Senior delivery leadership for the programs you cannot afford to get wrong.
Seventeen years leading infrastructure, cloud, security and healthcare technology programs where downtime is not an option. Engaged for a program, or fractionally, for as long as the seniority is needed and no longer.
You will hear from the principal, not a sales team. Replies within one business day.
- 17+
- years leading technology programs
- $13M+
- annual infrastructure portfolio led
- 3,000+
- endpoints modernized in one program
- 40+
- concurrent projects at portfolio peak
Where we get called in.
Four situations. Some are urgent; all of them need one senior owner.
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A program is behind and nobody will say by how much.
Status is green, the date has moved twice, and the sponsor has stopped believing the reporting.
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The cutover date is fixed and the plan is not.
Vendors, dependencies and a hard window, with no single person holding the whole sequence.
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You have projects but no portfolio view your executives trust.
Every team reports differently, so nobody can say what is actually at risk this quarter.
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You need a senior delivery owner for six months, not a permanent hire.
The work is real, the headcount is not approved, and a contractor will not carry the accountability.
Three ways we engage.
- Deliver
Run the program end to end.
One accountable senior owner from mobilization through cutover to the day operations run it. Vendors, workstreams, governance and the executive reporting that goes with them.
How delivery runs → - Recover
Get an honest read, then a plan that holds.
A short independent assessment of a program that is late or stalled, then a re-baselined plan the team believes and the governance to keep it there.
How a recovery runs → - Strengthen
The PMO you need, part-time.
Portfolio visibility, delivery standards and executive reporting on a fractional basis. You get the function without building the department.
How fractional PMO works →
What that has looked like.
Three programs from the principal's career record, with the numbers attached.
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Healthcare
Fraser Health Authority
Microsoft Teams Voice and Office 365 rollout
85% adoption within 90 days
2,500+ staff moved to Teams Voice, 85% adoption within 90 days, clinical operations never interrupted.
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Public sector
Manitoba Liquor & Lotteries
Windows 11 deployment and PMO governance
3,000+ endpoints, on schedule and within budget
3,000+ endpoints modernized on schedule and within budget, governance framework left in place.
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Telecom
TELUS
National infrastructure and service-delivery portfolio
98% scope adherence
$13M+ annual portfolio delivered with 98% scope adherence, reaching 80,000+ customers.
How we work.
The same five steps whether we are starting a program or rescuing one.
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Read the program.
The plan, the budget, the vendors and the people doing the work, before anything is proposed.
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Say what is true.
A single written assessment, including the parts nobody has wanted to put in writing.
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Re-baseline.
Scope, sequence, dates and owners, agreed with the people who have to deliver them.
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Run it.
Weekly delivery cadence, one-page executive reporting, risks raised while they are still cheap.
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Hand it over.
Documented, staffed and stable, with operations able to run it without us.
Mack Khairi
Seventeen years delivering enterprise technology programs across healthcare, telecom, public sector and enterprise IT — at TELUS, Fraser Health, PHSA, Dell Canada and now HCLTech. Forward Project Consulting is the practice built on that record: senior delivery leadership, available to organizations that need it for a program rather than forever.
PMP · PRINCE2 Foundation · Certified ScrumMaster (CSM) · AWS Cloud Practitioner
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You work with the principal.
No bench, no handoff after the proposal. The person on the first call is the person who runs the program.
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Nothing to sell you.
No software licences, no staffing margin, no implementation partner behind the advice. You get an independent read.
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Regulated, 24/7 environments.
Hospitals, telecom networks, Crown corporations and public sector, where change windows are short and consequences are not.
Tell us about the program.
A short conversation, no deck. Describe the program and where it stands, and you will get a straight read on whether we can help — including if the answer is that you do not need us.