CENTRAL AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

Jul 2006 to JUL 2008
TRANSPORT FOR LONDON
Senior Programme Planning Manager.

DRND the Directorate of Road Network Development supports the Chief Operating Officer in the management and development of London’s main roads, in the building of relationships and partnership working with other Surface Transport Directorates and TfL businesses, government bodies and all relevant external stakeholders.

Responsibilities:

Programme Planning

To produce, develop and document the TLRN Programme Planning Framework for a three year rolling programme of works. To design and establish the means of ensuring planning ‘compatibility’ is maintained between DRND, other directorates and their suppliers. To design and provide the processes for the production of reports such as schedule Percentage Complete against baseline and milestone completion reports such as Deliverables, High Level and Key Milestones.

Programme Management Office

In addition to above, to establish, develop, provide training in the use of, tools and procedures for Document Version Control, Risk and Issue Management, Change Control To design and provide the means for producing other routine and ad-hoc delivery reports to meet the current DRND reporting cycle. To manage and direct the DRND Programme Planning Manager, Project Management Graduates and PMO Support staff in all activities. To provide classroom and on-job training for all DRND staff as and when required. To mentor Project management Graduates and other staff through National Vocational Qualification activities.

TfL Streets Division Re-organisation

A re-organisation and a major re-location of staff is planned to begin early in 2008. I have the position of DRND ‘IT specialist’ to support the DRND Move Champion and ensure that the change of location and technology has as little adverse impact on delivery as possible. The move and re-organisation is being managed under the banner of ‘Project Delta’.

Project Delta is a major undertaking and it has at present twelve work streams’ defined. We are responsible for the drawing up and consolidating of the work stream plan into the Project Delta plan.

Mar 2005 to MAR 2006
GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL.
Programme Office Specialist, e-Government Programme.

Initially brought in to establish Programme Planning Framework for the e-Government Programme. This activity demonstrated there was a clear requirement for a Programme Office to ensure effective governance for the e-Gov Programme and in June I was asked to establish the foundations for the creation of a Programme Office and provide the tools and training necessary for its successful continued operation. My planning tools were installed on 100 workstations and the Programme Office structure established when contract completed

An additional requirement was for the creation of a Programme Board web site the primary objective of which was to significantly reduce the reliance on printed submissions and the associated administrative burden of copying, delivery and review. There was also a requirement to conduct board meetings ‘online’ with all submissions electronically presented and to allow board members direct access to live files such as programme plans, risk, issue, change and assumption registers and the central document library. The first online board meeting took place on 30^th September 2005.

Jun 2003 to Mar 2004
HM CUSTOMS & EXCISE
Programme Planner, Lorry Road-User Charge Programme

LRUC information - The Government intends to introduce a Lorry Road-User Charge so that hauliers pay an amount related to the distance that they travel on UK roads. The Charge may vary according to lorry size, road type and possibly time of day.

I joined the Programme Office (PO) during its set up primarily responsible for the creation of the LRUC Programme Plan. It was necessary to provide direct assistance to Project Managers and staff to create plans of sufficient detail to assist them in their day-to-day running of their projects (with special regard to deliverable management) and to also be a source of reports on project/programme health for the senior management team.

The PO staff also received training in the management of project files and the construction and maintenance of a consolidated programme plan. I provided pre designed ‘views’, ‘tables’ and ‘filters’ along with a set of custom built planning tools that were accepted by programme management without change.

On completion the programme was prepared for an OGC Gateway 2 review (Procurement Strategy) with the Programme Plan in a condition such that HMCE staff can take it forward.

Working with HMCE PO Manager I also facilitated the PO set up by providing the planning tools, a document control system (configuration management and quality review process), Risk and Issue registers and procedures.

Mar 2002 to Aug 2002
HM CUSTOMS & EXCISE
Planning and Dependency Manager, Technology Transformation Programme.

Reporting directly to the Programme Support Office Manager, prior to and during the Initiation period of the programme for modernisation of Her Majesty’s Customs & Excise business activities.

I described the programme and project planning standards, provided the planning tools and instruction for the Project Managers in their use to ensure consistency of planning approach and reporting across the programme.

I designed and authored the Document Control Procedure and provided general assistance with Issue and Risk management in a Prince2 environment and complying with the Office of government Commerce (OGC) Gateway requirements.