multiple EDS customers

Financial Services Sector bids Involved in two bids for 10-year outsourcing contracts in the Financial Services sector; Bid Manager for one of the bids. The business was won in both instances.

Manager of a Programme to transform all Infrastructure and Telecomms. service lines to a common service delivery and technology solution, to deliver cost savings and support consolidation of the customer’s business lines. A customer-facing role in the context of a new, 10-year outsourcing contract.Services / systems addressed by the Programme included.

Established and managed European Programme Office for a major EDS global account in the Manufacturing sector. Built a team of 30 Project and Programme Managers assigned to PM roles across all areas of delivery to the customer, including Applications, Infrastructure and Telecomms. Managed migration of 250 EDS staff and functions from 2 client sites to 2 new.

Provided PM consultancy and managed roll-out of common PM support systems across multiple EDS Accounts. Managed implementation of SAP systems support for Business Operations processes as part of pan-European re-engineering programme.

Provided Project and Risk Management services in support of a major programme to implement logistics supply systems for the Defence sector.

Master Of Arts (Ma), Engineering

Downing College

Msc, Control Engineering