Director of Projects - Lead Consultant
Project Delivery Services
Total years of experience :18 years, 7 Months
Overall responsibility for the Management and Strategic direction of the business providing Project Services to clients on an international platform
Project Director with overall responsibility for the Delivery of ITS/Public Transport Project for Riyadh Saudi Arabia.
Lead Consultant in global Strategy and Director of Projects
De La Rue International - UK
July 2011 to December 2013
Tier 1 - Strategy Implementation Manager
• Key management responsibility for Tier 1 International clients with a job description covering Global strategic market areas to include Mainland China, The Russian Federation, The US, the Ukraine and the EU.
• Key focus to draw together and structure the relevant activities in respect of Tier 1 undertakings ensuring that the best product offerings are achieved in keeping with the market expectations of Tier 1 clients.
• Responsible for the implementation and management, of the Corporate Strategy, with further responsibility for Client relationship, Tier 1 account trials, CPS product improvement to the level expected by a Tier 1 client.
• Further to undertake Trend analysis, Risk Analysis, Process improvement, Product improvement and Cost reduction whilst maintaining quality and ensure an effective delivery process with cost, time and quality as the key drivers.
• To introduce cost reduction, efficiencies, quality improvement with emphasis on Procurement, Manufacturing, Resource utilisation, Spares management, Shipping, and to ensure that these are delivered to a level expected by a Tier 1 client.
• To work in a matrix environment to develop and implement Operations Strategy across the disciplines, which will address the future for Manufacturing for Tier 1 accounts and complement the strategic objectives for the product range and customer base.
Programme Delivery Manager
• Programme Delivery Manager responsible for the delivery and installation of Cash sorter projects across the globe. This involved the simultaneous management of up to 40 unit global project deliveries. Experience has been gained in Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Nigeria, Israel, Vietnam, South Africa, Zambia, Rwanda, France, Holland, Russia, Ukraine, Turkmenistan, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, the USA Caribbean, Europe and the United Kingdom.
• Managed technical, project resources, logistics and third party suppliers on a global basis.
• Recent and extensive experience accrued in mainland China through the delivery of a substantial programme of work to the People Bank of China (PBOC) . Success has been achieved in over 1, 25million US$ of savings on the budget and further have successfully re-negotiated with the Chinese, System, Technical and Commercial changes which have affected substantial savings to the company and have contractually stabilised the project.
• Successfully recovered a difficult programme in Morocco.
IDS Project/Bid Manager
• Responsible for delivery of a number of Secure Documentation & Infrastructure Projects to the Government of Rwanda. Initial responsibility to recover this programme of work this was achieved successfully.
• Brought in to recover a key Project successfully for the United Nations
• Experience accrued in Identity systems for Rwanda, Mexico, the United Nations.
• Bid Management - Mexico Passport tender - joined the bid team for the Mexican passport contract with specific responsibility for the Resource element of the bid.
Logica - Middle East
April 2010 to June11 Programme Delivery Manager - ATVAM - Intelligent Traffic & Security Systems (ITS) - Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
• Delivery of ATVAM ITS Systems (Phase 1) - to include Mobile speed enforcement, Fixed Speed enforcement and Red Light/Speed on Green enforcement - Security surveillance equipment -Telecommunications, Data Processing Centres x 3 - in three regions covering 9 cities across the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
• Installed Prince 2 based governance throughout the project and a support based PMO
• Installed and managed accurate and detailed Reporting mechanisms throughout the Project
• Managed 3 key Investor Stakeholders, Public stakeholders including the Ministry of Interior (MOI), Saudi Police Department, Saudi Security, the Ministry of Finance and third party Suppliers and Contractors.
• Managed Regional Municipality Stakeholders along with Investors, Saudi Royalty and third party sub-contractors
• Managed third party suppliers - manufacturers of equipment ensuring a high level of quality, cost management and on-time delivery.
• Covered three regions, those being in the Western Region (Jeddah, Madinah, Makkah) and in the Eastern Region (Dammam, Khobar, Assir Province (Abha) and Tobuk Province (Tobuk) and the Central Region - Qassem and, Riyadh,
• Participated in achieving a substantial reduction in road death and injury statistics across the KSA.
• Overall Programme value in excess of 1.5 Billion US$
Mining Consultancy
Aug 09 to February 2010 Projects Consultant - Mining - Zambia and Zimbabwe
• Mentoring on Programme methodology and governance.
• Advising in key areas such as Initiation, Transformation, Risk, Audit, Recovery, Supply Chain, Compliance and Quality Assurance.
Siemens - Fujitsu/Siemens
June 2005 to June 2009 Programme Manager - UK
London Transport
• Installation and Maintenance of 14, 000 London Bus fleet with high-technical transit management - GPS/GPRS tracking and communication - systems.
• Transition of Data Centres, Communication Centres, SAN, Garage Server locations, Networking, Training.
• Risk, Issues, Quality Assurance and Change Control Management.
• Business Transformation - Process design and re-engineering to ITIL standards through complex platforms covering Maintenance and Support
• Managed a team in excess of 300 project affiliated personnel across 6 diverse work streams plus some 15 external and BPO contracts located in various locations across the world.
• Resourced, managed, trained and delivered the infrastructure to undertake a 10 year maintenance contract on a 24/7 basis across the whole of the London fleet and the static Project infrastructure.
• Successfully delivered complex and demanding Retrofit programmes simultaneously - on time and on budget.
• Responsible for an overall budget in excess of £100 million to include Maintenance.
ILVA - international, multiple location retail expansion into the United Kingdom from Scandinavia
• Scope included Transition and Transformation, Systems integration, Networking, Service Desk, Data Centres, Remote Monitoring, Client Support, Maintenance, Risk and Change Management.
Royal Bank of Scotland - GT division
• National and Regional desktop, Server, Data Centre Integration & Consolidation, Networking, and Software upgrades.
• Managed full lifecycle of technical, infrastructure, application and networking disciplines.
• Managed the P&L to a budget of £120 million.
The Royal Bank of Scotland - Insurance division
• Data Centre Consolidation, System Integration and System re-fresh of 3 key Insurance Divisions of RBS
• Written commendation received for performance achievement.