Experience

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  ZAVANAK.com

  • United Kingdom
  • Business Consulting and Services
  • 1 - 100 Employee

  • Projects expert

    • Sep 2019 - Present

    My goal is to raise the standard of project expertise in the UK and beyond. I help private and public sector organisations understand how to get their project activity aligned with their strategy, and then embed the skills, tools and techniques to deliver successful projects. Alongside that I teach and have taught about projects at several leading British universities, so that many of tomorrow's professionals start with a solid grounding in this essential discipline.

  • Host

    • Sep 2019 - Sep 2019

    Doing the right project. and doing it right. Zavanak is a website that provides lots of project management resources aimed at students and practitioners. PM101 is a free, self-paced introductory course in project management. Elsewhere a series of audio programmes explain different aspects of project management through the stories about real projects. There are also case studies, examples of techniques used in projects, and lots of other material. All is free to use.

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  Lancaster University

  • Lancaster, United Kingdom

  • Visiting Teaching Fellow

    • Oct 2010 - Present
    • Lancaster, United Kingdom

    I produce and lead an undergraduate course in the fundamentals of Project Management. This attracts over 120 students per year. The aim is to give these students the basic skills and insights they need to be able to work effectively in projects, and move towards project leadership in due course.

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  Alliance Manchester Business School

  • Manchester, United Kingdom

  • Project supervisor

    • 2010 - May 2017
    • Manchester, United Kingdom

    The Manchester Method gets teams of MBA students to undertake real consulting assignments for various types of organisation up to multi-nationals. I supervise some of these teams to ensure they learn from their experiences and deliver effective advice to the clients.

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  Mpulse Limited

  • North Est England

  • Associate

    • 2006 - 2010
    • North Est England

    Mpulse was a project firm specialising in work to design and manage small to medium sized projects in the public sector. My work included creating plans for the education of children with disabilities in Lancashire, advising on the design of the Bolton One complex, co-ordinating how Manchester coped with a sudden bulge in demand for primary school places, facilitating the opening of four academies in that city, and advising the North West Development Agency on programme management.

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  Computer Sciences Corporation

  • Director - Business Consulting

    • 1994 - 2006

    CSC is now part of DXC Technology. CSC was a global IT professional services company. Part of its business was conducting IT transformation projects for major clients. I eventually became the director of CSC's UK business change consulting practice. My team of over 60 experts worked to ensure that new IT systems were designed in a way that would support revised business processes, and through that meet our clients' goals.

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  BAE Systems

  • Manufacturing consultant

    • Oct 1990 - Apr 1994

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  The World Bank

  • Quality consultant

    • Jun 1990 - Sep 1990

    Acting through Neville-Clarke Limited I helped the World Bank in the relocation of the Turkish Standards Institute from Ankara to Istanbul.

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  LTSS Limited

  • Business development director

    • Sep 1988 - May 1990

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  Leyland Vehicles

  • Engineering and Marketing

    • 1972 - 1986