He is a fully qualified Project Manager and since 1999 has run his own company, Chartwood Limited, which provides project leadership to large corporations as well as small businesses across most sectors:

Ofsted Governmental / Public Sector
Data Quality Audit Consultant May 2007 – June 2007
Fact-finding and auditing of data in Midland Trent payroll and RSA systems used by public sector body in London. Examining each of the errors or groups of errors identified in error logs or reconciliation exercises and trace the cause of the error. The results of the examination will then lead to recommendations about how to resolve the issue.

Barclays PLC Financial Services / Banking
Consultant Project Manager Feb 2007 – Apr 2007
Development of project management strategy, team, tools and workflows (including PID, Governance, budget and outline “high-level” project plan) for Barclays’ first truly global, cross business-unit, project. The project objective is to deliver, to all relevant desktop machines globally, a unified and standardised procurement tool – in this case provided by Procuri – which will be developed in line with the Barclays’ “Sourcing Handbook”. The role included management of key stakeholders (from COO downwards), recruitment of a first class project team and the creation of PMO functions. In the development of key documents (PID etc.) much work was given to the definition of deliverables and statement of requirements which were, at the outset, quite vague. In addition, I undertook much of the initial 3rd party management – dealing directly with senior and project staff from the software vendor to establish ongoing working relationships. Development of change management strategy.

Skanska ID UK Limited PFI / Investment
Consultant Project Manager Oct 2006 – Feb 2007
Project management for creation of new budgeting and finance frameworks - to include multiple change management projects and development of systems to compliment functions. Creation and delivery of bid budgets for the PFI/JV bids being considered and the operational budgets for those already underway.
Additional project in liaison with Skanska AB (Sweden) for implementation of Oracle within UK operations of the business.
Skanska ID UK is the infrastructure development arm of Skanska. They specialise in investment in PFI/JV work.

Reuters PLC Media/Financial Services
Programme Management Consultant Jul 2006 – Nov 2006
Delivery of programme and project management framework and project management of Project CASPAR - £100 million global cash-flow improvement project – covering UK, EMEA, Asia-Pacific and the Americas (inc. USA) and involving detailed strategic planning and co-ordination of a multi-geographic team.

Schroders PLC Banking, Finance & Insurance
Project Management Consultant Apr 2006 – Jun 2006
Assigned to undertake a review of the procurement processes within the business and to establish a cost/benefit analysis of either: a) standardising policy for procurement, with associated methodology -or- b) standardising policy for procurement, with consideration towards the implementation of workflow solutions (e.g. Purchase-to-Pay systems).

buyingTeam Limited / O2 PLC Procurement / Purchasing
Programme Management Consultant Jan 2006 – Mar 2006
Provision of project based methodology to run a programme of eleven projects for a major client (O2) of buyingTeam. Development of project management strategy, documentation, presentations and management tools (including Risk and milestones). Acting as a source of knowledge to Account Managers and Project Managers as to how a project should run. Providing a framework to ensure that targets are set and met. Development of training materials for internal use to enable enhanced project management to be undertaken internally – and as a selling point to clients.

Warner Music Group Limited Media/New Media
Project Manager Oct 2005 – Jan 2006
Project recovery, and completion, on implementation of purchase management, document storage and AP control system for 300+users (Tranmit Sprinter – Purchase-2-Pay). Project had over-run of 6 months, prior to my appointment, and was at severe risk of failure in its objectives. Development of revised project plan, documentation and processes. Negotiation and management of third-party vendor and matrix management of project team within the business. Development of change, risk and issue management and control. Implementation of UAT and interfaces to Oracle financials. Liaison between various business units to ensure compliance and development of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance for system.

VT Group PLC (VT Education & Skills) Education Services
Project Manager / Systems Accountant Aug 2004 – Oct 2005
Project Management for the implementation and integration of VT Group PLC financials systems and associated reporting tools. Team leadership on a Matrix basis. Additional project work created to develop standardised system usage and to enable cross-fertilisation of staff. Development of UAT packs and full version control matrices. This included development of basic user interfaces using XML and UML programming – my role being one of oversight rather than programming. Control of all development functions, including Matrix management across several group services. Full project management functions and budgetary planning.. Error correction in Navision v3.70. Planning and implementation of Navision v3.70. Development planning for bespoke systems for managing ‘cashless’ systems in schools. Development of reporting tools for finance department in order to ensure compliance with requirements of JV contract. Development of time-recording management systems and policies. Conception and delivery of training plans. Regular reporting to sponsor, board, stakeholders and VT Group PLC. Working directly to the Finance & Commercial Director and managing a team of varying sizes and competencies.

VT Four S is a joint venture created in April 2004 by VT Group PLC and Surrey County Council, for the delivery of consultancy services to schools and local authorities. VT Group uses the Microsoft Navision (v3.70) financials and CRM system. Part of the development of the JV required that VT Group systems were implemented, carefully and with full reference to the business needs, across the new company. Project management for “fire-fighting” in regard to the implementation of the systems required.

Eurox (UK) Limited Manufacturing & Retail
Credit Project Manager Apr 2004 – Aug 2004
To develop and implement effective credit control operations and also to review the options available to this SME company with regard to factoring and/or invoice discounting. Full project lifecycle. Included development of MSAccess systems which worked with Sage Line 100 accounting system. Following internal issues related to cashflow, the scope of this project changed to include a review of the business – in conjunction with HSBC Bank PLC and Kroll Associates.

Various clients Miscellaneous
Various PM / Analyst roles Sept 1999 – Apr 2004
Contracts were undertaken with the following companies/organisations during the period:
Spring Group PLC : Billing and E-Timesheet Project Consultant
Cousins Furniture Stores Limited : IT Project Manager / Deputy Financial Controller
BSA Guns Limited : Final Stage ERP Implementation Project Manager
Cadbury Schweppes PLC : Business Analyst
NHS – City Hospital Trust : Systems Analyst
HSBC Bank PLC : Decision Support Accountant

Providing support to the AP and finance functions during a transition from IRIS to RESUS based accounting systems and infrastructure. Left to start University.