Marc Slater, Msc (Project Management) Ba (Hons) Email & Phone Number

Hereford, Gb

Hereford, England, United Kingdom

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

Riyadh, Riyadh Region, Saudi Arabia

Reporting directly to the Programme Manager was responsible for the successful delivery of two complex workstreams against very aggressive time scales. As part of a tailored team of Project Managers worked in concert with all key stakeholders to ensure that each product and its associated capabilities were delivered on time, to cost and quality. Key Responsibilities:• Managing a budget of £20 million for Digital Courseware, Media and Learning Management System deliverables.• Managed and developed a bespoke team of SMEs, to ensure timely delivery of all deliverables to time, cost and quality.• Coordinating a series of confidence and assurance meetings ensuring that the customer had full awareness of our progress at each discreet stage.Key Achievements:• Through successful Change Management I successfully delivered the project to the customer whilst managing to accommodate considerable increases in scope, without compromising on the cost and quality of the finished products.• Through regular engagement and visits with our customer, I turned a previously hostile working relationship into a successful working partnership. Over the course of the project I managed to foster a successful and mutually trusting relationship with the customer.• Demonstrated the importance of cross-pollination in projects and helped to develop a Capability-led approach to the company’s project deliveries.

Al-Riyadh Governorate, Saudi Arabia

Gave direct support to the Lead Programme Manager, through the effective restructuring of several Programme workstreams into coherent sub-projects. This supported the overall Programme’s aims by ensuring that all tasks, resources and time were considered. I further supported the Lead Programme Manager by ensuring that each of the inter-related sub-project workstreams were developed in concert, thus ensuring that the Programme delivered a true capability to the customer.Key Responsibilities:• Ensuring key elements of each individual workstream were delivered.• Regular reports to the Project Manager and various stakeholders were compiled and delivered.• Tracking and monitoring progress of deliverables against challenging timescales.Key Achievements:• Developed a coherent, coordinated and structured series of regular updates and reports to the Project Manager and various stakeholders.• Successfully employed and developed project plans and schedules to track and monitor progress of deliverables against challenging timescales.

Cheshire

Content and Promotional Management, coupled with experience from previous work abroad; provided an opportunity to utilize newly learned Project Management techniques.

Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam

Working as a Foreign Language English Tutor with a new start-up business in the Far East I was responsible for growth generation for the business as well as establishing structured internal reporting and communications processes.Key Responsibilities:• Reported directly to the company owner on the day to day activities of the classes run by the school.• Actively recruited personnel and interviewed prospective tutors for the business.• Provided weekly reporting updates to the board on the progress of classes and recruitment.Key Achievements:• Helped develop the company from a small team of three tutors to eleven, by the time I completed my time in the business.• Taught English to students from ages three to seventy-five.• Helped to implement a small-scale distance-based learning package for students to home study.

Master'S Degree, Project Management

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), History, 2:1 Hons