David Weaver Email & Phone Number

Kettering, GB

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

As the Professional Services Director at FuturMaster, I lead a team of Project Managers, Consultants, and Support Desk professionals dedicated to delivering exceptional and innovative client solutions whilst driving operational excellence. My role encompasses overseeing the planning, execution, and successful completion of client projects, consistently.

Birmingham, England, United Kingdom

Peterborough, United Kingdom

• Contracted into a Senior Leadership role, to improve the way Implementations are delivered/managed, put in place key metrics & improve customer satisfaction. Responsible for customer management & project delivery.
• Market-facing involvement with key clients
• Allocating the right PM for the specific customer delivery, considering skills, locations & capacity.
• Expert in the delivery methodology & ensuring every project complies with the agreed approach, whilst ensuring continuous improvement of the delivery.
• Manage team and project by project budgets
• Own the delivery of each project in line with expected outcomes, bringing accountability for customer satisfaction & quality KPI achievement and delivering in line with target margins

Promoted into a role pivotal in supporting the Project Management team and the wider consultancy team to ensure the delivery of projects within budget, on time, in accordance with the company’s defined methodology and to the customer’s satisfaction. Management of key stakeholders, both internal and external, and to chair all required steering committees.

Project manage the implementation of Payroll & HR software and services for external customers, working with a team of consultants (Application, Data Migration, Bespoke, Trainers, Business Intelligence) to ensure the delivery of specific projects within budget, on time, in accordance with the company’s defined methodology and to the customer’s.

• Outline: Manage several consultancy teams and a quality team, to increase utilisation and efficiency within project delivery.Key Responsibilities
• Manage a team of Business Intelligence consultants
• Manage a team of Trainers.
• Manage a team of Data Migration consultants.
• Manage an offshore software build team.
• Quality audit projects

• Outline: Create a new Implementation Method plus associated artefacts. Create a process to audit the projects and produce statistics with the findings. Train the Project Management team in PMBOK processes.Key.
• Create and document an Implementation method
• Create project artefacts and templates
• Train project managers from the UK and Europe in PMI PMBOK processes
• Audit project delivery in line with new method and processes

• Key Responsibilities
• Manage a team of data migration consultants
• Recruit and hire new team members
• Train data migration consultants based on business processes
• Responsible for revenue and utilisation

• Key Responsibilities
• Carry out data migration activities for diverse customer base
• Assist customer with data preparation for migration activities
• Assist customer with data transformation
• Advise customer on data cleansing techniques
• Provide data migration error log reports

• Key Responsibilities
• Consult with customers re any bespoke software requirements
• Advise customers if a work-around process could alleviate the need for bespoke and carry out cost / benefit analysis
• Document bespoke functional and technical specifications
• Code and test bespoke functionality
• Install and UAT on customer’s sites the bespoke software produced

Kettering, Northamptonshire, United Kingdom

• Key Responsibilities
• Create computer programmes as part of R&D projects
• Demonstrate the programmes to SATRA customers as part of a pre-sales function
• Train customers in the use of the programmes written

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Physics

Master'S Degree, Computer Science