PRINCE2 Training

Principal Project Management Consultant and Trainer

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Qualifications:

Full Member of the British Computer Society (MBCS)

BCS Pt II examination (Hons Degree Level),

BCS Pt I examination (HND level)

ISEB certificate in Project Management

Accredited Prince2 Trainer

Registered Prince2 Practitioner

Registered Prince2 Consultant

Certificate in IS Consultancy Practice

APMG Programme & Project Support Office

APMG advanced certificate in Management of Risk

APMG certificate in Programme Management

Registered APMP Practitioner and Trainer

SSADM V3 Certificate of proficiency

 

Member of the BCS Project Management Specialist Group

Career History

Key Skills and Attributes:

Programme Management

Project Management

Project/Programme Support

Quality Management

Business Direction Development

Service Management

Management of Risk

Team Building & Development

Communication & Presentation

Training Course Development & Delivery

Skills Transfer

Practical and methodical working practices

 

Project/Programme Experience

Mike has considerable experience in all aspects of Project/ Programme Management primarily within IT systems development but also involving general Business Change and the Construction Industry.

Mike obtained his first experiences of Project Management in the construction industry where he was responsible for the building of 40+ Jobcentres. He then went on to obtain a solid grounding as an IT professional covering firstly COBOL programming and Relational Database Management and later Systems Analysis and team leader. During this time he studied for three years and obtained honours degree level qualification in Information Technology.

In 1990 he moved into IT project management where, starting with small, low risk projects, he has developed his skills, knowledge and experience to the point where he now has a track record of successful delivery of 20+ medium and large sized projects. His typical responsibilities now include projects in excess of £1 million, involving 50+ staff over a 12-18 month time span.

Of special note was his year as head of planning and controls on the largest change management programme experienced by the Department for Education and Employment (£348 million and 1,200 man-years of effort). During this time he was directly responsible for a staff of 62 including in house and commercial consultants.

As a director of Project Performance he has seen the company grow from humble beginnings to become a highly successful training and consultancy business, acknowledged to have amongst the highest calibre of presenters and an enviable client base.

Prior to this Mike worked for the Duhig Berry (then the premier project management training organisation & part of the Xansa / FI Group). For three years Mike worked as a Principal Consultant in Project Management with responsibility for providing advice and guidance on problematic, high profile projects together with the introduction of Project Management Methodologies to a number of major companies. This has included the adaptation of the method to suit the various companies’ practises, development / deliveries of training courses and providing direct mentoring and support to new projects.

Always keen to keep his experience current he also worked as a Senior Project Manager for a variety of high profile customers in both mainframe and distributed systems development projects.

Prior to joining Xansa/FI Group he worked as a Senior Project Management Consultant with responsibility for establishing and operating Programme Support Offices, Project Management Offices and Project Support Offices. Alongside this he performed specialist Project Management consultancy assignments to strategic, high profile, projects with budgets often in excess of £10m. He was often called upon to work on detachment to many government departments performing a similar role.

He is a recognised authority on the PRINCE2 and other project management methodologies and has worked closely with the Association for Project Management and the Information Systems Examination Board on the design and implementation of PM qualifications and examination based training courses.

Consultancy Assignments Undertaken

Typical assignments include:

ï‚· Working directly to board level members of a large multi-national bank he provided an Independent Assessment service for a number of their large business critical or problematic projects.

 Detailed investigation of true project status, proposed development plans, risk assessments   & risk management proposals. Monitoring of control actions and budgets for a national utility company.

ï‚· Providing direct advice, guidance and mentoring to a variety of project board executives & managers.

ï‚· Working for a large IT outsourcing & Services Company with 500+ project managers he was responsible for the development of their Project Management Methodology, producing the QMS processes for Project Management & gaining ISO certification.

Contract PM Assignments

Set up and ran a PRINCE2 based project within the Halifax Bank of Scotland to enable the development of support services for 60+ legacy systems, undertook comprehensive knowledge & skills transfer from contractors to 20 in house support staff whilst maintaining a high level of service.

ï‚· IT system amendments to enable combined Water, Gas and Electricity meter reading for a large utilities group

 A £0.85 million financial systems Year 2000 conversion project lasting 10 months utilising 20 in house staff.

Training Assignments

As well as developing tailored Project Management training materials he has also delivered client specific and standard PM material throughout the UK and Europe. This includes Overviews, Senior Management Briefings, Principles, Tools & Techniques, PRINCE2 examination, ISEB examination, Managing Successful Programmes, Programme & Project Support Office (Advanced), APMP and Management of Risk courses.

His PRINCE2 practitioner pass rates for 2004 exceeded 95% (average 65%) and he is now one of the few APM Registered PRINCE2 Consultants.

Other Relevant Experience

Given his seniority and experience, Mike regularly undertakes the more challenging assignments that include both hands on management and mentoring of senior managers with large-scale problematic programmes or projects.

Recent Clients Include:

BAE Systems

Orange

Siemens

BT

Woolworth’s

Barclays Bank

Dept of Health

Barclaycard

Boots

EMC corp

Legal & General Standard Life

HBOS

Xansa

Dept for Education

Screwfix

B&Q

Credit Suisse

First Banking Systems   First Boston