Experience

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  Shelbourne Advisory

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Director

    • Oct 2017 - Present
    • London, United Kingdom

    Specialist consultancy offering digitisation and information security advisory to business.• Project manager of data privacy and information security advisory and assurance services to companies in conjunction with partner companies. Responsible for business case, budgets and cost control, scheduling, reporting, risk management, leadership, and delivery.

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  Capita

  • Programme Manager

    • Feb 2016 - Oct 2017

    Leading provider of technology enabled business services.• PMO manager of Network Rail's civil asset management system solution. Responsible for leadership, scheduling, reporting, budgets and cost control, agile solutions, delivery, and data migration.• Project manager to develop an Information Security Management System and Security Management Plan for Northern Ireland DAERA, thereby resolving a significant programme risk.• Project manager for developing an Information Security Management System for Northern Ireland Water, ensuring the meeting of data privacy and contractual obligations, and reducing client cyber risk.• Program manager of the market interaction solution for Southern and Scottish Electricity £350m business transformation. Responsible for business case, leadership, suppliers, scheduling, budgets and cost control, reporting, communication, risk management, agile solutions, and PMO. Responsible for information security and data protection compliance. My project plan enabled 12 work-streams to work together effectively.

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  Jacobs

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Asset Management Director

    • Oct 2012 - Sep 2015
    • London, United Kingdom

    An international technical professional services firm.• Project manager for optimising United Utilities PR14 capital works programme. Worked with framework suppliers and stakeholders. My business case demonstrated 15% of efficiencies. Responsible for leadership, budgets and cost control, scheduling, delivery, and risk management.• Jacobs program manager on water regulator Ofwat's 2014 price review. Helped achieve assessment of water company’s business plans. Responsible for leadership, scheduling, budgets and cost control, reporting, staff, delivery, communication, and contract.• Risk management assurance on London's £15bn Crossrail programme, ensuring efficiency in project spending and management of project risk, and that costs and delivery were under control.• Risk management assurance on London Underground's £5bn Subsurface Upgrade Programme, assuring project risk provision. Identified and helped resolve a major commercial risk.

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  Shelbourne Management and Consulting

  • London, United Kingdom

  • Director

    • Oct 1996 - Sep 2012
    • London, United Kingdom

    Specialist consultancy providing project management and consulting services.• Program manager for improving Southern Water’s capital planning at £4m cost and £10m benefits, with 75 staff. Responsible for business case, leadership, scheduling, staff, budgets and cost control, agile solutions, risk management, delivery, and communications. The program resulting in substantially improved asset management, operations, and maintenance management.• Project manager for the development of the business case for a Works, Asset Management, and Information solution for Thames Water at £100m cost and £450m benefits. The solution transformed business processes, and substantially improved asset management. Responsible for leadership, scheduling, risk management, budgets and cost control, and communications.• Program manager to digitise and catalogue millions of documents and drawings for Network Rail, at £13m cost and £20m benefits. Responsible for business case, leadership, scheduling, budgets and cost control, risk management, delivery, communications, and suppliers.• Program manager and Chief Engineering Data Officer (3 years) for Network Rail’s £8bn West Coast Route Modernisation Programme. Responsible for business case, the agile development of supporting information management systems, scheduling, budgets and cost control, delivery, methodology, and risk management.• Project manager at British Airways World Cargo for the global introduction and use of business analytics and data warehousing. Helped achieve a dramatic business transformation, improve risk management, yielding £10m of benefits, and a further saving of 25 reporting staff.• Program manager of the agile development of Network Rail's Safety Management Information System safety data warehouse solution, which enabled dramatic transformation of rail safety management. Responsible for leadership, business case, budgets and cost control, scheduling, reporting, communications, delivery, and suppliers.

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  Shell

  • Group Economist

    • Apr 1988 - Mar 1996

    Working with the executive team and board of directors, responsible for all aspects of strategic planning, including scenario development, business strategy, business planning, business risk, and company performance appraisal.