Darlington, England, United Kingdom
PMO Lead and Manager with a proven record of delivering PMO capability for business and IT transformation programmes, up to 150 people and €80m, working with senior stakeholders to CxO/ministerial level. Adept at driving mixed permanent/contract/vendor teams on site and remotely, and in implementing best practice delivery methodologies such as PRINCE, Scaled Agile, TOGAF, Scrum, waterfall. Accomplished project, portfolio and programme manager. WHAT YOU CAN EXPECT FROM ME - Fast ramp up and constantly energetic delivery - Focus on outcomes - Visibility of progress and inhibitors for easy decision making - Adaptability to your culture, philosophy and approach - Focus on continual improvement - Capability transfer to your staff THREE KEY ATTRIBUTES: --> FOCUS - the ability to identify what really matters, give stakeholders clear priorities and goals and define a meaningful roadmap that maximises ROI --> COMMUNICATION - an outstanding ability for developing organisational communication, implementing pragmatic governance and leading collaborative working for improved productivity --> ENERGY - boundless personal energy and the personality to energise teams and deliveries SPECIALITIES PMO Manager, PMO Lead, Project Management, Service Delivery Management, Portfolio Management, Programme Management, Project Management, Delivery Assurance, Scaled Agile, Knowledge Transfer, Change Management, Risk Management, Planning, Reporting, Continual Process Improvement. SECTOR EXPERIENCE Government, Telecoms, Health, Finance, Insolvency, Defence, Utilities, and Professional Services sectors, including NHS, DEFRA, MoJ, Home Office, Liberty Global, BAe, BT, Anglian Water, RAF, and Reed Professional Services.
Key assignments: DEFRA TRANSFORMATION (25 months): PMO delivery advisor for 10 transformation areas of a huge, complex portfolio of projects and programmes with an immovable deadline, building trusted relationships with 20+ senior stakeholders across multiple business areas. INTERNAL at RPS: Delivered PMO improvement and service management across RPS's government client programmes of 100+ people working on Agile and waterfall deliveries. GOVERNMENT TRANSFORMATION (4 months): Led programme initiation phase for a department-wide transformation of the service delivery organisation. GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENT (6 months): Transformed PMO processes impacting the e2e delivery lifecycle, across an organisation delivering 100s of projects.
Key assignments: Internal for AZDIO (15 months): PMO Lead and service delivery manager, implementing and optimising PMO processes for an IT delivery management and solutions consultancy LIBERTY GLOBAL - telecoms (17 months): PMO Manager developing PMO handbook, as the standard for future programme PMO delivery across the organisation LIBERTY GLOBAL - telecoms (17 months): Established and led an effective PMO for a high multi-million Euro Agile transformation programme, managing change to business, infrastructure and application domains, resulting from company acquisition LIBERTY GLOBAL (8 months): Delivered PMO for a technical and organisation outsource in a complex environment - matrix, multi-vendor, multi-time zones, and work streams (development, maintenance, process, infrastructure & security) and fixed end date BT (9 months): PMO Lead, Project Manager and Portfolio Manager for programme of 30+ IT change and telephony projects to 500+ UK sites at UK government ministry BT (6 months): Project recovery for online case management system based on 'scaled Agile' development approach at UK government department NHS (12 months): Project Manager and Programme Manager for service delivery and an improvement programme for technical change delivery across 18 hospital trusts with a team of 12 PMs
Leading business and IT change in £80m transformation program.