Gary Westwood

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ABOUT GARY WESTWOOD

A PRINCE2 Agile Practitioner and Head of Project Management who has 29 years of experience, managing technology and business change projects and programmes for many global organisations. • My technical background in IT over the past three decades provides the foundation for my specialisation in IT technology programme, project and business systems management.• Delivering a portfolio of medium to large multifaceted IT projects, both on premise and Hybrid Cloud managed services, to a diverse customer base.• Coaching and leading a highly motivated team of project managers, in a fast paced cutting edge tech market, delivering in excess of 90 concurrent projects in the programme.• Building Hybrid Teams to deliver Data Analytics, ERP, CRM and HCM business systems management and automation. I am a highly motivated individual, with strong core values, able to represent any organisation in a professional manner at all levels.• Management of and responsible for 150 Business systems across the UK rail network with system integrations and digital transformations roadmaps to SLA’s utilising on prem and 3pty SaaS suppliers.• I am able to work either leading, or within a team and can be relied upon as a safe pair of hands to deliver the result.• Reporting skills including C-suite Board Reporting, Project and Programme progress and Health to numerous stakeholders.• Providing programme level leadership and governance to data centre, cloud and digital transformation projects to all vertical markets.• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with a high level of emotional intelligence and approachability help me build and motivating successful and Transformation• Building a Data Team & Data Lake Platform in MS Azure Data Factory supporting data analytics to the 2500 user.• New Navision (Dynamics 365) ERP / CRM - project delivery - operations, contracts, procurement and financials• Managing M365 developers delivering custom applications & automation using low code tool sets M365 (SharePoint, PowerApps & PowerAutomate).• Led merger and acquisition activities to bring a new German MSP into the Group, integrating systems, contracts, people and processes.Compliance & Governance• Management of PCI Compliance Audit for 4 consecutive years• Delivered ISO 9001 quality standard certification for ANS Group within a 4 months.• Selected by Proact Group VP to develop a framework for PMO development in five countriesA huge amount of projects and programmes delivered – See CV