Freelance or Interim PMO & Project Manager

Air Liquide (Homecare) UK Ltd

Senior IT Technical Project Manager 2015 – Present (1 year)Droitwich Dynamix AX 2009 enhancements and associated infrastructure upgrades, including mobility via technician PDA/tablet deployment. Responsible for the overall reporting and scheduling for multiple IT development and technical deployments. Liaising with third party contract holders, work stream leads and ensuring communications are maintained at all levels. Defining project requirements and scope, including prioritisation of activities and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders.

HouseMark Ltd

Business Intelligence in Social Housing As an output from an Enterprise Architecture review prompted by the business feeling that it was restricted in modern business technology, I have finalised the transition from integrated Lotus notes and Applications in Lotus Notes, to O365 and a Microsoft Software Development Platform, using MS Azure Services. Re-platforming for new technology enabling provision of Business Intelligence and Data Analytics services using SQL 2012 and Excel 64bit Power services. Implementation of core business services around O365, Lync person to person communications including video conferencing, MS CRM 2015 online and Azure Cloud Hosted MS Navision and SharePoint 2013 environments. All in and working under a challenging and changing restricting organisation. Projects – Identified, sourced and selected the partners for O365 implementation support partner. Cloud bases Services…

Soil Association Ltd

Charity membership services. Development of the IS & Facilities strategic plan. Delivered a comprehensive strategic programme, which allows the organisation to fundamentally improve the way it presents itself and provides its services to its members and customer base. I am regularly asked to offer business solutions thinking that is wider than just an IT remit and deliver and add value to customer services. Basing this on central systems harmonisation of data and applications. The current landscape has been developed amid a changing organisational structure that has seen 4 CEO’s in 3 years, all of which I have had to influence and demonstrate the strategic direction of IS in order to ensure the continuation of the change program we are delivering now. As part of that change I completed an…

Commission for Patient & Public Involvement in Health

Commission of Department of Health Management of a £2million fully outsourced IT service. This role involves analysing and Identifying, designing and delivering strategic plans for technology, utilising a number of outsourced services across 15 regional offices and its partners offices across the voluntary sector. Organisation was closed as part of the Dept. of Health restructure, and I was part of the closing team, tasked with secure dissemination of information in regional cuts to all local council departments to ensure a smooth transition of the service and understanding business issues and processes and to develop cost-effective systems to support these.

Stroud technology College Stroud

Head of Curriculum Construction and Engineering Responsible to the Director of Curriculum, my duties included managing and effectively leading 29 staff in the delivery and development of the curriculum. This curriculum was Higher education training, ranging from NVQ to Higher National Diploma, in Electrical Engineering, Computing and software engineering.

CMG Wireless Data Solutions Birmingham

Management of a team of 90 technical specialists via 6 managers, covering Project Management, Support desk, Implementation, Training, Configuration and internal technical support teams for the CMG Customer Care and Billing Business Unit based in Birmingham. Contributing to the strategic direction and development of the CCBS product line with responsibilities to improve the functional elements based on customer feedback.

Spirax-Sarco Engineering Ltd

Senior Business Systems Analyst Development and Implementation of the Group IT strategic plan, with specific reference to the communications infrastructure. This involved the analysis, implementation and support of integrated business systems within the global group of companies. I was responsible for both internal IT security and the management of the security of the messaging infrastructure. The post implementation support included the setup and staff training of a global helpdesk for the new messaging environment. Implemented a Global MS Exchange messaging and collaboration environment including consolidation of Web Addressing with new Websites across 26 Countries spanning Europe, Asiapac and America.

Electroversal International Ltd

My responsibilities included the improvement of the Infrastructure and services environment. I defined the business requirements for new SAP/r3 ERP business system, I produced a concept specification and an outline requirement specification for a new business system. I ensured that the Senior Management Team had sufficient exposure to all long listed systems to enable a short list based on business requirements, I organised workshops, conference room pilots and site visits with short-listed systems for directors and managers and staff as an important way of gaining support and engagement. The implementation replaced a legacy application that had no support and could not be expanded or extended to provide important business information that was restricting business expansion.