Brian Carr Email & Phone Number

Salisbury, England, United Kingdom

Wimbourne, Dorset

Working within the PMO, I work within a great team. I supporting PGM's, PM's, and help administer the PMOS system. I colate monthly reports, update Org charts.My latest project was to reogranize our seating plan, which had me moving over 100 people to their new desk locations. Several comments about the project included "it's like hearding cats", and "it's.

Southampton, United Kingdom

Project Manager at Southampton City CouncilWorked as a Project Manager with the Southampton Council’s Electoral Registration Department to coordinate the canvassing of over 30,600 households to register for upcoming elections.

• Provided contact for customers and other Departments advice and information for their billing inquiries
• Provided support for all sections in the Department, updated work requests, updated the billing system and provided information to other areas of the Company.
• Ensured that the records were kept up to date and accurate and that security and confidentiality was not compromised
• Required good attention to detail to ensure accuracy in every aspect of the handling of customers’ accounts

Bournemouth

• Project Management
• I successfully managed quarterly software application upgrades for upcoming banking regulatory requirements. This required coordination with application support team, a team of developers, Unix System administrators.
• I managed the largest application upgrade for our team in 2013, totaling six application upgrades on one weekend
• Managed projects for Frankfurt, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Paris and London such as software upgrades and introduced enhancements for banking regulatory reporting applications. These included: Application upgrades.
• Ensured that the business/client was kept informed of all progress and issues, so that they would know exactly which phase and step the project was in. Regular business meetings were held to discuss the project.
• Managed over a dozen successful Disaster Recovery tests, which included: Coordinating with international teams which would be participating in the Disaster Recovery, scheduling and chairing regular and on-demand.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

• Deputy Team Lead
• Chaired weekly team meetings, which allowed each team member to discuss what they were working on, and ensure that we were all aware of any upcoming projects and increased workloads
• Working in a team of 15, I ensured that the key projects and upgrades were completed on time, as most of our deadlines were dictated by the financial regulators from different countries
• Trained, chaired and lead knowledge sharing sessions, which allowed our team to be able to cross support more applications.
• Documented many procedures, including creating and updating manuals and run books
• Created and updated Service Level Agreement documents for each country, which was reviewed and discussed for yearly business signoff. This ensured that our (internal) clients’ requirements were always met. Daily status.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

• Developed and implemented procedures for application releases and upgrades which ensured a smooth release structure, and improved our relations with the end users, and substantially, with the banking regulators.
• Enhanced our systems so bugs or shortcomings with our applications or processes were improved. This allowed greater user confidence, while reducing our workload by resolving repeatable issues.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

• Supported and maintained the banks regulatory systems for London, Frankfurt, Paris, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Brussels.
• Ensured that the systems were available during the business day, and that the overnight batches completed successfully before the users required the system
• Ensured that upgrades and patches were performed during non-working hours, often on the weekend to allow no interruptions to the users reporting requirements.
• Held knowledge transfer sessions to ensure that the team was up to speed with our many applications, either new starts, or upcoming enhancements where the whole team had to support

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

• Worked on projects to improve audit requirements by ensuring: users were given correct access, change requests were properly documented, reports were limited to the correct audience, technology teams access was.
• Worked with the business and auditors to ensure that we passed our yearly audits – where the auditors raised concerns, policies were put into place so that these issues were resolved, and would not be an issue for the.

Bournemouth, United Kingdom

• Cost Reduction
• Involved in cost saving projects, where our department had to reduce the budget by US $5.2million. Our department met this target before the deadline, without putting the business at risk. Rather than just slashing the.
• Reduced application retesting timings and uniformity - by creating documentation and scripts to ensure that all testing would be performed exactly the same and as quickly as possible, retesting cycle times had a.

Vancouver, Canada Area

Csom - Computer Systems: Operations And Management, Computer Systems - Programming And Management

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Computer Programming And Computer Studies