Team Profile - Peter Ward

This week's Team Profile focuses on Peter Ward, who sits on our Advisory Board, advising on Programme Management. Peter has worked for IBM for over 27 years. His main role currently is Client Technical Advisor Program Manager for North-East Europe. He is committed to bringing the value of ICT to sub-Saharan Africa; having been approached by organisations as diverse as the World Bank and ITRI seeking his personal participation in their projects, in his spare time he is currently leading IBM's engagement in three activities in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Rwanda, Zambia, Tanzania and Malawi. He has worked in Kenya, Ghana, DRC, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.

In his CTA Program Manager role he supports over sixty of IBM’s most senior technical professionals as they deliver innovative solutions to IBM’s most important clients. Managing IBM's involvement in the iTSCi project – one of his current sub-Saharan African activities – has involved identifying and providing IBM technology and expertise to a far-reaching mining supply chain clean-up operation for sub-Saharan Africa. Peter loves finding ways of meeting new challenges.

Peter has skills and experience in consultancy, technical architecture, relationship management, application development, project management, marketing, coaching and training. He has wide-ranging technical knowledge, has taught a variety of personal skills courses and is a certified life coach. Peter is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of both the Institute of Engineering and Technology and the British Computer Society, a member of the International Coach Federation and is senior certified in IBM’s IT Specialist profession.