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Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

Eindhoven Area, Netherlands

Project Manager within the company's transfer agency (TA)Main Responsibilities- Determining viability and prioritisation of business project backlog and ensuring efficient project initiation.- Lead project management role governing large scale, multi-discipline projects (1-3 years in duration) including project initiation, requirements gathering, planning, resource management, vendor management, testing, execution, stakeholder reporting, budgeting, implementation and on-going support.- Ensuring full readiness of teams, impacted by project changes, and minimising adverse implications.- On-boarding and mentoring of new project managers with projects impacting core business systems.- Oversight / gatekeeper of all code changes to core business back end systems.Key Achievements- Consistent delivery of large scale projects, to the satisfaction of key stakeholders and company executive using waterfall and Agile project methodologies whilst minimising impact to end users.- Management of complex project infrastructures – multi-discipline, multinational, multi-cultural.- Developing new internal processes to allow key IT vendor to move from waterfall project management methodologies to Agile methodologies.

Glasgow, United Kingdom

Project manager within the company's program implementation teamMain Responsibilities- Lead project management role running medium sized product and regulatory projects (6 – 12 months), including planning, tracking, budgeting, internal/external communications, testing and implementation.- Merging and streamlining project office processes and methodologies, following Abbey National takeover of Scottish Provident.Key Achievements- Creating and rolling out a set of processes to support and maintain new project office methodologies and standards. - Delivering a series of complex, time critical product and regulatory projects following the newly introduced project methodology and doing so faster and more smoothly than in previous iterations.

Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Project manager in companys PMOMain Responsibilities- Business Analyst in company’s Y2K programme, turning business need into technical specifications. Worked with core team to finalise rollover logistics and testing as well as securing key monitoring role during implementation.- Following successful Y2K programme, worked with new project office manager to design and rollout project processes and methodologies and oversaw implementation of project office software in support of this.- Following promotion to Project Manager, ran key project stream on company’s demutualisation programme including working with external auditors to interpret membership rules and running a team processing data clean up / data gathering.Key Achievements- Key resource on highly successful Y2K programme.- Set up of formal project office within Scottish Provident and sourcing / implementing project office software in support of this.- Using business analyst skills to supplement role as project manager on demutualisation programme to provide a robust framework to determine membership criteria and defining process to gather data from paper records, some over 150 years old.

Easter Inch, Scotland

IT Training and Support Specialist with company's IT Dept.Main Responsibilities- Creation and delivery of commercial (Microsoft) training courses for internal staff.- IT Support for end users.- Part of small team initiating the company Y2K project requirements.Key Achievements- Creation of full suite of customised Microsoft training courses and completion of rollout to all impacted staff.- Providing customised IT support to end users, based on skills levels and requirements.

Brentwood, United Kingdom

Graduate Engineering TraineeMain Responsibilities- Development and support of automated engine testing software including writing of test packages, training to on-site engineers and ongoing software support.- Installation and rollout of engine test software in new locations including Germany, Spain and Brazil.Key Achievements- Roll out and on-boarding of local engineers to new automated testing solution, away from existing manual, labour intensive process.- Creating plan to build engine test lab, complete with technical and software set up within shipping containers and following shipping to Brazil, successful, installation and on-boarding for local engineering team.

London, United Kingdom

IT TrainerMain Responsibilities- Creation and delivery of standard and customised IT training courses for end clients.Key Achievements- Gained title as “Most Requested Software Trainer” during 1st year in the role.- Microsoft Accredited trainer in Word, Excel and Powerpoint.