United Kingdom
A Prince2 qualified, motivated and committed Project and Business Manager with over 30 years of varied and extensive general management experience throughout Europe and the UK, with specialist skills in diverse market sectors, specifically: the deployment of mobile telecommunication infrastructure projects; the construction of residential property projects; garment design, manufacture and retail. Commercially astute with a unique and varied working experience as a business owner, end client, consultant and supplier / contractor. Multi-skilled and flexible to project and business requirements. Fully conversant with, and awareness of business targets, deliverables and the Programme Management techniques and strategies required to succeed. • Management and leadership. • Excellent project start-up skills, initiative working in difficult and limiting circumstances. • Innovative and proactive problem solver, lateral and logical thinker. • Resource deployment, people management. • Strong contractor management skills, encouraging team orientated approach to achieve success. • Programme and Project Management. • Excellent communication and negotiation skills. • Stamina and resolve working under pressure in deadline situations.
Part of Senior Leadership Team and direct report to business MD of a recently acquired Environmental & Ecological Consultancy SME of ~30 staff, across a Warrington Head Office and Falkirk Satellite Office, with revenue of ~£4.5m p.a. Stakeholder management of business transition as Avian grows organically and also adjusts to the acquisition of parent company Origin Enterprises Plc. Introduced and implemented Line Management and organisational structure. Implemented PDR (Professional Development Review) process and programme. Key enabler in the selection and implementation process of multi business PSA (Professional Services Application) software Kantata, working with sibling Business Units. Key business interface into the Environmental Division of parent company Origin Enterprises regarding HR, H&S and Financial Performance. Managed completion of monthly Performance Review Reports and upward reporting. Focus on business change and transformation, change management, implementing new ways of working to improve operational efficiency. Oversaw operational business improvements, including but not limited to: company policies and procedures; lone working device management; vehicle policy and new lease car contract fleet. Oversaw IT Onboarding project involving over ~£120K of changed and upgraded IT equipment, devices and services from SME operation methodology to Origin IT department, including but not limited to hardware, software and storage solutions, and moving to a Share Point system. Project managed, planned and delivered new office move including but not limited to: legal agreements, physical move, new premise internal fit-out, sourcing, budget, design, old premise schedule of dilapidations and repairs
Operational manager of family micro business, in the field of specialist garment decoration, customisation and personalisation in the Workwear, Schoolwear and Sportswear sector. Decoration and branding techniques used: Dye Sublimation, Embroidery, DTF, CAD Vinyl, Awards & Trophies. Consolidated separate sector work streams into one new limited company doubling annual turnover consistently to ~£800,000 p.a. post Co-Vid 19 pandemic Grew company exponentially, transitioning into genuine SME with workforce of on average 7-9 staff at any one time. Managed full spectrum of small business issues and areas of the business including but not limited to Sales & Marketing, Production, Finance, HR, and Business Strategy, driving success, customer satisfaction, stability and growth.
Implementation of programme delivery governance initiatives. Delivery of trial site programme regarding swap out of NSN for new generation Ericsson ERS. E2E SME input into new contract initiation and estabishment phase.
North Area Programme Manager overseeing regional reporting and governance on the Beacon Project for Area Head of PMO reporting into the North Area Leadership Team, utilising bespoke weekly reporting suite. E2E focus on site upgrade lifecycle and milestone management, implementing and crafting dependency management approach for the functions to utilise in their day to day tasks. Measurement of (but not limited to): site acquisition, dish acquisition, way leaves, transmission dependencies, exception reporting, gating governance, site completion, SLA management.
Brought in as a SPOC for the London Region; key interface between the Transmission Dept. the Regional Deployment Team, and the PMO. Driving TX solutions through pre-ordering, ordering and delivery phases, ensuring alignment with deployment requirements. Blocker resolution management, forecasting, data alignment in a complex multi-programme environment.
Originally brought into volatile high pressure “war room” environment to assist in the delivery of LTE Fast Ethernet and GigE Transmission solutions for Everything Everywhere (EE) in anticipation of Autumn 2012 4GEE service launch. Tasked with getting the Ericsson Transmission Delivery of Virgin Media circuits on track, delivering multiple network benefits for both EE and MBNL; managing and guiding Transmission Delivery team whilst also interfacing with PMO and the customer(s) on the relevant deliverables. Subsequent assignments included: the delivery of the 4G commissioning programme for Vodafone on the Beacon project enabling London 4G coverage launch in Sept 2013; RFQ and Delivery Assurance tasks on pre-sales and new business work on the Vodafone account.