Portfolio, Programme and Project Management Consultant

Adrian is a highly pragmatic, professional manager and leader. Starting from an IT development background, he has more than 15 years in the successful delivery of business transformation programmes and the build/operation of programme and project governance gained in both commercial and public sectors.

His commercial work has spanned; telecommunications, aviation, finance (retail, investment and lease), e-commerce, nano-technology and energy technologies. Within the public sector Adrian has worked extensively for the Department of Work of Pensions mostly on programme rescue, third party management and enterprise programme and portfolio management. In addition, Adrian has worked for the London Development Agency on programme management.

Adrian has worked to Programme Director level, e.g. at Cable and Wireless and currently at the Energy Technologies Institute. Adrian is not embarrassed to say that his passion truly is the design, build and operation of effective and professional management that facilitates delivery for his clients. A key challenge he says is to avoid beaurocracy and to find “just the right amount” of management.

When asked about his approach to work Adrian says that he likes to build with a team so that they have some “skin in the game” in terms of how they work, after all, as a consultant he will eventually move on. He also prefers to persuade people to work professionally and in co-operation but was also once given a toy baseball bat for Christmas by a client's third party supplier. This possible obsession with good management extends beyond his broad and deep experience to the development of the profession he is in - under the principle of enlightened self-interest. Adrian says that as secretary of ProgM - the UK's programme management special interest group - he feels that he learns at least as much as he gives. Over the years Adrian has written papers and articles on programme and portfolio management and programme offices, and has frequently lectured at conferences in the UK and abroad. In addition he was on the review panel for the Office of Government Commence (OGC) standards on Programme Management and Portfolio Programme and Project Offices (P3O). He is co-author of the Gower Handbook of Programme Management the most thorough reference work on programme management to date and a collection of the experience of its six authors.

When approached about work Adrian will usually choose something new, challenging and preferably with some unusual content. For one client the programme included organising a party on a jumbo jet. Currently, Adrian is working as a consultant to the Energy Technologies Institute in Loughborough. Otherwise, Adrian lives in Kew Gardens , Surrey and in Dorset with his partner of 18 years, who is an architect (a rather good one says Adrian ).

Key Experience

•  Business change and transformation strategy, planning and implementation
•  Change Programme design, build and leadership
•  Programme Management Methods & Consultancy for Business Transformation (15 yrs)
•  Project Management methods including Prince/2 (18 yrs)
•  Enterprise and Transformation Portfolio management
•  Enterprise Programme Office / Centre of Excellence design, build & operation
•  Portfolio, Programme, Project Management and ERP Tools, MSP, Nikku, Hydra, Mercury Interactive, SAP
•  Integration of portfolio management with finance systems, e.g. SAP
•  CRM systems (Operational, Collaborative and Analytical)
•  Third party management and multi-supplier management
•  Resource management
•  Outsource management and TUPE
•  Stakeholder management & communications planning
•  Bid Management/Business development
•  Sectors: Finance(Investment Finance, Retail Banking, Lease Finance, and Pensions & Regulation), Telco, integration & internet services, IT delivery and service, Central and Local Government, Professional Services, Aviation, , Retail, EDRM, E-commerce, CRM , Web technology programmes (B2B & B2C)
•  Business awareness & Customer focus, Business process re-engineering
•  Business cases and financial management
•  Systems integration
•  Matrix management and Leadership
•  BPR, Business analysis, requirements to design & Systems Analysis & Design
•  Test strategy, Release Management and Implementation testing, including ITIL
•  PC applications, MS Office, e.g. Excel spreadsheet design
•  Networks (e.g. Windows NT), Mini and Mainframe developments
•  Training

Professional development

Certified MSP Programme Manager to Advanced Practitioner level

Co-Author the Gower Handbook of Programme Management – see link: Gower HoPM

Co-author of the Guide to Portfolio Management (in draft for the Association of Project Management)

Development Panel for new OGC P3O standards (Enterprise Programme Offices)

Secretary of ProgM, the UK body for Programme Management. Adrian has a specialist interest in programme strategy & build, enterprise programme offices, and the human aspects of change/programme management.

A member of Association of Project Management team developing new business change and programme management qualifications.

A member of the OGC review panel for government change programme management standards (Managing Successful Programmes).

Leader of ProgM's Benefits Management working group.

Experience Record:

October 2008 to present: Enterprise Programme Management consultancy: Energy Technologies Institute

• Deputy to the Director of Delivery
• Development and implementation of Portfolio, Programme and Project approach for the £60m portfolio of programmes and projects
• Design, build and operation of enterprise programme management office
• Programme Manager mobilising the Buildings Technology programme

October 2007 to September 2008: Portfolio, Change and Release Management & Governance: Child Support Agency

• Build of CSA future IT project strategy and portfolio, its prioritisation and alignment to delivery capability and Releases
• Programme Manager: New finance system delivery to include, ledgers and enhanced financial management and reporting capability, including internal and external compliance.
• Release Delivery Manager for the Productivity Release Programme; a major programme to provide new IT services and business procedures, including national education, training and communications, operational implementation, system and data cutover and business continuity work streams
• Review and revise programme governance for the Productivity Release Programme;

July to September 2007:

• Research, bid production and management

February to May 2007: Programme Management Consultant to First Data International (Credit cards).

