Recommendations
Shortly after I joined RB I recruited Ivan to lead and recover a high profile, large scale, global SAP BI financial reporting programme which was originally initiated in 2014. Previously, each of the programme’s software releases had been associated with late delivery, out of control expenditure, continually evolving business requirements and dis-satisfied stakeholders.Ivan very quickly put a plan in place to get the programme back on track. He engaged with all parties to freeze the scope, contain the budget and deliver the final release within the timescales that he promised.
Darrell Stein, CIO,RB
Ivan brought assurity of programme delivery to myself and this programme’s steering committee. He was able to quickly earn the respect of our incumbent programme team, build trust and lead the programme back onto a successful trajectory. He was able to quickly get to grips with, and get under control, an extremely challenging SAP BI technical delivery programme through holding people to account and utilising his programme management toolkit to drive the right delivery focused behaviours. The programme completed on time, within budget and it delivered the planned stability improvements to our corporate record-to-report process. I would commend Ivan to any senior finance leader facing similar delivery challenges.
Candida Davies, SVP Corporate Controller, Finance, RB
Ivan was instructed to provide an independent project delivery review of one of RB’s most business critical and complex global SAP BI projects. He was asked to investigate in a very tight timescale why our chosen systems integration third party supplier had consistently missed the deadlines for the project software release 1 and also to determine how to set up the project for release 2 success. He very quickly grasped the core delivery issues and made over twenty recommendations for release 2 to proceed at a similar pace, but with lower risk and greater predictability. The recommendations were pragmatic, actionable and allowed RB to build a better delivery platform. RB and his systems integration third party supplier have implemented most of them. I would fully recommend him to senior IT executives and senior transformation programme directors with a similar requirement for an independent project delivery review.
Frederic Massoubre – Global ERP Programme Director, RB
Congratulations Snell Consultancy with delivering our project on time, correct scope and under budget! Famous triple-constraint tackled. Your Programme Manager, Ivan Snell, who delivered our project, has all the attributes of a world-class senior IT delivery professional.
VP Finance & Senior Business User, Oil & Gas Major, Brasil, South America
Myself and three other CEOs hired Ivan to help us quickly and cost effectively complete a short review of our four organisation’s IT functions to see if there would be any benefit, financial or otherwise, from us sharing our IT resources. Ivan impressed us with the speed with which he was able to understand our objectives for the work, formulate a work plan, review the four organisation’s IT functions and then deliver his review – all within the extremely tight time scale and budget constraints we set him. Ivan delivered exceptional value for money for us, he was extremely professional and a pleasure to work with – I would strongly recommend him.
Mike Etherington-Smith – Chief Executive, British Eventing Limited
The enormous drive and enthusiasm that Ivan devotes to everything he does enabled the project to be completed with tight timescales. The constant flow of ideas and comments substantially added to the success and knowledge of his clients. His competence in handling the subject in large negotiation meetings gave us a professional edge over potential suppliers. His integrity is absolutely not in question.
Robert Gorrie – IT Director, TDG Group plc
Ivan is pragmatic, and very business focused with the ability to apply technical concepts in a practical way. He works in an extremely professional responsive manner, managing and delegating well, with the ability to raise and deal with issues at the appropriate levels.
Judi Edwards – IT Director, Signet Group plc
Ivan proved to be an excellent programme manager. He has dealt with a number of major project issues which he inherited in a professional and experienced manner. Ivan has a good balance of drive and team leadership. I would fully recommend Ivan as an experienced, committed and very capable programme manager. He demonstrated support to BP far beyond that which one would expect from an external consultant.
Phil Piddington – Managing Director, BP Gas Marketing Limited
I would describe Ivan’s top qualities as being `Personable’, `Good Value’, `High Integrity’. Ivan is very client focussed. Always tests his understanding and engages all parties well. Very results focussed and can work easily with all levels of an organisation.
Group Strategy and Technology Director, Transport for London (TfL)
If you’re a director in a large organisation and you want to develop your IT strategy, major business processes or enterprise architecture, you need Ivan’s programme management skills. He is a real energiser. He gets the best out of people by seeing the best in people. He drives hard and no-one more than himself. He is a model of integrity and professionalism, and has been for me a delight to work closely with for 8 months.
Team member, Group Information Management, Transport for London (TfL)
I worked with Ivan for six months on a project in BP. During this time I found him to be a very well organised and disciplined project manager, with endless energy and drive
Team member, Digital & Communications Technology, BP Refining & Marketing
As we have reached ‘The 35’ milestone, the project team would like to thank you very much indeed for your considerable assistance in helping our project to reach its ‘ready for service’ gate. To put our appreciation in context, we are sending these letters to only a very small number of persons whose contribution has been marked by commitment, co-operation, diligence and attention to detail which, in our view, greatly exceeds that expected of the role. Your help has enabled us to meet these challenges and as a result of issues and circumstances particular to our project, we have in effect achieved a full scale RFS in little more than 16 weeks. We have very much enjoyed working with you and naturally view you as a part of our team.
Project 24, e-Selling team, Cable & Wireless