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An experienced and positive programme manager skilled in all aspects of project and programme management with a proven track record of successfully delivering complex multi-million pound programmes across a multitude of technologies, industries and funct
Stuart Richards - MBA, PMP
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Southampton, United Kingdom
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An experienced business consultant / project manager manager who can assist with the transformation of your business by identifying problems to be overcome as well as value add changes that can help make businesses grow.
In addition to assisting with the transformation activities for organisations I can review or manage all aspects of project activities.
I can provide the following services either on a per hour rate or on a day rate:
- Review your current business operations
to identify improvements / add value
- Assist with the RFP presentations for new
work / SoW / contracts
- Review vendor bids as part of the RFP
process
- Manage vendors / contracts
- Change managements
- Manage any or all aspects of project
activities including:
* Writing / reviewing business cases
* Writing / reviewing PID's
* Financial management & control
* Planning & Scheduling
* Managing WBS
* Proactively managing risks & issues
including identifying preventative and
corrective actions
* Find vendors / 3rd parties to carry out
SoW
* Managing relationships with customers
and stakeholders
* Communications planning and writing
including presentations and reports
* Defining and implementing governance
and control frameworks
In addition to assisting with the transformation activities for organisations I can review or manage all aspects of project activities.
I can provide the following services either on a per hour rate or on a day rate:
- Review your current business operations
to identify improvements / add value
- Assist with the RFP presentations for new
work / SoW / contracts
- Review vendor bids as part of the RFP
process
- Manage vendors / contracts
- Change managements
- Manage any or all aspects of project
activities including:
* Writing / reviewing business cases
* Writing / reviewing PID's
* Financial management & control
* Planning & Scheduling
* Managing WBS
* Proactively managing risks & issues
including identifying preventative and
corrective actions
* Find vendors / 3rd parties to carry out
SoW
* Managing relationships with customers
and stakeholders
* Communications planning and writing
including presentations and reports
* Defining and implementing governance
and control frameworks
Industries
Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
Available
My experience
2018 - ?
temp
IT Programme Manager - Carnival UK
unknown.
Responsible for successfully managing and directing four large scale, complex, IT programmes, with a combined budget of £12million that were initiated to help the organisation achieve its strategic goals.
Key Achievements
✓ 15% return on capital expenditure ✓ Contributed to improved employee NPS
✓ Compliance to GDPR, PCI and IT security regulations ✓ 20% increase in on board Wi-Fi revenues
Programs managed:
1. Enhanced IT Security Protection:
• Replacement of CUK IT infrastructure, WAN and LAN's across all of CUK to provide enhanced security and data protection whilst ensuring no interruption to business services or revenue applications
2. Disaster Recovery solution and data replication:
• Implementation of new servers, storage and data replication process between Carnival House and the DR solution in London
3. Improve employee NPS through technology:
• New video conferencing solution
• New corporate and open Wi-Fi solution at Carnival House
• New Palo Alto VPN and Firewall as well as the migration of 3000 users (employees and vendors) onto new VPN including the deployment of DUO
4. Cunard and P&O fleet wide guest and crew connectivity improvements consisting of
• Replacing VSAT antennas across the fleet
• Implementation of XIPlinks across the fleet
• S/W development and deployment of XControl across the fleet
Responsibilities include:
• Responsible for all aspects of the programmes, through the entire lifecycle and for ensuring that the correct governance was implemented and adhered to so that the performance of the projects and programme could be monitored and if necessary corrective or preventative actions were implemented.
• Defining the programme strategy making sure that the outputs, outcomes and benefits are aligned to the organisations goals. I presented the strategy to the executive level Steering committee and gained the Steering committees commitment and sign off
• Managing and controlling the programme plan, scope, schedule, milestones, budget, benefits realisation and communications
• Presenting the CTO with regular updates, including financial information (forecast spend, committed and actual spend) through face to face presentations or regular written reports that would then be presented to CUK's president and executive board
• Ensure that the programme and its subsidiary projects were delivered on time, on budget and all of the associated benefits were realised by the organisation.
