My role as a technical delivery project manager is a dynamic and multifaceted one, blending technical leadership with an empathetic, people-focused approach. I act as the essential bridge between a client's aspirational vision and its tangible completion, ensuring that complex projects navigate challenges and meet their objectives. My collegiate and collaborative management leadership style fosters a strong, unified team culture, regardless of geographical or organisational boundaries. This is especially critical when facing the inevitable adversity that large-scale projects often encounter.
At the heart of my work is Client & Authority Liaison. As the central point of contact, the conduit through which all communication flows, I am able to manage expectations, align diverse stakeholders and ensure a clear, shared understanding of project goals is what transforms a client's abstract idea into a concrete, achievable plan. By facilitating clear and consistent dialogue, I prevent misunderstandings and keep everyone on the same page, ensuring that objectives are not only understood but also met with precision.
This focus on communication extends to my Technical Team Management. Coordinating multidisciplinary design and specification teams, which are often spread across different organisations and locations, I guide these varied discipline practitioners toward a common goal, ensuring that their individual contributions form a coherent, robust, and fully compliant technical output. This attention to detail and ability to harmonise complex technical work is what forms the rock-solid foundation of a successful project.
Stakeholder Engagement is crucial for successful project implementations. Effectively interacting with a wide array of groups, from government bodies to local community organisations, recognising that their support is vital for project success. By clearly communicating the project's progress, benefits and potential impacts, I build trust and generate the consensus needed to move forward. This proactive engagement turns potential obstacles into allies, ensuring that the project has the necessary support to thrive.
A project management role is about more than just delivering a project on time and on budget. It's about translating a client's vision into reality through expert communication, collaborative leadership and a deep understanding of both the technical and human elements involved. As the driving force that ensures a project's success, even when the path is challenging, by building strong teams and securing the buy-in of all key parties.
Who do you turn to, to ensure your project 'vision' is delivered?
What happens when stakeholders or the public dislike your project?
Can you achieve outcomes with organisationally spread design teams?
How do you ensure project designs meet requirements?
Client & Authority Liaison:
I serve as the central technical point of contact, facilitating clear and consistent communication between all parties. My role is to manage expectations, align stakeholders and ensure project objectives are understood and met.
Technical Team Management:
I lead and coordinate multidisciplinary design and specification teams, often organisationally and geographically spread. My focus is on driving the development of coherent, robust and fully compliant technical outputs that form the foundation of a successful project.
Stakeholder Engagement:
I effectively engage with a wide variety of stakeholders, from government bodies to local community groups. By clearly communicating project progress, benefits and impacts, I build the consensus and support necessary for project success.
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Technical executive working with companies (typically at C-Suite level) in the UK and abroad, to provide advice and guidance.
A broad range of consultancy and advisory services relating to ITS and Traffic Signal infrastructure for both Clients and Suppliers.
My role is to deliver the 'vision' for a project, often working with organisationally and geographically spread project teams.
Extensive specialist knowledge of traffic systems which is used to deliver designs to improve capability, safety and efficiency.
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Production and delivery of a range of technical training packages which can be undertaken in-person or online.