Simon Lear

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Project Manager with over 25yrs experience of successfully delivering business change and IT projects within a wide range of organisations in both commercial and public sectors including consultancy, insurance, banking, government and oil industries. Delivered diverse range of business critical projects working with blue-chip suppliers based throughout the UK and overseas with budgets in excess £10m. Held P&L responsibility for commercial project delivery including contract negotiation as well as working client-side managing supplier selection and delivery. Most recently managing IT Service Management platform integration within defence sector after leading Hodge Bank’s digital transformation of their mortgage business with on-line adviser portal, auto decision making and underwriting platform. Degree qualified, certified SAFE Scaled Agile Practitioner, Certified Scrum Master, PRINCE2, MSP and ProSci Change Management Practitioner, ITIL qualified, Chartered Engineer and member of both the British Computer Society and Association of Project Managers.

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  • Uk Government
    Project Manager Contract
    Uk Government Oct 2020 - Jun 2023
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  • Hodge
    Senior Delivery Manager (Contract)
    Hodge Jan 2017 - Aug 2020
    Cardiff, United Kingdom
    Mortgage and Banking Digital Transformation Lead
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  • Driver And Vehicle Standards Agency (Dvsa)
    Project Manager (Contract)
    Driver And Vehicle Standards Agency (Dvsa) Jan 2015 - Dec 2016
    Bristol, Swansea
    Project Manager for the £8m application support & hosting project to secure business services post expiry of incumbent contracts and the transition of services to cloud hosting at Amazon Web Services (AWS). Including negotiation of £20m renewal of out-sourcing arrangements and the transition to new service model/suppliers. Secured continuity for key business services and reduced operational costs through cloud based hosting, virtualisation, demand based utilisation and devOps continual improvement principles. Up-skilled in-house teams to provide support and negotiated and managed suppliers’ delivery including Atos, Capita, BJSS, SystemsUp.
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  • Seadrill Careers
    Project Manager (Contract)
    Seadrill Careers Jan 2014 - Dec 2014
    London & Dubai
    Project Manager for integration of newly acquired oil drilling business into Seadrill's business operations and IT landscape including infrastructure installation and transition of ERP and finance systems to live operating off-shore drilling ships generating $200k daily income. Managing globally dispersed in-house teams and suppliers including IBM, Cap Gemini, HP and Wipro located in China, Middle East, USA, Norway, India and Brazil.
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  • Welsh Government
    Project Manager (Contract)
    Welsh Government Mar 2012 - Jan 2014
    Swansea, United Kingdom
    Project Manager for procurement, implementation and integration of eTrading and financial systems for national roll-out to Welsh public sector organisations. Successfully negotiated improved contract terms and financial rebate for £200m annual public sector spend working with Barclaycard and ProcServe.
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  • Lloyds Bank
    Project Manager (Contract)
    Lloyds Bank Oct 2010 - Dec 2011
    London, Cardiff
    Project Manager for integration of Pitney Bowes Engage1 application software with e-commerce websites and mainframe systems for production and distribution of customer insurance policy documentation. Successfully delivered integrated platform to deliver 30k daily documents managing full software development life-cycle and suppliers including Tata and Pitney Bowes.
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  • Dvla
    Project Manager (Contract)
    Dvla Apr 2007 - Aug 2010
    Swansea
    Portfolio Manager for infrastructure portfolio of end-of-life applications and infrastructure including the £8m software & hardware upgrade of the Vehicle System supporting 3500+ users, 150m+ annual transactions and £5bn revenue, facial recognition software pilot and website enhancements. Managing DVLA’s service providers, IBM and Fujitsu. Project manager for the delivery of £12m+ project to deliver the new business and system capability to support the renewal of expired UK photocard driving licenses. Successfully delivered new business and technical capability, including legislative changes, to support the £200m business case ensuring DVLA could execute its legal duties. Capability was delivered in line with the imposed fixed deadline enabling the first expired licence to be renewed and thereby removing the DVLA’s significant reputational risk. Reporting to main board director, managed all aspects of IBM, Fujitsu and Experian’s delivery and complex stakeholder community.
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  • It Project Manager - Government Dept
    It Programme Manager (Contract)
    It Project Manager - Government Dept Oct 2006 - May 2007
    London, United Kingdom
    Portfolio Manager reporting to the IT Director, with line management responsibility for the client Project Management team and delivery of the portfolio of infrastructure projects within the £10m budget. Projects were delivered by mixed team of internal and external suppliers including IBM, Fujitsu and HP under PRINCE2.
  • Atkins Management Consultants
    Head Of It Projects
    Atkins Management Consultants Jan 1992 - Sep 2006
    Newport, London, Epsom
    Head of IT Projects reporting to main board Director. Overall responsibility for the successful delivery of projects valued in excess of £20m client revenue per annum and 65 project staff based throughout the UK. Responsibilities included improving delivery methods and procedures that increased profitability and utilisation. Introduced collaborative practices to encourage resource sharing and cross-training and mentoring less experienced project managers in commercial project delivery. As part of the senior management team responsibilities included setting strategic direction, operational and project risk reporting, financial and commercial management, recruitment and line management, business development and account management.
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Simon Lear Skills

Project Delivery Stakeholder Management Prince2 Project Management Change Management Program Management Itil Business Process Improvement Governance Integration Software Development Requirements Analysis Management Business Transformation Infrastructure Sdlc It Strategy Business Analysis Project Portfolio Management Pmo Management Consulting Business Process Supply Management Strategy It Service Management Programme Management Introduction Service Management Service Delivery Data Migration Business Services Devops Prince 2 Introduction To Service Supplier Management Government Procurement Contract Negotiation Consulting Public Sector Project Planning Outsourcing Information Technology

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