• Proactively managing the programme RAIDD's (risks, assumptions, issues, decisions and dependencies) ensuring that all risks and issues have an appropriate response plan as well as identifying any opportunities that might exist
• Managing and controlling all changes to the programme scope, schedule or benefits
• Managing and directing a multi-disciplined programme team consisting of internal and external project managers, architects, business analysts, server and storage engineers, network engineers, application engineers, test analysts and service managers.
• Chairing regular executive steering committees that were attended by the CTO, SVP's and Business representatives, Presented transparent status of the programmes, RAIDDS, any opportunities that had been identified, any help required as well as ensuring that I presented enough information to the execs to enable them to make informed strategic decisions.
• Developed effective relationships with the stakeholders by meeting with them on a regular basis, either as a group or on an individual basis to ensure that they were informed, to address any concerns they might have and to help resolve any conflicts or competing needs that exist
• Resource planning and demand management
• Defining the governance and success factors that would be used to measure the performance of programme and its subsidiary projects.
• Lead ITT / RFP process with vendors and then managing the vendor and contracts ensuring that any commercial risk to CUK was minimised
Key Achievements
✓ 15% return on capital expenditure ✓ Contributed to improved employee NPS
✓ Compliance to GDPR, PCI and IT security regulations ✓ 20% increase in on board Wi-Fi revenues
Programs managed:
1. Enhanced IT Security Protection:
• Replacement of CUK IT infrastructure, WAN and LAN's across all of CUK to provide enhanced security and data protection whilst ensuring no interruption to business services or revenue applications
2. Disaster Recovery solution and data replication:
• Implementation of new servers, storage and data replication process between Carnival House and the DR solution in London
3. Improve employee NPS through technology:
• New video conferencing solution
• New corporate and open Wi-Fi solution at Carnival House
• New Palo Alto VPN and Firewall as well as the migration of 3000 users (employees and vendors) onto new VPN including the deployment of DUO
4. Cunard and P&O fleet wide guest and crew connectivity improvements consisting of
• Replacing VSAT antennas across the fleet
• Implementation of XIPlinks across the fleet
• S/W development and deployment of XControl across the fleet
Responsibilities include:
• Responsible for all aspects of the programmes, through the entire lifecycle and for ensuring that the correct governance was implemented and adhered to so that the performance of the projects and programme could be monitored and if necessary corrective or preventative actions were implemented.
• Defining the programme strategy making sure that the outputs, outcomes and benefits are aligned to the organisations goals. I presented the strategy to the executive level Steering committee and gained the Steering committees commitment and sign off
• Managing and controlling the programme plan, scope, schedule, milestones, budget, benefits realisation and communications
• Presenting the CTO with regular updates, including financial information (forecast spend, committed and actual spend) through face to face presentations or regular written reports that would then be presented to CUK's president and executive board
• Ensure that the programme and its subsidiary projects were delivered on time, on budget and all of the associated benefits were realised by the organisation.
• Proactively managing the programme RAIDD's (risks, assumptions, issues, decisions and dependencies) ensuring that all risks and issues have an appropriate response plan as well as identifying any opportunities that might exist
• Managing and controlling all changes to the programme scope, schedule or benefits
• Managing and directing a multi-disciplined programme team consisting of internal and external project managers, architects, business analysts, server and storage engineers, network engineers, application engineers, test analysts and service managers.
• Chairing regular executive steering committees that were attended by the CTO, SVP's and Business representatives, Presented transparent status of the programmes, RAIDDS, any opportunities that had been identified, any help required as well as ensuring that I presented enough information to the execs to enable them to make informed strategic decisions.
• Developed effective relationships with the stakeholders by meeting with them on a regular basis, either as a group or on an individual basis to ensure that they were informed, to address any concerns they might have and to help resolve any conflicts or competing needs that exist
• Resource planning and demand management
• Defining the governance and success factors that would be used to measure the performance of programme and its subsidiary projects.
