Kathryn Askew Smith Email & Phone Number

A Senior Project, Programme, PMO Director with extensive success in driving infrastructure, procurement and strategic organisational change project and programme delivery such as national fibre, WAN, LAN, 5G & Cloud implementation, subsea / maritime engineering, and urban regeneration.Business-minded and technically oriented, I have an MBA Degree and am qualified in the field of project & programme management, as a PRINCE2 Practitioner with MAPM and MSP. Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)® is a framework or guiding set of principles and processes for delivering best practice when managing a programme.Calm and balanced with recognised relationship management skills, I also have substantial experience in stakeholder engagement (including MPs, Government & local authorities), risk & issue mitigation and crisis resolution, successfully ensuring major projects are delivered to plan and protecting organisational / public interests.I enjoy delivering presentations to help the young engage in STEM careers, and gain satisfaction from helping colleagues unlock their potential through training, coaching and mentoring. ________________________________________ Key successes include:✨CityFibre: Managing senior stakeholder relationships and crisis resolution / risk mitigation to ensure gigabit fibre infrastructure delivery to >400K homes and businesses, transforming connectivity and local economy✨Horsebridge Network Systems: Leading the largest full fibre network customer project to date (1,600 new homes) for a large home builder with 99.999% service availability & 4.4/5 Trustpilot rating✨KCOM Plc: Turned around a team to become a delivery Centre of Excellence; accomplished the company’s largest WAN project - across 900 sites; and led a WAN rollout for the RNLI to their UK and RoI lifeboat stations________________________________________ Core Areas of Expertise:✔ Communications & Engagement Strategies ✯ Media & PR ✯ Risk, & Issue Management/Mitigation✔ Communications, IT & Telecoms Project & Programme Management / Turnaround✔ Full Fibre, WAN, LAN, 5G & Cloud Infrastructure Implementation✔ Strategic Organisational Change ✯ Team Leadership, Training & Coaching ✯ STEM Events✔ Procurement, Bids / Tenders / RFPs ✯ Contract Negotiation ✯ Supplier Management✔ B2B Customer Account Management ✯ PMO Set-Up & Managementseeking Programme Manager / seeking Programme Director / seeking Project Director / seeking interim

Listed skills include Management, Project Management, Process Improvement, Change Management, and 16 others.

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  Henley Business School

  Business Administration And Management, General