Ross Nelson Email & Phone Number

London, England, United Kingdom

Chiswick Park, London

United Kingdom

The purpose is to lead, develop and support the IT team in collaborating within themselves and Belron teams in order to inspire & enable the transformation of Business Units through the application of new products, best practices and ideas.Responsibilities include:- Lead, foster & develop the IT Team.- Support the development of Belron International IT strategy.- Ensure a flexible model of intake for applications and platforms is in place to support ideas from the --… Show more The purpose is to lead, develop and support the IT team in collaborating within themselves and Belron teams in order to inspire & enable the transformation of Business Units through the application of new products, best practices and ideas.Responsibilities include:- Lead, foster & develop the IT Team.- Support the development of Belron International IT strategy.- Ensure a flexible model of intake for applications and platforms is in place to support ideas from the -- Business and the realisation of innovation ideas, prototypes and proof of concepts from the Innovation Team.- Provide insight into proven project delivery experience with multiple methods including Waterfall and Agile.- Support contracts and negotiations with Procurement for new engagement contracts, support contracts and any additional licenses.- Own solution implementations through project management best practice from Innovation Team.- Research on methodologies for project management and change management- Consolidate case studies regarding the use of tools and approaches related to project delivery, work organisation and change management- Active communication within Belron and Belron Business Units on project and change management best practices.- Develop and foster key stakeholder relationships within Belron and Belron Business Units.- Support budget development and track overall activity costs within the determined annual budget. Show less

Egham

- PM within Central Applications Team Belron Group IT.- Global Group project delivery of Business Critical Solutions and infrastructure hosting.- 3rd Party Solution Engagement and Management.- Plan of Record planning, scheduling and scoping.- Multiple and overlapping project life cycles.- Best practice sharing within Group and Business Units.- Agile transition support to Belron Business Units.

HP.com Program Management for B2C EMEA Delivery:- Direct Business Stakeholder engagement for Requirements Management.- Plan of Record alignment with IT and Business stakeholders.- Plan ownership and coordination with asset Project Managers.- Program issues & risks management.

Project Managed related group of Marketing Portals and the implementation of 3rd party software in support of HP.com refresh across Platform and bespoke solutions. Responsibilities included:o Owning and controlling project plan end-to-end for full fiscal yea plan of action (POA).o Project and Resource Plan Management for on (UK) and offshore (US, Mexico, Singapore, Europe and India) resource coordination.o Full life-cycle (end-to-end) management and coordination.o… Show more Project Managed related group of Marketing Portals and the implementation of 3rd party software in support of HP.com refresh across Platform and bespoke solutions. Responsibilities included:o Owning and controlling project plan end-to-end for full fiscal yea plan of action (POA).o Project and Resource Plan Management for on (UK) and offshore (US, Mexico, Singapore, Europe and India) resource coordination.o Full life-cycle (end-to-end) management and coordination.o Stakeholder management and clear status communications.o Main company contact and conduit to Technical Account Managers at ISVs.o Contract Work Force Management and budget control.o Key support management of Production assets during new development life-cycles.o Ongoing key risk and issue management.o SWAT team targets, critical success factor alignment and management with 3rd party vendor.o Multiple and overlapping project life cycle iterations, including Operational deployments.o Infrastructure alignment to key Business needs and performance goals.o Lead key Proof of Concept analysis for vendor selection.o Ownership of Vendor Purchase Orders and statements of work for contract workforce. Show less

Project Management of multiple Portal assets for HP TSG supporting partner programs with Software Vendors and other partners.o Solution delivery Project Management with 3rd party vendor products for content management and portals developed.o Maintained direct Business Engagement for managing annual Business Plan of Action to target IT deliverables.o Managed medium sized teams for daily work alignment to project schedule.o Developed, owned and managed the Project Plans for… Show more Project Management of multiple Portal assets for HP TSG supporting partner programs with Software Vendors and other partners.o Solution delivery Project Management with 3rd party vendor products for content management and portals developed.o Maintained direct Business Engagement for managing annual Business Plan of Action to target IT deliverables.o Managed medium sized teams for daily work alignment to project schedule.o Developed, owned and managed the Project Plans for stakeholder expectations. Show less

