Chris Oulds
chris@alco.eu.com
Member of Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply
Associate of Chartered Institute of Secretaries & Administrators
Chris Oulds is a project and programme manager with a 20 year track record of successfully developing and implementing ICT projects across public and private sectors.
Before co-founding the ALCO Group, Chris was programme director for the highly-successful TfL London "Oyster" smartcard scheme – a multi-million pound PFI programme involving managing the interests of multiple internal and external stakeholder groups, including central government and consumer groups. Her skills in doing so are reflected in the fact that the project was delivered on time, with all milestones and key targets met on or ahead of time and continues to be highly successful with nearly 3million cards issued within 3 years. Previously Chris managed high value high risk operational ICT programmes for the National Grid Company plc.
Chris is also a qualified procurement specialist who focuses on the practical issues of ICT implementation, including procurement, governance, “people” issues and risk management. She was a founder director of the DfT sponsored ITSO organisation and was instrumental in managing the initial development of the ITSO interoperable UK smartcard standard for public transport ticketing. Chris also assisted with the founding of LASSeO which looks after the interests of UK Local Authorities in the area of smartcard standards for citizen cards and currently fulfils the role of secretariat.