Project Management Assignments

Ten years of full project life-cycle skills of planning, budget and control of 3rd party resources. 

• Project Manager for £17m. upgrade of the Samsung Data Centre, to a high resilience Operations Centre, to manage the SAP based sales and production control functions throughout Europe.  Managed commercial aspects, budgets and the multi-supplier 3rd party resources.  The project was accomplished on time, to budget and met precise, predetermined dates for two production shutdowns of the 2,000-person factory.
• LUL had out-sourced their Engineering IT to EDS, through a Private Finance Initiative.  As the client’s Programme Manager, defined the business requirements and deliverables using PRINCE.  Investigated the integration issues of the proposed solutions and provided independent advice on the additional functionality required of the systems.  Produced the project plans and budget, valued in excess of £25m.  The roll-out was to include migration to later releases of desktop software, provide controlled access to Document Management for 1,500 PC’s, integrate & update 140 UNIX CAD seats, and migrate 1,200 databases to an Enterprise wide system.  The project was further complicated by contractual and EU regulatory issues surrounding an extension to the existing contract and ensuring that there was “value for money” and “transfer of risk” as required by the Treasury and DoT, PFI rules.  All aspects of the intended contract were set down in an ITT and draft SLAs.
• Member of the change management and quality programme team, implemented the £750k first phase of a £2.3m. systems and procedures development plan and interdependent projects involving MAXIMO Facility Management, Documentum (which commenced as a RAD project) and AutoCAD software.  Supported the migration of legacy systems sources, validation to standards acceptable to the FDA & MCA, and later the enhanced use of INTERNET/INTRANET capabilities to transfer of data from external Engineering sources.  The checking and signing off of Interfaces with Ernst & Young Finance & Purchase SAP project was required.  Provided training in the overall strategy and specific processes and systems as required.
• Haden, a major outsourced service provider, were developing an advanced feature facility management system based upon MAXIMO, estimated to cost £11m.  Appointed to audit the project’s first phase of £1.5m.  Reviewed the supplier’s specifications, plans and risks to completion to specification, time and budget.Continued as a member of the AstraZeneca change management and quality programme, implemented the £750k first phase of a £2.3m. systems and procedures development plan.  Interdependent projects involved MAXIMO Facility Management, Documentum (which commenced as a RAD project) and AutoCAD software.  Supported the migration of legacy systems sources, validation to standards acceptable to the FDA & MCA, and later the enhanced use of INTERNET/INTRANET capabilities to transfer of data from external Engineering sources.  The checking and signing off of Interfaces with Ernst & Young Finance & Purchase SAP project was required.  Provided training in the overall strategy, processes and systems.
• Facilitating the theoretical mathematical review of a novel product.