Extended vacation, having worked at BP for four years and having just moved house, I took the decision to spend the summer with my family.

Formalised my Prince2 knowledge by taking and passing PRINCE2 foundation and practitioner exams

Worked as a Programme Manager on a multi-million dollar project called the Group BW Transition Program, the program involved over 100 people from companies such as BP, IBM, Accenture, Wipro and TCS.

The programme consisted of managing

The transition of application support for 8 SAP and 2 Informatica production environments along with the associated test and project environments from the various incumbent project team/support providers to a new IBM team based in Kolkata.

The creation of a new office in Kolkata including technical infrastructure and a secure work area where only vetted personnel could work on highly sensitive systems

A myriad of changes to the associated IT development, business and support people, processes and technology


Work carried out included: Management of the team, development and management of the Rollout Plan, definition of Project Approach; Communication Plan; Stakeholder Management; Programme Budget; Risk and Issue Management;

Jan 2007 – Oct 2007

Worked with Business Project Manager to investigate how Refinery costs could be captured and managed within a new Refinery Maintenance system. This involved mapping the Business Processes, identifying the business requirements and mapping them against the proposed system to see if they could be delivered without further change to the system

Work carried out included: Produced Process Maps for each phase of work to be carried out by Refining Financial Controllers.

Organised and produced a series of workshops in Chicago and Rotterdam for Refining and Marketing Finance, Commercial Management and Maintenance management along with members of the SAP R3 Software delivery team.

Managed progress against plan, provided technical support and produced various types of update to enable stakeholder management and sign-off from the 11 Refinery controllers


May 2004 – Mar 2007
Project Manager – SAP BW / BPS

Taken on to work as a Technical Project Manager to develop a Business Warehouse solution which took a feed from all of BP’s 160 in-sourced and outsourced accounting centres in a standard format thus enabling BP’s corporate functions such as IT and HR to analyse and understand their global costs.

Work carried out included: Development of Business and Technical Requirements. Managed a project team through full life cycle; system configuration, development (onshore and offshore mix), testing, global implementation and support.

Developed and Managed the Rollout Plan (to Europe, North and South America and Asia), managed the Communication Plan; managed the production of manuals, process guides, manuals and go live packs

Developed and managed the training approach, training courses/training materials. Defined and managed Go-Live and Post Go-Live support under a “bubble” support agreement before transitioning the system to a third-party support provider

Worked on the production of Externally Managed Events with Fitch Live, these events were held in Barcelona, Miami and Singapore and were attended by over 400 people

Extended break after a 3 year contract

Worked on a number of finance based projects, as a Lead Functional Consultant including the implementation of PeopleSoft Financials

Work carried out included: Taken on prior to the acquisition, to help the business formulate a project team and to define the standard processes and documentation for all tasks within the project life cycle including all project management and reporting requirements.

Facilitated workshops with internal and external customers, documented existing business processes, produced fit gap documentation along with Functional and Technical solution documents.

Developed and Managed the Rollout Plan managed the production of process guides, manuals and go live packs

Defined and managed Go-Live and Post Go-Live support under a “bubble” support agreement before transitioning the system to a in-house support provider

Managed the transition of work from Six Continents Hotels plc into the Intercontinental Hotels Group Share Service Centre, this work included documented process and systems, producing training materials and running training courses for staff receiving the work within IHG.

Responsible for the preparation of the business to ‘receive’ the new ERP and for the implementation of the business processes and system within the Finance, Operations and Sales & Marketing and Logistical divisions of NEC Direct and Packard Bell.

Project managed the implementation of a new PeopleSoft P2P module with Payables interface; performed Gap Analysis between the existing system and the proposed solution.

Main Technical role included carrying out a gap analysis between the new version of the EDP and existing customer enhancements, implementing the necessary changes where applicable.

Carried out an RFP exercise for a bespoke mobile work management solution.

Work carried out included: Production of the RFP documentation. Planning and facilitating of workshops with third party vendors. Publishing the results of the evaluation in a report format and presented this to the senior management.
Producing the Functional, technical data and process catalogues

Work carried out included:

Carried out a technical evaluation of SAP R/3, Oracle Financials and PeopleSoft Financials and was involved in the subsequent implementation of PeopleSoft financials


Managed the rollout of a help desk system throughout the UK offices of BUPA. This involved managing the change from a Legacy system to a new system. Managing the system development and implementation to the various BUPA locations, managing the Communication Plan managing the production of manuals, process guides, and goes live packs.

Managing the training approach and planning, development of training courses/training materials. Managing Go-Live and Post Go-Live support before transitioning the support over to the in-house support team.

Worked on a German speaking project defining the business requirements for an Artist Royalty system