Meet the Directors and Team
David Rex-Jones
BSc Project Mngmnt, MBA, CIPD
David specialises in Recruitment for Project Management & Reporting involving leading edge PM tools, is a seasoned project professional having worked for over 12 years’ around the world leading strategic programmes, project delivery, governance and reporting for international companies involved in chemicals, construction, finance, transport and logistics.
He has also led the development of PM recruitment and run successful campaigns for Hays, Xerox, BAESA ,SAMA & GE Capital.
Helen Cosmos
PMP, P2P, MSP, BSc Eng
Helen is a Project Management Specialist with over 10 years’ experience in successfully delivering projects in Engineering, Construction, Property, Oil & Gas, IT Customer Management and Retail.
A consummate professional and thought leader in numerous project groups and communities, with articles published on effective programme and project management in several journals.
Mary Lamb
CA, HP and BMC
Providing education on business frameworks and tools, including Project and Service Management. Tools including Sharepoint, MS Project and Service Management tools, CA, HP and BMC. Specialties: Sharepoint and MS project education. HP Openview and BMC product training.
Mary is an expert trainer in Project Management and the development of PMO’s, PMI and Prince 2 methodologies’ and has developed tailored training for the development of company teams. PMI speaker on Enterprise PMO’s.
She is an endeared conference speaker.
Maxime Peter-Jones
ITIL Certified
Senior Talent Acquisition Specialist at PMP Practitioners. Project Managementand Change Management expert, industry leader in ITIL Communications.
Maxime is a HR talent acquisition specialist with UK and more recent experience in the Middle East in building successful multi national teams that deliver their clients objectives.
PMP qualified and ITIL Certified.
Dave Rochford
Co-founder, BSc MA P2P FCMA ITIL MPMI MAPM
Tel: +966567826882
Dave Rochford is an international consultant and hands-on programme and business transformation manager. His career has included senior positions with PWC and Touche Ross where he led best practice and delivery in programme and project management and account management across most sectors. He has a reputation for creating teams that hit the ground running and excel in delivery.
He has a proven track record of success in delivering strategy, business and IT transformation and results – for which he has won awards. He specialises in PMOs, portfolios and programme and project management standards and execution and has written many practical articles and presented at international conferences for PMI, AMP, CIMA and itSMF.
Dan Bourne
PMP, P2P, P3mM3, MSP
Experienced Programme Director & Manager who has managed PMOs portfolios programmes and projects on a local and global scale delivering business transformation and significant ROI across most industries. Expert in using PMOs and leading programmes to deliver strategic plans and business improvement.
Experienced in all project management methodologies eg PMP, P2P, P3mM3, MSP and a successful leader and excellent mentor coach and trainer.
Led best practice in programme and project management for Big 4 consultancies and spoken at Institutes and conferences around the World.
Strong reputation for delivering results with international awards for service and benefit delivery.
Our Experience
The Team and Directors have successfully delivered the following
Hands-on strategic business, PMO, Portfolio, Programme & Project Turnarounds.
Achieving Sustainable Results.
Key examples
Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency - set up and led EPMO covering SAR 8 trillion in transactions covering Governance, Controls and Processes, Portfolio Analysis, PMIS, Training and Troubleshooting projects saving 20% capex.
Saudi Arabia Municipality Programmes- recovering major programmes and developing PMOs, PMIS Processes and Controls to drive performance improvement and achievement of stretching government targets.
HM Treasury - established an EPMO to manage the migration of receipts and payments of £487 Billion. Delivered 78 releases with no negative impact 3 month ahead of schedule utilising internal staff and 10 outside contractors. 10th largest Programme in UK.
Barclays- Undertook a project maturity audit and developed the self-funding 2003 Retail Bank Transformation Strategy, Established an EPMO to successfully deliver the prioritised projects, value £120m, including the development of the first online banking solution.
Eircom – set up PMO, directed and coached Managers and Project Managers in complex Business & IT transformation winning MCA award for delivering most service and operational improvement in 2008.
Scottish Enterprise – set up PMO and led full global project lifecycle management of systems and 3-year transformation programme resulting in becoming finalist in e Europe awards for e-government benefit delivery.
Laing O’Rourke, Cranes Division - devised global target business model to raise turnover 4x to £1bln devising strategy, M&A, PMO and transformation, SAP systems migration, business case and new TOM.
Crane Telecoms Europe - sold, directed and managed comprehensive end-to-end full business turnaround to successfully restore profitability. Paid on results.
GE - set up global service business covering strategy, processes, organisation, marketing/product strategy, systems and reporting and managed major restructuring of sales across Europe saving 20% opex.
Civil Aviation Authority, UK - managed 3-year service and systems improvement programme, delivering £30m net cost savings and an ROI of 5:1
Capper Neil Construction - business turnaround and implementation of controls to keep in business.
Vickers Shipbuilding Engineering Government Property Services UK- financial investigation, business turnaround and implementation of controls, JIT, QMS, and production - line profitability in commercialisation.
Gibraltar & Rosyth Dockyards - led privatisation and conversion to successful commercial operation.
HSBC - Managed the programme to establish systems and data migration, front and back office automation, business process re-engineering of the finance, product development, invoicing, customer MI / CRM, credit control operations (c200 staff, £675m assets, 45,000 vehicles).
Servasure - IT software and service management company- managed profitably through Administration and to aid recovery sold and led major 5-y ear service and systems management contract to Dutch Telecom (KPN),
World Bank - led financial turnaround of Ghana State Gold Mines including development of MIS.
Led strategic redevelopment, planning and performance contracts for Gambian Ports and Utility Corporations and Ministry of Agriculture.
United Nations -strategic development and refinancing of Augusta Victoria Hospital for Palestinian Refugees.
ODI/ UNDR - set up and ran island wide communication/relief system post hurricane in Dominica, W Indies.
"Transformation is our Business"
About Us
PMP is a multinational team with key team members from Jordan, Saudi Arabia and the UK.
We have business partners in the USA, Canada, Malaysia and Pakistan. Our team’s diversity is one of its core strengths.
Our team’s experience in Recruitment, Talent Acquisition, Training, Consultancy, and Programme and Project Delivery (including core documentation) is over multiple decades but we are still driven by the motivation of youth and the drive to deliver on our promise.
Yes and you have guessed it we will leave the Promise the same.
We guarantee results and return on investment and achieve excellence in everything we do.
We work with clients to build the best team to deliver projects.
We work with candidates to enhance their career.
We create “Consultancy A Teams” that work seamlessly with clients to achieve their objectives.
We provide post-delivery support, and in terms of project documents provide 20 days free post -sales support.