Swindon, England, United Kingdom
Senior Programme and Project Manager with a proven track record of delivering complex IT and digital transformation programmes across diverse sectors including government, defence, heritage, publishing, energy, and healthcare. Expert in leading multi-disciplinary teams, managing third-party suppliers, and driving business change through Agile and Waterfall methodologies. Adept at stakeholder engagement from operational to C-suite levels, with a strong focus on achieving measurable outcomes and benefits realisation. Skilled in budget management, risk mitigation, and governance, with a commitment to continuous improvement and delivering value in challenging environments. Key strengths include strategic programme delivery, cross-functional leadership, commercial acumen, and technical expertise in software development, data management, and IT security. Passionate about leveraging technology to enable organisational growth and transformation while maintaining compliance and operational readiness.
The IT Transformation Programme Manager leading the end-to-end transition of IT services from incumbent suppliers to a new service provider, ensuring continuity across all business functions. This role bridges technical delivery and business strategy, managing the complete lifecycle of service on-boarding—from initial planning and governance to operational readiness and benefits realisation.
The evaluation, selection and installation of a course scheduling and resource management application to be deploy across a campus of approx. 20k people. The project included the business case approval, infrastructure build, Installation, Configuration, phased rollout and training.
• Defined scope and business case for a national telephony upgrade programme (analogue to digital). • Led initial definition for a security improvement programme aligned to CIS critical security controls. • Prepared both programmes for next-year funding approval.
• Delivered a programme of work for the next-generation of remote operation and maintenance systems for fusion reactors. • Managed Agile software development teams and engineering disciplines (software, mechanical, electrical). • Defined stakeholder and system requirements for complex technical products. • Oversaw programme budgets, resourcing and delivery governance.
• Delivered major digital transformation projects including metadata management, digital asset systems and global CMS platforms. • Acted as Agile Delivery Manager: PI planning, sprint management, backlog refinement and delivery reporting. • Produced financial, delivery and performance reports (PI, Epic, Burndown, Velocity). • Managed distributed development and test teams across multiple regions.
Responsible for the successful delivery of a business change project across the organisation including: • Scoping, defining and delivering best practices across the organisation • Delivering a new systems architecture including data integration between key systems • Data Migration Strategy, Design and Delivery • Delivering new business processes across Operations, HR and Finance • Delivering a new Rostering Solution including an automated Time and Attendance Solution