• Re-build effective programme governance for a major Client Development and Data Migration programme. The Client was a top UK bank.
• Provide consultancy on emerging programme management standards for the EMEA operation.

September 2006 to January 2007: Programme management associate consultant working with a professional services and software company.

• Bid production and management

July to August 2006: Programme & Release Management consultant: Applied Impact Technology.

• Interim role to develop Release management project governance and ERP procedures for this UK nano-technology manufacturer.

March 2006 to June 2006: Senior Technical Programme Manager, London Development Agency.

April 2004 to January 2006: Programme Director, Customer Programme Portfolio, Cable & Wireless .

January 2004: Consultancy and workshop on Change Programme Management for London Borough of Havering.

October 2002 to December 2003: Internal Programme Management Consultant to the Department of Work and Pensions

October 2001 to September 2002.

•  Programme strategy and build for various clients, e.g. Orange .
•  Management Audit
•  Managing Consultant for PIP Consulting

July-October 2001: Mobilised Change Programme to merge two Investment Banking E-Commerce businesses and B2B sites (AMP and Interactive Investor)

July 2000 to June 2001: Programme Management of Investment Banking E-commerce programme for AMP (Australian Mutual Provident) – delivered WWW .AMPLE.COM

April-July 2000: Programme Manager, Lease Finance E-commerce programme, DELL with a major US bank.

November 1999 to March 2000: Programme strategy and build, plus business development consultancy for various e-commerce & other clients

September 1998 to October 1999: Programme Management of NatWest UK Telephony transformation programme.

August 1997 to August 1998: Programme Management for NatWest UK Release Testing dept.

January 1996 to July 1997: Programme Management for British Airways

Interactive In-Flight Entertainment programme (international, high value, cross-functional Marketing led business programme).

January 1995 to December 1995: Manager, Programme Consultancy in British Telecom

February 1991 to December 1994: Programme/Project Management Consultancy in BT

July 1988 to January 1991: Senior Tutor in Systems Engineering in BT .

October 1984 to June 1988: Senior Analyst Systems Analyst and Project Manager for BT's Linkline project (provision of 0800 and 0345 services and billing).

April 1984 to September 1984 Analyst/Programmer in the Information Systems Division of BT

Publications and Lectures:

•  19 October 2009 : APM portfolio management – Jersey
•  6 November 2009 : PMI conference – Warsaw , Poland
•  Currently developing new APM guidance on Portfolio Management
•  APM Knowledgeshare 2009 – led Programme & portfolio management strand
•  November 2008: APM Conference paper on Sustainability programmes
•  November 2007: Seminar on Programme Manager for APM Scotland Branch
•  Led PMI debate on Business Change October 2007
•  BCS Seminar on Portfolio Management Systems, March 2007
•  Co-chair, Aligning Project Management with Corporate Strategy seminar, November 2006
•  Co-author of new Gower Handbook on Programme Management, published October 2006.
•  The Project & Programme Governance Forum 6/10/2005 (OGC, APM & ProgM event).
•  Business Performance & Project Management conference in March 2004. Delivered a seminar on Centres of Excellence and programme office design and operation.
•  Change Programme Management seminar at the IPMA World Congress in Budapest in June 2004
•  ProgM/ BCS joint IT programme management event speaker – Managing programmes for change in IT and Telecommunications – July 2003
•  ProgM event speaker 2002 at several seminars
•  ProgM/Project Manager Today Conference November 2001: Chair of seminars on Implementing Programme Management, also a seminar speaker.
•  ProgM Annual Exhibition & Conference Seminar on Relationships, Stakeholders and Communication in Change Programmes, March 2001
•  ProjectWorld Seminar on Programme/Project Accounting & Financial Control March 2001
•  Seminar on Programme Management of Aviation entertainment systems @ Cranfield College , to an international aviation industry event, April 2000
•  Project Management Exhibition seminar on E-Commerce programmes March 2000
•  ProgM Annual Conference seminars, December 1999.
•  Programme Management Forum for J Sainsbury, November 1999
•  ProgM/Unicom Programme Management seminars, October 1999.
•  Contributor to the former CCTA “Managing Successful Programmes” guidance.
•  Author of sections in BT's engineering divisional best practice on:

Qualifications & Education:

•  Certificate in Programme Management to Advanced Practitioner level May 2006
•  Secretary and member of ProgM (Programme Management special interest body)
•  Full member of the Association of Project Management
•  Member of the Institute of Directors
•  BCS Certificates in SSADM v3 & v4 (Structured Systems Analysis & Design Method)
•  Post Graduate Certificate in Education from Avery Hill Teacher Training College
•  BSc (Hons) degree in Geography/Geology from University of London , Goldsmith's College