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Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Project managed and implemented brand new web-site for retail collection and delivery, on time and within budget, for the Parcelforce company (part of the Royal Mail group). Also responsible for implementation of various IVR solutions.

Knutsford, Cheshire, United Kingdom

Responsible for management of overall delivery of projects & software releases across all components that make up the mortgages platform.Co-ordinated all software delivery teams including overall management during weekend implementation, also including technical and business ‘live proving’ test teamsManaged all involved project managers, and liaised with product/component owners, ensuring all dependencies between projects and components were fully understood, and governance was strictly complied with, to the level expected for a major bank.Liaised with all test mangers to ensure all testing was thoroughly completed, errors fixed and retested, and test completion reports signed off for all phases of testing.

London, United Kingdom

Lead IT project manager on Statutory Logistics Compliance programme, incorporating 'Verified Gross Mass', currently a hot topic across the entire shipping industry. Responsible for all global system changes across operational, commercial, EDI, and .com systems necessary for Maersk Line to comply with ‘Verified Gross Mass’ legislative changes coming into effect.Led a team of a project manager, a solution architect, 2 business analysts, test manager to formulate business requirements using user scenarios and user stories, design and document the solution, ensure alignment of project schedules, conduct risk management, maintain budgets, and manage offshore vendors to build and end to end test the solution. Liaised with all business and IT stakeholders at every level, and all involved vendors. Senior IT Project Manager responsible for 'state of the art' Global Logistics Tracking system, brought in after project had been running for a year already, and had many issues including test management, ESB/SOA management, data quality, management reporting, SQL Server database replication, and capacity and scalability issues.Presented issues and proposed solutions to IT Board to establish necessary funding. Engaged with all hardware, network and offshore software vendors and directed focus of vendors and our multi-disciplined onshore IT team of 10 staff, to eventually resolve all issues and secure successful implementations. SQL Server, Windows Server, C#, .NET, JAVA.Delivery manager responsible for support and ongoing enhancements to some 33 shipping operations systems using Agile/Kanban leading a team of 15 staff, and involving many 3rd party vendors, including contract negotiation and all aspects of vendor management. Platform migration undertaken for several systems. Budget of over $8M per annum.Senior IT Project Manager for development of shipping stowage and network optimisation systems using mathematical linear programming. Vendor selection and management.

London, United Kingdom

European Regional Technical Implementation and Testing manager for global commercial and operational system. Managed team of 28 testers and 6 support staff. ORACLE.Major role played in originally setting up green field global IT application support and development centre in Pune, India, building up teams as required, and then Senior IT Project Manager for operational systems, outsourcing development and support for those systems to that centre.Consultant for systems worldwide being outsourced to above centre in Pune.Continuous improvement and optimisation of working methods to achieve productivity savings.Total savings of $80M per annum achieved.

London

Project managed AA Personal Loans system development and Kingfisher Group Capital Gains Tax system - ORACLE. Programming at Stock Exchange, BP and Groupe Bull in 'C', UNIX, INFORMIX, COBOL, and FORTRAN.