Profile of Graham Allen

Graham is a widely experienced, successful manager with an extensive technical background including 18 years experience of managing projects and teams, particularly in IT and web environments. In each employment, Graham has added value and improved the performance of that organisation. He has a deep understanding and wide experience of many disciplines.

Graham is a member of the British Computer Society, a PRINCE Practitioner and is ITIL trained.

Expertise

Project Management

Programme Management

Team Leadership

PRINCE 2 practitioner

Stakeholder Management

Risk Management

Change Management

Service Management

ITIL

Web design & development

(x)html

css

javascript

asp

accessibility

usability

xml

CMS

Application life cycle

  • Requirements
  • Design
  • Build
  • Testing
  • Deployment
  • Support

Microsoft Office:

Word

Excel

Access

PowerPoint

Visio

Information Management

OGC Gateway Review

EDRMS

Windows NT, 2000, XP, Vista

Microsoft Project 2003

Microsoft FrontPage

Dreamweaver

Visual Basic for Applications (VBA)

COBOL

Achievements

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  • Successfully managed the EUMIS Planning project through its procurement evaluation.
  • Developed a set of Planning Standards that included best practice for using of Microsoft Project.
  • Developed Microsoft Project VBA to automatically check the structure of a Schedule to ensure compliance with Planning Standards.
  • Successfully managed the project office of a central government web portal project, providing valuable management, information management and technical consultancy.
  • Led application team in outsourcing negotiation and evaluation of proposals.
  • Managed a project to consolidate a portfolio of software applications. Established governance and management processes for its management and consolidation/reduction.
  • Managed a web development team, introducing dynamic (asp) web pages.
  • Taught html web development at local college.
  • Created a forum for the discussion and introduction of web standards.
  • Project managed a multiple site implementation of a major software upgrade, successfully managing local concerns.
  • Member of project board for major EDRMS procurement.
  • Managed test programme for selection of EDRMS software.
  • Project managed the development (and contributed to the code) of a VBA document template application.
  • Designed and introduced information management reporting system that was successfully reused by other organisations.
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