Too busy to implement the ideas your have for you organisation to change and grow? Not enough budget to appoint a permanent member of staff? Is your project able to survive within existing resources after it has been implemented? If you want someone to concentrate on introducing some changes who will then back out once they are in place but happy to support from a distance, then you might want to consider appointing a Project Manager.
Benefits:
- Good solution for temporary projects
- Business as usual for the permanent Managers
- Monitoring and evaluation
- Dedicated Resource
- Cheaper as often reduced / no higher long term costs
- Fresh pair of eyes that can always question existing processes
David is an experienced Project Manager qualified to Prince2 Practitioner level and has a high level of teamwork, communication, persuasion and organisation skills. He has worked with multi disciplinary teams and inter agency partnerships, and managed temporary projects in the business, community information, health and children / youth sectors. He believes that partnerships are exactly that – partnerships, not one or two larger agencies benefiting at the expense of others around the table. Trust takes time to build, and he always seeks the win-win solution for everyone in order to move forward.
If you have a Project idea in mind then contact David to arrange a free consultation meeting to chat it through. If a better solution is for you to have someone else take it forward, he will always refer you to a more appropriate source of support.
“I have known David for many years whilst working for Conwy County Borough Council. I have also on many occasions worked with him on strategic projects whilst he was project lead. He is very meticulous in his planning and extremely well organised. In this day and age of protecting & managing data, providing good customer service, overseeing corporate governance, ensuring archives are preserved David is your man.” (Jim Jones, Managing Director, North Wales Tourism Ltd)
“I have known David for a number of years through my previous role as Strategic Director with Conwy County Borough Council. I have worked with him on strategic projects where I have been the project sponsor and/or where he was lead officer for a project. He plans thoroughly for tasks that he is allocated and is well organised in undertaking them. David has a caring and supportive nature and clearly demonstrates this in reporting outcomes. David has particular interests archives and protecting data, managing data as well as corporate governance.” (Ken Finch, Treasurer (p/t), North Wales Fire & Rescue Authority)
Existing and Previous Projects and Partnerships
CILIP Information Services Group (UK Chair)
CILIP Knowledge & Information Management (UK Chair)
UK European Public Information Centres Steering Group (Wales Member and Chair of its national Marketing Sub Group)
Affiliation of Local Government Information Specialists (ALGIS) (UK Secretary)
Wales Information Governance Board (advising Welsh Government) (Member)
Wales Information Governance Group (Forum for Welsh Information Governance Officers) (Chair)
Customer Focus Wales (Vice-Chair)
Wales Business Eye Contractors Group (Member)
Wales Cymryd Rhan / Getting in on the Act Digitization Project (Board Member)
Wales European Information Network (Member)
North Wales Business Eye Contractors Group (Member)
North Wales European Information Network (Chair)
Conwy, Anglesey & Swansea Community Directory Partnership (Member of Board and Chair of Operations)
Conwy Community ICT Awareness Project (Line Manager / Chair)
Conwy Community Legal Service Partnership (Board Member)
Conwy Family Information Service Project (Line Manager / Vice Chair)
Conwy Children / Young Peoples Partnership Information Coordination Group (Member)
Conwy Health & Well Being Information Project (Line Manager / Chair)
Conwy Health, Social Care & Well Being Partnership (Board Member and Chair of its Information Co-ordination Group)
Conwy CBC Information Management Board / Forum (Member / Chair)
Conwy CBC Customer Service Board / Project (Member / Chair)