• Extensive consultancy experience in the telecommunications sector on international projects.
• Prince2 Practitioner, CCNA, ITIL, and Agile PM Practitioner Certified
• Experience working with customers; joint testing, and project managing the installation and delivery of solutions.
• Complete lifecycle experience across multiple mobile network projects.
• Experience delivering projects which involve third party service providers and outsourced services.
• MBA University of Wales, Bangor/ BSc Computer Science.
Experience
SmartCIC
Oct 2020 – Dec 2021
Barcelona, Spain
Operations Manager
• Lead of the global Service Desk team, designing and delivering services for major clients around the world, from Asia to the USA.
• Working alongside the Head of Service Delivery to develop the transition from new services to operational/go live.
• Responsible for Stakeholder management, Continuous service improvement, Resource forecasting and planning.
• I brought a strong focus on customer satisfaction as shown by improving the quality of the deliverables, follow up sessions with customers without losing sight of the KPIs which drive profitability.
• I introduced agile methodology to the team, as a result of which designated tasks, ownership, share-knowledge, and teamwork values have been implemented in our daily working day.
Avis Budget Group ABG, UK
Jan 2018 – Nov 2019
England, UK
Project Manager
• Lead for EMEA-wide WAN infrastructure upgrade project.
• Lead for transition of Mobile Services between mobile service providers for all UK business users.
• Responsible for:
- Design of project milestones and scheduling deliverables to meet business requirements.
- Working with the business and third-party service providers to identify and mitigate risk.
- Managing third-party suppliers to target, including delivery goals, SLA fulfilment, early life support, and handover to BAU.
- Delivery of the in-house elements of our deliverables across 500 sites through a virtual team, consisting of change controllers and onsite business coordinators. In charge of the end-to-end delivery process starting with the orders review until the UAT and sign-off.
- Project communication across the organisation; including liaising with stakeholders and organizing end user comms.
Killarney Telecommunications Ltd
Jun 2015 – Dec 2017
England, UK
Project Specialist
• In charge of Change Management for London Metropolis RAN project (2G/3G/4G). Project goals were to improve mobile coverage and data network capacity.
• Managing change requests through the complete end to end process, in compliance with ITIL: creation, approvals request, status and information update; tracking, implementation completed, and closure; following the Implementation program and aligning the scope of work, technologies involved/affected, site restrictions and any other dependencies.
• Contributed technical network expertise to impact assessment of proposed changes.