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UK And International

Working for a variety of clients including offshore deployment with an Aerospace and Defence client in Saudi Arabia, more recently leading Programme Delivery for an International Food Manufacturer and previously a land-based Defence Company and and delivering a UK Government Programme supporting HMG's COVID-19 Response as part of the Test and Trace.

Macclesfield

Responsible for the Diving Operations for one of the Largest Diving Clubs in the North West. Co-Led the award winning Highball Project to locate, map and lift two Bouncing Bombs from the bottom of Loch Striven, a project that was the recipient of the Duke of Cambridge Scuba Award and the BSAC Peter Small Trophy. Also led the winning bid for the Heinke.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Headed up Expeditions and Diving Trips for BSAC 1666 - the only Scuba Diving Club in Riyadh. Including numerous trips to Egypt, Lebanon, Oman, Dubai and also Red-Sea in Saudi. Including inland expeditions to caves in Riyadh doing underground (and underwater) exploration.

Liverpool And Lancashire, United Kingdom

After sucessfully completing the migration of Amey's corporate Data Center from a legacy site into a strategic Helion Managed Cloud Solution with Hewlett Packard I moved on to lead the Solution Delivery for their Largest Programme of work, a major CRM solution for the massive Next Generation Estate Contract (NGEC) with the Ministry of Defence.

London

• Responsible for spearheading project delivery & IT transformation for the Royal Brompton Hospital
• Appointed to lead the Demand and Portfolio Management Teams, including coaching & mentoring and capability development
• Engaged directly with the Chief Information Officer, defining an IT strategy & transforming project delivery
• Headed-up all project delivery for the Trust, including adoption of governance & delivery processes
• Established PMO, business relationship management structure & dedicated project delivery teams
• Successfully expanding the IT / IS delivery portfolio from £3m to £14m, delivering mission-critical IT and engaging with Applications and Data Center migration.

Leeds

- Working for the HSCIC Medical Director drawing together input from many organisations on the US/UK Open Data Workstreams.

Warrington, United Kingdom

• Responsible for all aspects of programme management and delivery, adopting Agile best practice
• Appointed as Head of Programme Delivery / Head of Engagement on the Emergn account
• Engaged with the Department of Work & Pensions (DWP), delivering an IT-led change programme
• Advised the client on Agile Programme Delivery as part of the £2bn Universal Credit Programme
• Leadership, management and motivation of a team of 20+ consultancy, providing delivery services
• Instrumental in definition of strategy, delivery / release models, resource management and reporting

London

• Responsible for spearheading a programme of delivery and transformation within Guys & St Thomas’s NHS Foundation Trust
• Transformation of all IT Programme delivery and implementing the new IT strategy.
• Management of all project delivery teams, with an emphasis on delivery of high-priority workstreams
• Day-to-day communication and engagement with stakeholders, working at up to CEO / Board level
• Full accountability for implementing full lifecycle controls, including governance, testing & release
• Oversaw a £16m+ portfolio of in-flight projects, establishing governance & ITIL service management

• Responsible for the Enterprise Management / Service Delivery Workstream for Thomson Reuters
• Focused on project delivery of systems to deliver, monitor & manage Data Centre & desktop infrastructure
• Provision of ITIL-based processes & release management structures to transition these into service
• Managed the creation of a Network Operations Centre (NOC) & Remote Infrastructure Management
• Engaged with Fujitsu infrastructure teams, as well as applications delivery, release & service teams

• Responsible for requirements capture, design, development, test, release and management aspects
• Focused on management of the EDS team of project staff on the Child Support Agency account
• Engaged as Programme Manager to work with the EDS team on the Child Support System upgrade
• Full accountability for all systems development for productivity & financial systems across the CSA
• Utilised Agile methods & tools (SCRUM) in the Java, mainframe & TIBCO technology environments responsibility for reporting and representation to senior client and EDS account management.

- Led the Marketting efforts of the PMI UK Chapter, actively helped with the website and newsletters and also improved comms and marketing at our regional events.

- Led the largest set of events in the history of the PMI UK Chapter. - Organised a huge programme of events both in London and across the regions.

• Responsible for programme delivery, heading up the Group Effectiveness Programme, 300+ staff
• Appointed to Programme Director role as part of the BT Group OneIT Line-of-Business offering
• Full accountability for delivery of GEP services into BT, including Enterprise Content Management, Infrastructure Delivery and Project Delivery
• Championed transformation of operations into an Agile delivery model, offshoring technical delivery and infrastructure services.
• Successfully achieved delivery of offshoring of 65%+ of delivery activity, realising business benefit
• Managed offshore delivery engagements with Tata, MBT and Xansa, including SLAs & KPI metrics

• Responsible for programme leadership and delivery, working as part of the PM Practice within CSC
• Appointed to key role within the Consulting & Systems Integration Group, overseeing programmes
• Client-facing, working on the major BAE account as Applications Workstream Programme Manager
• Spearheaded applications transformation activity for a portfolio of 1200+ applications within 6 mths
• Effectively rationalised the apps portfolio from over 17,000 legacy applications to just over 100 apps and rationalised the data center and hosting services underpinning this transformation.
• Successfully led deployment of a consolidated applications portfolio across 150+ sites and locations

London, Milton Keynes, Reading

• Responsible for all aspects of programme management, working on the EDS Barclays Account
• Appointed to lead the Barclays Applications Delivery, with a total programme value of £50m+

• Responsible for the UK South East Project and Programme Management Practice (80 PMs)
• Created, led and delivered the PM Development Programme, leading to EDS having the largest group of qualified PMPs in the U.K.
• in addition led recovery & delivery of the ElectraLink Programme on behalf of EDS
• Appointed to rescue a failing project to deliver the Data Transfer Service to the ElectraLink business
• Leadership of a 70+ strong project team, delivering functionality for supply of EDI services to utilities
• Joined the project at crisis point, delivering an urgent review & restructuring to bring it under control

- Worked as an internal Management Consultant assessing the Programme Management of Government grant funded Projects in the private sector.

- Variety of roles managing and delivering both software and infrastructure projects.

Bsc

Education record

Hnd Business Studies