Michael Doherty Email & Phone Number

Glasgow, Gb

Glasgow, Gb

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Planning Programmes

Edinburgh City, Scotland, United Kingdom

Programme planner and more recently delivery manager.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

Wrote the Project & Programme Planning standards for Old Mutual Wealth, communicated and implemented them across the whole organisation, along with a full set of MSP planning templates, a suite of VBA macros to increase productivity and a comprehensive set of reporting tools. This meant that all projects, programmes and portfolios reported weekly, and could be consolidated with a view to assessing: resource utilisation, progress and trend analysis (wrote and implemented a plan snapshot database that created metrics across all previous versions of the plan). Worked with a team of planners and the PMO to integrate the Corporate Gating Process with the planning process and successfully integrated this with the Clarity PMO system.Also trained and mentored various groups of staff, including: programme and project managers, project coordinators and PMO.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

In charge of setting up and running the planning and reporting methodology for a massive programme of work (c. £500m total spend). Wrote the planning and reporting templates, user documentation and a host of MI and audit tools so that consistent planning and reporting standards and practice were implemented across the entire programme.

Prestwick Airport

A short-term contract to manage the recovery of a critical transformation project at BAE Systems, Prestwick, while the project manager was off ill. I was responsible for 2 project managers and 16 other staff, including enterprise architects, security specialists and systems & network engineers, to get the final user-acceptance over the line to ITIL standards.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Managing the implementation of MS Project Server 2010 as the Enterprise Project Management (EPM) tool, replacing and decommissioning the existing system, Primavera. Overall Project Budget £1.9m.Representing the business as the lead PM and single point of contact for 3rd party suppliers. Wrote the Target Operating Model - Responsible for the planning, agreement and execution of significant Business Process and Culture Change with the senior stakeholders (Heads of Service).Created the Project Acceptance Criteria to clarify the project scope and worked with a team of Business Analysts to ensure that the results from the Project Definition Workshops were translated into feasible business requirements.Responsible for rewriting the planning standards and policies for the new system.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Reporting directly to the Solvency II Programme Directors, I was responsible for managing a team of 9 planners looking after a total of 12 work-streams across the four business units that were implementing Solvency II changes.Responsible for the creation and implementation of the planning and reporting standards and best practices, and their adoption across c. 2000 people. Implementation of a number of productivity and reporting tools across the programme that increased productivity significantly and saved in the region of £300,000. Responsible for the overall consolidated programme plan and reporting to the FSA. Total budget responsibility - £1.1mLiaison with 3rd parties (Deloitte consultants and various software vendors).

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Working in Operations Delivery PMO with a total portfolio of 270 business change projectsAuthor of several policies regarding: Dependency Management, High Level Plan Reporting, Risk-Based Approaches to Portfolio Management and Mandatory Milestone Policies.Responsible for setting and implementing the standards for portfolio planning and plan reporting, as well as a number of other initiatives to improve business processes.Responsible for writing and delivering regular updates, workshops and training sessions for the Change Management community on Planning, MI Reporting and Risk & Issue Management.

Abu Dhabi

Senior Management Consultant leading the Information Management Workstream in the Abu DhabiMunicipalities Knowledge Management Implementation – one of the largest Knowledge Management systems in the world (c. £20m).Personal Spend Authority – up to £500,000Managing four change consultants to deliver a major change initiative across c.17,000 people.Author of the Information Retention Policies, Information Management Policies and the Government & Public Sector Suppliers Information Taxonomy for the Government of Abu Dhabi.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Responsible for the largest implementation of HP Asset Manager (an Enterprise Asset Management System) in the world, with a total budget of £2.2MClose liaison and management of external suppliers (Sun, Oracle, HP), contract negotiations and management of 4 external consultants and project managers from HP.Overall responsibility for the data migration of a number of systems into the Asset database (Oracle) – c.60GB per week.Delivered 2 service improvement projects (World Class Data Protection & Midrange StorageTransformation) for RBS Midrange Storage (SAN & NAS) with a combined budget of £1.8MWrote the Midrange Storage Improvement and Strategy documentation for one of the largest storage estates in Europe.

Norwich, United Kingdom

Responsible for the successful rollout of a new Personal Injury Claims system to 400 users in call centres in both India and the UK. Overall budget of £2.5m.Successfully managed a major software re-write (outsourced to India) in the middle of the implementation so that some of the major components could be ported from Wintel to IBM Midrange infrastructure.Leadership & control of a team of 12 comprising: IT project manager, change managers & system trainers.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Working in state of the art video production company to create broadcast-quality training and corporate videos.

Master'S Degree, Information Management, Distinction

Post Grad - Software Engineering, Computer Software Engineering, Distinction