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BENJAMIN W. DAVIES!Address: Folkestone: 07879 068417 Email: daviesbenw@gmail.com!

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� !PROFILE!

!KEY SKILLS!!

• Strategic Planning!• Quality control and safety!• Budget Planning and Cost Control!• Proposal Development!• Market analysis!• Resource management!• Cost reduction and avoidance!• Staff training and development!• HR functions and issues!• Profit and loss management !• PM/PMO Budget and Financial Management!• Contracts and negotiation!• Trade and subcontractor supervision!• PM Tool development!• Global team leadership!• Portfolio presentation!• Risk management!• Methodology development!• Process standardisation!• Methodology Implementation!• Project / feedback training!

Professional project manager with over ten years’ experience with an emphasis on client relations, stakeholder commitment, efficiency generation and issue-resolution, possessing specialist expertise in transformation, process improvement and creative solutions.!

Collaborative communicator, negotiator, and leader with talent for establishing productive relationships with clients, suppliers and executives and building strong, motivated teams with a focus on targeted training, supervision and mentoring.

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!PROFESSIONAL (PMO) QUALIFICATIONS!!PRINCE 2 2009 Foundation Certification!Six Sigma Green Belt Certification (SSGB)!Six Sigma Black Belt Certification (SSBB)!Project Management Professional (PMP)!ITIL Intermediate Service Capability Modules!Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)!Manager of Quality/organisational Excellence Certification!Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) Certification!PMI-Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP)!Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) !Professional in Human Resources (PHR)!Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR)!!!Implemented a number of social housing cost reduction projects which executed volume reduction clauses,renegotiated volume constraints to release surplus accommodation back into the housing market and terminated providers with excessive surplus stock. !!Delivered immediate savings boosting Gershon efficiency targets. Received Green status at OGC Gateway. Delivered improved commercial terms and increased flexibility through contract standardisation.Realised procurement savings of £15m per year over the 5 year lifespan of the contracts. Improved flexibility, volume reduction and contract review terms enabling further volume savings of approximately £203m against previous contractual terms.!!Elsewhere, achieved net contract termination savings of £20.6m and project savings of £37.1m. !!January 2013 -!Border Force Joint Intelligence Unit (JIU)!!Recognising a gap in internet open source intelligence research, identified resourcing, legal compliance and technical expertise, designing and delivering new departmentally adopted protocols and training regime. !!Integrated full functionality of three cross-site intelligence teams into one new multi-modal AD command through a facility optimisation project. !!Engaged with key domestic and foreign law enforcement agencies in pursuit of common objective of preventing cross-border organised and general serious crime. Engaged with stakeholders for scoping and de-confliction purposes, to enhance synergies and look for new opportunities to collaborate.!!November 2006 - Present!Presenting Officer, UK Border Agency, Home Office !Represented decision makers the Secretary of State in Appeals before Immigration Judges at the Asylum and Immigration Tribunal against immigration decisions.!

2007: Post Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice, London Metropolitan University !2000: Bachelor of Laws with Honours (2.2, Hons), University of Warwick Law School !!

Available on request.!

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