Ben Leigh

A highly experienced, knowledgeable and focused professional who has gained significant project management capability &

skills with a record of delivery. My project achievements gained through digital transformation, organisational development, data management and engineering have delivered significant organisational improvements, cost reductions & project outcomes. Holding a degree in Aerospace Engineering w/ Space Technology alongside a PRINCE2 & AgilePM® project management qualification. Experienced in delivering project, partnered with a true passion and natural drive for project development, delivery, implementation and embedding. Someone that naturally brings people together, who wants to see their projects make a positive & commercial impact on their business and achieve success in a cohesive and effective team.

Project Management Officer 

Reaction Engines: Abingdon, Oxfordshire

• Project management officer dedicated to the company’s Hypersonic Air-Vehicle Experimental (HVX), Hybrid Electric Aircraft Thermal Management, and Next-Gen Fuel Cell Technology programmes.Providing overarching project management support to multiple programme and project managers.
• Lead with data quality, forecasting, resource management & reporting on monthly programme resource and finance mapping. Providing captures on overall financial and human resource capital performance against agreed baseline and forecasts.
• Providing ongoing reassurance to programme issues and risks through continuous programme risk capturing and review, working alongside programme and project managers to conclude resolutions, acceptances, mitigations and more. 
• Delivered phase summary and next-phase justification reports via the management of multi-team coordination and input, using AgilePM methodology to successfully produce justification data for customer review.
• Coordinated programme resourcing, finance budgeting and contingency allocation throughout various sub-projects to effectively distribute required resources and budgets throughout the wider programme.

Project Manager 

Lampton Services: Hounslow, London

• Lead on the successful delivery of a business-to-stakeholder digital transformation project. Looking at data gathering the ‘as-is’ of the businesses current state, concluding the ‘to-be’ end product and mapping out the workstreams & milestones necessary for the digital deliverable.
• Successfully lead on and delivered a fit-for-purpose office reconstruction to cater to quickly growing team numbers within the office space whilst remaining under budget and achieving all aspects of quality. 
• Incorporated efficiencies to group-wide digital access via the implementation of a digital documentation housing software, acting as the groups “digital library”. Established steering groups, creating synergies, improved communication and effective document management for all business sectors.
• Procured and incorporated the businesses ‘Professional Development Academy’ through the effective negotiation of pricing & fees to bring in a business programme to develop operative retrofit ‘green skills’ within construction.
• Managed & implemented refreshed, customer-facing, group wide rebranding via stakeholder management of subsidiary businesses managing directors to meet modern branding requirements within all areas of brand exposure (uniform, digital rebranding, fleet vehicles etc.)
• Ensured ongoing project and programme quality & performance improvement via continuous project audits, looking to review the project portfolio, the health of each project, financial & logistical state of the project etc.
• Coordinated, procured and embedded next-gen company vehicle fleet in line with industry and government emission goals, reducing company carbon footprint and increasing savings on reduction of fleet maintenance.

Project Administrator

Coalo Ltd: Hounslow, London

• Constructed & implemented the companies’ project management office (PMO) and project governance board, as well as their respective launches and the tender creation for necessary PMO staff recruitment. 
• Created newly desired business department dedicated to the interactive improvement of business workings via customer and community feedback, the (VoCC) department created better connections between the business and its customers.
• Supporting PM for the large-scale business merger of three businesses (Coalo, Greenspace, Recycle360), providing project support for high priority projects as well as undertaking active PM responsibilities for the merger’s multiple smaller projects. 
• Produced the design, execution and launch of the businesses vision & values to be distributed within the company’s digital presence, advertisement and initial branding.
• Catered to all areas of support and project- centred administration to the project managers within the PMO.

Bachelor of Engineering (Hons): Aerospace Engineering w/ Space Technology

Relevant subjects consist of: Rocket Performance & Propulsion, project Planning, SATCOMS, CAD Design, Mechanical Engineering, Structural Engineering, Further Mathematics, Project Management & Product Development.

• Project manager for 3rd & 4th year final team projects, undertaking several team roles at once when team members quit or fell ill to ensure the smooth running and completion of the allocated projects. Applied Prince2 learning.
• Directed several work streams to allocated time restraint in order to effectively meet the delivery of a dissertation, leading various project teams, part- time working and maintain various module studies.

Alton College: Alton, Hampshire

Level 3 Extended Engineering (Dist.*Dist.Dist.)

Additional Engineering Mathematics (Dist.)

Amery Hill Academy: Alton, Hampshire

• 14 GCSE's (A-C)
• 2 A' s in mathematics.
• 2 B' s in English Literature and English Language.
• A*, B & C in physics, chemistry and biology respectively.
• Dist.Dist. (A*A*) in level 2 extended engineering.