I have a genuine passion for delivering IT, technology and business change and for creating, enhancing and continuously improving project, programme and portfolio delivery environments.I am Operations Director at Zircon Software where I manage the delivery of engineering software projects to customers. I’ve built our capability to manage our project portfolio by establishing project inventories, dashboards, project management and delivery critical success factors and weekly project reviews and governance meetings. I’ve improved our project delivery through the introduction of milestone management in combination with scrum techniques, developed our risk and issue management, introduced earned value and created some delivery KPIs that tell us how well we are delivering our projects.I love learning about and adapting my project, programme and portfolio delivery skills to new business domains. Whether its adapting to the challenges of Defence, Water Utility, Telecoms, Academic Publishing, Financial Services or Safety Critical Software Engineering, I’ve done this many times in my career and it is always a fascinating process of blending my previous experience and skills with the specific challenges that each industry faces.In addition to the business domains, there is the technology underpinning it all, and understanding enough about that to successfully manage the projects, programmes and portfolios, the teams and the risk has been another, very rewarding continuous process for me. At Zircon that is about embedded software, machine learning, cloud services, C, C# and Python. Previously it has been about Java and enterprise software development, Remote Desktop software, desktop upgrades, Azure, Office 365, infrastructure rollouts, BSS/OSS and packaged software implementations to name a few. At the start of my career it was about Coral 66, Assembly Language programming, mainframes, paper-tape and the first IBM PCs.
Listed skills include Project Delivery, Pmo, Governance, Service Delivery, and 17 others.