Vincent Wells
Glasgow
Summary
Driven professional with exceptional organisational and leadership skills, combined with ability to manage complexity and build strong relationships. Expertise in strategic planning resource utilisation. A problem solver, skilled in developing and delivering the right solutions to meet key business objectives. Agile advocate, design of programme reporting and roadmaps using Jira or similar tools to measure and report on delivery. Strong on collaboration, with a keen sense of responsibility, looking to empower project teams and improve delivery.
Overview
9
9
years of professional experience
1
1
year of post-secondary education
Work history
Senior PM
Lloyds Banking Group
11.2023 - 04.2025
- Delivered multiple projects resolving Legacy system issues, providing customer redress.
- Provided guidance to the business on establishing an agile framework, identified waste in project teams and reduced headcount without affecting delivery.
- Advised 3rd Party administering new Pension systems on establishing project teams and governance. Mentored a team of Project Managers and provided Q/A to ensure their delivery met Lloyds Standards
Programme Consultant
William Grant & Sons
Cumbernauld, North Lanarkshire
08.2023 - 11.2023
- Set up programme structure, advised on PMO and Governance. Established Agile project structure for new project team.
- Oversaw the initiation and design phases for multiple projects, incl. DR Upgrade, enhancements to WAN/LAN and global backup refresh, upgrade to ESXi and implementation of software, with management of 3rd Party relationships
Programme Manager
Natwest
06.2022 - 08.2023
- Successful delivery of new Payment Data Store and Data Archive under ISO 20222 Regulatory Change Programme.
- Established Agile release roadmap to manage deliveries into the Programme, dashboards and reporting.
- Conducted review of all Test Environments and provided design to upgrade all pipelines into and from the datalake and cloud.
Senior PM
LSEG
02.2022 - 06.2022
- Planning/Design of merger programme to bring Refinitiv Market Data with LSEG.
- Management of the Identity Access Management migration to Cloud PING authentication, including SSO and Service Account Migration.
- A challenging environment with complex politics negotiated well. I left because I was headhunted for a superb role at RBS
Senior PM
Royal Bank of Scotland
04.2016 - 02.2022
- Multiple project deliveries as Senior PM:
- London Datacentre Exit Programme, lead on design of Unix and Windows data migration workstream, successful migration of all data from London NAS arrays to the Edinburgh Data Centre and subsequent decommissioning.
- User Domain Migration successfully migrated 6000 Market accounts and services from London to Edinburgh DC
- Took over a Virtual Desktop refresh project in recovery, migrated 35,000 users (70% of total) in 18 months, including decommission of all legacy laptops and desktops.
- Senior PM delivering into the TOM of William & Glynn Future Bank. Responsibilities included delivering application and network monitoring tools, including Tivoli, Infinistream and a bespoke Web Service Monitoring Solution.
Education
Master of Arts - Literature
Glasgow University
Glasgow 09.2006 - 07.2007
Skills
- Microsoft Project Planner
- Cost control management
- Programme performance metrics
- Cross-Functional coordination
- Project recovery capabilities
- KANBAN system implementation
- Communication excellence
- Customer relationship management
- Scrum framework utilization
- Risk assessment tools
- Jira for Programmes - Dashboards/Planning
- Advanced Excel
- Infrastructure
- PAAS/IAAS/SAAS
- 3rd Party Relationship Management
- Cloud - AWS/Azure
- Records Management
- Regulatory Programmes
Timeline
Senior PM
Lloyds Banking Group
11.2023 - 04.2025
Programme Consultant
William Grant & Sons
08.2023 - 11.2023
Programme Manager
Natwest
06.2022 - 08.2023
Senior PM
LSEG
02.2022 - 06.2022
Senior PM
Royal Bank of Scotland
04.2016 - 02.2022
Master of Arts - Literature
Glasgow University
09.2006 - 07.2007
Custom
- Halliburton Engineering
- BAA
- Barclays
- Tesco Bank
- Clydesdale Bank
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