London, United Kingdom
10/1982 – 09/1994
Partner
01/1991 – 09/1994
KPMG is one of the largest Professional Services firms in the world.
Highlights:
- Sat on the London and Southeast Region Management Consulting Executive Board
- Partner in charge of Sales and Marketing for London and Southeast Region Management Consulting
- Lead Partner of the Delivery Management Practice, responsible for some 100 staff engaged in the delivery of complex projects and programmes
- Through client and practice management work in this and the Runaway Systems Management arenas, I was acknowledged as one of Europe’s leading project and programme management practitioners and lectured extensively on the subject
- Developed and implemented the Quality Management System for the Large Systems Implementation Group
- At Sun Life, full time project direction of the migration of the complete portfolio of mainframe operational systems from Control Data to IBM hardware. The complexity of this project was enhanced by the ongoing risk of Sun Life’s then hardware supplier going bankrupt and being unable to support the installation. The £20 million project was completed to time and budget and won an award from the British Computer Society
- For London Electricity, full time project management the design and development of new Customer Information Systems. During a 2.5 year project, managed a 500-man year, £40 million budget; with a team size peaking at 225 spread over three continents
Manager
01/1987 – 12/1990
Highlights:
- Lead the development of the KPMG proprietary project management methodology, ITPM (Information Technology Project Management)
- Lead the development of the Runaway Systems Management practice to assist clients in the management of large, complex, mission critical projects and programmes
- Key player in the development of the KPMG proprietary package implementation methodology, SIIPS (Selection, Implementation and Integration of Packaged Software)
- London based liaison manager for KPMG Middle East. This post entailed spending half time in the Middle East liaising with 15 offices in 8 countries and taking responsibility for London staff working on assignments in the region
- For COOB 92, project management of the design, development and implementation of the Results System for the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. This £25 million project was successfully completed against the most extreme time critical conditions
- For Kuwait Finance House, an Information Technology Strategy Study
- For ARAMCO, management of a project to implement Geographic Information Systems
- For Turkish Electricity, an Information Systems Strategy Study
- For CEGB, a year spent as full time adviser to the IT Director Designate of National Power advising on a wide range of issues relating to operation as a private company
- For National Power, selection of financial and management information systems
- For Abu Dhabi National Oil Company and the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation, management of long term projects implementing financial and management information systems based on large-scale software packages
Consultant
10/1982 – 12/1986
Highlights:
- For the Ministry of Agriculture and the London Borough of Croydon, full time project management of the implementation of financial and management information systems based on Dun & Bradstreet packaged software
- For Breckland District Council, an Information Technology Strategy Study
- For Tottenham Hotspur FC, implementation of the first ticketing and management information systems to be used in the football industry in the UK
- For the Football League, a feasibility study on controlling hooliganism by means of reciprocal membership schemes
- For Qatar General Petroleum Corporation full time management of long term projects implementing financial and management information systems based on large-scale software packages