Andy Mensah

I am a highly motivated and results-driven Project Management professional with a solid academic foundation in Business and Management (Marketing) BSc. I have a proven track record of successfully delivering complex IT transformations, data migrations, and deployment projects across high-profile public sector accounts (including the Ministry of Defence, Home Office, and Ministry of Justice). Adept at managing end-to-end project lifecycles, mitigating risks, budget tracking, and building trusted relationships with senior stakeholders.

Career Break - Self

(2025-04)

Took a career break to focus on family, personal responsibilities and travelling

Deployment Project Manager (Ministry of Defence) - Xerox - UK South-East region

(2022-09 - 2025-03)

• Project Delivery: Spearheaded the end-to-end planning, deployment, and closure of multi-functional Xerox devices across 168 Ministry of Defence (MOD) sites in the UK South-East region.
• Stakeholder Management: Gathered complex business requirements and secured project plan approvals from high-profile, sensitive military stakeholders and sites, including MOD Main Building and Wellington Barracks.
• Risk Management: Proactively identified, managed, and mitigated critical deployment risks and logistical issues to ensure zero operational downtime for defense personnel.

Consultant (SC Cleared) - Capita

(2018-09 - 2022-08)

• Project Governance: Authored and managed core PMO frameworks and documentation, including Project Initiation Documents (PIDs), Business Requirements Documents (BRDs), RAID logs, Change logs, and Project Charters.
• Requirement Gathering: Facilitated structured workshops and stakeholder meetings to capture and translate intricate business needs into actionable project workstreams.
• Portfolio Analysis: Conducted detailed analysis and health checks on multiple parallel, high-value projects to optimize delivery timelines and resource allocation.

Project Manager / PMO Analyst - Home Office

(2021-04 - 2022-08)

Simultaneous Internal Secondment via Capita

• System Implementation: Supported the Delivery Manager in implementing the Home Office's Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system (Oracle Cloud Fusion) and Oracle Analytics Reporting Capability.
• Data Migration: Successfully led the end-to-end migration of over 120,000 files and folders from Huddle to SharePoint, completing ahead of schedule and under commercial agreement constraints.
• Business Continuity: Managed stakeholder communications to schedule data migrations around core operations, ensuring Business As Usual (BAU) activities were entirely unaffected.
• Recognition: Awarded a Home Office Recognition Award for exceptional project delivery and stakeholder management.

Junior Project Manager (Ministry of Justice) - Capita EMS

(2020-01 - 2021-04)

Simultaneous Internal Placement via Capita

• IT Transformation: Contributed to a major IT transformation ("New World Programme") delivering the Gemini solution for Electronic Monitoring Services.
• Technical Readiness: Supported the Technical Readiness workstream, ensuring infrastructure and software criteria were met ahead of the critical service commencement date.
• Tool Implementation: Facilitated the integration of ServiceNow to streamline customer service request catalogs.

Project Manager & PMO (Property Portfolio) - Capita GCIO

(2019-07 - 2019-12)

Simultaneous Internal Placement via Capita

• Financial & Risk Control: Audited project plans, tracked financial budgets, and chaired risk-remediation meetings with Portfolio Project Managers.
• Asset Optimization: Directed an IT asset disposal project; identified and securely decommissioned 350 unused IT assets, generating £50,000 in cost savings.
• Information Security: Governed the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) allocation process during sensitive site closures.

Project Manager (Capita IT Exit Project) - Croydon Council

(2019-01 - 2019-06)

• Technical Deployment: Managed the pilot and full-estate rollout of LittleFish Live and RMM agents, overseeing technical dependencies including GPO, firewalls, and URL/IP proxy configurations.
• Service Transition: Coordinated the orderly transition of desktop, print, unified communications, and application management services from Capita to third-party vendors (Vodafone, Xerox, LittleFish).
• Business Change: Organized TUPE meetings led knowledge-transfer workshops and monitored the Request for Information (RFI) tracker to ensure seamless contract novations.

BSc (Hons) - Business and Management (Marketing) - Brunel University London (2014 - 2017)