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Senior Project Manager MLL Telecom (Contract)
Project Manager negotiating, setting-
- East Sussex County Council (ESCC) Schools Network part of the NGN programme: A £4M, 5 year project to provide for the first time in East Sussex an integrated network of 5.8Ghz FWA (Motorola and Alvarion) and BT fibre links to connect all the 200 schools and 120 remote council buildings together to provide data, internet, integrated management and IP Telephony, across the County Council’s high speed BT fibre based data network. The role is an extension of the previous role at ESCC and I have been working with the same project team to deliver the FWA part of the project. The role has involved negotiating both with ESCC and their communications provider BT Global Solutions to achieve a robust contract as well as ensuring the project is totally viable and subject to monitoring and control based on PRINCE II principles.
- The key achievement was to increase the FWA connectivity from 50% of schools to 85%, increasing the revenue to MLL by £1m+ and reducing the cost to ESCC by over 30%.
- In addition it has involved liasing with Head Teachers, School Staff, Governors and Parents, the Council’s ‘LEA’, Health & Safety, Property, Estates, Planning, ICT and Finance staff, and a number of 3rd party ‘Partners’.
- The Project is now into the implementation and roll out phase, with over 50% of sites connected and the remainder, are subject to either Town & Country Planning or commercial partnership agreement.
- Oldham Primary Care Trust (PCT): An integrated network of Fixed Wireless Access Point to Point and Point to Multipoint FWA and BT Openreach fibre links to connect various Health Centres and GP Surgeries to the PCT main servers and onward to NHS net (N3). The £250K project has been delivered to time and 10% below budget and has been expanded to include other links.
- Developed standard templates, forms and procedures for the management and control of projects by MLL using PRINCE II principles