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Profile
Experienced and driven IT project manager and consultant, with a proven track record in solution delivery. Strong stakeholder management, operational leadership and technical direction across a range of domains. Specialist in geospatial and web technologies, with considerable experience in the telecoms and the transport sector.

•  Professional and positive minded
•  Delivery focussed
•  Strong interpersonal / communication skills
•  Highly organised

Technical Capability

Project management
PRINCE2 Practitioner Certified Project Manager.

Experienced in planning and executing multiple technology roll outs within rigorously managed corporate environments.
Experienced in risk management, operational co-ordination and financial management.
Experienced in quality management and balancing time, cost and specification to meet project sponsor requirements.
Experienced in a range of delivery techniques, from traditional to agile.
8 years experience of managing IT projects as system supplier has provided both delivery skills and an inside track driving vendor delivery.

Business skills
Experienced in handling clients and stakeholders throughout the project lifecycle, including requirements analysis, contract negotiation and delivery.
Experienced in the private, central and local government sectors, with considerable experience in the transport and telecoms sector.
Experienced in the procurement cycle, including bid preparation skills.

Technologies
Extensive background in geospatial technologies (ESRI, MapInfo, Intergraph).
Experienced in data management, including geospatial data products.
Extensive, practical experience of implementing web and database technologies (SQLServer, Oracle).
High level knowledge of programming technologies.
Experienced user of Microsoft Office Suite, MS Project, MS Sharepoint, issue tracking software, Windows operating systems, financial systems.

Experience
Atkins, Bristol (September 2005 – March 2010)
Principal Consultant, Geospatial Unit

Project Manager and Team Leader delivering solutions for a variety of internal and external clients, against challenging targets. Deliveries were typically made in parallel and complex in nature. Role also covered wider aspects of the relationships, including requirements capture, contract negotiation and application support.

Vodafone: Delivered a business critical tool, disseminating mobile coverage data across the organisation within an intranet application. This used ESRI ArcGIS Server 9.3.1 and Oracle 10g to provide a high performance solution serving thousands of users. Strong client relationship established.
Vodafone: Delivered several standalone applications providing complex data analysis
Vodafone: Delivered several functional upgrades to website coverage viewer application. High profile work against stringent implementation procedures.
Vodafone: Management and delivery of application support for suite of applications
Cable and Wireless: Development, data management, and maintenance of a live intranet based asset management solution.
Cable and Wireless: Management of a server migration project to relocate asset system to new infrastructure.
Cable and Wireless: Design, development, delivery and maintenance of a bespoke web payment portal and web based customer management tools. Required business process analysis and strong time management.
Department for Transport: delivery of a suite of tools and systems for the construction and management of a National cycle network repository. Bespoke software built and integrated with ESRI and SQL Server technology to provide web editing tools, data importers / exporters, database manipulation and management information tools.
Milford Haven Port Authority: Delivered IT strategy for implementation of GIS at MHPA.
Internal: Operational and pastoral responsibility for team of IT professionals.

Senior Consultant, Intelligent Transport Systems
Consultant providing business development and client management for local and central government clients.

Southwark Borough Council: Delivery of a cycle route planner website to local authority client. Internal: Technical and business advisor to internal IT strategy.
External: Client management for several local authority / public sector clients.

MVA Ltd, Woking (December 2001 – August 2005)
Principal Consultant, Senior Consultant

IT consultant providing project management, business development and client management. This role also included responsibility for the use of GIS technology at MVA.

Department for Transport: Design, direction and project management of ‘Accession' software. 12 month product development to produce sophisticated tool for accessibility analysis. Deployed across 122 Local Transport Planning Authorities in England for use in preparing Local Transport Plans.
Department for Transport: Delivery of a system to produce England-wide accessibility indicators. This created custom built processes with Oracle to deliver against challenging deadlines and specifications.
British Airports Authority: Delivery and maintenance of a flight path tracking system, used to analyse and monitor aircraft adherence to noise regulations.
British Airports Authority: Delivery and maintenance of a map based analytical tool for managing a flight damage compensation scheme.
Internal : Management of MVA's relationships with Ordnance Survey and all key GIS vendors.
Internal: Development of GIS tools for use across the company.
Internal: Responsibility for company GIS and the production of a National GIS data facility.

Ordnance Survey, Southampton (Dec 1995 – Nov 2001)
Consultant, GB Consultancy (Oct 2000 –Nov2001)
Role to provide Geospatial consultancy to public sector clients.

Government Office for the South West: Project managed and delivered a GIS/data audit and GIS implementation strategy
Scottish Executive: Delivered strategic review of GI capability for Rural Affairs Department Other: Technical and business support to the Property Advisors to the Civil Estate (PACE- Central government), MAFF and the Welsh Assembly Agriculture Department.

GIS Specialist, Lesotho, Africa, OS International (Nov 2000)

Government of Lesotho: Developed and delivered a GIS training programme and trained the Land and Surveys Department.

Senior Projects Officer, GIS Team (Oct1999 – Sep 2000)

Internal: Management of production of multiple GI systems for OS's largest annual exposition. Central Gov: Provided system development technical support to PACE

Year Break to complete GIS Masters Degree (Oct1998 – Sep 1999)
Distinction for a Masters-level dissertation.

Geomatician, Surveyor, Data Collection (Dec1995 – Sep1998)

External: Solving mission-critical data translation problems for a large survey project. This project required security clearance.
Internal: Procurement and testing of OS's first Digital Photogrammetric Workstation.