Experience

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  Turner & townsend

  Jan 1989 - Jan 2001

  Senior consultant

  Senior consultant providing project management and business consultancy to clients. Specialism in business cases and scheme development from strategic level to delivery. Member of the PPP Unit providing consultancy services to clients.

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  Ey

  Jan 2001 - Jul 2003

  Senior executive

  Senior Executive as part of E&Y's Project Finance team. Acting as client facing financial advisor to large multi-disciplined projects in the public and private sectors. Management of a small team of advisors, client relationships and the EY network of commercial advisory partners.

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  Self-employed

  Jul 2003 - now

  Director
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  I-edge

  Jul 2003 - now

  Director, business consulting, programme/project management and performance coaching

  Self employed programme/project manager, with expertise across the full project lifecycle, including project development/authorisation, initiation, risk management, change management, project finance and general business consulting across a range of sectors. Wide range of experience from large scale investments to business change and transformation. Specialism in early stage development of projects including business cases, investment appraisal, and procurement processes. Public Sector experience including Gateway Reviews on large scale programmes of capital investment, outsourcing, business change and transformation.I am a certified Master Mind Coach and NLP practitioner for sports and business performance. Interested to work with sports persons looking to enhance performance through world class and proven, mental game coaching techniques. Also keen to work with businesses and organisations to enhance performance of staff at all levels. Show less

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  Virtuality sports

  Feb 2004 - Jun 2008

  Director

  Golf simulator hire and sales company. Corporate events, sales and support.

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  Leeds metropolitan university

  Nov 2011 - May 2012

  Part time lecturer

  Senior Lecturer at the Leeds Metropolitan University Centre for Project Management alongside my own consultancy work. The core element of my teaching was to guide students through a major case study encapsulating all aspects of business change, capital investment, 3rd party supplier management, project planning, risk management and key stakeholder management. The work was done by the students in teams, with regular presentations to myself and another Senior Lecturer.

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  Wakefield and district housing

  May 2012 - Apr 2014

  Mobile technology project manager

  Project manager for a major business enabled change project to develop and deploy mobile applications and technology to the work force, integrating seamlessly to the back office IT system.

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  Capita remediation services

  Feb 2015 - Mar 2016

  Project manager

  Project Management of business change, transformation and regulatory changes in support of the Remediation Operations in Leeds and Chester.

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  I-edge limited

  Mar 2016 - now

  Developed the business case development and appraisal methodology for the Northeast Combined Authority in order to prioritise projects for funding and delivery linked to NECA objectives.

  • Certified HeartMath Sports Coach

    Jul 2012 - now

  • Mind Coach using Neuro-feedback for sports and business performance

    May 2009 - now

  • Consultant

    Mar 2016 - Aug 2016
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  Leeds college of building

  Feb 2017 - now

  Assessor for trailblazer apprenticeship multi-disciplined consultancy (part time)

  Part time work based skills assessor for a trailblazer Apprenticeship in multi-disciplined consultancy firms.

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  West yorkshire combined authority

  Dec 2017 - Feb 2018

  Interim programme manager

  Providing interim programme management support to the Combined Authority.

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  Infrastructure and projects authority (ipa)

  Aug 2018 - now

  Ipa high risk gateway reviewer