Nick Rose Email & Phone Number

Newcastle Upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Corsham, England, United Kingdom

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Transition & Transformation Programme Scheduler.

Central London

Responsibilities: Developed master schedule plan & created weekly \ monthly report templates with MS Project & Excel. Developed level 1, 2 & 3 schedules and reported to diverse levels of management / stakeholder for decision making. Utilised MS Project, MS Excel & MS Visio for the regular schedule reporting. Managed the implementation of MS Project Server. Provided a consolidated project plan, road map charts, critical path analysis, milestone management, interdependency management and robust reporting. Led planning workshops, created MS Project plans from scratch, ensured project schedules were product-based, consistent and contained all the required deliverables Worked closely with work stream leads, project managers to capture all interdependencies and managed them accordingly Ensured continuous improvement and provided training on planning processes, tools and best practices to programme and project managers Developed & then ensured consistent adherence across the programme to planning standards/processes and ensured all plans were feasible and had undergone rigorous quality checks Provided end to end planning and project management including Risks, Issues, Change Control & resource management. Management of the PMO Planning team, setting objectives and priorities.  Established levels of Milestones to accurately track and report on the progress of projects to all stakeholders. Attended Project boards and Programme boards as the PMO Planning lead; drafted management reports.

Reading/Theale/Hook/Erskine/Tewkesbury

PMO Governance.Senior Planner - Business Applications Service Line (BASL).Lead Project Planner - DII Account for the Service Development Programme (SDP) later the Support ATLAS (SASL) Service line.Project Manager -Asset Management capability. Responsibilities: Enforcing adherence to planning standards (60+ schedules). secondments to ‘tiger teams’ for ‘deep dives’ & rapid re-planning activities for programmes/projects in exception. MI reports for Project Management Boards and key stakeholders; Identified variances and presented data in the form of graphical & written reports. Identification of Risks & Issues. Provided training on planning processes, tools & best practices to project managers & Project planners. Maintenance of plan dependency links within MS Project Server.  Maintained programme plan. Monitored Level 2 & Level 3 schedules. Ensured work-stream & project schedules were feasible & comprehensible Identified & tracked inter-dependencies to ensure coordination between projects to avoid slippage & cost over runs Critical path analysis to ensure critical activities / deliverables were understood and prioritised Provided trend forecasts/ look ahead, maintained programme, project and work-stream schedules. Ensured milestones represented all required lifecycle activities\decision points\checkpoints. Produced performance and MI reports for Project Management Boards and key stakeholders; Identified schedule variances and presented the data in the form of graphical reports. Maintained Change logs, chaired the weekly Change assessment meeting & attended the wider portfolio change triage meetings. Ensured all Risks, Assumption, Issues & Dependencies (RAID) were identified, logged, evaluated and suitable actions carried out Change control by being the nominated Baseline controller ensuring changes were impact assessed, approved & implemented correctly. Ensured checkpoint and monthly highlight reports were produced & accurate.

Gloucestershire