Matthew Adams Work Experience (Continued)

Team Leadership Project Management Service Transition Project Delivery Service Delivery Delivery Assurance Client Relationship

Management Risk Management Change Management

Skills

Communication & presentation skills

Negotiation skills Resource Management Developing, coaching &

mentoring others Stakeholder Management

Certifications

PRINCE 2: Practitioner MCP Windows 2000

MCP Windows Server 2003

Spoken Languages

English (Native)

Clearance

Full SC Clearance till 2017

A skilled Transition / Project manager with over 15 years of Information Technology (IT) and business management experience in both the public & private sector. A leader, communicator, and mentor, who leads by example and delivers a high level of organization, management, and quality to I.T. initiatives. Thrives on building and delivering strong relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.

Education:

1994 – BSc in Environmental Biology Liverpool University

1996 – MSc in Behavioural & Evolutionary Ecology Liverpool University

Training Courses: Project Management: Leading Project Teams

Project Management: Effective Schedule Management

Latest Experience: Since August 2012 – to present

Client: FCO Services

Role: Service Transition Manager

Description:

Management role to ensure the effective transition of all new services into live operation and acceptance into Service. Ensuring good practices in standard methodologies and processes are used to deliver integrated solutions. Accountable for the FCOS delivery assurance framework and all associated collateral.

Activities:

Take the lead in ensuring that all aspects of service transition projects are driven into live service, in line with recognised best practice methodology;

Primary contact for all transition activities, working closely with internal and external suppliers;

Engage with all suppliers as required to complete production and approval of all service transition documentation and ensure all commercial & contractual, financial, and security policies and procedures are adhered to;

Design, implement & maintain robust transition plans taking into consideration any business activities required to integrate new services into live service operations;

Responsible for ensuring appropriate testing of the service model has been accomplished prior to go-live;

Work with support teams to ensure adequate training / knowledge transfer has been delivered;

Communicate with the project, programme and BAU support teams throughout the project lifecycle;

Works as a coach, facilitator and arbitrator, building and maintain relationships across all teams to prepare and ensure successful transition into live service.

Matthew Adams Work Experience (Continued)

Apr 2012 – Aug 2012 Client: Ladbrokes plc

Role: Programme Manager for Hewlett Packard

Description:

Leader of a matrixed team of leveraged HP and internal Ladbrokes staff. Responsible for the delivery of all hardware and support environments to support the internal Ladbrokes “StepChange” programmes by 2013.

Activities:

Leading a matrixed programme team, to manage all infrastructure deliverables across multiple business programmes;

Reporting weekly on variance to the scope, schedule and cost baseline;

Responsible for delivery of the programme scope to budget and schedule and for programme communications;

Reporting into the “Step Change” Programme Director;

Responsible for ensuring the Infrastructure Step Change programme complies with overall Step Change project management standards;

Senior HP Leader on site, with full financial P&L responsibility for a T&M delivery of approximately £2M TCV.

Jan 2011 – Mar 2012 Client: Aviva UK&I

Role: Programme Manager for Hewlett Packard

Description:

Responsible for establishing a new build team within the Production Engineering Organisation on Aviva, and Accountable for the build and deployment of all engineering infrastructure deliverables on the Aviva DCS Transformation programme. Managing 50 plus projects at any one time, with a T&M value of over £10 Million.

Activities:

Establishing and leading a programme team, to manage all engineering deliverables using HP best practices and methodologies within a standard project management framework;

End to End Accountability for the quality & consistency of all infrastructure deliverables, and their transition from build, through test, pilot and deployment. Governed via a delivery assurance method;

Ownership of the departments individual strategy & roadmap;

Overall Leadership of all build and deployment programme resources, Including a Team of 20 Infrastructure PM’s, A Resource Manager, a Project Support Team, multiple Resource Allocators, and some 70 plus build engineers;

Responsible for implementing a delivery assurance method, to reduce the risk to implementation, reduce risk to the environment and help identify dependencies and false assumptions;

Direct interface and point of contact for Service Delivery, and providing input into major incident investigations when appropriate.

Matthew Adams Work Experience (Continued)

Sep 2009 – Dec 2010 Client: Foreign Common Wealth Office Role: Senior Project Manager for Hewlett Packard

Activities:

Responsible for leading a team of 20 Project Managers & 8 Technical resources within a medium sized business change team;

Overall responsibility for managing end to end delivery of all FCO change projects, on scope, on time and on budget;

Individually responsible for project management of numerous FCO change projects through full development life cycle from inception to production rollout and migration;

Establishing the project governance with all the key stakeholders;

The project financial management and delivery within the agreed variance;

Defining the project scope with the stakeholders and associated end to end delivery plans;

Managing proactively the project risks and issues and defining the appropriate mitigation strategy and remediation plans respectively; Managing the project dependencies;

Professional handling of customer relationships regarding the account’s project business, actively supporting the portfolio manager in the acquisition of new projects;

Jan 2007- Sep 2009 Client: MoD - ATLAS (DII-F)

Role: Implementation Capability Leader for EDS

Activities:

Responsible for all HR duties and compliance of corporate rulings for over 70 staff, including performance assessments, career & training plans, and input into global compensation;

Responsible for workforce management, for the entire implementation team;

Report directly to the DII Implementation Director operationally;

Collaborative working and stakeholder managing across business unit Finance and operational areas to understand benefits and implement common governance, definition and control across tracking processes.

Working alongside the programme managers across all programmes globally, bringing together HP best practices, improving and streamlining whilst standardizing across the board.

Establishing and leading a small team of 6 specialists to support the global delivery teams. Responsible for all global methods & process, LFE (Learning from Experience), Quality Assurance (QMS), Training, Problem Management and Implementation Comms

Matthew Adams Work Experience (Continued)

Jan 2005- Jan 2007 Client: DWP - TREDSS

Role: Account Delivery Manager for EDS

Activities:

Overall responsibility for the management and delivery of all implementation activities within the programme scope, ensuring all deliverables are on time and within budget;

Providing leadership and guidance to Regional Delivery Managers and other team members as required;

Ensure that project scope and high level requirements are agreed with both project sponsor and the customer;

Responsible for acting as the escalation point for Regional Delivery Managers, customer, and other EDS representatives regarding implementation issues, as appropriate;

Responsible for the creation and management of implementation strategies and programme rules;

Responsible for all HR duties and compliance of corporate rulings for approximately 30 staff, including performance assessments, career and training plans, and input into global compensation;

Aug 1999 - Jan 2005 Clients: Inland Revenue, DWP & KraftRole: Project Manager for EDS

Activities:

Successful delivery of multiple UK & European software, desktop & server rollouts & refreshes;

Delivery of Agile solution on Kraft (Spain & Portugal);

Management and Implementation of mail migration project on DWP;

Management and Implementation of Server decommissioning project to nearly 1500 sites;

Project Planning;

Change Management;

Incident and Escalation Management;

Application & Migration Management;

Resource Management & Co-ordination;