CURRICULUM VITAE

Dave Collier

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Education, Training and Qualifications

Career Outline

Key Skills

Current Position

Last Position

Other Positions

RAF Career

Hobbies and Interests

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EDUCATION, TRAINING AND QUALIFICATIONS

CAREER OUTLINE

• Joined the Royal Air Force as an apprentice airframe technician in 1968, leaving in 1992 with the rank of Sergeant.
• Project Planner at British Telecom Research Laboratories from September 1992 to March 1996.
• Eagle Star Insurance from March 1996 to September 1998 as a Planning Analyst.
• Transco (British Gas) from September 1998 to March 1999 as a Planning Analyst (Technical Specialist).
• IBM Global Services (Cable and Wireless account) as a Project Planner / Co-ordinator.
• Transco as a Planning Analyst (Project Planner).
• Gap year to update planning skills and expand photographic interests.
• Tyco Electronics, Swindon as a Project Planner / Administrator.
• Provide Project Office Support at Vodafone, Newbury, on two seperate contracts.
• AXA-Sun Life, Bristol, as a Programme Office Analyst and ABT Repository Administrator.
• Capgemini ASPIRE (HMRC Account), Worthing, as a Clarity / Openworkbench consultant with the "Planning Task Force" team.
• R. W. PLANT (Chantacre) Ltd. Dibden. MS Access database, development or Operations Diary and Management Reports.
• Advanced Systems Architecture (L3 - ASA), Bently Hall, Blacknest, Alton, Hampshire. Project Planner and Confuguration Management.

Key Skills

• Extensive Planning skills gained over more than 15 years experience of project planning with knowledge of most major planning methods, and ability to time analyse and resource schedule Project Plans. Experienced in building and maintaining Work Breakdown Structures, complex Programme and Project Plans and producing regular reports to show progress and milestone tracking.
• Gained a working knowledge of Prince 2 methodology.
• A good working knowledge of Earned Value Analysis processes, producing graphical and tabular reports showing actual costs against forecasts, and showing schedule and cost indices in documents and 'On-Line' reports.
• · Broad based propriety software skills, including extensive experience of the ABT products including ABT Repository and PMW, Niku Clarity and Open Workbench tools, with both individual and consolidated group plans. I am also an experienced user of Microsoft Project to version 2000, working with both individual and consolidated plans. Also trained in using Primavera P3 project planning software.
• Strong Microsoft Access skills and have produced customised project reports from ABT Repository and PMW Plans using the ABT Reporting Shell. Develop Project Management, Resource Management, Risk and Issue Management and Project Plan Quality Control systems utilising Microsoft Access relational databases.
• Good working knowledge of MS Office products especially Access, Excel, PowerPoint and Word.
• Knowledge of HTML and Java Script using propriety tools e.g. HoTMetaL and MS FrontPage to produce On-Line Project Management Graphical Reports on a Company Intranet.
• Practical experience of using Adobe PhotoShop V5.0, V6.0 and CS2.

CAREER HISTORY

July 2008 to Present - Project Planner, L3 - ASA, Alton Hampshire.

Develop and maintain project plans using MS Project, including tracking dependencies with sub-contractors.

May 2007 to May 2008 - MS Access Developer, R. W. Plant (Chantacre) Ltd, Dibden, Southampton.

Develop a bespoke Operations Diary for the Operations Manager to assist with weekly resource planning.

Design bespoke reports in MS Access for the management team for output from Sage Construct and locally developed MS Access databases.

January 2007 to April 2007 - Clarity and Open Workbench Consultant, Capgemini ASPIRE (HMRC) Worthing, Basingstoke and Telford.

Provide consultancy services, one to one training and mentoring to Project / Programme Managers and PMO staff after the roll-out of Clarity and Open Workbench at CapGemini ASPIRE on their HMRC outsourcing account at several sites in the south of England.

Audit project plans to ensure that they meet planning standards.

Advise Project / Programme Managers and PMO staff on how to construct and maintain project plans with Open Workbench and Clarity.

September 2005 to February 2006 - Planning Co-Ordinator, Axa Sun Life, Bristol

Produce weekly and monthly project and budgetary reports for Programme / Project Managers and Resource Managers using ABT Reporting Shell, including the creation of new and one off reports as required.

Produce weekly RAG (Red Amber Green), Resource Usage Forecast reports from data downloaded from bespoke Project Control and Budget systems.

Administer the ABT Repository system including adding resources, assigning user rights, setting up Project Plans and the creation and maintenance of project and resource categories and codes.

Manage bespoke Project Control and Budget Systems, and compile weekly submissions of Project and Programme overhead spending.

Train graduate administration staff in the Programme Office Roles as part of migration of work to offshore sites.

Support offshore administration staff and monitor quality of their output.

Improve reporting techniques utilising MS Access database software.

February 2005 to May 2005 - Project Office Support, Vodafone, Newbury.

Produce monthly Key Performance Indicator reports for the Telecom Systems area of Vodafone UK based on output from Central, their bespoke project management system, utilising the graphics capabilities of MS Excel spreadsheets and workbooks. This included process improvements in producing these reports.

Develop, in MS Access, a management reporting system to centrally capture key project data for Programmes, Projects and Work Packages, and their adherence to Project Management Maturity Model and Prince 2 Maturity Model. In addition provide a project governance tracking functionality to enable an efficient control of programme and project progress.

Document the process changes to the Key Performance Indicators, and routines and methods for the use of the MS Access reporting tool.

November 2004 to January 2005 - Project Office Support, Vodafone, Newbury.

Organise regular management meetings, in accordance with Prince 2 methodology, and produce PowerPoint presentations for use at weekly status and monthly board meetings, including minute taking at meetings.

