Senior Consultant, Gutteridge Haskins & Davey Ltd (GHD), Consultancy
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.
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