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Highly experienced IT programme/portfolio/project manager
Nick Wilmshurst
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Chalfont St Peter, United Kingdom
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An experienced, driven and enthusiastic project and programme manager with a consistent track record of delivery to budget, schedule and quality, meeting client expectations from project inception to go live including bids and proposals
A disciplined approach within CSC's "Catalyst" methodology, (very similar to Prince2), producing clear and concise documentation and metrics reporting. Responsible for developing and then hitting project budgets and schedules and reporting to senior client stakeholders.
A strong, clear communicator both within the delivery team and to the client.
Holds MoD SC clearance.
A disciplined approach within CSC's "Catalyst" methodology, (very similar to Prince2), producing clear and concise documentation and metrics reporting. Responsible for developing and then hitting project budgets and schedules and reporting to senior client stakeholders.
A strong, clear communicator both within the delivery team and to the client.
Holds MoD SC clearance.
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United Kingdom
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Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
Available
My experience
2019 - 2019
job
Project delivery lead
Pentland Brands.
Short, fixed term contract running a Warehouse Management System implementation and also responsible for implementing best practice project management and governance processes.
Project Management, Management, Implementation, Processes
2016 - 2017
job
Senior Project Manager, Head Office, SAP and Global systems
CSC UK Ltd.
March 2016 - January 2017
Senior Project Manager, Head Office, SAP and Global systems
• Managing a team of 6 project managers and leveraged technical resources, with a portfolio of, on average, 40 projects from bids. proposals, through development into support. Reporting to the client IT Director. Projects ranged in size from £50k to £850k.
• Turned the performance of the project and programme team around from 23 amber and red projects down to just 2 ambers through rigorous attention to detail and team coaching and training.
• Managed the transition onto a new client contract.
• Led the whole account for four weeks covering for the Programme Delivery Executive's holiday.
• Major projects delivered during this time included:
◦ The transition of the mission-critical SAP systems from legacy infrastructure into a secure cloud on schedule and within budget.
◦ Upgrade of the global WAN without down-time, entailing working with a variety of third parties across five countries to tight timescales.
◦ Pilot transition to O365 as an "Agile" project.
Senior Project Manager, Head Office, SAP and Global systems
• Managing a team of 6 project managers and leveraged technical resources, with a portfolio of, on average, 40 projects from bids. proposals, through development into support. Reporting to the client IT Director. Projects ranged in size from £50k to £850k.
• Turned the performance of the project and programme team around from 23 amber and red projects down to just 2 ambers through rigorous attention to detail and team coaching and training.
• Managed the transition onto a new client contract.
• Led the whole account for four weeks covering for the Programme Delivery Executive's holiday.
• Major projects delivered during this time included:
◦ The transition of the mission-critical SAP systems from legacy infrastructure into a secure cloud on schedule and within budget.
◦ Upgrade of the global WAN without down-time, entailing working with a variety of third parties across five countries to tight timescales.
◦ Pilot transition to O365 as an "Agile" project.
It, LED, Manager, WAN, Detail, Office, Development, Infrastructure, Support, Coaching, Team coaching, Cloud, Agile, SAP, Budget, Training, Project Manager
2012 - 2016
job
Programme Delivery Manager, Maritime Naval Ships and Maritime Services
BAE Systems.
• Managing a team of approximately 20 project managers, technical architects and engineers with a portfolio of, on average, 30 projects from bids. proposals, through development into support. Projects range in size from small (£50k) to large bids (£3m).
• Major projects delivered during this time included:
◦ Transition of SAP from legacy physical hardware to S4 Hana in CSC's cloud.
◦ Migrating 41 servers from physical hardware into the cloud achieving significant savings for the client..
◦ Many infrastructure projects including large scale server deployments (Wintel and Solaris), LAN and WAN, security, VMWare, Cloud, wireless and storage into both remote sites and large central datacentres
◦ Pre-sales and the successful bid to deliver the relocation of infrastructure for the Aircraft Carrier Alliance into a new datacentre on new hardware (c£6m).
◦ A bid for a managed print service for the whole of BAE Systems (c.£3m pa)
• Major projects delivered during this time included:
◦ Transition of SAP from legacy physical hardware to S4 Hana in CSC's cloud.
◦ Migrating 41 servers from physical hardware into the cloud achieving significant savings for the client..
◦ Many infrastructure projects including large scale server deployments (Wintel and Solaris), LAN and WAN, security, VMWare, Cloud, wireless and storage into both remote sites and large central datacentres
◦ Pre-sales and the successful bid to deliver the relocation of infrastructure for the Aircraft Carrier Alliance into a new datacentre on new hardware (c£6m).
◦ A bid for a managed print service for the whole of BAE Systems (c.£3m pa)
Support, Manager, ON, WAN, Storage, Maritime, Server, Development, Infrastructure, Hardware, SAP, Wireless, Security, Service, Sales, Print, C, Cloud, VMware
2004 - 2012
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2002 - 2004
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Fine-line Developments.
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2000 - 2002
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Senior project manager
WM-Data.
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1975 - 2000
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Senior project manager
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Project Manager, Manager
My education
1968
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1975
John Lyon School, Harrow
A-Levels, .
A-Levels, .
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