An APMP qualified Senior Consultant, with over nine years’ project controls coordination and reporting experience at portfolio, programme and project level, in both public and private sectors: in financial services, rail, construction, IT and a variety of change projects. Gutteridge Haskins & Davey (GHD) Ltd
Senior Consultant within Business Consulting Sep 2013 – Present
- Transport for London (TfL) – PMO Assurance Reviewer
Project and Programme Management “External Expert” on a variety of TfL’s Internal Assurance Reviews (IAR) on Projects and Programmes covering London Underground, Overground, and Surface Transport.
Proposal / Bid writing to win new work in Project Controls / PMO sector.
TURNER & TOWNSEND (PMO Services) London Nov 2006 – Sep 2013
Senior Project Controls Consultant providing a service to the following clients:
- London Underground Ltd – Bond Street Station Upgrade Project. £324m. Mar 2013 – Sep 2013
Governance & Project Controls. Personally requested by the Senior Project Manager to return to this major Central London project for a short-term contract to coordinate project governance and reporting.
- Barclays Plc – Europe Retail & Business Banking Support Office Dec 2011- Feb 2013
Reporting on Europe’s Project Portfolio of over 280 projects with a value of €127m to the Operating Committee. Reviewing and challenging Country PMO and Portfolio Managers monthly projects status and forecast financials.
- Developing and improving the current reporting processes and systems.
- Tracking project financials, capex, opex, actuals, benefits and their complex funding methods.
- Reviewing and improving management information process, capture, consistency and quality.
- Portfolio reprioritisation coordination and evaluation.
- Embedding project governance methodology and its communication throughout the business.
- Compiling the reporting deck to the Operating Committee covering financials, risks & issues, and gate funding approvals.
- Coordinating project gateway reviews and approvals, including the validation of gateway documentation.
- Tracking and forecasting of technical project resources for forward planning.
- London Underground Ltd – Bond Street Station Upgrade Project. £324m. May 2008–Nov 2011
Planning Manager/PMO Services through the project’s lifecycle and stage gates from optioneering in design, to tender invitation and evaluation, to contract award, project controls set-up and delivery, working in an NEC Option C contract environment.
- Producing the project controls requirements for ITT and evaluating tenders.
- Implementing the necessary controls and earned value to monitor performance.
- Implementing Quantitative Schedule Risk Analysis (QSRA) to assess confidence in the forecast.
- Owning and mitigating any programme risks.
- Review, challenge and approve main contractor period programme submission.
- Coordinate and compile period end reports.
- Managing integration of all project programmes and creation of key milestones.
- Project milestone management and their change control.
- Ensuring compliance of programmes and reports with all LU standards and assurance criteria.
- Responsible for programme coordination with Crossrail and other third party interfaces.
- Representing the department at LU Planning Manager Meetings.
- Mentoring and upskilling the document controller to assistant planner level.
- London Underground Ltd: Various Change Projects Jan 2007- Oct 2008
Developing, maintaining and reporting on 16 Underground Investment Programmes in P6 for periodic submission, ensuring they meet all LU programme assurance criteria and financial approval processes. Projects included:
- Operational Flexibility – Strategic Operational New Initiative Projects.
- Signals Passed at Danger – Soft Projects aimed at behavioural change.
- Nominally Accumulated Customer Hours (NACHs 2014) – pain charge process for contractor under performance.
- Central Line Power Upgrade Project (CLPU) - a multi-stakeholder feasibility project to the value of £55m.
- DTI - National Physical Laboratory Build Out Works. Nov 2006 – Jul 2007
Revising and progressing the detailed and summary programmes covering new modules, demolition and sundry projects. Progress reporting and milestone tracking to inform management decision-making. Project value of £45m.
PMO Services Department Business Management Systems (BMS) Representativeensuring departmental compliance with the corporate quality system to achieve ISO9001 accreditation.
GENERAL ELECTRIC (GE) Healthcare, London Jan 2005 – Oct 2006
PMO - GE trained in programme controls contributing towards effective programme reporting, with responsibility for risk and issue management working on the IT Care Record Service Project for the NHS:
- Creating, maintaining and progressing the project plans.
- Production and maintenance of the Level 1 Programme Plan to inform all management of key programme dependencies, programme deliverables and progress to date.
- Ensuring Level 2 programmes integrate with Level 1 Programme and fit within key timeframes.
- Supporting Project Managers in the creation of the Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), Work Packages and Basis of Estimates to underpin the planning process.
- Weekly reporting against the plans and milestones to inform Earned Value Analysis (EVA) and Executive Reports.
- Liaising with Change Control to plan in approved changes to the Programme.
- Liaising with prime client on joint planning initiatives.
- Organising and chairing the weekly Programme Risks and Issues Review Meeting.
- Monitoring and updating the Risks & Issues Log as necessary.
- Ensuring that all key risks are integrated within the programme plan and estimate.