
Harry Donovan
Project Analyst
The data and rigour behind projects that deliver
Project analyst with seven years supporting project and programme delivery for a consultancy in Birmingham. Provides the analysis and control that keeps projects on track — planning and tracking, reporting, risk and budget analysis, and the data behind project managers' decisions. Built a project-reporting dashboard that gave leadership real-time visibility across the portfolio. Maintains plans and trackers, analyses progress, cost and risk, prepares status and steering reports, and supports planning, RAID logs and stakeholder communication. Strong on the analysis, the tools and turning project data into clear insight. Organised, detail-focused and good at spotting where a project is starting to slip. Calm with multiple projects at once. Looking for a project-analyst, PMO or project-support role with an organisation delivering serious project work.
Birmingham Consulting Group - Birmingham, UK
Project Analyst
Built a project-reporting dashboard that gave the leadership real-time visibility right across the portfolio.
Analyse the progress, the cost and the risk and prepare the status and the steering reports.
Maintain all the plans, the trackers and the RAID logs across the multiple concurrent projects.
Support all the project managers with all the data behind their decisions and their planning.
Spot early where a project is starting to slip and flag it to the team quickly.
Midlands Business Services - Birmingham, UK
Project Support Officer
Maintained the plans, the logs and project records for the managers.
Learned the project controls, the reporting and analysis on live projects.
Gained the PRINCE2 certification and then moved into a project-analyst role.
Midlands Business Services - Birmingham, UK
Business Administrator
Built the reports and trackers that the managers used to run the work.
Learned reporting, data and the basics of project support on the job.
Then earned the move into a project-support officer role from there.
Aston University, Birmingham
BSc (Hons) Business & Management
AXELOS / Industry Training
PRINCE2 & Project Reporting Certification
English (UK)
Native or Bilingual ProficiencyFrench
Limited Working ProficiencyPRINCE2 & Project Reporting
AXELOS / Industry Training (May 2017 to Present)
Agile, MS Project & Power BI
APM (April 2019 to Present)
Programme RAID & Risk Framework
Project Analyst (January 2019 to September 2019)
Project Controls Standardisation
Project Analyst (February 2020 to July 2020)
Real-time portfolio view
Catches the slip early
- Project Analysis
- Planning & Tracking
- Project Reporting
- Risk Analysis (RAID)
- Budget Analysis
- Dashboards
- PRINCE2
- Stakeholder Communication
- Data Analysis
- Excel & PM Tools
- Analytical Thinking
- Organisation
- Attention to Detail
- Communication
- Composure