A high-visibility key strategy at HP is to consolidate all assets (applications / sites) and data centres to 6 strategic data centres in Austin, Atlanta and Houston (US). As part of that strategy, I Program managed the consolidation of assets belonging to an organization that is a sub-set of HP's IT organization, to go-forward tools and the actual migration of assets to the new strategic centres. Key Responsibilities included: o Program managed the consolidation of… Show more A high-visibility key strategy at HP is to consolidate all assets (applications / sites) and data centres to 6 strategic data centres in Austin, Atlanta and Houston (US). As part of that strategy, I Program managed the consolidation of assets belonging to an organization that is a sub-set of HP's IT organization, to go-forward tools and the actual migration of assets to the new strategic centres. Key Responsibilities included: o Program managed the consolidation of Applications and determined key program milestones to migrate assets to new Next Generation environments.o Co-ordinated asset owners and development teams to complete application reviews to ensure the assets met the new required technical standards.o Managed Business Teams to understand the trade-off between new functionality and asset migrations. o Established and coordinated key environment reduction goals to ensure assets reduced overall environment foot prints.o Coordinated with key IT project managers to ensure the Program Plan was tracking.Handed over Program Plan to new resources for ongoing management. Show less

My initial role within Hewlett-Packard, I worked as the key Business Analysis between Business Unit Stakeholders and a technical development team, to create a multi-regional, language and segmented World Wide Product Catalogue experience that was deployed to 73 countries within local languages. This allowed the Business to manage and publish disparate content (product specifications, image URLs, product prices and navigation) onto many thousands of static HTML product pages. As the… Show more My initial role within Hewlett-Packard, I worked as the key Business Analysis between Business Unit Stakeholders and a technical development team, to create a multi-regional, language and segmented World Wide Product Catalogue experience that was deployed to 73 countries within local languages. This allowed the Business to manage and publish disparate content (product specifications, image URLs, product prices and navigation) onto many thousands of static HTML product pages. As the Business Analyst, my main responsibilities included: Key Business Requirements Definition and Analysis: o Ownership and planning of requirements elicitation through varying methods such a interviewing, Modelling (UML), Use Casing, Joint Application Development (JAD), SPRINTs, prototyping and Wire Framing.o Direct interaction and ownership of requirements through the development lifecycle.Change Management: o Key sign-off of requirements and changes to current functionality or forthcoming deployments.o Capturing of all change details, impact analysis to dealing with the change and cost benefit analysis. Testing lead: o Management of test resources and strategy against key performance indicators.o Leading issue resolution assignments.o Sign-off of test phases and hand-off for User Acceptance testing.o End-User Training / User Acceptance Testing:o Training and test materials generation for Business stakeholder sign-off and hand-over.o Additional Support training management and coordination for operations. Show less

I undertook a 13-month Industrial Placement at Hewlett-Packard as part of the Sandwich degree, this included:o Internet/Intranet development and Information publishing: Experienced gained in many Internet technologies building various Internet/Intranet sites to detailed Business Requirements following the Systems Development Lifecycle.o System's Design and Project Leadership: Basic system's design and architecture using UML and SSADM fundamentals.o Information reporting:… Show more I undertook a 13-month Industrial Placement at Hewlett-Packard as part of the Sandwich degree, this included:o Internet/Intranet development and Information publishing: Experienced gained in many Internet technologies building various Internet/Intranet sites to detailed Business Requirements following the Systems Development Lifecycle.o System's Design and Project Leadership: Basic system's design and architecture using UML and SSADM fundamentals.o Information reporting: Analysis and deployment of internal standards across spatially complex teams, and DB queries. Show less

Bachelor Of Science (Bsc), Business Information Technology, 1St (Hons)

This course aimed to build upon the idea of the hybrid manager by bridging the gap between business and I.T.; allowing for the right I.T..

Gcse And A-Levels, General

I achieved 4 A-levels within English, History, Business Studies and General Studies as well as 7 GCSE subjects at grade C and above.