Justin ScottLocation: Manchester / North West

Mobile: 07891-615479 Email: jjpscott9@hotmail.com

Agile, PRINCE2 Foundation certified, diligent and confident project professional, who has supported Project & Programme Managers through the full Programme Lifecycle in various industries, to deliver their overall goals. Practical skills and professional approach have contributed to successful project deliveries. Highly organised, with excellent verbal and written communication skills, together with a logical understanding and clarity of process have enabled the establishment of a clear footprint for Project or Programme Office procedures, as well as enabling them to progress in the management of smaller projects.

Career Achievements:

Over 18 years programme/project support experience across a wide variety of sectors, using both Agile and PRINCE2 processes and methodologies.

Worked within an implementation team, that introduced project management practices across several programmes.

Managed the contractual deliveries, reporting and budgets across all partners on Government sponsored initiative for Electronic Data Systems.

Assisted in the establishment of a clear and stable Programme Office system within a large IT programme for Electronic Data Systems.

Managed the rollout and audit for the CMM certification Level 1 and 2 at Electronic Data Systems.

Received praise from ISO auditors for the excellent controls that were in place, resulting in full compliance and no non-conformance issues being raised during audit.

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Detailed Roles and Experience:

Programme Planner United Utilities (UU) Aug 2015 – Current

Produce and maintain a Level 0 and 1 plans. Produce and maintain the overall programme plan.

Liaising with Project Managers and Workstream leads to make sure that their detail plans line up with the high level plans.

Produce a weekly report from the programme plan showing what tasks are currently being worked on and also tasks scheduled to commence in the next 2 weeks.

Identify and manage external dependencies, risks and issues.

Provide support to project managers in developing their plans.

Leave of Absence Feb 2012 – Aug 2015

Caregiver during terminally ill family members illness and support afterwards. Project Managed house renovations including coordinating and scheduling activities of multiple tradesmen.

Completed renovation project on schedule and within budget.

Set up and managed part time EBay business including shipping. logistics and inventory management.

Completed franchise training courses and visited potential franchisors.

Senior Project Coordinator /Risk Manager EDS Limited (Hewlett Packard) Mar 2003 – Jan 2012

Supported the Programme Manager in all aspects of Programme Governance. Production of the Management Reports to Senior Management and Board Level.

Set up and management of complete programme library for the control of all project documentation.

Ensured Change Control was introduced and managed effectively to ensure adherence to the business case.

Provided leadership in promoting best practice across Integration planning.

Produced and updated individual project plans using Microsoft Project with project managers.

Implemented project plan tracking and progress reporting processes.

Ensured that resource requirements were forecasted and monitored.

Identified key milestones to be tracked for MI and reporting.

Monitored supplier performance against agreed project plans and deliverables.

Provided tools and methodologies for Risk Management within the programme.

Worked with Project Managers to identify Risks and manage their resolution.

Senior Project Analyst EDS Limited (Hewlett Packard) Feb 2001 – Feb 2003

Project scheduling, providing updates, assurance and monitoring. Prepared monthly project reporting and reviewing framework (PRRF) report.

Prepared and updated project metrics to measure project and individual performance against targets.

Produced individual project plans and programme milestone plans using MSP with project managers.

Produced high level milestone reports to enable progress reporting to Senior Management.

Performed Critical Path Analysis / Earned Value Analysis to allow informed decision making.

Ensured that resource requirements were forecasted and monitored.

Implemented Risk Management templates and processes to ensure all risks actively managed.

Management and recording of project issues and tracking all project issues.

Risk management support, identifying and reporting project risks.

Programme Planner Aonix Limited Aug 2000 – Feb 2001

Supervised the control of the PMW central repository function. Produced individual project plans and programme milestone plans with project managers. Developed and implemented project controls and reporting procedures. Gathered and inputted weekly / monthly project metrics. Helped establish the PMO standards and procedures.

Planning Manager Vertex Data Science Apr 1997 – Aug 2000

Coached and advised project managers to provide accurate plans, cost forecasts and resource indicators. Developed individual project plans with project / workstream managers using Microsoft Project.

Produced programme level milestone plans to enable progress reporting to Senior Management.

Produced project forecast costs and monitored spend to track overall forecast cost versus allocated budget.

Implemented new planning techniques, systems and procedures.

Developed and implemented project controls and reporting procedures.

Ensured that resource requirements were forecasted and monitored.

Workshop Controller Airline Services Limited Nov 1995 – Mar 1997

Production Planning Engineer Ferranti Computer Systems Limited Aug 1987 – Oct 1995

Education:

South Manchester Community College/Openshaw Technical College 1987 – 1991. HNC Mechanical Production Engineering (BTEC) - Certificate Number 32369B : Z352. ONC Mechanical Production Engineering (BTEC) - Certificate Number 32347B : X517.North Cestrian Grammar School 1982 – 1987- 5 O Levels (all grade C and above).

Software Tools and Technical Skills:

Microsoft Project / Project Server. Agile Project Management.

PMW (Niku). SharePoint. Assumption Based Communication Dynamics (ABCD Risk Management). MS Office - Microsoft Excel, Access, Word, PowerPoint and Outlook. PRINCE2 Foundation Certified.

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