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Prince2 & Agile Practitioner · Senior IT Project & PMO Delivery · Since 2011
Learn moreI am an accomplished Senior IT Project Manager and PMO Consultant with over fifteen years of specific experience delivering multi-million-pound programmes — on time, on budget, and with a smile — across both the public and private sectors.
I am confident managing the full project lifecycle, taking ownership of budget, commercial and resource elements, and managing multiple concurrent programmes. I am recognised as an influential leader who can direct diverse teams and manage stakeholder expectations at the most senior levels.
With ten years of military service as a Sergeant Class 1 Telecommunications Technician in the Royal Signals (1988–98) preceding my PM career, I bring an absolute focus and professionalism to everything I touch. I am SC clearable, with my clearance most recently expiring in 2019.


Every project introduces change — and with it, risk, conflict and transition. I own all of it. From rapid transformational change with minimal BAU impact, to delicate, risk-averse migrations that demand patience and precision.
I am a PM because I enjoy working with people. I have the courage and integrity to challenge processes and senior management whilst maintaining effective relationships — delivering end-to-end from discovery through to transition into BAU.
A strong advocate for constructive governance, adaptable to all compliance measures. From a short, sharp JFDI mobilisation to building green-field governance from scratch — including stage-gate approvals and PMO frameworks.
Extensive experience with Prince2 and comfortable with Agile sprints and SCRUMs. It is all about selecting the right tools for the specific task and team — pragmatism over dogma, every time.
Outside IR35, engaged as a VAT-registered UK limited company. Available for day-rate, fixed-term and retained engagements across the public and private sectors.
Currently providing a fractional PM service via Consaelting Ltd, embedded with Costain to provide assurance to National Highways on the GeoVision programme — a suite of spatial applications delivered by third-party developer ESRi via the Spatial Portal. Phase 1 was completed on time and on budget in May 2025. Now engaged in the Discovery Phase of Phase 2, due to kick off October 2025.
Created a PMO function for a rapidly growing payments technology company. Generated governance frameworks and a full project lifecycle model to qualify new projects and manage them from conception through to BAU transition. In parallel, extrapolated more than 50 projects from a chaotic BAU stream, wrapping PMO governance around each to bring order, ownership and transparency to the portfolio.
Engaged as Senior IT Project Manager across a portfolio of concurrent technology programmes within a software development company. Responsible for end-to-end delivery across multiple workstreams simultaneously, maintaining governance, stakeholder communication and delivery discipline in a fast-moving environment.
Recruited to project manage several work packages within the REM 2.0 Enhancements Programme — a Jacobs/Atkins joint venture for Highways England. REM Release 1 had successfully migrated award-winning desktop engineering workflows to a cloud-based service. Release 2 expanded this to create a single 3D virtual collaboration environment, technology-agnostic across the supply chain's varied tech stack, enabling Highways England to exploit data across systems in a single centrally hosted domain for faster, better-informed decisions.
As part of DAS UK's move to consolidate two Bristol offices into one, all on-premise IT infrastructure was migrated to the cloud across two distinct projects. The first involved migrating their VM estate to VMware VPC on AWS, working with internal DC teams, architects and the VMware project team. The second migrated an on-premise iSeries solution to third-party data centres, incorporating a move from NetApps to Dell EMC with DRaaS.
Originally drafted in to manage a 5PB research data storage implementation (Cloudian, SME, S3 across three sites). When Covid-19 hit in March 2020, the project went on hold and the engagement pivoted to lead a fast-paced response programme. Managed a mixture of risk-mitigating tactical responses and expedited digital transformation projects to support remote working, learning and exam delivery — culminating in the full migration of the University's Virtual Learning Environment to the Azure platform.
Recruited as IT Project Manager covering the west of England and Wales initially, then managing projects nationally across both public and private sectors. Responsible for managing multiple concurrent hardware and software deployments, delivering KM's first third-party cloud-hosted solution, and maintaining the high client service standards expected of a world leader in managed print and AI document process technologies.
IT Project Manager within Interserve Support Services, one of the UK's leading facilities management and construction companies. Focused on building strong relationships with operational teams and delivering technology change projects within a large, complex organisational environment.
“I highly commend Max for his exceptional work as Project Manager at ONE.io. Max meticulously reviewed our existing operations, designed and implemented a comprehensive PMO function from the ground up, and transformed what had been a chaotic environment into a structured one. His contributions were instrumental in laying the foundation for our ongoing project success.”
“Max joined the DAS IT Transformation Programme and immediately picked up the reigns of a project that had already begun. I was amazed at how quickly he got under the skin of the project, the personalities and the complexities. It is not an understatement to conclude that Max added value right from the word go. My lasting impression is, above all, his professionalism, pragmatism and positivity.”
“Our Covid-19 response required delivering a complex mix of outcomes to support our teaching and research objectives. Max played a vital role in project managing our Virtual Learning Environment deliverables. Max completed his project to budget, scope, and time. A first-class project manager.”
“I was always impressed by Max's ability to act calmly in stressful environments and his effortless handling of the toughest clients.”
“Good strong IT Project Manager who makes quick and strong relationships, particularly with the operational teams. I would happily recruit Max again.”
Occasional writing on project management, contracting, and the craft of delivery.
Long before the pandemic made it mainstream, I had been working from Lace Cottage in Devon. The tools, the discipline, and the unexpected advantages of a rural home office.
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A day a week for a year, or three months straight — all options are on the table. Outside IR35, VAT-registered UK limited company.