United Kingdom
• Managing a multi-million pound strategic software development project for the Met Office, preparing weather and climate models for next generation GPU based HPC architectures. • Managing the delivery of internal software teams and the delivery and commercial agreements with multiple worldwide suppliers.
Managing a resource skills and capacity management solution delivery, across a sizeable HMRC Group, enabling strategic and day to day resource management decision making and optimising operational efficiency.
• Managing a £7M+ change programme, delivering a Business critical AWS hosted meteorological monitoring system, supporting communications updates and the rollout of new sensor data logger network across 300 worldwide observation sites, leading to over £2M of direct financial benefits per annum to the organisation. • Successfully delivered a ServiceNow IT Service & Operations Management project and the initial stages of an associated Dynamics 365 CRM implementation. Leading the project from initial business case development, vendor selection and procurement, Agile implementation sprints through to initial go live, subsequent early life support and enhancements phases to project closedown. Key Achievements: • Taking over the management of an in-flight programme of work, ensuring that progress was made to enable the programme to be taken out of exception and then to achieve a clean pass at the next gate review. • From day one, performed a deep dive review evaluating the viability of the business case for the ServiceNow and Dynamics 365 projects, reporting back to the Met Office executive & Portfolio Board on recommendations, which would later form the basis for the projects progressing. • Successfully delivering all ServiceNow project related change management aspects, covering training, communications and stakeholder management, Business process change and the decommissioning of the existing tool. • Working closely with the project Business Change Managers, ensuring the relationship between the project deliverables and benefits realisation was clearly established and maintained. • Successfully managing the hybrid nature of Agile Scrum implementation phases, embedded within the portfolio’s MSP and Prince 2 modelled gating and governance structure. • Taking a leading role in transforming the ServiceNow project from a stalled state to a successful and highly regarded delivery.
•Providing project management and consultancy support in the delivery of ICT business change and cyber security services. • Key activity was the programme management of the UK arm of the Leonardo cyber security transformation programme. Key Achievements:: • Delivering a £4M+ technology change programme, encompassing the Group wide migrations to an enhanced set of security operations centre software (SIEM & GRC analysis), supporting network infrastructure and process change and the expansion of the service to cover all UK operating Companies. • Undertook all aspects of programme management within a complex stakeholder and commercial framework bridging across both the UK and the parent Company in Italy, including budget, scheduling, stakeholder, dependency, risks and issues management. • Implemented a MSP methodology across the programme and developing the monitoring, reporting and governance structures to support this. • Project managing in line with the Prince2 methodology the onboarding phase of a Cyber security protective monitoring service transition for a major government organisation, ensuring delivery Quality, budget and challenging timescales objectives were achieved. • Performing an IPT Bid Manager role successfully managing a cross functional team on a multi-million pound cyber security tender response.
• Performing a programme management role overseeing the delivery of a £8M+ portfolio of system and software engineering projects. Key Achievements: • Delivery of the business critical Astute and Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) programmes including the management of budgets, scheduling, risks and issues. • Led a number of process improvement activities within the Business Unit, significantly improving project delivery against targets and reducing overall procurement costs by 16%. • Combined and enhanced the effectiveness of the unit’s resource planning following a Business Unit merger, chairing weekly resource reviews to ensure a successful transition. • As Head of the Project Management Group, defined and delivered a Companywide project management strategy and process, ensuring stakeholder engagement at all levels was achieved. • Introduced and chaired a programme and project review forum with senior management and the development of RAG based reporting structure to support the wider management needs of the Company. • Recruited and led the Company’s project management team of ten during a period of significant Company growth, including providing project management training, mentoring and line management.
• Management of multiple system and software engineering projects. Key project was a business critical 5 year £2M+ software development project, developing real-time safety related submarine autopilot and hover control software for the Astute programme. • Full responsibility for the planning, delivery and closedown of the project to agreed timescales, budgets and technical specifications, working in accordance with a Prince2 modelled Quality Management System. Key Achievements: • Leading a development team of nine, successfully delivering the Astute project to budget and timeframe targets and customer expectations. • Taking an instrumental role in negotiating a major change to the project scope, significantly increasing the contract value and providing a more stable baseline for delivery.