David Wall Email & Phone Number

Canary Islands, Spain

Las Palmas De Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain

Stone Town, Zanzibar - UK

Teaching IT to the local Community - Developed training programs for Basic, Intermediate and Advanced Windows user skills including Microsoft Office. Worked to Obtain the Computer equipment required to deliver the training programs.Implemented a high level project life cycle to give basic understanding of how to implement projects and get results through.

Galder, Gran Canaria

Assisted the local English teacher at primary level. Lead English discussion groups with secondary level students to improve their spoken English.

Tafira, Gran Canaria

Teaching Cambridge English Starters. Responsible for planning and delivering lessons to ensure students passed their Starters exam an the end of the course. Report writing and progress monitoring also carried out throughout the course.

Projects delivered following Staples Methodology and Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)Demand Management for the European Business units ensuring Projects and Enhancements deliver Return on Investment and AOP.Reaction to business needs ensuring Staples UK could be competitive with Christmas Promotions.Rewarded as the IT Project manager for taking.

 Project managed the migration and implementation of a Global OU restructure for Belgium and the Netherlands. (Over 1600 users, 2500 computer objects, Security Groups) Migration of Group policies to have a single policy for all business lines. Managed 14 1st, 2nd and 3rd line support staff to deliver cost effective support to the business using ITIL.

 Managed the development and support of the SOP and Back office systems across multiple hardware platforms and three separate SOP systems for the Brick, Concrete Block and Packed Product divisions. Project managed the system migration of the bespoke systems to a business rules management system (BRMS). Shared responsibility of the £10m Project budget..

 Senior A/P on the Management Information System (MIS) project. Promoted after 2 months to the Team Leader of the MIS team. Provided knowledge share training across all departments to ensure all teams were aware of the MIS functionality within the business. Lead the projects within the team to ensure deadlines were met and delivered with quality..

 Maintaining existing systems, implementing new tools, analysing business needs, allocating work, responsible for the full project life cycle of each project and administration of the Helpdesk. Secured a £2 million per year contract with a leading UK Supermarket. I was responsible for the initial IT tender and then jointly lead the project with the.

 Converted the AS400 Systems to be Year 2000 Compliant.  Managed the development and testing of the Y2K project. Responsible for the work load of the test team. Converted existing front end GUI applications (Magic) back to AS400 Standard screens

 Developed bespoke report suites for individual users and departments. Maintenance of the existing systems to ensure up to date and correct statistical data was available to the business. Help desk support for all users. Extracting data for conversion to the Mercatus system (NSB Retail System on UNIX)

 Converted system to be Y2K compliant. Created a system for customers to purge all data for old Company’s on their systems