Description

As an experienced project manager in Agile and Waterfall, I excel at bridging strategy, policy, and delivery to achieve outcomes that meet user requirements. I am a high-performing individual with experience in both project delivery and strategic leadership. I thrive in dynamic, challenging environments. My strong track record of success is built on a foundation of teamwork, leadership, and collaboration. I'm passionate about building strong, positive relationships with stakeholders to understand their needs to deliver high-impact outcomes.

Throughout my career, I have demonstrated my ability to lead teams, manage budgets, secure new funding, and deliver projects within time, cost, and quality constraints. My background in project management methodologies, such as MSP, Prince 2, Agile and APM, combined with my experience and lessons learned, enable me to ensure rigour, confidence, and transparency in project delivery. I take a proactive approach to risk management and prioritise the well-being and inclusiveness of my teams.

Stakeholder engagement, risk management, and setting up governance and assurance mechanisms are second nature to me. Having worked across government departments and global organisations, I can bring people together to identify solutions and address collective challenges and align priorities accordingly.

Communicating confidently and effectively is my biggest asset. I keep messaging simple and factual. I ensure that strategic priorities are clear and with several years working with CEOs and executive decision makers, I am comfortable interacting with senior stakeholders.

By understanding and influencing how policies and strategies impact end users, I am tenacious in implementing actions to accomplish my objectives. I pride myself on my strong project skills, my strong work ethic and ability to build positive working relationships.

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

London (up to 50km)

UK Space Agency
Head of Major Projects
PUBLIC SECTOR
February 2019 - April 2023 (4 years and 2 months)
United Kingdom
Responsible for leading and delivering a £50M programme to develop complex high-profile, disruptive multi-use technology with a focus of spin out into domestic and societal exploitation.

Successfully secured over £15m of new funding by coordinating, writing and project managing business cases to Green Book principles.
Successfully leading the scoping, definition and delivery of new projects valued at ~£5M per annum.
Setting up governance frameworks and assurance mechanisms streamlining processes where applicable.
Leading all engagement activities with high level stakeholders across the UK Space Agency, OGDs (Other Government Departments,) regional, national, and international levels and actively directing and coordinating people (both internal and external) to deliver agreed objective communicating between technical and non technical with ease.
Proactive risk manager identifying and mitigating against potential show stoppers.
Managing multi-million pound budgets including regular forecasting, reporting and accruals processes and using commercial acumen to achieve budget efficiencies.
Team leadership of direct and indirect staff with a focus on inclusivity, well being, cohesion and stretching objectives.
Using formal and informal PPM methodology and best practices to ensure rigour, confidence, and transparency i.e. agile, APM, MSP, Prince 2 mixed with experience, best practice and lessons learnt
UK Space Agency
Senior Space Technology Project Manager
July 2016 - February 2019 (2 years and 7 months)
United Kingdom
Managing assigned change and R&D projects in accordance with operational constraints, time, cost, and quality - with a focus on governance and benefits. Tracking project delivery progress and providing formal updates at regular governance meetings, including weekly management tool updates. Managing budgets and generating project documentation. Implementing change and risk management processes. Planning our strategic objectives, milestones, and key deliverables, and identifying ways to improve processes. Exceptional stakeholder management skills - ability to lead and build strong, cross functional teams. Responsible for driving deliverables forward and tracking progress against KPIs.
UK Space Agency
Senior Policy Manager
June 2015 - July 2016 (1 year and 1 month)
United Kingdom

• Working with stakeholders and "think groups" to define strategic priorities, feeding analysis into national policy formulation.
• Representing the UK Space Agency and national sector in national and international fora.
• Leading the creation and delivery of national and international events.
• Leading benefit evaluations to measure success of projects.