Project & Programme Consultant · Fractional PM
Delivering complex programmes across cybersecurity, technology, and regulated industries. Available as a fractional or interim engagement lead.
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About
I am an experienced Project and Programme Consultant with a track record of delivering high-stakes engagements in cybersecurity, technology, and regulated environments. I work with organisations that need senior PM capability without the overhead of a permanent hire — stepping in as a trusted, embedded delivery lead.
My approach is direct: define the scope, align the stakeholders, manage the risk, and deliver. I bring structure to complexity and pace to programmes that have stalled.
What I deliver
Establishing the frameworks, reporting cadences, and decision-making structures that give large programmes clarity and control at every stage.
End-to-end project management across complex environments, with particular depth in cybersecurity — from audit response and remediation roadmaps to compliance uplift and tooling rollouts.
Navigating complex multi-supplier, cross-functional, and Board-level stakeholder environments with transparency and pragmatism.
Diagnosing scope drift, schedule risk, and delivery failure — then restabilising teams and timelines to get programmes back on track.
Leading organisational and technology change at scale, with a focus on embedding lasting capability rather than one-time deliveries.
Flexible fractional or interim engagements giving organisations access to senior PM expertise on a part-time or fixed-term basis.
Experience across
I have worked across regulated, security-conscious, and high-complexity environments where delivery discipline and stakeholder confidence are non-negotiable.
Engagement model
Contractual Assignments
Contract assignments covering capacity gaps or critical delivery windows. Full accountability, full presence for the duration of the engagement.
Project/Programme Rescue
Brought in to stabilise a programme in distress. I conduct a rapid diagnostic, reset the baseline, and lead the team through to a controlled delivery.
Fractional PM
Embedded part-time as your senior delivery lead — typically 2–3 days per week. I own the programme, chair the governance, and report directly to your leadership team.
Experience highlights
Engaged as consultant PM at one of the UK's leading ATM operators, a subsidiary of Brink's — the global security and logistics company. Providing senior project management leadership across operational and technology programmes within a regulated, security-critical environment.
Led a £8.5m programme to enhance the organisation's security posture across multiple workstreams: Privileged Access Management (PAM), asset management, network access controls, network segmentation, vulnerability management, and shadow IT. Secure-by-design frameworks and ISO/IEC 27001 alignment embedded throughout.
Delivered a $7m technology programme spanning data encryption, secure erasure from decommissioned devices, firewall administration and traffic filtering, vendor management, cabling and patch implementation, comms rooms, end user device deployment, and enterprise-wide Microsoft Meeting AV solutions.
Development of project plans, LIMS managed system configuration, installation and commissioning of complex clinical systems.
Implementation of complex clinical applications, WiFi infrastructure, network security (VPN, WAN, wireless networking), application integration, RAID log management, UAT coordination, budgeting, and process improvement.
Programme and project support including minute taking, RAID log tracking, business case development with stakeholder input, and cost reconciliation.
Requirements analysis, business analysis, and delivery coordination across technology programmes.
Qualifications & certifications
Education
MSc Applied Project Management
Postgraduate master's degree — United Kingdom
Bachelor of Laws (LLB)
Undergraduate degree — United Kingdom
Certifications
PRINCE2 Practitioner
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
PRINCE2 Foundation
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT
Clearance
Available for engagements requiring security-cleared project leadership.
Selected work
A selection of engagements across sectors. Client names are withheld where confidentiality applies.
Led end-to-end delivery of a multi-workstream security uplift programme for a regulated financial services organisation. Oversaw remediation roadmap, tooling rollout, and compliance reporting to the Board.
Programme manager for a national digital infrastructure deployment spanning multiple government departments. Established governance framework, managed third-party suppliers, and delivered on schedule against a compressed timeline.
Brought in at critical stage to stabilise a stalled cloud migration. Conducted rapid diagnostic, reset delivery baseline, re-engaged supplier relationships, and returned the programme to a controlled state within eight weeks.
Embedded as fractional PM lead two days per week over twelve months, driving a firm-wide operational transformation. Introduced programme governance, restructured reporting lines, and delivered three strategic initiatives in parallel.
Additional case studies available on request.
"Keren brings a rare combination of rigour and composure. She stepped into a programme that had stalled, re-established trust with the client, and delivered within the revised timeline without disrupting the wider team."
Director of Technology · Financial Services organisation, London
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I work with organisations that need senior PM capability on a fractional or interim basis. If you have a project or programme that needs experienced, senior leadership — let's talk.
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Availability
Available for fractional and interim roles now.
Engagements are typically structured on a 3–12 month basis with the
option to extend. Day rate and retainer arrangements considered.
Sectors of current focus: cybersecurity, financial services,
central government, and technology transformation.