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A senior delivery lead without the full-time hire

When a programme needs senior ownership but not a permanent role, I step in as delivery lead or PMO lead, part-time or full-time, for the length of the programme.

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What I take on

  • Scope, charter and business case: the baseline, the benefits and the funding approval.
  • Budget ownership: forecasts, variance and spend tracked against work actually finished.
  • One integrated schedule across vendors, carriers and internal teams, with dependencies and critical path made visible.
  • Site planning and readiness: surveys, equipment and circuit lead times, local contacts and training, tracked as milestones.
  • Migration and cutover planning: pilot first, then waves, each with a pre-cutover checklist, a change window and a rollback path.
  • Vendor accountability: a clear RACI, contracted commitments, corrective action plans when a wave slips.
  • Governance: one RAID log, weekly status, and steering from working team to executive sponsor.
  • Hypercare, legacy decommissioning and a clean handover to operations.

Typical programmes

  • SD-WAN and branch network modernisation across hundreds of sites.
  • Voice and unified communications moves to cloud voice.
  • Data-centre and cloud migrations (AWS, Azure, GCP), including legacy device refreshes.
  • Contact-centre moves to cloud platforms, with conversational AI and agent assist.
  • Wireless, LTE, fibre and broadband rollouts for carriers and their enterprise clients.
  • AI/ML and RPA programmes that need delivery discipline, not just a build team.
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Illustrative: sites live by rollout wave, with a go or no-go gate between waves.

Evidence

  • A nine-figure SD-WAN, cloud connectivity and voice modernisation across a national branch network, from wave planning and vendor integration through cutover, hypercare and end-of-life device refresh.
  • A 24-person delivery team across 15 or more concurrent connectivity, LTE, cloud, contact-centre and security projects for one enterprise account.
  • Current work: delivery leadership on enterprise network programmes.

The full story, on my personal site: Network rollout case study ↗

PMO builds and terms

I build lightweight templates, a status rhythm and governance that teams use, and coach the project managers who run them. Engagements are monthly or fixed-term, scoped to the work, with a defined handover. Specialist contractors can be added when the scope grows.

Need senior delivery leadership on a programme?

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NDA first, on request. I take a small number of clients at a time.