Graham Walker 07790 494 420

graywman77@gmail.comSecurity Cleared (SC) until 18/08/2020

Personal Profile

Experienced Senior Project Manager with HP since 2009, positive attitude to deliver and achieve results on time, has always been paramount. The main focus throughout is to deliver projects on schedule and to budget without compromise. As a solid hard-working committed individual and team leader with sound technical skills in challenging environments; totally accomplished in full cycle management of new projects and, bringing failing projects back on track is continually demonstrated. Fully accustomed to working under pressure to deliver projects with tight deadlines, and a track record of delivering all milestones within agreed budget, time-frames and exceed expectations.Excellent communications skills and the ability to arbitrate customer and stakeholder expectations and, in the process, strengthen relationships and protect reputations.

Key Skills

Full-cycle project management, from requirements definition through delivery to post-project support Technical Project Manager with ability to understand complex IT solutions enabling the ability to trouble

shoot Highly skilled in project management disciplines such as scope, schedule, risk and financial management Delivered projects that have ranged in value +£18m cost Accustomed to operating in sensitive and secure environments Leading multidisciplinary teams, providing mentoring to Project Managers to increase capability Managing relationships with key stakeholders at all levels, managing expectations effectively Accomplished in MS Project & MS Visio proficient in creating detailed project plans and process flows Professional attitude, positive mind-set and focus on continued development

Qualifications & Training

PRINCE2 Leading Project Teams MS Project 2013 PMI PMP ITIL Foundation V3

Career HistorySept 2009 – Present: HP Enterprise Services for Ministry of Justice (MoJ), National Offender Management Services (NOMS) and HM Prison Service

Project Manager

January 2014 – Present: MoJ NOMS ICT Services Transformation Program – Workplace 360-G Messaging and End User Compute DeploymentSenior Project Manager with an immediate team of 35, responsible for end-to-end delivery of End User Deployment as part of a Service Transformation programme, a technical refresh and migration from Windows XP/Office 2003 to Windows 7/Office 2013.

68,000 user migration from Exchange 2003 to 2010 including user mail archive migration to MS Online Archive using Quadrotech FlightDeck

7,500 printer refresh and print queue migration to new hosted service Business shared data and user migration for 65,000 users to centrally hosted data centre solution Line of Business and Office 2013 Application provisioning for 65,000 user on Citrix based Workplace 360-G

solution through VMware, Citrix, HPCA and AppSense Active Directory groups End user hardware refresh of 29,000 devices over 168 MoJ Prison and office sites Full project deployment lifecycle including all Project Management disciplines and deployment components

including site based deployment lifecycles Project scope and supplier management through Statement or Works and Contract Management Management and mitigation of all major risk through proactive approach £11m labour + £8.5m hardware at cost with full budgetary control

April 2013 – July 2014: MoJ NOMS ICT Services Transformation Program – Site LAN Refresh LAN Refresh of 2,500 LAN switches across 100 MoJ Prison and office sites Management of full deployment lifecycle from Start-up, Planning, Design, Test and Implementation and

Close-down

Management and integration of Program dependencies Role model deployment project with project products used as templates for successful New Business

partnership bid for deployment to 1500 site across MoJ Network Tower £1.6m labour + £2m hardware at cost with full budgetary control

Nov 2010 – March 2013: NOMS Infrastructure Portfolio Senior PM/Delivery Lead Portfolio of Infrastructure based projects leading a team of Project Managers delivering projects under the

portfolio Responsible for ensuring all projects adhered to and met account finance, governance and reporting

standards including Acceptance into Service Portfolio projects included but not limited to: Prison/Site Closures, Mergers, New Private Prison, Public to

Private Prison Transitions, HQ Transformation and Innovations projects. Working with multiple IT Service Providers to migrate Customer Business Organisations to/from Service

Providers IT Platform to align IT with the Business organisational restructuring including Service Transition and Service Support models

Configuration Items included Line of Business and standard Applications, WAN, LAN, Wintel, Software Delivery, Data Migration, Asset Management

Feb - Mar 2012 & Aug - Sept 2012: Quantum Contract Extensions Account request for my services to work with the sales pursuit team as a project manager Responsible of pulling together all account services and in-fight programme running costs for supporting

service and delivery capabilities including 3rd part vendor support agreements Worked with the capabilities to identify and document risks Modelling for all financial Cost/Rev for two 6 month contracts extension Frist 6 month extension commissioned, second extension not required as superseded by new

commissioned NICTS contract which was awarded to HP

Mar 2010 – Oct 2010: HM Prison Service HQ Relocation – Senior Delivery Project Manager Working closely with Bid Manager, Business Analyst, Architect and Customer to help define the

requirements and solution for the relocation of the customer HQ Responsible for creating delivery schedule, cost models (Cost/Rev) to Account Gold standard Responsible for delivery 2,200 NOMS HQ User relocation in Westminster following sale of customers 2 HQ Buildings Took approved sales pursuit into delivery to ensure knowledge transfer and continuity New building 70% seating to user ratio Implementation of WAN, LAN technologies including first HP LAN hardware solution in major UK

Government Introduction of Managed Print Service, IP Telephony and Application Zoning services not previously present Relocation achieved over 8 move phases including end user IT hardware refresh Relocation solution involved BT Wholesale Extension Services (WES) and HP F5 Load Balancing to ensure

service continuity between odd and new buildings Delivered significant cost saving and benefit realisation to the customer through sale of buildings and

delivery of IT solutions to support 30% seating reduction Project delivered additional £500k revenue through approved Change Requests Revenue TCV of £2.3m

Sep 2009 – Mar 2010: HM Prison Service HQ Relocation – Bid/Project Manager Working for the New Business team as a Bid/Project Manager on Sales and Pursuits Contact Extensions for major customer line of Business Application Applications, Infrastructure and Innovations project cost/revenue modelling and scheduling Full Deal Assurance and Sale Council Governance

March 2001 – Aug 2009: Electronic Data Systems 2008/2009 – Bid/Project Manager 2006/2008 – HQ Relocations and BAU Special Projects PM/Coordinator 2001/2006 – Live Service IMAC Projects

Pre 2001 1 year traveling Catering Music & Advertising Industry as trainee Sound Engineer

Additional InformationPRINCE 2 - 2006 - P2R/196444

ITL V3 – 15/10/2008 - ITIL/***181 Full clean UK driving license

References Available On Request