I am a delivery focused IT Project Manager (Prince 2, ITIL) with extensive experience rolling out technology solutions that support commercial growth and improve operational productivity across global organisations. I have 19 years’ experience in financial services, working on a broad range of functional programmes, from setting up managed services to large scale application deployments and e-commerce solutions.An overview of my career contains the following highlights:• Delivery of a £5 million Managed Security Service for Aviva Insurance. • Turn around and subsequent delivery of a £20M NEXUS programme for one of the biggest global AIX deployments of Websphere SOA applications for Aviva Insurance.• Project Management of IBM's largest installation in Europe and a £2M Content Manager migration and upgrade at Aviva. • Development of Norwich Union’s eISA offering for retail investors. Built the main-site Online Registration process, a B2B and a B2C solution distributed across multiple platforms.As a former software engineer I bring technical expertise to projects; on several occasions I have identified hidden assumptions, risks and issues in technical specifications. I also offer a pragmatic, delivery focused approach, concentrating on benefits realisation management and aligning stakeholders on key success metrics. I have experience of managing multiple projects simultaneously and a track record turning around several struggling projects that have fallen behind schedule, or where key milestones are being missed. I am an experienced leader and can swiftly assemble talented project teams from onshore and offshore resources, coordinating global teams spread across the US, Europe and Asia and uniting them around a common vision.