Delivery and business development of programme management and consultancy assignments, primarily in Retail Banking and Oil & Gas sectors.

• Final assignments leading Programme Assurance team on a £20 million government capacity improvement scheme and bidding a $9 million global implementation to one of the oil super majors.

• Assigned to BP April 2004 – June 2006 to develop and roll out a Group Standard for the management of Control of Work.
o Development of Standard via management of a cross-group leadership team
o Set-up, monitored and obtained lessons learned from 8 global pilots to extrapolate group impact and build cost model
o Group rollout of GAP Analysis tool and processing returns to prepare business case
o Rollout of Standard across BP
o Managed legal, IPR and Trademark issued relating to supporting IT applications
o Project cost $40 million with estimated savings of $500 million over 5 years.

• Successfully won and delivered assignments in a number of sectors:
o Managed five projects, as part of a £70 million strategic migration programme, for Lloyds TSB
o Specified methodology and managed due diligence on Siemens for Barclays Bank in relation with a proposed £300 million outsourcing project
o Communication manager for the acquisition of Accucard by Lloyds TSB
o Undertook a 2 month review of Barclays Offshore telephony operation to address capacity issues. Subsequently retained on a year assignment to project manage the design, pilot and implement the selected solution; outsourcing a sub-set of calls to Barclays Stockbrokers in Scotland, annual savings of £175,000 p.a.
o Won a £300,000 hardware contract for BT Ignite bidding into Halifax IF.

Reporting to client’s (Matthew Clark Wholesale) Managing Director. Assignment with sole responsibility to design, project manage and implement a 100 seat Call Centre, servicing 17,000 accounts.

• Re-engineered business to enable centralised telesales to work with multi-site supply chain network and devolved Finance and Sales operations
• Designed, prepared and implemented Standard Operating Procedures for new and existing business processes
• Managed pilot call centre implementation
• Designed Call Centre scheme and jointly managed building programme
• Proposed and set-up Customer Care department.
• Project value £1.5 million, delivered on time and within budget, giving a headcount reduction of 20 and savings of £0.5 million per annum.

Reporting to the Group MD, responsible for business development, marketing, tendering, finance and review and negotiation of contracts for the SAGE Group (annual turnover £20 million).

• Won a number of multi-million pound projects resulting in the UK company becoming the fastest growing in its sector
• Identified the opportunity to grow business via procurement of a major capital item (£1 million) and subsequently changed marketing strategy to incorporate the acquisition. As a result increased global market share.

• Managed the rehabilitation of the ship transfer facility/dry dock in the King Abdul Aziz Naval Base in Saudi Arabia, value £1 million, 50-man workforce. Completed the project on a fast track programme on schedule and achieved a 20% profit margin.
• Undertook a 2 month audit of the Juaym’ah Gas Plant Refurbishment project, value £12 million. Assessed and implemented changes in individual's responsibilities and put in place a comprehensive management system.

• Bahrain Representative, responsible for ensuring interests of the PENSPEN Group within the country, project management and business development.
o Managed a causeway remedial project, (£1.5 m), in charge of a peak workforce of three hundred
o Won and managed repair project to Bahrain’s main power station, value £ 0.5 m
• Consulted on and managed projects in the oil and gas sectors world-wide

A multi-disciplinary management and engineering company, providing services to the oil, gas, water and waste industries.

• Bahrain Representative, responsible for ensuring interests of the PENSPEN Group within the country, project management and business development.
o Managed a causeway remedial project, (£1.5 m), in charge of a peak workforce of three hundred
o Won and managed repair project to Bahrain’s main power station, value £ 0.5 m
• Consulted on and managed projects in the oil and gas sectors world-wide