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United States

Houston, Texas, United States

• Governance Data Model & Solutions Architecture across all Application Governance Systems. • Support key results tracking and reporting for strategic objectives. • Owns and Maintains the WalkMe product by advocating the use with global stakeholders, identifying opportunities to build new content and support/maintain existing content. • Lead and co-ordinate Governance initiatives across Applications Services as required. • Provides direction & supports strategic initiatives related to applications.• Review architecture designs for proposed solutions before implementation.• Coordinated with other teams such as database administrators and network engineers on infrastructure changes needed to support applications

Houston, Texas Area

• Work with the Global Project Delivery Team to delivery fit for purpose systems solutions to maximize efficiency of project execution work processes.• Project manage systems implementations for projects with the SME’s from the regional or global project delivery systems teams.• Support for the continuous improvement of delivery systems by standardising, consolidating and systemising the project delivery processes across the global business• Ensure projects are utilising the various delivery systems and integrations as per designed ensuring they are working to the defined delivery processes.• Support business development and the Global Project Delivery team in client presentations and proposal development as it relates to systems.• Stakeholder management and change management to put plans in place for successful project implementation.• Assist with delivery of specific areas related to BI and Analytics and Systems integration, by managing the different IT leads delivering analytics and integration services of applications.Transition management• Manage delivery of applications from acquired companies as required.• Setup management process for onboarding acquired company applications.• Facilitate future state requirements for application Rationalization.• Plan for integration of new applications.• Work with other Transition workstreams to deliver infrastructure required to transition new applications.

London, United Kingdom

• Be the key Application Specialist within region• Regional single point of contact for coordinating delivery of solutions to application issues, new projects, and other application related requirements, with involvement from application owners and subject matter experts, for new application solutions and improvements. • Remain current on relevant business and project plans locally and globally and propose and manage relevant project delivery systems and implementations.• Act as a point of contact for project tenders and bids where IT systems and applications are a factor and information, or pricing is required as an input to those bids.• Work with application owners within the region, and with the Global Applications team and the Global Service Desk to understand how systems are developing, if any new applications are being released, and help to publicize and promote these within the region.• Input to IT projects as required, both globally and regionally• Work with Application Service Delivery Leads from the other regions to swap information, solve global issues and stay up to date with what is happening within IT globally.

London, United Kingdom

• To effectively build, influence and proactively manage stakeholder (internal and external) relationships to design and develop solutions that support the business outcomes and deliver to the group architecture standards.• Actively undertake and promote research relating to techonolgy trends and WorleyParsons industry vertical.• Consult with Architects, system owners and other interested stakeholders to understand affected systems, constraints, to arrive at options to meet business objectives and requirements.• Fulfil the business analyst function: gather and document business requirements, perform business impact assessment and other BA activities.• Supporting Senior Business Solutions Consultant where required.• Manage relationships with stakeholders, including business units, IT delivery teams and vendors, and provide leadership of business change.• Manage and deliver agreed upon service objectives to achieve high customer satisfaction and trust using broad technical knowledge, effective communication, peer relationships, business acumen to clarify business requirements as well as translate these into technical deliverables. • Facilitate detailed technical analysis of service requests and project deliverables to identify dependencies, requirements, stakeholders, as well as ensure execution and delivery by enumerating the technical resources required for successful execution and completion.• Work with technical peers to deliver and manage complex solutions including on-premise, off-premise, and hybrid services.• Drive opportunities for service and solution improvement by communicating feedback.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Release management • Problem Management • Change Management • Requirements Definition • Management of Off-Shore Partner Development Resources • Incident management • Monthly Performance review and reporting on incident, problem, and releases.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Implementation of New Software Technologies• Manage Information systems Team which included: CRM Architect, SharePoint Architect, SharePoint Administrators and External Vendors• Maintain and Manage all Line of Business Applications which included: Dynamics CRM, Dynamics SL (ERP), Microsoft Project Server, Microsoft SharePoint, Business Intelligence Solutions, Costrac and Other Small Applications.• Project Manage New implementations and Further Development of TWP internal Systems.

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

• Implemented Various Business Solutions at IMMIX Clients• Business Intelligence • Dynamics SL Technical Product Lead• Business Intelligence Projects, ERP Implementation Projects, and Various other Technology ProjectsMain responsibilities:• Manage Dynamics SL Implementation Team• Manage Customer Expectations and projects.• Mentoring other Consultant• Database Administration for Clients and Internally• SharePoint Deployment and customization• Managing Project Budgets and Project Delivery• Upgrades to latest Versions of various Microsoft Dynamics Products

Johannesburg Area, South Africa

Implementation and Consulting Support of Microsoft Retail Management System which included:• Networking if needed.• Setup of each pc on that network• Setup of communications between branches of retailer• Remote Desktop Support for Customer base as well as telephonic support• MS SQL Database Setup and Design• Development of XML Receipt Templates• Project Management• Upkeep of office network, not very big about 4 users• Terminal server via ADSL• Recently the setup and implementation of QuickBooks for internal office use.• Testing of new snap on modules for MRMS developed by Retail Realm India.• Purchasing from Different Hardware vendors for resale or internal use, also maintaining the relationship between those vendors and RR.• Integration between Customer ERP’s, this included Dynamics AX, Dynamics GP and Dynamics NAV.