Paul Kyte Email & Phone Number

Great Missenden, Gb

High Wycombe, England, United Kingdom

Working in Openreach’s Strategy, Transformation and Plans team, I am part of the team driving strategic transformation programmes to deliver fibre and networks all across the UK. I lead a team assuring the delivery of projects within our transformation portfolio, ensuring our PMs are supported with best-in-class processes, tools and systems to successfully deliver their projects enabling our ultrafast broadband rollout across the UK, and improving our service to all our customers.• Personally accountable for identifying and agreeing a £1m annualised efficiency through a digital transformation programme to automate the customer order journey.• Developed and deployed a new governance framework to assure a transformation portfolio delivering ~£100m in year benefits.• Successfully rolled out a new digital portfolio management platform from definition through design & test, pilot and ongoing in-life support, migrating 100+ project and programme managers, and their 200+ project data sets in-life.

Working firstly in Group Finance, then latterly Group HR, I was part of a small team of Business Transformation professionals building internal capability to enable BT to transform from the inside-out. We shaped the way our leaders and people managers deliver the workplace and people transformation programmes that will make BT a more lean and agile organisation. I have been accountable for having...- Designed and delivered coaching and trading to ~1000 executives, their leadership teams, programme & project managers, HR managers, change professionals and people managers via face-to-face and virtual channels.- Developed and delivered the learning pathway for BT’s programme & project management community, impacting ~4000 people, leading to externally recognised certifications with the BQF and APM.- Designed and delivered the supporting website of digital resources, visited over 14,000 times in the first 6 months.- Achieved APM accreditation to deliver training for, and run, APM examinations in house.

Andover, United Kingdom

Project managed a £3.25m project from concept to successful closure through five separate stages over 11 months, involving multiple stakeholders from 20 different organisations and two countries. Directed by the Chief of the General Staff (head of the British Army), the project’s two key objectives were to define - through research and experimentation - the British Army’s future land capability requirement to inform its future procurement programme; and to develop cooperation and inter-operability between the British and French Armies.• Successfully delivered all project outputs on time, within budget and to customer satisfaction.• Implemented PRINCE2 processes and key documentation throughout the project lifecycle, including Business Case, PID, RAID log, weekly and end of stage/project reports.• Effectively managed a diverse range of international stakeholders with military and commercial interests, whilst actively influencing cooperation and inter-operability between British and French Armed Forces.• Efficiently led the project team using a matrix management approach through all planning and execution, progress review and change control, as well as the forecasting, capture and control of costs.• Personally conducted acceptance testing on commercially delivered military products, and delegated responsibility for training validation and safety to appropriate authorities.• Organised and chaired a closing seminar involving 65 stakeholders to communicate the project’s findings and share lessons learned, in order to identify and exploit synergies with other ongoing and planned work strands, projects and programmes.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Senior personnel manager accountable for designing and resourcing manpower plans to meet business needs. Provide bespoke advice and guidance to personnel in all career related matters in order to retain, appoint and promote them in line with organization's current and future requirements.• Led the business process in assessing talent and subsequently resourcing the organization’s mid-level management succession plan out to 5 years, achieving 100% success on time. • Built trusted relationships with managers and employees through direct interaction and the use of fair and transparent HR processes to get the right person in the right job, at the right time.• Assured the performance management process, advising leaders in the key area of appraisal to deliver consistent, credible and comparable reporting on 300+ managers.

Chepstow, United Kingdom

Managed, trained and led a cross functional organization of specialist teams totalling ~180 personnel to deliver combat effectiveness on operations. Planned, operated and delivered against business goals, responding to external change, utilizing other department tools to assess and solve problems.• Led a hastily formed team of ~50 personnel in a high risk scenario for 6 weeks, delivered into an austere environment to provide security which lead directly to the strategic success of the mission.• Successfully instigated IM processes to better understand the operating environment which streamlined decision making in targeting influence in a rapidly changing high threat situation.• Planned and delivered training for over 250 soldiers to reach readiness to stand up as a force to conduct contingent operations within the UK who ultimately deployed in support of the London Olympics.

High Wycombe, United Kingdom

Army Staff Officer employed within the RAF’s HQ, acting as a consultant on Army requirements to senior executive decision makers within the RAF, identifying possible impacts of single service strategic planning and policy making, and proposing options to mitigate.• Instigated wholesale review of the RAF’s training budget expenditure (~£25m) in order to align spending with emerging MOD priorities, which resulted in an enhanced and more accountable allocation of resources to support training.• Project managed the deployment of aircraft and manpower on overseas multinational military exercises, achieving maximum training benefits for the UK military, on time and within cost (£500k).• Continuous mediation and negotiation between two out of 8 competing Top Level Budget holding organisations within the MOD to enable coherent policy making in line with MOD's priorities.

Defence Academy

Warminster

Advisor to Executive Officer on all matters relating to manpower planning, appraisal and discipline for 60 military and civilian personnel.

Belize

Designed and delivered individual and collective training programs, successfully validating 4000+ personnel against KPIs to declare ready for operational deployment.

Hounslow

Managed, trained and led 30+ soldiers to deliver a specialist capability to the organization, deploying overseas twice on exercise for a total of 3 months, and twice on operations for a total of 5 months.

Catterick

Trained and validated 60 recruits to operational readiness. Validated instruction techniques and lesson content of 4 trainers.

Hounslow

Training design and delivery of a month long overseas exercise, deploying 100+ personnel and training them to operate in hierarchical 3 teams of ~30 under a controlling HQ.

Warminster

Targeted the delivery of the Infantry recruiting presentation to audiences across the UK to engage the support of key gate keepers and develop an understanding and interest in a future career in the military.

Ballykinler

Managed, trained and led 30+ personnel on operations.

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Computer Science And Cybernetics

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Outstanding Merit

Level 7 Postgraduate Certificate (Pg Cert), Change Management

Achieved through the MODs Short University Course programme. Modules of study: - Organisational Change in Context - Leadership and Change.

Level 7 Extended Postgraduate Diploma (Pg Dip), Strategic Management And Leadership

Modules of study: - Developing Strategic Management & Leadership Skills - Professional Development - Developing Corporate Culture.

Commissioning Course

Values based leadership, management and training.

A Level, Maths, Physics And Business Studies