John Mcdermott Email & Phone Number

*Collaborative Solutions acquired by Cognizant Senior Director of the EMEA Portfolio team, accountable and responsible for the performance, profitability and health of all deployments and customers within the EMEA region. A key member of the leadership team in EMEA with a focus on the growth, mentoring, and overall well-being of the team.

* Collaborative Solutions LLC was acquired by Cognizant Senior Director of the EMEA Portfolio team, accountable and responsible for the performance, profitability and health of all deployments and customers within the EMEA region. A key member of the leadership team in EMEA with a focus on the growth, mentoring, and overall well-being of the team.In a wide ranging role, I deal directly from pre-sales to post-production support. Working in partnership with the sales, solution architects and consulting group I help navigate and identify opportunities to position service offerings to enable successful deployments with customer business priorities as the key driver.I strive to foster an environment of collaboration and success, as a business leader within Collaborative Solutions and as a deployment executive within our customer projects.Experience and skillset includes:• Accountable for overall success of their practice. Directly manages, empowers, and aligns a team of managers and senior managers (20) around common goals and operational practices.• Identifying, developing and managing the enhancement of scalable processes.• Leading overall ownership of talent/performance management, retention/attrition, career progression, and succession across the entire practice.• Managing performance proactively and holding people accountable for results.• Provide guidance and mentoring to Sr. Engagement Managers, Engagement Managers, Functional Consultants, Integration Consultants, CM/Training Consultants, and Data Consultants working on their implementations.• Provide guidance to Sales Directors and Sales Manager on scope, approach, and estimates.• Developing and maintaining an executive relationship at C-Suite

Director of the EMEA Portfolio team, accountable and responsible for the performance, profitability and health of all deployments and customers within the EMEA region. A key member of the leadership team in EMEA with a focus on the growth, mentoring, and overall well-being of the team. Focused on planning long-term strategy on how to develop our people and deliver our services. Providing strong leadership & oversight to a broad portfolio of complex projects.

Senior Workday Engagement Manager with management responsibilities for a team of high preforming Engagement Managers with a strong record of delivering complex projects within accelerated timelines on time and within budget. Key achievements are the delivery of many ‘first in class’ projects for Collaborative Solutions and Workday in EMEA, notably the deployment of the largest functional footprint of Workday to be delivered in EMEA and the first within the E&G sector.

Main responsibilities:Provide leadership and drive Workday's Implementation Methodology on all engagementsEnsure projects are properly planned and staffed.Track issues and risks, communicate status and escalate concerns applications.Provide guidance and mentoring to Principal Consultants working on their implementations.Work with the client project manager to identify/resolve all issues that could impact project scope and/or timeframes.Ensure the project is delivered within the budget outlined in the SOW.Present client with change orders in the event they're asking Workday to perform tasks that are outside the scope of the SOW.Present at Executive Steering Committee meetings.Work with Delivery Assurance to ensure compliance with agreed to checkpoints.Assist in the transition of the customer from professional services to product support.Participate in the sales cycle when requested to gather requirements, formulate delivery approach and develop a proposal/SOW.Identify opportunities to position other service offerings.

Derry

Workday Engagement Manager for a number of multi-functional implementations. I provide leadership and guidance to clients and consultants, across multiple sites, throughout the deployment lifecycle. I also manage all aspects of project delivery including project planning, resourcing, milestone tracking, commercial management and customer satisfaction.

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Senior adviser to the Minister. Advised on existing policy and helped formulate new policy. Represented the Minister, and her priorities, at various meetings and delegations in both a domestic and international setting meeting various senior Civil Servants, Private Sector Chief Executives and Foreign Ministers.Provide leadership and guidance to Departmental Directors across the 5 sectors. Managed the allocation of the departmental budget circa £180 million

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My key responsibilities within the role of the Application Manager was to deliver a single, coherent and consistent approach to activities relating to the effective management of my applications.Worked closely with various stakeholders to ensure my application portfolio best met the needs of the business in various areas. With a focus on, but not limited to, risk, controls, compliance, application stability and internal and external regulatory requirements.Technology/Methodology used:Continuity of Business (COB) External Audits PII RedactionApplication Compliance (ACQ) Application System Recovery Process (ASRP)

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