Khalid Azimi

PMP-certified and seasoned Project Manager / Delivery Manager delivering complex technology and transformation programmes in the UK and globally.

Experience covers digital, cloud, data, integration and infrastructure programmes across government, aviation, healthcare, telecoms, retail and financial services. Strong client facing background, with extensive experience leading enterprise level engagements, managing senior stakeholders and acting as the key interface between clients and delivery teams across the UK and global environments. Experienced in managing multidisciplinary teams, suppliers, budgets, contracts, risks and senior stakeholders from planning through implementation and transition.

Project Manager - Al Sulaiman Technologies (ASHCONN) - Doha, Qatar

(2026-01 - 2026-09)

Qatar Ministry of Public Health | Hamad Medical Corporation

• Successfully led multiple workstreams for the Qatar Health Information Exchange programme, covering data migration and real-time FHIR interoperability from planning through testing, cutover and go-live readiness.
• Acted as the senior client facing delivery lead, working across MoPH, McKinsey and Oracle Health to resolve complex issues, manage critical dependencies while successfully maintaining stakeholder confidence.
• Turned clinical, business and technical requirements into practical delivery plans, coordinating architecture, data, integration, clinical and supplier teams across secure connectivity.
• Ran project governance through RAID, dependency tracking, decision logs and executive reporting, escalating issues and driving actions to closure.

Infrastructure Project Manager - DXC Technology - UK-based

(2025-01 - 2026-01)

• Successfully delivered a business critical CMDB & Asset Management upgrade within a tight 10 month timeline, owning full delivery, finance, governance, and supplier coordination.
• Managed commercial and contractual engagements including scope, negotiations, change control, commercial risk and supplier performance, balancing client outcomes with delivery commitments.
• Directed the successful delivery of a complex Hyper-V to VMware migration and data center decommissioning program, maintaining operational continuity across interdependent workstreams.
• Owned baselines, forecasting, resources, RAID, dependencies and executive status reporting; coached project managers and junior team members.

Senior Project Manager - Ooredoo - Doha, Qatar

(2023-07 - 2024-02)

Qatar Airways | Aljazeera Media Network

• Delivered Azure ExpressRoute connectivity to Qatar Airways data centres, overseeing site surveys, NTE deployment, configuration and testing.
• Worked with the Product Owner to develop the connectivity roadmap for private and public cloud environments, including connectivity requirements and delivery priorities.
• Prepared and submitted the project delivery response for Al Jazeera's enterprise WAN transformation RFP, covering delivery approach, migration, timelines, pricing and key risks.
• Developed project charters, delivery plans and migration plans for cloud and connectivity projects, coordinating client, technical and vendor teams against agreed scope and milestones.

Delivery Manager - Capgemini - UK-based

(2020-11 - 2023-07)

HMRC

• Acted as Capgemini's senior delivery lead and main client contact for HMRC's multi-million-pound cloud data platform programme, representing Capgemini in delivery, commercial and governance discussions.
• Managed 20 Statements of Work and multiple change requests across Debt, VAT and Tax, covering scope, commercials, resourcing, delivery plans and acceptance criteria.
• Led the engagement from proposal and pre-sales through delivery and handover, coordinating Capgemini engineering, data and cloud teams with HMRC stakeholders.
• Managed risks, escalations and dependencies and worked with Product Owners and Scrum Masters on roadmaps, release plans and sprint backlogs across Agile, Waterfall and Kanban delivery.

Project Manager - Capgemini

(2018-02 - 2020-11)

Selected clients | Matalan | eSure | BAE Systems

• Led the rollout of a new delivery operating model across nine AMEA regions, introducing common governance, delivery practices and ways of working that improved operational efficiency by approximately 10%.
• Managed the organizational change required to embed the model, working with regional leadership on stakeholder engagement, communications, readiness, adoption risks and implementation.
• Managed application rationalization across 100+ enterprise systems and directed multi-location teams and subcontractors across complex transformation dependencies.

Project Manager - Atos | NTT Data | ACCA

(2015-10 - 2017-11)

Contracting assignments

• Managed the migration, packaging and remediation of 500+ legacy applications to a new domain, covering discovery, requirements, compatibility assessment, deployment and transition to BAU.
• Delivered an Office 365 rollout to 2,000 users together with hardware, application and data migrations, including UAT, validation, runbooks and BAU transition; acted as the escalation point with budget and ETC oversight.
• Managed hardware upgrade deployments, coordinating technical teams and business stakeholders through implementation.

Project Manager - Charity - School

(2015-01 - 2015-08)

• Managed a Saturday school for underachieving pupils, leading 24 teachers and working with seven head teachers to support 350 students.

Consultant - Public Sector

(2011-07 - 2015-01)

• Worked with public-sector clients to develop and implement SOPs and MoUs across multiple organisations, and supported training, staff development and operational governance.

Technical Specialist - Atos

(2007-11 - 2011-05)

• Joined Atos through its Graduate Scheme and supported the DIR programme, coordinating the design of WAN/LAN circuits across 17 data centres and 881 user sites in the UK.

Technical Support Specialist - EMIS

(2006-01 - 2007-01)

• Supported pharmacy dispensing software, producing system documentation, carrying out unit testing and contributing to software requirements and specifications.

BSc (Hons) - Information Systems (2001 - 2005)