Rodney Churchill PMP

Experience

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  Serco Systems Limited

  Jun 1986 - May 1998

  Project Manager & Bid Manager

  Delivered high value Highways Agency and the Dartford River Crossing projects in the transportation market for the design, development, production supply, storage, Installation test and Commissioning of NMCS2 Variable Message signing, signal (£9m) and phase 3 telephone equipment (£2.4m) and the upgrade of a Traffic Management system. The work for these projects covered bespoke command and control systems with associated outstation equipment and supporting infrastructure utilizing a mixture of hardware/software/in house and third party solutionsAlso, managed & supported proposals and Bids to: the Foreign Office for new work and studies. the Highways Agency, Skye Bridge Ltd et al which covered: Traffic Management Systems for: Motorway Signalling. The Managing Agent for re-signing London Primary Routes within the M25. Also combined Systems involving - VMS, CCTV, Emergency Telephones and Tolling Systems. Provided presentations and recommendations to the internal board. Set up BID teams, administration, risk assessment, negotiated with suppliers. Show less

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  Alenia Marconi Systems

  May 1998 - Nov 1999

  Senior Project Manager

  Responsible for: Intelligent Transportation Systems business development; Projects with the EU and Welsh Office; presenting business case and plans; various proposals and tenders

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  Electronic Data Systems

  Nov 2000 - Jan 2009

  Senior Project/Programme Manager

  Work on the MOD account:-• Delivered a 6000 VM Data centre (£4.1m) which provided additional capacity, enabling more DII programme application development to be done sooner• Developed productivity initiatives through guidance & workshops for 2008. 2007 productivity targets were exceeded by £2m.• Made improvements for the JPA programme change process, the monitoring/reporting of progress which enabled better control & visibility of £9m of changes. • Set up a Work Movement programme to achieve “better use of resources & improve business potential”. Achieved delivery lead buy-in & led the start-up of the first project move to Swansea • Reviewed all aspects of project, software, risk, finance and quality on OJAR and advised on necessary improvements and then delivered these along with the Officer Joint Appraisal Reporting system (£4m) to time, cost and qualityWork on the Rolls Royce Account:-• Delivered various Infrastructure and Applications Development projects and new work proposals to time, cost & quality Show less

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  HP Enterprise Services

  Jan 2009 - May 2014

  Senior Project Manager

  Work on the DWP account:-Delivered to time, cost & quality infrastructure projects to ext & Int clients. 2013 - 2014 - Patching Upgrade Infrastructure Project for several platforms deployed across the estate, comprised of 1890 (Test) & 1488 (Production) servers. 2013 - vSphere 5.1 Upgrade – Virtual Infrastructure Project – to meet obligations to have vendor supported Hypervisor technology. Delivered proposal, cost/schedule after liaison with stakeholders.2013 - Xerox SPS - Infrastructure Project - Data migration from old to new storage to increase system capacity.2012 - Enhanced Transmission Service Enhancements (ETSE) Project - This refreshed the technology and made system security improvements used to deliver DWP payments into the banking system.2011 - CMEC (Child maintenance Enforcement Commission) Data Warehouse (DW) Legacy Systems Project to consolidate data from disparate data stores (legacy, current & future) into a central DW, 2011 - STARS (Storage and Retrieval System) Infrastructure Project to migrate the services servers (database and web) from the physical to the virtual platform as part of a larger programme of work. This was a static database which was required by the DWP to be retained as an archive.2010 - Data Centre Migration from Washington to Wynyard Infrastructure Program to Migrate systems, applications, simultaneously refresh technology where appropriate and deliver network/Connectivity changes and test all migrated systems providing DR capabilityManaged all stakeholders and activities to ensure successful live implementations. Show less

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  Available for Contract or Permanent work

  May 2014 - now

  Senior Project Manager

  After redundancy from HP I continued to keep up to date with project management developments by attending professional development seminars and webinars with the PMI and maintained my PMP status for the next 3 year cycle. I am also involved in local projects as a volunteer.In 2015 I was elected as a Parish Councilor and help to advise the parish council on project, cost and risk management. I am also involved with other Councilors and residents defending the village from unwanted developers applications in an area adjacent to the AONB.At my local school as a Governor, I am involved with the start-up and planning of a new £3.9m 6th form Centre and legacy improvements which will enable the increase of an extra 300 students for the school. In addition, at a new school for excluded children, we are working as Governors, to achieve an improved OFSTED accreditation. Show less