John Collins Email & Phone Number

St. John'S Nl

Responsible for the management of corporate Financial and Information systems

St. John'S, Nl

Responsible for managing a number of software development and system integration projects for the Software Engineering Division with a focus on the Maritime Airborne Surveillance System deployed in a number of international operations.

St. John'S

Provided Business Analysis and Project Management services for the OCIO, Government of Newfoundland Labrador. Assessed legacy IT applications for various Government Departments and recommended alternative solutions.

London, United Kingdom

Providing contract services for major Cable and Telcom billing system migration

St. John'S

Providing contract IT services for Eastlink Communications and MUN.

St. John'S

Responsible for leading a team involved in supporting an IP Billing Solution in an Application Service Provider (ASP) model.Participated in the preparation of proposals for enhancements to existing client’s offering as well as developing proposals to prospective clients.

St. John'S

Responsible for the overall management of the Customer Service and Billing System as well as the Financial Management System in the St. John's office.Managed the annual budgeting of operational and capital costs associated with the Customer Service and Financial systems.Initial mandate when hired was to gather business requirements from the various functional areas and to evaluate and recommend a new Customer Service and Billing System (CableMaster). This involved conducting a market search, developing Requests for Proposals and the subsequent evaluation of the proposed solutions, and presentation of recommendations to senior managementAs part of the relationship with the CableMaster vendor (Convergys), was an active member of the CableMaster International Users Group. Served, for two years, as the Chairperson of the Product Enhancement Committee

Halifax, Ns

Provided Information Technology consulting and Project Management for a number of clients including Newfoundland Power, Canada Post, Mobil Oil, Boland’s IGA, and The Empire Group of Companies. Evaluated, recommended and implemented packaged software and custom solutions. As Team Lead of various development teams, defined user requirements and prepared design specifications using formal methodologies such as the DMR Productivity Plus. Used extensive data modeling, process modeling and structured programming techniques