PRINCE2 Training

Principal Project Management Consultant and Trainer

Qualifications:

ISEB certificate in Project Management

Accredited Prince2 Trainer

Registered Prince2 Practitioner

Registered Prince2 Consultant

ISEB Project Management Principles /Techniques / Business Case

PRINCE Project Support Office

ORACLE Strategic Business Analysis

Post Graduate Diploma Industrial Management (Dip.I.I.M.)

Manchester Polytechnic

Certificate Industrial Management (Cert.I.I.M.) Manchester Polytechnic

Member Association of Project Management (MAPM)

Career History

Key Skills and Attributes:

Programme Management

Project Management

Strategic Business Change

ITIL Service Management & Service Support. Project Office Management

Resource Management

Planning

Business Process Reviews (BPR)

Change Management / Configuration Management/ Risk Management

QMS / Quality Assurance Accreditation

DSDM/ORACLE/SSADM Structured Development Life Cycle Methodology

Strategic Business Analysis

 

Project/Programme Experience

A senior, experienced and qualified professional project management consultant with a proven track record in the delivery of key business change programmes and business critical projects, including the provision of consultancy, mentoring and accredited and bespoke training.

With proven experience in undertaking the role of Programme Manager, Project Director and Project Manager on multiple and often complex business and/or IT projects with interface to Sarbanes-Oxley programme. Experienced and conversant in the ITT and Bid Management Process, Contract Management, including the management of third party suppliers and off-shore delivery units. He has managed projects from both the Customer and Supplier perspective and is experienced in managing the customer interface and expectations at Company Board level as well as Project Boards and User teams (Mainland Europe-UK-USA-Ireland). Is experienced leading high profile recovery programmes and projects and has extensive communications and stakeholder experience.

Significantly, over the past five years he has been involved in assisting organisations to implement commercially based delivery capabilities to meet the challenges of the ever competitive market.

He developed his planning and management skills and experience at the coal face, working on engineering /construction projects including the build and commission of the Dinorwig Underground Power Station in North Wales. In the late 80’s he led one of the five work streams set up to create the new privatised electricity industry.

Following this he was appointed as one of the Programme Managers to head up the creation of Nuclear Electric, in particular the Energy Trading business group.

This led to opportunities being offered in the commercial world in which he held the post of project management consultant in a commercial systems house. It was from this assignment that he was offered the opportunity to join the premier PRINCE consultancy and training company Duhig Berry as an Associate Consultant.

Operating in both an Associate and freelance role, Alan created ACPM & Associates and for 12 years successfully built up a clientele covering banking/finance, utilities, civil engineering and education.

This ranged from direct hands on programme/project management to consultancy and training. Increasingly, he was asked to re-shape the project delivery operations from that of a typical in-house function to a more commercial model that can cope with and challenge the more astute commercial suppliers.

This naturally led him into the outsourcing field but rather than preparing for outsourcing, changing capabilities to actually fend off outsourcing.

He is well established in the PRINCE2 field, as one of the first Consultant intake and now as an accredited trainer and he also undertakes the role of PRINCE2 Examiner.

Consultancy Assignments Undertaken

Typical assignments include:

ï‚· Programme Manager on the new energy trading market which saw the creation of major business change in the energy industry.

ï‚· Programme Manager for the closure, transfer and implementation following a major acquisition. Multi site stakeholder communication, often sensitive and coordination across four countries.

ï‚· Implementing commercial project delivery capabilities and PRINCE2 into live operation. Included was the creation of training plans, their action and mentoring

ï‚· Leading significant business change as part for one of the top four banks change programme. Creation of the business units Commercial Framework and its implementation into live operation. Establishment of business cost model and improvements to the Service Delivery functions in terms of cost understanding and service cost accountability. This was coupled with establishing enhanced capabilities in the Service Improvement function.

 Programme Manager for one of the big four banks’ Internet Banking System. This programme saw the design and build and implementation of a radically different infrastructure that ultimately delivered significant operational and business benefits to the bank. Increased capability, availability, service level improvements and customer satisfaction with substantially reduced problems, incidents and costs.

Training Assignments

ï‚· Has developed, built and run bespoke project management training courses in numerous organisations. These have ranged from introductory courses of one day to full four/five day project management courses.

ï‚· PRINCE2 accredited training comprises Foundation and Practitioner, Board Room and Introductory courses.

 Alan is now one of the few APM Registered PRINCE2 Consultants.

Recent Clients Include:

ESB Ireland

Barclays Bank

National Grid

GEC SEM

Bank of Scotland

Barclaycard

United Utilities

HBOS

Leeds University

National Power

First Banking Systems

Energy Settlements