Matt Beard Pmp® Pmo-Cp® Istqb® Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

Promoting Project Management Best Practices throughout the organisationRunning Programs & Projects aligned with corporate strategyTraining & mentoring next generation Project ManagersDelivering Results!

United Kingdom

Designing the planning, execution, monitoring, closing, and lifecycle phases for core strategic projects.Managing key deliverables to PMI PMP standards including Project Charters, Work Breakdown Structures, GANTTs, Plans.Performing Critical Path Analysis, Issues & Risk Analysis, Earned Value Analysis.

Salisbury, Md/London, Uk

Operational Precision Systems (O-P-S, LLC) is a corporation founded to provide turn-key environmental monitoring and management solutions for agencies responsible for testing samples against mandated regulatory requirements, yet too often don’t have the resources to maintain compliance and are subsequently experiencing thousands of violations every year.Our mission is to provide solutions to support the management of public infrastructure systems (Water, Waste, Air, Land) and reduce violation levels, increasing national safety and operational effectiveness.The OPS 'Compliance Engine' is capable of managing the operational needs of monitoring & recording hundreds of thousands of samples per day, and assimilating data into alerts and reports to rapidly inform key personnel with information on trends, areas that require investigation, advisory notices, and even alert managers to potential violations before they happen.

Pennsylvania, United States

Supported worldwide recruiting / HR in both strategic and tactical capacities with focus on optimizing technical tools and processes for core business units.Co-architected, prototyped, and project managed SharePoint Solutions for Global HR initiatives that incorporated content management models for rapidly updating and reviewing corporate information exposed to employee base, including international ticket tracking & monitoring and targeted information for employees by country.Assimilated corporate recruiting practices by developing comprehensive training program encompassing Oracle PeopleSoft Recruiting system, providing new recruiters with online and instructor lead training. Trained over 40 recruiters in 2 years, reducing operational delays, particularly with emerging footprints in Europe, Latin Americas, and Asia Pacific.Automated HR reporting functionality via coded macros, reducing HR resource time and effort from hours to minutes per week.Provided consistent recruiting operational support & monitoring for all major business units, ensuring all process or technical obstacles were rapidly solutioned regardless of theatre.Managed a range of auditing requirements for OFCCP and DCAA compliance, providing technical and process support to the Office of General Council.

Pennsylvania, United States

Provided consulting for Sprint Nextel Visual Voicemail Next Gen Messaging system project ($54M tech refresh) including extensive project support & vendor liaison in both the US and UK:Designed and managed method for auditing over 1000 detailed project requirements, providing traceable approach to each requirement validation and mapping to system and acceptance test cases, verifying complete test coverage which proved that project fulfilled client demands and achieved milestones. Drove significant project deliverables, including management and maintenance for deployment-wide alarming solution configuration, technical specification workbooks and release management documents, on time and in budget.Improved bug detection rates months in advance by providing extensive project support as vendor liaison in both the US and UK, with emphasis on external vendor application and requirements auditing, travelling between countries as necessary.Managed entire projects software licensing audit, including designing strategy and leading team to identify all licenses for solution components and ancillary software, more than doubling current License pool.Provided training for support teams, ensuring Sprint had ability to fully monitor the entire implementation from network operations center.Interviewed and mentored new graduates hired into project during testing phase and established ad-hoc training program, providing comprehensive introduction to critical project deliverables and tools used within project.

London, England, United Kingdom

Consultant involved in all stages of hardware / software product lifecycle on multimillion dollar revenue businesses, performing development, analysis, systems testing, integration and release of Enterprise Scale Messaging Systems. European Clients included British Telecom, Orange, France Telecom, Centertel, E-plus.Performed systems testing for suite of LINCII applications, transferring Orange UK’s entire subscriber base from over 15 NX platforms to 5 new VSE500 systems distributed at remote locations across the UK. Ran intensive load / performance / stress tests and analyzed results of mailbox and voice data, ensuring subscriber details were retained during transfer.Contributed to client user documentation and provided onsite support with installation and confidence testing, assisting with support and Business Continuity Planning involving auto-recovery of lost mailboxes. Selected as Developer for LINCII coding and interactive call flow modules used in BT’s SMS to speech solution, managing entire software package and delivery, including full release documentation to client. Solution was rolled out in the UK and enabled 30+ million subscriber base to receive SMS texts to BT land lines by synthesizing text messages to speech.Press: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/01/08/bt_trials_mobile_sms/

Loughborough, England, United Kingdom

Developed web portal for processing remote usability evaluation information for DESSAC, a disease control simulator.In collaboration with a project run through the Human Factors and Advanced Technology (HUSAT) Institute at Loughborough University UK as part of an MSc Thesis. A methodology paper was published in ‘Contemporary Ergonomics 2000’ Eds:McCabe, Hansen & Robertson. Taylor & Francis; ISBN: 0748409580.

Graduate Certificate (Mba Program), Business Administration And Management, General, 3.835

Cert, Mastering Project Management

Master’S Degree, Information Technology, 3.65

(EPSRC sponsored) Thesis: Using the web to support geographically dispersed longitudinal usability evaluations for DESSAC, a disease.