:: Key Skills ::

• Operational Manager & Director: Managed large teams of over 200 people. Uses business process reviews and IT to improved efficiency and customer service. Ensures that all team members have a clear vision of what is to be achieved set within a strategic context.
• Programme Manager & Director: Programme and Project Board Chairman and Senior Responsible Owner: Led several programmes and projects from initiation to benefits realisation. Practical knowledge of Managing Successful Programmes (MSP), PRINCE, Government procurement, winning funding, stakeholder management, risk management, benefits realisation and OGC Gateway reviews.
• Innovator: Visionary, customer focused, business driven and manages risk against opportunities.
• Coach: uses coaching techniques to improve performance of team members, resolve problems, encourage innovation and transfer knowledge.
• Excellent communicator: Experienced presenter, used to communicating at Board and Ministerial level. Ability to explain complex issues in Plain English and focus on strategic issues.
• Negotiator: Negotiated PFI contracts and resolved disputes on IT contracts.