Project Management

An experienced Project Manager with excellent process, communication, matrix, analytical and numerical skills for technical project delivery, stakeholder, 3rd party supplier and resource management, risk and issue management, compliance, change management and status reporting for Global, EMEA and national blue chip organizations.  From large IT Infrastructure, Data Centre Relocation, Application Hosting, Data Migration to Client Rollouts and Storage Enterprise multiple high-profile and value projects across the Public, Private, NHS, Banking, Financial, IT & Telecoms sectors. Excellent strategist and problem solver who is innovative, decisive and adept at managing change for continuous improvement to exceed expectations and achieve company, project and team success.

• Excellent broad communication ( written and oral ) and interpersonal skills with the ability to interface at all levels including senior management 
• Proactive, Pragmatic and Positive with ‘can do’ approach. capable of moving projects forward with or without direction if necessary
• Stakeholder management at both senior organizational level to grass roots
• Risk analysis, management  and mitigation
• Effective and accurate Cost, timescale and resource estimation
• Management of key deliverables in line with documented methodology
• Management reporting and adherence to adopted organizational structured methodology
• In depth experience of managing resources within a matrix environment
• Management and accountability for project budgets & related finances
• Responsible for the management of 3rd party and internal resources to effect work package delivery
• Responsible for managing progression of implementations through relevant environments to production
• Motivated self starter able to take ownership of deliverables

Education

Areas of Expertise

• Application Migration & Hosting
• Data Centre Relocation/Migration/Consolidation
• Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity
• Enterprise Backup Solutions
• IP Telephony
• Managed Deployment & Services
• VOIP & Data Communications
• Microsoft Windows (BackOffice)
• Networking infrastructure projects (including cabling, actives and routing)
• Proof Of Concept (POC) definition and testing
• Replication (MirrorView, SRDF, SANCopy, SnapView, RMS/E & Legato Replistore)
• SAN Design and Implementation (EMC CLARiiON, Hitachi Data Systems/HP)
• Virtualisation (VMWare), Citrix, Oracle, SQL
• IT Infrastructure (OS & Hardware Rollouts and Upgrades)

Sector Experience Includes:

• Electronics and Information Technology
• Telecommunications
• Financial Services
• NHS, PCT & Homecare
• Manufacturing
• Mining
• Sports & Leisure & Retail
• Property Management
• Education