Kris Pears Email & Phone Number

Coventry, Gb

Coventry & Warwickshire

Trustee on the Workcare board from July 2015

Balsall Common

Project Management for: Financial seminars Friends of Auto Enrolment - BirminghamEvent Management

University Of Warwick

Administration for the 2 centres

University Of Warwick

Project Manger for the Arts and Humanities Research Council Funding Block Grant Partnership 2 (BGP2) consortium (The Exchange).

University House

Working in the Examinations Office during the main examination and appeal period

Northampton, United Kingdom

Using TestTrack for daily service checking of systems installed in Denmark, Holland, Belgium and SwedenProduct testing of devices and software awaiting deployment

Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry. Cv4 7Al

• Running the Global Priorities Programme(GPP) in Energy• Communicating with group members, arranging meetings, agendas, minutes and follow up actions• Creating and running the Project Website and File Sharing & Storage Facility• Facilitating & organising conferences e.g. iPower 2011, Top & Tail Grand Challenge and HubNet• Providing management & high level administrative support to other projects led by Professor Mawby

• Post Graduate Admissions• Project managing Prospectus updates for 2012 both Undergraduate & Postgraduate• Web site maintenance• Data base updating

Working closely with Programme Delivery Managers & Directors to project manage programmed activitiesLiaise with contractors to ensure that outcomes delivered to quality, time and budgetMonitor contractors work against predicted output and budget plansKeeping CRM information up to date on both CRM and Huddle

A multinational company employing more than half a million staff worldwideResponsible for the Line Management of 50 Siemens India Delegates working in the UK delivering IT Solutions to a variety of customer projects inc. Welsh Assembly, HBOS, DfT (VOSA) the BBC and NissanManaging teams of IT professionals who design, code, test & deliver business solutionsActing as the first point of contact for the teams, reacting to situations & resolving them before the need for escalationPerforming staff induction, ensuring that they have system logons and access to systems like timesheets and expensesSupervising their assignments to customer projects - created individual Assignment Briefs and ensured that both teams and individuals remained focussedRegular 1:1 meetings at the various customer sites in the UK with team members and customerKeeping teams up to date with company information - Team Briefings etcFacilitating the group which managed all Siemens India Delegates working in the UK, this comprised Delivery Competence Centre Managers, Resource Management, Human Resources and the International Delegation UnitAdditional responsibility for Health & Safety on 2 sites:-Responsible for ensuring compliance with company Health & Safety policy by performing Risk Assessments and Work Place InspectionsRunning the Location Safety Committee

Waters Court, a 15,000sq ft building with 200 staffResponsible for providing and managing a wide range of facilities to ensure that people were able to carry out their day to day activities. Facilities provided included:- Voice and data - telephone and computer connectivity to everyone's deskEnvironment - managed landlord liaison, contractors and cleaners. Equipment - Computers, printers, copiers, furnitureManaged a £250,000 budgetManaged closure of site, liaised with suppliers, supervised restoration of building to its original state.

MOT Computerisation Project for the DfT's Vehicle & Operator Services AgencyTesting the effectiveness of Software to be used in 19,000+ sites by 70,000+ users for the MOT systemresponsible for:-Ensuring the quality of Test Evidence produced by 40 testers.The induction and training of new staff, by group presentations and one to one.Production and updating of Test Management ProcessesWrote the initial Test Strategy, obtained customer sign-offRecruitment of the Test Team, by telephone interview to India.

Managed a team migrating Coventry City Council's Mainframe systems to Unix platforms.Set up a test team as a new entity to test performance concerns for the new systems. Initiated placement of staff in other parts of the SBS organization as migration drew to a close.

Development and implementation of Coventry Contract Services IS/IT Strategy. Implemented the Stores and Purchasing & Time and Attendance systems on time and within budget. Facilitated the selection of software to replace the existing Mainframe systems.Project Manager - Chief Executive'sImplemented the critical payroll phase of an integrated personnel & payroll system Project Manager - Management & Information ServicesManaged the migration of the Council's Mainframe Personal Computer Service from VSPC to TSO.

Ran an eight month training course for 10 aspiring Cobol programmers.

Programming, analysis and testing of a wide variety of Local Government applications.

Cobol Programmer