Martin P Wilson – Director, Interim CIO

Martin is opportunity seeking, an innovator and highly flexible; switching industries, application areas and technologies with ease. Many troubleshooting roles needed Martin to adapt to all three. He delivers by ensuring the fundamentals are soundly based.

Programme/ IT Director and Consultant - Ask How He Can Help You

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Typical Roles undertaken by Martin P Wilson

• Interim CIO/ Director
• Project & Programmes Consultant
• Business Change & Innovation
• Business & Information Strategy
• Supplier, Bid, Customer Management
• Communicator/ Mentor
• Public & Private Sector clients of all sizes
• Product & Service Improvement

Extensive High-level Experience

Martin has extensive experience as Director or senior manager leading large scale national and international programmes of business and technical change in both public and private sector:

• Technical Delivery Manager for a Government project including directing Programme Management Office (PMO), Commercial and Procurement (£20+million) and managing suppliers. Total programme had more than 100+people and £200+million budget
• Executive Director (interim) – large non-department public body with annual department budget of £85+million and 60 staff. Programme budgets were £250+million and well over 100 project staff delivering 3 main products managing more than 40 independent client bodies and their multiple projects. Martin had the products to clients to convince them to take the products and to commit resources.
• Deputy Programme Director of major government knowledge sharing programme. It had more than £350million budget, 125 staff plus external suppliers. Martin ran PMO, Portfolio and the work of more than 20 project managers and functional leads.
• Project Director for huge HR shared service programme with £300+million budget, 150 projects staff, similar number from suppliers, and 1.2million users across 600 organisations. Pilot alone was over 100,000 users.
• Change Programme Manager for central government directorate which oversaw 100+ projects, 20+ project managers and associated procurements.
• International and other private programmes of more than £20million against tight deadlines.

All such work had formal governance and governance at the highest level by suppliers, client and user bodies. Usually run to PRINCE 2 and Managing Successful Programme standards with formal gateway review. Created and implemented formal management of project approval, portfolio, change, risk and capability release. In private sector, create processes for identification, evaluation and qualification of new business opportunities including a consultancy assignment to improve programme capability in a major UK telecommunications company.

Outsourcing, Procurement and Commercial

Martin has overseen major outsourcing procurements both as customer and bidder:

• Selection of host operator for Government department Shared Services (over £20million) and Service provider for a national government service of some £30million.
• Systems development and implementation for government departments, services and similar bodies.
• Managed multiple concurrent suppliers on contracts of all sizes including most of the major systems integrators and consultancies.
• Programme Director for defence company on a UK Critical National Infrastructure  bid (more than £250million) - bid team approaching 100 people.
• Ran business development for a Pannell Kerr Forster consultancy services group.
• Initiated PFI programmes for major government programme.

Managing Stakeholders

Martin has been successful managing complex stakeholder environments needing:

• Influencing and negotiating skills where no formal authority exists. Identify opportunities for mutual benefit – leaders of local government services are fiercely independent.
• Good communication skills both oral and written (author of 3 books, 100s articles)

• Choosing and Using Consultants
• The Information Edge, IM&T Strategy for senior general managers
• Creating and Developing a Consultancy Practice

• Ability to see the big pictures and understand stakeholder's benefits and challenges
• Able represents his client organisation at Director level and across industry/ government at high level

Complex and Creative Consultancy

Martin has led complex strategy, business and service planning consultancy assignments:

• Worked on national and cross government/industry bodies for developing and overseeing Information Systems and Technology strategy including applications, infrastructures and telecommunications.
• Strategy, Business and service planning in newly independent public sector organisations.
• Identifying, selling and delivering additional services to benefit own organisation and the client.
• Large scale information systems and technology strategies, author of book on subject

International Experience

Martin has worked in the Netherlands, Belgium, Finland as well as the UK. He has worked with very diverse international teams on assignments that have had global reach. In particular:

• Implemented the Operational Support Systems for a newly publicly quoted telecommunications company across the Benelux and Germany.
• Had Global IT Director responsibility for a spin-off subsidiary of a major incumbent telecommunications company.

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