Michael Rodaway

Prime Contractor Project Manager, responsible for £12m budget of overall delivery of the through life solution, from requirement conception into service management
Conducting sub contractor analysis and contract negotiations
Sub contractor management in the UK and KSA with procurement elements in the USA to achieve delivery of required contractual milestones.
Stakeholder management with high ranking UK Ministry of Defence, Saudi Arabian National Guard and board level business directors.
Producing forward loading and requirement plans of multi skilled subject matter expert resources, with geographical location and skill set planning to ensure cost effectiveness and accurate delivery against planned roll out of delivery.
Effective risk awareness and management with a joint working group conducted with stakeholders
Efficient change management solutions to incorporate deviations throughout project lifecycle

ATLAS Consortium - Staging Project Manager 2011
Responsibilities: • Internal and external stakeholder management and planning meetings.
• Internal and external Sub-Contractor management.
• Responsible for the security of all staging equipment through project lifecycle including configurations and recording in the configuration management data base.
• Producing detailed weekly overview project reports, creating comprehensive project plans using MS Project and reporting progress and budget updates to Senior Management at Programme Manager Level.
• Responsible for project initiation at each stage through control and execution to delivery into a fully ITIL compliant managed service. All stages delivered to time and budget.
• Responsible for serving as the primary liaison with customer during project implementations ensuring that projects are implemented on time and according to customer specifications.
• Experience with dealing with military personnel and military type operational requirements.


• Successful programme delivery of IT active equipment to 100+ UK and World Wide establishments with a project value of £2.8 million.
• Acted as primary liaison between organization and 3rd party service suppliers, ensuring value for money accrued and service level arrangements compliance.
• Successfully demonstrated high levels of intuitive awareness of client needs on a range of products.
• Maintenance of excellent relationships between third party suppliers and sub contractors.

Cassidian Ltd (EADS) - Project Manager 2009 - 2011

Responsibilities: • Extensive project planning as the milestone project manager with active application of Prince 2 / PMP methodology, the ability to time analyse and resource schedule Project Plans.
• Construct Work Breakdown Structures, Work Packages and project plans and producing detailed regular reports to illustrate progress, planning and milestone tracking at programme manager level.
• Performance monitoring of design and architect teams to ensure accurate reporting at programme manager level.
• Internal and external Sub-Contractor management and meetings.
• Reacting to changes through PMO approved processes and adapting to high profile joint working partnerships to safeguard a smooth delivery into a fully ITIL compliant managed live service.


• Successful project delivery of Early Station End IT equipment into an emergency response command and control environment to the value of £1.5 million.
• Delivery of all work stream responsibilities within an emergency response development programme to the value of £6.0 million.
• Highly successful planning meetings with customers utilising first class communication skills achieving agreement for project rollout dates within project scope.
• Accurate delivery of project milestones to achieve end results.

ATLAS CONSORTIUM
EADS Defence and Security - Site Project Manager DII (F) 2005 - 2009

Responsibilities: • Site Project Management of 30+ MoD sites in varying sizes through the secure DII (F) Project installation, responsible for the site work undertaken from project start up to completion ensuring milestone deliveries and budgetary constraints were met on time and to allocated budgets.
• Close supervision and management of all ISP and OSP (civil) works.
• Liaison with design personnel and Sub-Contractors to formulate the detailed Bill of Materials (BOM's) for all installation activities.
• Effective planning and coordination of the active delivery, installation and commission into live service
• Regular formal reporting by stages through the PMO to programme manager level.


• Successful delivery of site installations in accordance to design documentation and to the value in excess of £5.0 million.
• Excellent coordination of sub contractor activities on customer premises including Fibre Optic ISP and OSP installations.
• Chairing of stakeholder meetings to agree programme activities and successful timelines
• Detailed planning to achieve project milestones and deliverables.
• Stakeholder management of civil and military personnel, Stakeholder meetings and follow up actions.

Pinacl Solutions Ltd - Project Engineer and Testing Manager 2000 - 2005

Testing manager and project engineer responsible for the testing, recording and warranty of all voice, data and fibre optic installations at MOD Whitehall, London