Michael Ward Email & Phone Number

Cork, County Cork, Ireland

Project Manager working on client site in Cork on infrastructure projects (on contract for ITConsulting, an eir evo company).

Ireland

Contract Project Manager with broad and worldwide experience (with Kindle, Misys, Advantage Offshore, Cognotec, CR2, Aspira, Ervia, Westbourne, Bord na Móna, Carbery) delivering complex application implementation and upgrade projects, managing the transition of operations to/between Managed Service providers, managing the migration of mission critical.

• Project Manager working for Carbery Group in Cork (on contract for Aspira) on global Workday (HRIS) implementation project (80% Remote/WFH).Two projects completed:
• HRIS (Workday) implementation project for Ireland, UK, Italy, Indonesia, Thailand, USA and Brazil. Modules: HCM, Compensation, Recruiting, Talent, Absence, Security and JML integration to Payroll (SW, MP.
• Dynamics 365 migration, from on-prem in Ireland, to the MS cloud for the D365 estate (D365 and a number of integrated 3rd party applications including Qlikview for BI). Project is live as of April 17th 2023.

Project Manager working for Bord na Móna (on contract for Hays IT Services) on Oracle (EBS, SOA, OTM, OBI) projects.May 2021 - Mar 2022: Oracle (EBS, SOA, OTM, OBI) Upgrade project. Upgrade go-live: 22nd Feb 2022. Hypercare completed: 4th March 2022. May 2021 - Nov 2021: Migration of Oracle estate from onprem to cloud (OCI). Migration go-live: 29th.

Cork

Project Manager for seven projects for Ervia (Cork and Dublin, on contract for Aspira, Cork):- Feb 2019 to Apr 2020: Project Manager for upgrade of GE Smallworld GIS system.- Jun 2019 to Feb 2020: Project Manager for Solutions Analysis to identify software solutions for Health, Safety, Quality and Environment management system.- Jan 2018 to Jan 2019.

Cork

Project Manager for the set up of an IT Service Desk (operating from Cork and Auckland and covering sites in UK and USA), and transition of service from the incumbent service provider. For a Pharma client of Westbourne IT in Cork.

Cork

• Project Manager for two projects in Ervia, Cork (on contract for Aspira, Cork):
• Oct 2015 to Apr 2016: Transition Manager of transition project that moved the support and development operations for 5 groups of applications, comprising 21 mission critical enterprise applications, in 3 waves, from.
• Jun 2015 to Sep 2015: Project Manager for UAT project for Ervia, Cork, Ireland.

Cork, Dublin

Project Manager for two projects for CR2, Dublin, Ireland

Ireland

• Responsible for Professional Services Projects and Pre Sales operationsProfessional Services:Responsible for a multi-location team delivering complex banking projects on a global basis with implementation projects.
• Built a successful team and professional services practice
• Revenue Growth
• Devised and implemented new Project Implementation Methodology
• Introduced robust project measurement and control systems for - Scheduling and Forecasting - Project Health Assessment - Services MIS (based on data analysis of detailed timesheets) - Project MIS (WIP)
• Introduced Model Implementation Approach (“Bank in a Box”) - significantly reduce project completion timescales - deliver value by ensuring key solution capabilities are enabled automatically in the delivery - scope.

Dublin, Ireland

Six month contract to review and update the Professional Services team’s implementation methodology.

Ireland

Six month contract to project manage the reorganisation of Cognotec’s outsourced development operation based in Chennai in India. Spent considerable time in Chennai working with the outsource company’s management to reorganise their approach to Cognotec work and set up a dedicated ‘Cognotec Development Centre’.

India

• Provided migration consultancy and project management for international firms establishing/expanding a subsidiary in southern India
• Advice on economics – plans, budgets, resourcing, logistics
• Location identification
• Development of the operation
• Advice on dealing with government and regulatory authorities
• Customers included Digital Juice, GE, Fujitsu, Misys Healthcare and CR2, amongst othersAdvantage recruitment consultancy

India

• Moved to India in 1998 to set up Kindle’s Software Services Centre (310 people) in Bangalore. The Services Centre was responsible for all Customer Support, Product Maintenance, Product Enhancement and new Product.
• Secured the location
• Defined the Project Scope and Plan for the establishment of operations in India
• Defined the staffing needs and recruitment and training phases and plans
• Recruited the senior management team
• Planned and managed the fit-out of 40,000 sq. ft. of office space from cement floors to fully fitted out and operational (with major focus on being presentable to clients/prospects, and with resilient electricity.

Ireland

Joined Kindle Banking Systems in 1985.Between 1985 and 1990 held various positions in Customer Support and Development, Customer Training, Product Implementation Consultancy, Project Management and travelled extensivelyAppointed as Implementation Manager in 1990; Manager of the new Project Management Department in 1993; Professional Services Manager in.

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

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