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Personal Details

Name & Address:

Mr Paul Andrew McCaulsky

**** ****** ****

PO Box 442

Watford

Ontario

N0M 2S0

DOB:

May 15th 1968

Telephone:

226-***-****

Email:

acxyay@r.postjobfree.com

Candidate Summary

Please note that, I am willing to pay the cost of any application submitted by my potential employer for an open work permit to enable me to take on this role.

I am an experienced IT Transformation Project Management and PMO professional and member of the Project Management Institute, with over seventeen years’ experience of all the major PMO functions across the Global Engineering, Financial Services, Local Government, Utilities, Telecommunications and Voluntary sectors. My key competencies are listed below:

Building and implementing a common set of principles, practices, processes and templates to standardise and simplify the management, reporting and delivery of programmes.

The development and maintenance of milestone and detailed programme plans to ensure the effective analysis, delivery, tracking, challenge and reporting against baselined project timelines.

Obtaining stakeholder agreement to develop and embed effective change management controls and reporting cycles into programmes.

The implementation and management of efficient and effective programme cost estimation, tracking and reporting.

Strong and sympathetic stakeholder management and outsource provider client liaison and reporting.

Ensuring the agreed programme methodology and standards (i.e. PRINCE2, SDLC, Waterfall, Agile) are rigorously adhered to throughout the lifetime of the programme.

Employment Details

07/2016 – Present

The PMI South Western Ontario Chapter

Director of PMO Support (Voluntary Position)

Liaise with the Chapter Board of Directors and Portfolio leads to establish and embed a comprehensive project management governance framework to enable the Chapter to triage, initiate, plan and deliver selected projects.

Liaise with the Chapter stakeholders to develop and implement consistent and scalable project and change management processes and tools to facilitate both traditional Waterfall and Agile project management delivery methodologies.

03/2014 – 04/2016

The Weir Group Limited

IT Transformation PMO Analyst

Providing a comprehensive PMO support service to the IT Services Delivery and Finance Systems Team Managers throughout the entire SDLC of the global Financial Performance Management IBM Cognos Implementation project.

Development and maintenance of the baselined detailed programme plan.

Assisting with the streamlining and management of the application user security process and taking responsibility for the development of a front end Access database fed by Cognos Controller, TM1 and BI output files for simplified ad-hoc interrogation and reporting.

Working with the global Finance Directors to review and amend user security access as part of a bi-annual internal audit exercise.

Taking responsibility for the development and implementation of the project Change Control templates and assisting with the management of the CR delivery processes and protocol using the Smartsheet online collaboration tool.

Acting as first line help desk user support and taking responsibility for the development and management of the project issue capture and resolution process.

11/2010 – 10/2013

Phoenix Group Holdings

Project Office Analyst

Providing ongoing and wide ranging project and governance support to a number of internal and external projects involving the court sanctioned, legal transfer of policies between companies; a process which is governed under Part VII of the Financial Services and Markets act of 2000.

Providing guidance and support to the Project Manager in the management and tracking of budgets in excess of £10m and providing monthly financial forecasting vs. actual cost variance reports, analysis and challenge.

Co-ordinating a number of budget re-forecasting exercises throughout the lifecycle of the projects.

The development of workstream and consolidated project plans and working with workstream leads to track and report against key milestones and to identify potential slippage and remedy.

Working with outsource providers and internal project teams and business stakeholders to manage the RAID process, the production of fortnightly project status reporting and monthly Steering Group packs.

Working with the resourcing team to provide resource forecasting and analysis support to the project and wider business.

Providing secretarial support to a number of project technical working parties.

Management of the invoice processing and settlement process.

07/2010 – 11/2010

Nationwide Building Society

Programme Office Analyst

Programme office analyst providing complete lifecycle support to the project managers working on a major mortgage product implementation programme and a regulatory IPT project.

Using Microsoft Project Server to develop, maintain and track activities within the workstream and programme plans. Managing the programme resource profile and ensuring that appropriate resources are engaged and retained in a timely manner.

Working with the project manager and 3rd party supplier (Cardif Pinnacle) to develop a robust and efficient change request management process.

Configuration librarian managing the programme Sharepoint site and working with internal and external stakeholders to identify capture and track the programme actions, risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions and decisions through to resolution.

Tracking the programme budget actuals against forecasts by analysing monthly transaction reports, accruals and transfers to re-forecast cost to complete.

Summarising the weekly workstream progress reports into a report for submission to the programme manager.

Scheduling and acting as secretary to the project board and workstream team meeting.

01/2010 – 06/2010

Capita IT Services

PMO Analyst

PMO analyst working on the Young Persons Learning Agency (YPLA) Learner Support Programme to assist the requirements gathering process, facilitating the scoping and requirements workshops and to capture technical data, translate, articulate and analyse complex information into concise actions and minutes.

To manage the internal and external programme sponsors and stakeholders and work with both Capita and the YPLA Programme and Project management leads to ensure that all key milestones are identified and managed through to completion within the agreed timescales and to escalate any known issues to programme management for review and resolution.

The identification of cross project dependencies and conflicts and to challenge project managers to ensure all risks and issues are identified and expressed concisely and that mitigating actions are tracked and reported upon through to resolution.

To support the PMO in the management and reporting of the Programme including document tracking and management using Sharepoint and a bespoke spreadsheet tool, task planning, project milestones, financials, resources, change control, RAID management and project office administration.

To identify and drive through programme, project and PMO governance improvement processes to ensure the alignment of programme delivery and reporting standards.

07/2008 – 11/2009

Admin Re Limited

Senior PMO Analyst

Senior PMO analyst supporting the programme and project management team in providing complete lifecycle governance for the Aviva Life and Pensions Heritage Migration Programme. Latterly providing project management support to a workstream within this project.

Working closely with Aviva to manage expectations and to provide strong communication and a unified message to the programme sponsor, stakeholders and the wider programme team.

Facilitating a series of planning, development and requirements workshops with key programme stakeholders and team members to enable the development and management of the detailed project plan. The identification of cross project dependencies and ensuring key project milestones were fed into the overall programme plan.

Developing the project RAID log and managing risks, issues and actions through to closure, either locally within the project team or via a series of programme escalation points up to and including the programme board and executive committee.

Providing the project team with a focal point and leading the weekly project team meetings to monitor actual progress against the plan.

Monitoring project resources and any scoping Change Requests raised against the project.

Preparing the weekly status report for presentation to the project team and for inclusion in the weekly programme reporting pack.

07/2007 – 06/2008

Serco Solutions Limited

Programme Office Manager

10/2006 – 06/2007

British Educational Communications & Technology Agency (BECTA)

Programme Office Manager

12/2005 – 09/2006

Cap Gemini Limited

Deputy Assignment Manager

09/2004 – 12/2005

Coventry City Council

Programme Office Coordinator

12/2003 – 06/2004

BG Transco Limited

Project Office Planner

02/2003 – 12/2003

IBM UK Limited

Project Office Planner / Analyst

04/2001 – 11/2002

Electronic Data Services Limited (EDS)

Project Analyst

11/1998 – 03/2001

Hewlett Packard Limited

Project Analyst

Education Details

Dates:

Institution

Details

09/96 - 06/98

Matthew Boulton F.E. College

HNC Business & Finance

Birmingham

09/91 - 09/92

The University of Portsmouth

MSc Information Systems

Portsmouth

09/86 - 06/89

The University of London

Goldsmiths College

London

BA (Hons) Social Science and Administration

09/84 - 06/86

Matthew Boulton F.E. College

A Level: English, History, Sociology

Birmingham

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