Description

You’ve found a highly experienced project manager with over 25 years of industry experience delivering large-scale, complex enterprise projects.

Possessing a wealth of delivery knowledge and experience and a passion for driving strategic change, I excel at leading and engaging teams to collaborate and deliver change, benefits and improvements.

With over a decade of project management experience, I bring a deep understanding of project change and delivery within technical environments and a proven track record of successfully delivering critical infrastructure improvement projects on a national and regional scale.

An excellent communicator and collaborator, I have experience working with executive leadership and directors, cross-functional teams, technical experts and suppliers, ensuring fully engaged end-to-end delivery success throughout the project life-cycle.

Languages

English
Native or bilingual

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Manchester (up to 50km)

Project Management Manchester
Senior Project Manager
August 2021 - Today (4 years and 10 months)
Manchester, UK
► Client: Smart DCC Managed 7 high-priority infrastructure project work streams valued at 8M, impacting the UK Smart Meters network's core service. ►Core IT Infrastructure Tech Refresh Led a high profile, time-critical piece replacing key infrastructure and services, managing change through congested windows, coordination with functional areas and high levels of supplier and stakeholder engagement, schedule management, risk mitigation, and replanning exercises whilst engaging with industry for endorsement. ►Data Centre Move Coordinated multiple suppliers and stakeholders through governance controlled plans to ensure a successful migration of services, involving detailed planning, change alignment, disaster recovery scenario testing, and communication with industry. ►Security Refresh Programme - IDM, HSM, Promon, F5 and CA Server Controlled 5 inter-dependent security refresh projects, upgrading identity management and access control systems, replacing EOL legacy hardware, security modules and firewalls, And transitioning to a new proactive security monitoring solution.
Project Management Manchester
Smartsheet & System Consultant
October 2020 - Today (5 years and 8 months)
United States
► Client : Exceleration Partners Advised on the best use of connected systems to drive productivity and streamline activities for a distributed US and international team. ►Smartsheet & System Consultancy Providing expert system consultancy and set-up services for Smartsheet and Sharepoint, enabling team and task management to be digital, automated and visible across departments.
Project Management Manchester
Digital Estates Technical Lead
February 2021 - August 2021 (6 months)
Manchester, UK
► Client : CHP Led cross-department collaboration to influence customer-focused strategic improvements aligned with digital transformation goals. ►WIFI / AR / Way-finding Implementing technology solutions including WiFi-based tracking, presence detection, environmental intelligence, and AR wayfinding services. ►Change Process / CAB Established project governance and change management principles to streamline the transformation pipeline. ►Managed Service Business Laid the foundations to establish the organisation as an IT Managed Service Provider, offering infrastructure and digital services across 165 sites.