Update project status using bespoke Vodafone Intranet tools and MS Office tools including MS Project.

Create and maintain document control system.

November 2003 to July 2004 - Project Planner, Tyco Electronics, Swindon, Wiltshire.

Create and maintain project plans using MS project in co-operation with the Projects Manager. Produce customised reports and advise on resource requirements.

Create bespoke MS Access Database utilities for project control and component inventory control.

October 2002 to October 2003 - Gap Year

Update Planning Skills and attend training in Primavera P3 Planning Software. Expand photographic interests.

August 2001 to September 2002 - Project Planner, Transco, Solihull, West Midlands and Hinckley, Leicestershire

Create and maintain Project Plans using PMW and MS Project 98 in co-operation with Project Managers using project bid and charter documents, and utilising ABT Repository for time recording and project reporting.

Produce Earned Value Analysis and Milestone Progress and Tracking Reports utilising output from ABT Repository, PMW and MS Project Plans, MS Excel spreadsheets and web page 'On-Line' output.

Monitor resource usage and compare with baseline estimates for each project, advising managers of conflicts in resource assignments.

Analyse reports produced from ABT Reporting Shell, in the customised TRANSCO reporting system.

Advise managers of variances from baseline costs of actual bookings and remaining estimates for contracted out managed services and TRANSCO staff.

April 1999 to June 2001 - Project Planner and Co-ordinator, IBM Global Services (Cable and Wireless account), Covent Garden, London and Bletchley, Milton Keynes

Create and maintain High Level Test & Integration Schedules and baselines using PMW and MS Project Plans where required, consolidating into Group Plans to suit differing requirements from various levels of Management.

Draft Planning Standards and User Guide documents for generic use within the Test and Integration environment.

Provide Planning Support and Tuition, where required, to various Programme and Project Managers and Project Leaders, and assisting with improving estimating, methods and procedures.

Develop Project Control Systems using MS Access databases and data exported from PMW Project Plans to monitor plan quality, resource usage and project costs.

Generate report data including Milestones, Risks, Issues and Forecasts from various databases as required for tracking / reporting progress, chase and collate weekly and monthly project reports from managers into central repository and report. Assist with the production of Earned Value Analysis (EVA) reports and graphs.

Support functions including administering Lotus Notes Databases and resolving other related reporting issues.

September 1998 to March 1999 - Planning Analyst (Technical Specialist),Transco, Solihull

Designing and implementing a High Level Graphical Reporting system to provide management with performance and earned value information based upon data exported from ABT Repository, using MS Access and MS Excel. Exporting finished reports to HTML making entire reporting system readable via Intranet.

Writing specification, design and user documentation for the High Level reporting system.

Producing a Plan Monitor reporting system in MS Access to audit and ascertain quality of PMW and MS Project Plans ensuring that they meet Transco planning standards.

March 1996 to September 1998 - Planning Analyst, Commercial IT, Eagle Star Insurance, Bishops Cleeve

Designing and writing processes and systems to consolidate team based plans into higher-level project centred plans utilising ABT software products Project Manager Workbench (PMW), Programme Managers Desktop (PMD) and MS Project where required. Export of data to and production of comparison tables utilising MS Access software, and implementing Relational Management Information database system in MS Access, allowing Project Managers and Team Leaders to gain 'On Line' access to weekly progress reports and resource utilisation.

Create and maintain a Risks and Issues database system, which can be updated and used by Team leaders and Managers.

Carry out Trials of the ABT Repository, including installation of software on user workstations, testing to a rigorous set of criteria, analysing test results and make recommendations to management.

1992 - 1996 - Project Planner, BT Research Labs, Martlesham Heath

Planning in a Programme Operations Office environment, employing PRINCE methodology and using PMW, PMD and MS Project P.C. based packages.

Production of Earned Value Analysis reports using CASCADE software interfaced with PMW.

Development of Work Breakdown Structures and Plans of development programmes, utilising QEI and QEI-Exec graphical interface for project planners.

1988 - 1992 - Planning Engineer, Aircraft Engineering Squadron, RAF Brize Norton

Member of a 5-man development team dedicated to the successful introduction an integrated management package for VC10 aircraft undergoing schedule maintenance and structural repair with the Royal Air Force, with specific responsibility for drafting a 1,200-activity high level network drawing using QEI software.

Critical path analysis and resource scheduling of work packages for over 160 employees and line managers of differing trades and updating of the 5,500 activity low level project using INTANET software, liaising with the tradesmen and Civilian Contractors Working Party.

Create relational database files and vocabulary statements in PRIME INFORMATION.

Create front-end management system for planning staff allowing greatly reduced turn round times of reports and data transfers.

1970 - 1988 - Aircraft Technician (Airframe), Various locations with the Royal Air Force

Supervise various aircraft engineering tasks that have included component and structural repair, replacement and adjustment of large critical items and repair overhaul and replacement of passenger cabin trim, galleys and service units with small dedicated teams. Cleaning and preparatory work to aircraft component parts prior to NDT and inspection, and a small test and maintenance facility for Gaseous and Liquid Oxygen components.

Assume responsibility for and control of inventories of specialised technical equipment, tools and office furniture as a secondary duty whilst carrying out the supervisory posts detailed above.

Close tolerance measurement and inspection of aircraft component piece parts during overhaul and refurbishment using electronic and mechanical measuring and comparison equipment.

Carry out scheduled maintenance and structural repairs to various military, civil aircraft and complete refurbishment of gliders with wooden airframes.

INTERESTS

Photography, both conventional and digital (Club Secretary, Treasurer, Publicity and WEB Master),

Gardening, woodwork/DIY, Home Computing, Internet Page Design (including JavaScript)

Last Updated 25 March 2007