Profile
A highly effective Project Manager, who has demonstrated exceptional organisational project and leadership skills throughout a highly successful and challenging career. A resilient team player with high levels of initiative, self-motivation, ability and thrives working under pressure and take responsibility. A quick learner with a pragmatic approach to problems and flexible to change.
Key Skills
• Driving the Business through transitional period.
• Engages with stakeholders at all levels.
• Effective at time and resource management.
• Produce reports and presentation for operational and senior stakeholders.
• Excellent communication and inter-personal skills developed from diverse work settings.
• Highly adaptable, seeks and finds solutions to challenges. Quick to learn and deploy new skills/knowledge.
• Experienced at prioritising work load and working to tight deadlines under considerable pressure.
• Strong leadership skills and proven ability to work effectively in a team.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver small to medium projects in a complex and dynamic environment.
Career Summary
June 2014 – September 2014
Modular Networks
Project Manager
• Responsible for identifying, analysing, measuring and managing project risks.
• Managing more than one cross-company project at a time.
• Planning and overseeing of engineers for large-scale telecommunication network rollout.
• Full responsibility for stock control and accountability of the day to day running of the project and first point of contact for any issue’s or queries from the Customer.
• In charge of the Management relationship
• Daily contact with the customer to update on project status.
• Managing stock levels, ensuring engineers have sufficient quantities to enable them to complete their work.
• Managing both PAYE engineers & contracting engineers ensuring each has sufficient work for each day.
• Managing staff to ensure that all milestones are achieved within the agreed timeframes.
November 2011- February 2014
Huawei Technologies, Basingstoke
Project Co-ordinator
• Planning and delivering large-scale telecommunication network rollout.
• Arranging the deliveries of cabinets on time to 3rd party vendors for future installation.
• In charge of the day to day running of the project and first point of contact for any issue’s or queries from Customer or Partners.
• Managed, collated and produced project status and progress to senior customer management.
• Management of sub-project including ensuring partners have PO cover, kit is sent within time frame & sending scheduling plans to customer.
• Participate in daily calls with partners & customer on project progress.
• In charge of maintenance and first point of contact for any database issues.
• Responsible for arranging and tracking equipment deliveries to 3rd parties critical to the project.
• Responsible for monitoring and recording weekly customer forecasts.
• Ensuring all trackers are kept up to date with correct information.
• In regular contact with 3rd parties ensuring they have sufficient equipment stocks and recording usage.
• Creating reports for 3rd party purchase orders and dealing with any queries.
August 2010 – November 2011
Fujitsu (Contractor), Telford
PSO Migration Element Plan (MEP) Analyst
• Provide responsibility for the control, notification, and maintenance of all MEP4 documentation including all associated annexes.
• Delivering a primary point of contact for queries relating to MEP4 documentation.
• Maintaining all MEP4 records on the MEP Database.
• Proactively manage the flow of MEP documentation to enable the production, review and approval of all MEP’s in line with the current migration method.
• Acts a single point of contact between Implementation and the MoD for all associated document queries.
• Providing a central repository for the storage of all MEP documentation.
• Processing of MEP 4 Sig Change documentation and management of review comments.
• Liaising with various ATLAS work streams and MoD to ensure solutions or escalations to any risks and issues regarding MEP4 documentation are resolved effectively.
• Managing the movement of all MEP4 documentation for approval.
June 2007 – October 2009
BT Global Services (Through Trend Network Services), Reading
Project Co-ordinator
• Provided a professionally managed service for a major telecommunications company.
• Coordinated and implemented new data communications circuits and infrastructure.
• Experienced working with both LAN and WAN hardware and terminology e.g. BT Kilostream circuits.
• Experienced working with Military communications systems such as TAFMIS, ATLAS.
• Responsible for the coordination and delivery of multiple complex telecommunication projects delivering solutions to the MOD.
• Responsible for the identification and delivery of project resources, manpower and documentation from conception to delivery.
• Managed agencies both externally and within the company to contribute towards the final service.
• Established and maintained databases for projects.
• Showcased excellent project management skills throughout all projects, including identifying potential challenges, coordination of teams and regular status reports for management.
• Monitors project progression and take effective management should the project falter.
• Maintained excellent customer relationships to foster customer loyalty.
• Actively supports company policy and best practice in the area of security, with particular emphasis on the protection of sensitive customer data.
January 2003 – May 2007
HM Forces – Royal Navy
Operator Mechanic Communications
• Operated complex telephony, radio and satellite communications systems.
• Successfully managed a small team of personnel in the day to day running of the Main Communications Office often under stressful circumstances.
• Planning and execution of inter-ship and tri-service communications for both exercise and operational circumstances.
• Managed the training and development of junior staff including induction to equipment and an array of operational situations.
• Responsible for departmental administration working within tight deadlines whilst maintaining high standards and team morale.
• Displayed dexterity and problem solving skills in both workshop and field environments.
• Handled confidential and sensitive materials on both personnel and resources.
• Adhered to health and safety policies and legislation by completing daily and weekly safety checks and implementing corrective actions.
• Ensured correct usage of communications and cryptographic equipment.
• Proven ability to work long hours and anti-social shift patterns in a range of operational situations, often in physically gruelling conditions, showing flexibility and initiative.
Education & Qualifications
• Intermediate GNVQ Business Studies.
• NVQ Level 1 Key Skills.
• 12 months professional training at the Royal Navy School of Communications.
• NVQ Level 2 Applying Electronic Principles.
• Royal Navy training including – First Aid, Fire Fighting, Health and Safety, Team Work and Leadership and COSHH.
