Helen White

Experience

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  ALSTOM Power Conversion

  Sept 1989 - Dec 2004

  Senior Project Manager

  15 years working in various Project Management roles in a variety of industries including, Steel, Oil and Gas, Large Machines, Naval and Dynamic Positioning on a range of projects.

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  QinetiQ

  Jan 2005 - Apr 2008

  Senior Project Manager

  Projects managed included, a high profile multimillion, multi site, software development project, that peaked at a team of 35 and lasted 18 months. Specialised metrics were developed in order to control this high control, complex software project and utilised a “timeboxing” approach to maintain development momentum. Other projects included a MoD research project exploring new concepts; controlling a team of scientists whilst encouraging creativity. Other background tasks include mentoring Junior Project Managers and being a Process owner for Project Monitoring and Control and Metrics within a company trying to achieve CMMI level 3. Show less

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  UAV Tactical Systems

  Apr 2008 - Jul 2012

  Operations Programme Manager

  U-TacS was set up to engineer, integrate, produce and support the Watchkeeper Programme. I was responsible for the managing the manufacture, delivery and support of all the assets on the Programme. This included scheduling work to the factory floor, resource management, expediting, asset Sell Off and financial management of the Material and manpower budget for the Operations Department. Liaison with both internal and external customers and produce production metrics and forecasting for the management team, plus hold the sub-contract and in house Functional Configuration and Physical Configuration Reviews. Show less

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  Ricardo

  Jul 2012 - Mar 2014

  Programme Manager

  Project and Programme Management on a variety of automotive focussed projects including research and development, product development to production and various transmission projects. Managing diverse customers and teams.

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  Morgan Advanced Materials

  Apr 2014 - Mar 2015

  Project Manager

  Project Manager for a variety of projects the most notable being a project to upgrade the existing EOD Suit to make it world beating in terms of protection and mobility. A project which tested the limits of ballistic testing facilities.

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  Johnson Matthey Battery Systems

  Apr 2015 - Feb 2017

  Programme Manager

  Working on projects to develop innovative and efficeint batteries, primarily for the automotive industry. Helping develop project proposals and assisting in a one off project to relocate the company to Milton Keynes

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  WMG, University of Warwick

  Mar 2017 - now

  Project Manager, WMG Centre HVM Catapult

  Working on projects in the High Value Manufacturing Catapult, looking after projects designed to help drive growth of UK manufacturing, help companies accelerate and de-risk innovation, create and save jobs in the UK and promote a much more competitive UK with growing exports.