My background is as a Technical Program Manager mainly working with in Infrastructure and Geospatial technologies with a high track record in delivering high profile complex Programmes and Projects throughout all stages of project lifecycle. I have a relentless focus on the customer, whether they are internal or external and I drive innovation through the use of data.
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Co-Founder, CeoInov8IveExmouth, Gb -
Chief Operating Officer / Technical Program ManagerJourney Protector Nov 2023 - PresentDublin, County Dublin, Ireland• Lead and supervise the execution of business, technical, project finance, and administrative functions within the IRL, UK and EU• Manage complex technical installation activities in collaboration with internal and external stakeholders.• Developing policies and procedures for the company related to integrating and using technical systems.• Drive planning, resolution, and execution of projects.• Support the rest of the design team in brainstorming ideas for sales material and partnership material.• Complex data gathering and analysis• Define and measure internal and external performance standards.• Process, analyse and model in enterprise geospatial software applications.• Monitor and report on the progress of all activities.• Support the rest of the design team in brainstorming ideas for sales material and partnership material.• Collaborate with stakeholders in Marketing, Product Management, Technical, Financial, Program Management, Operations and Customers.• Collaborate with enterprise architects and engineers to assess application portfolios ensuring that cloud solutions are highly scalable, flexible and resilient.• Act as the liaison between Engineering, Security, Compliance, Marketing, Sales, Legal, and other cross-functional teams on complex efforts to meet customer needs.• Work with strategic IRL, UK and EU government to understand their requirements, influence product roadmaps, and drive engineering solutions to meet customer needs.• Risk management and mitigation• Revenue Development• Agile Methodologies -
Co-Founder, CeoInov8Ive Jan 2016 - PresentDevon, England, United KingdomWorking within business development, grant application, and investment of our new security IOT based product which significantly increases efficiency, safety, quality, and transparency (www.inov8ive.co.uk). My role is participating in all aspects of product development including patent applications (UK.USA), geospatial, business analyst, and project management. Alongside building professional relationships with potential investors, customers and partners; attended various start-up, exhibitions and business events in the UK.SWRDSC Steering board/committee member. SWRDSC is the first pan-Defence and Security cluster in the UK. It forms a collaboration led by industry and academia with the support of the government and its ministerial departments such as the MOD and its innovation directorate, and the Defence and Security Accelerator (DASA). -
Senior Gis Project ManagerOrdnance Survey Dec 2014 - Dec 2015Southampton, United KingdomEstablished the processes and orchestrated the inception and launch of a multi-tiered, government spatial application and dataset product and supporting infrastructure which was a key European Union objective (NDA) with a value over five million in a crown to crown contract. Directed the efforts of customers, stakeholders, project managers, scrum masters, procurement, business analysts, application developers, product owner, system architects, and quality assurance teams to develop, test and deploy over £5M+ worth of data modifications to create a new crown to crown product from inception to delivery. Directed business forecasting and financial analysis activities and identify opportunities and risks along with action plans to ensure attainment of financial goals. -
Senior Project Manager (Defra / Rpa Account (Infrastructure & Gis ))Ibm Jan 2014 - Dec 2014London, United KingdomEnsured on-time and on-budget delivery of projects (£1M+); business and stakeholder management; issue and escalation management; cost, revenue and resource forecasting; and management of external project dependencies. Successfully projects included the technical upgrade of the Linux SOCK 5 proxy tunnels including server infrastructure rollout to all sites (network security, penetration testing (RAG zoned, red team) alongside the Implementation, consolidation and upgrade of Citrix infrastructures (XenApp 6.5 and XenApp/XenDesktop 7.x.) for all Defra sites and onshore and offshore support. -
Project Manager (Rsa)Ibm May 2013 - Dec 2013Horsham, West SussexImplemented a full network upgrade to the HP BAC monitoring solution and configure the RUM (Read User Monitor), including server infrastructure upgrades (Oracle), Network upgrades, dashboards, reports and alerts to identify application outages, reduce downtime, network security infrastructure and improve triage capability. -
Project Manager (L&G)Ibm Jan 2011 - Jan 2013Tadworth, SurreyAward winning Project Manager overseeing the procurement (audit, conceptual design, requirements capture), installation of “like for like” target infrastructure, and final migration for the complex and critical mid-range I-series mainframe solution (AWD and i90). On completion of the migration, I was transferred to the Project team and worked on a portfolio of projects including requirement, Change, UAT and Infrastructure updates on all systems including Legal and Generals early warning system (AWE/OLPC) amongst others.Managed all key stakeholder relationships and cross-functional project teams. Utilized Waterfall and Agile project management strategies, depending on client need. 100% of client projects were completed on time and achieved intended outcomes during migration weekends. -
Project Manager (Cls)Ibm Jun 2010 - Nov 2010Portsmouth, United KingdomTechnical Project Managing within an Application Management Portfolio, implemented up to six software upgrades for a suit of SWIFT products and MQ. My key responsibilities include System Integration Testing, Pre-Production testing and Production environments, ensuring the successful delivery of all pre-requisite dependencies for other projects -
Senior Gis Project Manager / Program ManagerEads Astrium, Inc. Apr 2005 - May 2010Farnborough (Infoterra)Managed a series of collaboration projects with IBM, and UK Government including DEFRA (Noise, SPIRE), RPA, European Union (INSPIRE, NOISE amongst others), European Space Agency, and Infoterra Projects including Greater London Assembly.Ensured on-time and on-budget delivery of projects; business and stakeholder management; issue and escalation management; technical implementation plan; cost, revenue and resource forecasting; Management of external project dependencies.Technical experience includes: WAN and LAN circuit relocation, server and service virtualisation, Programme tasks included, data management, digital mapping, GIS, charting, quality/test management, geospatial data and data models, automated generalisation and data re-engineering techniques. Metadata, Web Services and Mapping API,
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