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About me
I am an experienced portfolio management consultant with expertise in managing PMO structures for various sectors, including financial services, telecommunications, financial & information technology, local and central government. I am able to quickly adapt to new working environments, systems, and tools / methodologies, and possess logical and analytical problem-solving skills.
Business Process ImprovementBusiness TransformationChange ManagementContinuous ImprovementCustomer Relationship Management (CRM)Customer ServiceData AnalysisFinancial ReportingLeadershipProgram ManagementProject ManagementResource ManagementRisk ManagementStakeholder EngagementStakeholder ManagementVendor Management
Experience
Jan, 2023
Current
pmo lead
Sustainable
Charity organisation
As a PMO Lead in the Renew team of CAF, the largest charity in the UK by income, I am responsible for driving programme deliverables and best practise, coordinating programme governance, developing and maintaining project plans, preparing reports, and conducting project reviews to ensure effective governance, planning, controls, and monitoring and delivery. I also track dependencies between projects and maintain RAID logs.
Key responsibilities
Coordinate programme governance
Develop and maintain project plans
Prepare reports
Conduct project reviews
Key achievements
Drive programme deliverables
Ensure effective governance
Track dependencies between projects
Maintain RAID logs
Nov, 2021
Dec, 2022
pmo lead
Financial Services
Project management
As a PMO Lead I was responsible for delivering projects within time, cost and scope and ensuring they were delivered through the appropriate governance process. My responsibilities included financial tracking, maintaining logs, producing regular status reports and updating and maintaining programme and project plans. I also achieved successful delivery of projects, maintained budgets, organised governance meetings and kept RAID logs up to date.
Key responsibilities
Financial tracking
Maintain logs
Produce reporting
Update plans
Key achievements
Delivered projects
Maintained budgets
Organised governance meetings
Kept RAID logs up to date
May, 2021
Dec, 2021
pmo consultant
Financial Services
Pmo Consultant
This position is responsible for ensuring an enduring and operable NI/GB boundary for DEFRA stakeholders. The role involves maintaining the risk management strategy, periodic reporting of risk, providing advice on risk and issues, and planning the continuous improvement of risk and issues strategies. Achievements include ensuring compliance, planning periodic reports, developing risk reviews, and providing efficient advice.
Key responsibilities
Maintain risk strategy
Periodic reporting of risk
Advise on risks
Continuous improvement of Risk
Key achievements
Ensured compliance
Planned periodic reports
Developed risk reviews
Provided efficient advice
Nov, 2018
Apr, 2019
pmo consultant
Sustainable
Marine & Fisheries
As a PMO consultant, I was responsible for designing and implementing an overall risk management process for the Marine & Fisheries EU Exit Programme. My role included managing the programme risks and issues, explaining the external risk posed by corporate governance to stakeholders, maintaining documentation within SharePoint and coaching, mentoring, and training project and programme managers and project support officers on risk management. I was also responsible for the preparation and development of steering committee packs and other management reports.
Key responsibilities
Design risk mgmt process
Manage risks & issues
Explain external risk
Maintain documentation
Key achievements
Co-ordination & support
Risk & issue health check
Training & coaching
Steering committee packs
Dec, 2020
Jun, 2021
portfolio analyst
Technology
Digital, Data and Technology
As a Portfolio Analyst, I was responsible for maintaining documentation within SharePoint, building relationships with key stakeholders, recommending mitigating actions to the business, managing and overseeing governance arrangements, developing and maintaining the RAID log, updating and administering the programme plan, and monitoring effectiveness and controls.
Key responsibilities
Maintaining documentation
Building relationships
Recommending mitigating actions
Managing governance
Key achievements
Developing and maintaining RAID log
Ensuring governance
Updating and administering programme plan
Monitoring effectiveness and controls
Jun, 2019
Feb, 2020
pmo manager
Financial Services
Project Deseret
As a PMO Manager, I was responsible for the support function of a PPI Review Project. My duties included coordinating the pre-project approval board and project approval board processes, managing the programme's finances, maintaining the operational risk registers, and updating and maintaining the programme and resource plan. I was also responsible for building relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, and ensuring that any issues were identified and appropriate mitigating actions were recommended and tracked through to completion.
Key responsibilities
Coordinate pre-project approval
Manage programme finances
Maintain operational risk registers
Update programme & resource plan
Key achievements
Delivered project on time
Created risk reporting pack
Built relationships with stakeholders
Recommended mitigating actions
Jul, 2018
Oct, 2018
pmo and communications lead
Financial Services
Client Relationships
As the PMO and Communications Lead, I was responsible for setting up and embedding the PMO function, chairing the weekly Risk and Issues health check meeting, developing and delivering the Programme communication and engagement plan, managing the programme budget, maintaining documentation within SharePoint, and preparing and developing steering committee packs and other management reports.
Key responsibilities
Set up PMO
Manage risks/issues
Deliver comms plan
Maintain SharePoint
Key achievements
Developed governance structures
Chaired Risk/Issues health check
Managed programme budget
Prepared steering committee packs
Feb, 2017
Jan, 2018
pmo manager
Financial Services
Financial services
As a PMO Manager I was responsible for working alongside Vocalink and the Cheque and Credit Clearing Company (C&CCC) to design and build the infrastructure for an industry wide image based cheque clearing system. This system significantly reduced the number of days taken to clear cheques in the UK, increasing industry efficiency and customer satisfaction while ensuring compliance with industry standards.
Key responsibilities
Design and build infrastructure
Collaborate with stakeholders
Manage cheque clearing process
Ensure industry wide compliance
Key achievements
Reduced cheque processing time
Increased industry efficiency
Improved customer satisfaction
Ensured industry wide compliance
Sep, 2015
Dec, 2016
pmo lead
Technology
Telecommunications
As a PMO Lead, I was responsible for leading the Mobile Transformation Programme initiated by Virgin Media. This involved managing the customer transition to a full MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) and designing and building a world class fixed mobile convergent (FMC) business in collaboration with Huawei. During my 2 years of experience, I successfully managed the customer transition, delivered a world class FMC business, improved customer experience, and created a strong partnership with Huawei.
Key responsibilities
Leading mobile transformation programme
Managing customer transition to full MVNO
Designing and building FMC business
Collaborating with Huawei
Key achievements
Successfully managed customer transition
Delivered world class FMC business
Improved customer experience
Created strong partnership with Huawei
Nov, 2012
Jan, 2015
pmo analyst
Technology
Telecommunications
As a PMO Analyst, I provided Mobile Broadband Network Limited (MBNL) with a fully managed end to end operations service, including network operations centre, network performance and optimisation, field support and maintenance, as well as multivendor spare parts management service for its 2G and 3G networks and EE and Three UK deployments of 4G technology. I was also responsible for implementing SAP as a replacement for multiple legacy systems, acting as the SME for EPM, organising and scheduling EPM training sessions for project managers, work stream leads and managers.
Key responsibilities
Managing end-to-end operations service
Network performance and optimisation
Field support and maintenance
Multivendor spare parts management
Key achievements
Implementing SAP replacement for legacy systems
Acting as SME for EPM
Organising and scheduling EPM training sessions
Implementing 4G technology
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