Dale Thompson

Experienced and proactive PMO Analyst with 15+ years professional experience who has supported Portfolio/Programme PMO functions across a diverse range of complex high value business change programmes (IT/Digital Transformation, Integration, Divestment, Procurement,Cyber and Regulatory Redress) in both Financial Services, Public Sector and Chartered organisations. A collaborative team player focused on delivering quality and value and dedicated to continuous improvement and development.

• Implementing and managing essential and robust PMO governance frameworks and controls.
• Operating PPM tools and centrally aggregated data to produce accurate reports and models for Portfolio leads andExecutive Management, governance meetings and reviews to monitor progress against targets.
• Benefits Management, Project Status Reporting, RAID, Change Control, Financial controls, Stage Gates, ResourceCapacity management)
• Excellent Stakeholder engagement skills & communication skills at all levels.
• Highly organised professional with solutions-based thinking, a natural problem solver who reliably meets demanding deadlines working under pressure.
• Effective team player, with a proactive, flexible, logical approach, equally capable of working autonomously.
• Experience of Prince2, Agile (Scrum and beyond) project delivery methods.
• Expert user of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, Visio, Power BI, SharePoint/Project Server+, Planview, CMT(Change Management Toolkit), Advorto, Clarity, 
• Experienced user of Jira, Confluence, Tableau and Trello.

APM Group - Prince 2 Foundation Certificate

MSP Foundation & Practitioner – study for this qualification is in progress and already used in practice

Agile PM Foundation & Practitioner – study for this qualification is in progress and already used in practice

ISEB - Programme and Project Support Office Essentials