Prestigeous Retail Brand
Consulting GDPR Project Manager: - January 2018 - Current
Recruited to consult & deliver GDPR IT Projects to increase compliance and cyber security maturity improvements.
Analysis of key projects required to deliver the MVP for GDPR to help reduce risk exposure. Including Consent (CRM, Website Development, Media, Marketing, and Analytics), Data Masking & Archiving, Solutions & Processes around Subject Access Requests, Individuals Rights, and Data Retention Policy Implementation, Communications & Awareness, Breach Management & Governance and Cyber Security Measures etc.Delivery of projects relating to Personal Data Consent, Media, Data Retention, Structured Data Remediation (SAP, CRM, BI, SAS etc), SAR's, Rights and Cyber Security.

Major Retail Organisation
Consulting Senior Project Manager: - August 2017 – December 2017
Recruited to consult & deliver the GDPR Compliance Programme fproviding detailed recommendations collated for reducing risk exposure and minimising legal, financial and reputational consequences in constrained timelines. Ongoing Discovery has identified major and minor projects to ensure compliance of affected areas. Projects within this programme involve assessment and remediation of business processes, known systems, documentation and assessment thereof, investigation into unknown processes & systems, communications, training, awareness, governance implications and the tools, processes & people to support them, contracts assessment & remediation etc

Global Fast Food Company
Senior Project Manager: - Feb 2017 – August 2017
Recruited to deliver a variety of projects with full budgetary control and CxO reporting.spanning EU GDPR Compliance, Cyber Security, Data Privacy, Target Operating Model, Geo Analytics, IoT implementation, Network Segmentation, Threat Management, Cloud Migration (AWS), BI, SaaS, PaaS & AV implementation.

Recycling Institution
Consulting Programme Manager - Sept 2016 - Feb 2017
Recruited to set a recovery plan in place for a major series of projects with complex inter-dependancies in a programme of work that was over-running and failing to deliver business benefits. Identification and resolution of issues and establishment of a robust recovery plan has allowed this programme to be recovered.

Banking Institution
Senior Project Manager - June 2016 - Sept 2016
Recruited to deliver a banking subsidiaary diivestment by building a separation programme to suppport independant operation. Requirements gathering, solution recommendation, cover papers and initial plans were delivered however the entire programme was terminated due to financial concens linked to the Brexit referendum..

Education
Programme / Project Manager - December 2014 - June 2016
Recruited to deliver Storage and other infrastructure projects; Key focus is delivering a university wide Storage as a Service (SaaS) across multiple platforms. Other Projects including a multi-platform Backup Solution, Virtualised Framework for Infrastructure & Extensive Network & core infrastructure upgrades

Insurance
Senior Project Manager – August 2014 - December 2014
Recruited midway through a Global Infrastructure Upgrade Project to migrate 75000 users from Exchange 2007 to Exchange 2010 across the EMEA, APAC & US

A complex and sensitive project with multiple streams and reporting to a global stakeholder community while managing multiple off-shore teams across several time zones.

Banking Institution
Project Manager - August 2013 - August 2014
Delivering Regulatory change, compliance and integration solutions within the banks global office environment; Managed Change & Implementation across UK, Singapore Japan, China and the USA

A high-pressure environment that required a high level of stakeholder management and a clear appreciation of the impacts that change would have on the user base while managing a global resource team across multiple time zones to deliver unified solutions.

Telecommunications Organisation
Project & Portfolio Manager November 2012 – June 2013 (Contract)
Initially recruited as a project manager the role gradually expanded to include project portfolio management. As the only PM employed by the company in this development environment it was essential that I was able to manage and prioritise my activities to meet the many goals required in this complex technical arena.

The Portfolio Management of 60+ Major Projects and 120+ Medium to Minor Projects all in various stages from Concept to Rollout including the instigation of project controls to manage the pipeline of project streams and apply a Go/No Go gate process and priority structure.

Clinical Health Managed Services Organisation
Consulting Project Manager April 2012 – November 2012 (Contract)
Initialy brought on board to help recover a failing clinical healthcare Data Centre and applications migration that was exceeding timescales for delivery and struggling with broken communications. After a short while I took over and ran the entire programme. This was a particularly serious work load as it involved the migration of systems with life and health impacting repercusions if systems were offline with reporting and stakeholders at CIO & FD level.

Professional Services Organisation
Project Manager / Project Co-ordinator (Part Time) 2009 – October 2012 (Contract)
Project Management, project co-ordination and administration of various deployment projects, providing technical support where required (various clients)

Blue Chip Financial & Auditing Organisation
Senior Technical Engineer May 2010 – April 2012 (Contract)
Part of a large team supporting 6000+ users in London . Providing technical, business and project support in the deployment of special projects and bespoke software in a frontline role dealing with all levels of staff within the company (From user to Partner/Director level).

Managed Services Organisation
Project Manager and Team Leader - April 2007 to March 31st 2010
A role in which I held positions of PM and Technical Team Leader

Banking Organisation
Senior Consultant - Feb 2007 to April 2007 (Contract)