• Lead ITT / RFP process with vendors and then managing the vendor and contracts ensuring that any commercial risk to CUK was minimised
RFP, President, Manager, Contracts, Data Replication, Forecast, WAN, Server, Organization, Storage, Development, Infrastructure, Presenting, Cto, Implementation, It, Video, Security, Network, Data protection, Technology, Compliance, Firewall, Service, Test, Management, Controlling, GDpr, It infrastructure, Deployment, Contracts, Budget
2017 - 2017
job
IT Programme Manager
Hampshire County Council.
Key Achievements
✓ Initiated a programmed to help the organisation achieve £140m in savings ✓ Developed the business case and secured the budget of £25m required to achieve savings
Key Responsibilities
• Developed the business case and secured the required budget (£25m) to help the organisation achieve £140m in savings through the adoption of technology (Windows 10, O365, Cloud) and by transforming business practices / working models
• Gained Board approval from the executive committee to initiate the programme with the agreed budget
• Established a programme team consisting of PM's, Business Relationship Managers (BRM's) Architects, Business Analysts, Solution Designers, Testers and Infrastructure Engineers to meet all core programme objectives.
• Managed procurement (ITT / RFQ) activities with selected vendors for the implementation of agreed technical solutions.
• Chaired weekly programme boards to prioritise all workloads, resolve any issues / bottlenecks and ensure management in line with the project management frameworks and best practices.
✓ Initiated a programmed to help the organisation achieve £140m in savings ✓ Developed the business case and secured the budget of £25m required to achieve savings
Key Responsibilities
• Developed the business case and secured the required budget (£25m) to help the organisation achieve £140m in savings through the adoption of technology (Windows 10, O365, Cloud) and by transforming business practices / working models
• Gained Board approval from the executive committee to initiate the programme with the agreed budget
• Established a programme team consisting of PM's, Business Relationship Managers (BRM's) Architects, Business Analysts, Solution Designers, Testers and Infrastructure Engineers to meet all core programme objectives.
• Managed procurement (ITT / RFQ) activities with selected vendors for the implementation of agreed technical solutions.
• Chaired weekly programme boards to prioritise all workloads, resolve any issues / bottlenecks and ensure management in line with the project management frameworks and best practices.
Project Management, Budget, Procurement, Cloud, Management, Windows, Technology, Business Case, It, Implementation, Infrastructure, Organization, Manager
2015 - 2017
temp
IT Programme Manager
RNLI.
Key Achievements & Responsibilities
Managed the full licecycle of a multimillion pound IT transformation programme that provided £5m per annum in savings
✓ Implemented a new Microsoft Dynamics AX (ERP) solution to the business
✓ Implemented a new Wi-Fi solution across its lifeboat stations in the Republic of Ireland
✓ Implemented a new WAN across the organisation.
✓ Consolidated applications and solutions
✓ Decommissionied legacy platforms and infrastructure from the data centres
Managed the full licecycle of a multimillion pound IT transformation programme that provided £5m per annum in savings
✓ Implemented a new Microsoft Dynamics AX (ERP) solution to the business
✓ Implemented a new Wi-Fi solution across its lifeboat stations in the Republic of Ireland
✓ Implemented a new WAN across the organisation.
✓ Consolidated applications and solutions
✓ Decommissionied legacy platforms and infrastructure from the data centres
ERP, It, Dynamics AX, Transformation, Infrastructure, Organization, WAN, Manager
2014 - 2015
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IT Programme Manager
Nationwide Building Society.
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2012 - 2014
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Manager
2009 - 2010
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unknown.
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2008 - 2009
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Programme Manager - NDS
Cisco.
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2005 - 2008
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GSM Project Manager
Nokia.
Project Manager, Gsm, Manager
1999 - 2005
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TETRA Test Project Manager
Motorola.
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1992 - 1999
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Telecommunications Technician
British Army.
My education
2007
-
?
Project Management Institute
Project Management Professional, Project Management
Project Management Professional, Project Management
2003
-
2005
University of Lancaster
HND, Telecommunications
HND, Telecommunications
University of Bradford
MBA, Business Administration
MBA, Business Administration
Princess Marina College
N/a, Electronic Engineering
N/a, Electronic Engineering
Secondary School
GCSEs, English, Maths and Sciences
GCSEs, English, Maths and Sciences
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