Jim Powell Cmgr

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ABOUT JIM POWELL CMGR

Chartered Manager with 25 years of experience leading multiple teams in challenging and complex environments, delivering engineering projects and change programmes. Thriving when leading transformational change programmes, specialising in fields such as information security and assurance. Achieving the highest standards with limited resources by understanding the environment and the team, exploiting strengths, and improving weaknesses. Relishes the opportunity to manage, develop and lead the team. The demands of the role are dynamic. Plans can alter, suddenly, amid the high tempo and evolving pace of operations. Strength to thinking critically, identifying risks and opportunities, and leading teams to adapt and deliver. Profile: Over 25 years’ experience working in security and defence, cyber security, and risk management Fifteen years’ experience delivering continual service improvement and change programmes 15+ years delivering complex worldwide programmes and projects with values exceeding £50m Management of multi-national and multi-cultural teams ranging from three to over 100 persons Programme and project management, meeting problems with pragmatic cost-effective solutions Combining leadership and effective communication to internal/external stakeholders at all levels 25+ years delivering verbal briefings and presentations to teams from corporate level downwards BSc (Hons) degree in Telecommunications Systems Engineering (2:1) Memberships: • Chartered Manager with the Chartered Management Institute • Member of the Institute of Engineering and Technology (MIET) • Pending membership of the Security Institute (MSyI) Vocational Training: CMI Leadership and Management (Level 6)| Management of Change Practitioner | CompTIA (A+, Network+, Security+)| Satellite Communications Manager | Managing Successful Programmes (MSP)| Cyber Operational Policies and Plans | Co-ordinating Installation Design Authority (CIDA)| APM Project Management | Fibre and Copper Infrastructure Installation | PRINCE 2 Practitioner | Radio Frequency (RF) and Filter Tuning | ITIL Foundation v.3 | Lean Six Sigma | Certified Information Security Manager Skills and Specialisms: Leadership | Management | Coaching | Mentoring | Team Development | Problem Solving | Communication | Process Analysis | Process Design | Time Management | Risk and Opportunity Management | Assurance | Governance | Information Security | Information Management