Io (ICT) Consultancy (Des Flanagan) - GCS Programme Manager

Galileo is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) being developed by the European Union (EU) and European Space Agency (ESA) to provide a European indigenous independent high-precision global positioning system (GPS)

Programme Manager for the GCS (Galileo Control Segment) programme a €200M infrastructure and systems development contract to provide prime operation & data centres in Germany and Italy with full geographical redundancy and 6 remote TT&C sites deployed across the world in European territories connected over a secure network with portals in European manfacturing and test facilities.

Engaged to recover a challenged Programme, reporting to the UK National Director, with the remit to develop and implement a programme recover strategy enabling transition back to normal corporate portfolio management.
The contract was restructured and the programme strategy redefined providing an achievable outcome and restoring the programme objectives.
Contract changes in the form of add-on sales were negotiated and secured increasing the overall contract value by 100%.
With 12 project teams, a dedicated PMO and an overall programme organisation of 95 personnel
During recovery phase, direct responsibility for all Technical Programme Management and baselines including Systems Delivery
Vendor contract management; on-shore & off-shore for Systems Software development & hardware procurement; CGI, HP, GMV, SciSys, Vega & Indra with contract values ranging from €5M - €40M

Accountability & Responsibility

Programme Governance, Controls & Reporting, including all aspects of Change & Risk Management
Accountable for the programme financial management including; margin recovery and preservation, restoration of a viable working capital profile
Stakeholder Management and Engagement, including conflict management; commercial & technical

Development & implementation of Programme Strategy including delivery management and phase technical baseline alignment
Vendor sub-contract management; negotiation & compliance
Business Growth

Key Achievements

Restructured the programme and project organisations and implemented a dedicated PMO to insure full monitoring and support to programme governance
Negotiated a restructure of the programme with the customer and suppliers enabling a viable and achievable outcome, with an acceptable working capital profile
Increased the add-on business, via change requests increasing the contract value by 100%
Successfully transitioned the programme back to normal corporate portfolio management

Delivery & Deployment Management

Systems delivery governed by overall Programme Strategy, which defined the phased deployments, construction and acceptance, including all dependencies
Global; Pan European, South America, South Pacifica, Indian Ocean and strategic asset and resource management
Construction contracts to build remote sites in South America, South Pacific & Indian Ocean, commissioning and integration completed by networks & systems delivery teams
In country (Germany & Italy) Systems Delivery team of 20+ personnel, responsible for all aspects of infrastructure build, systems deployment, integration
Systems Delivery were responsible for Quality Assurance of all deliveries and installations, including applicable regulatory compliance

Systems & Software Development

The GCS systems comprise of Spacecraft Constellation Control and Planning with Flight Dynamics and Key Management Facility sub-systems all integrated with a Monitoring Management Control system to monitor all systems, software and spacecraft
The system design provides full fault tolerance at a sub-system/software level with fully synchronised ground stations providing geographical redundancy for operational or contingency fail-over between Germany & Italy
The Systems Design & Specification was undertaken by in-house Systems Engineering team and development outsourced to on-shore & off-shore sub-contractors.
The system design implemented multi security domains supported by threat scenario & attack service analysis
Networks, Systems & Infrastructure design and development were undertaken in-house

Security

System & Software security requirement derivation and architecture design
Systems & Software AEL Common Criteria compliance including applicable protection profiles
ISO/IEC 27001, 27002 & 27017
EC Member States Security & Accreditation compliance
Systems & software attack surface and vector analysis with acceptability compliance
Threat Scenario analysis compliance & acceptability against requirements

Networks

Design, development and implementation of a fault tolerant infrastructure network supporting security data classification, isolation and segregation
Design, development and implementation of a global secure network supporting multi-level secure domain isolation with multi path redundancy
All networks supported multi-level data segregation with QoS and traffic prioritisation enabling full traffic flow management
Global networked integrated into BT MPLS providing with VSat tails for remote sites
Network Stack:- Alcatel, Sophos, Stonegate & Barracuda platforms

Infrastructure

Multiple security domain isolated data centres 400²m within each primary control centre in Italy & Germany
Virtualised Data Centre in Italy, follow on phase to virtualise Germany, full P-V synchronisation & redundancy
System infrastructure installations for NoC and Mission Control centres
Global installation & commissioning of all network access nodes and infrastructure
Global installation & commissioning of GCS Systems & Software
All installation conforming to regulatory standards; BS 7671, LDV etc, including issuance of DoC's for all installations and a CoC for the overall system

Virtualisation

Design and build of multiple large virtualised data centres providing private cloud service framework, supporting 24/7 business critical operations
Phased P2V migration, supporting parallel P/V distributed systems, ensuring continuous business operations
Virtualised Desktop deployment with thin and thick hardware clients
VDC (Virtualised Data Centre) and private cloud framework implemented using VMWare product suite
IaaS solution provides system scalability, hardware obsolescence independence with fault tolerance
PaaS solution provides system scalability, OS obsolescence independence with high availability

Support & Training Services

Support & Maintenance services for all sites with resident teams embedded in operational sites
Developed & produced all system documentation & manuals; including: maintenance & support level 1 - 3
Developed & produced all training courses and material for operations & maintenance
Provided all training courses for all users & maintenance personnel

Programme Manager

Airbus -- GCS ProgrammeNov 2013 to July 2016