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Project/Program manager

 

A very experienced and successful project and program manager, with line management experience who thrives in an environment of change. Has managed projects with budgets of up to £10 million that have delivered cumulatively over £13 million in business benefits. .

Has delivered IT and Business focused projects such as ERP implementation, IT and telecommunications infrastructure, financial systems, business change and manufacturing and logistics, in a wide variety of business sectors.
Experienced in managing new projects from inception or turning round off-track projects.

Has a thorough understanding of all business processes from operations through to finance and has worked in a variety of line and functional management positions.

A results-oriented team player, having excellent communication skills - written, oral and interpersonal - and a determination to succeed. Has experience operating at all levels within organisations up to and including board level. Has a proven ability to manage multiple, simultaneous, multi-million pound programmes/ projects, to time, budget and quality metrics, using formal project management methodologies.

Key management strengths include leadership, motivation, mentoring and the application of common sense to complex problems


Based in:

United Kingdom

Work experience

31 years in employment in full time jobs

Previous jobs

2004 -    Outstanding Solutions
Project director for a start up company that assists businesses in improving working capital (Debtors) management using a unique software tool.
Managed the complete development cycle for the software tool including design and software development (Microsoft .NET). Managed development team in Uk and third party development in India. This was successfully piloted and is now installed in a number of clients helping them run their business with reduced working capital.
2002 - 2003   Ericsson NW Europe
Project managed electronic commerce program for Western Europe, resulting in productivity improvements equivalent to £1.2M.
Managed the process design project for sales and projects as part of program to implement SAP in Ericsson, Western Europe.
1997 - 2002   Ericsson UK
Completed a series of interim assignments including:

Managed project to establish a shared service centre for finance, and procurement. Essential elements were staffing, facilities, new processes and IT systems. This delivered business benefits of circa £10 million.

Managed the UK electronic trading program, which involved Implementing EDI and Internet based electronic ordering and billing processes for inter-company trading. Implementation resulted in circa £0.5 Million in productivity improvements.

Managed a joint Ericsson & Vodafone project to design and build a mobile project management and billing process This reduced billing delays and reduced working capital by circa £2 Million..

Managed project to implement new paperless procurement process based on workflow and document management aimed at reducing admin costs and improved approval mechanisms.
Managed Outsourcing of desktop applications and first line support to EDS. Defined SLAs and negotiated costs

Managed project to improve the receivables management process, which included design, build and rollout of a Debtors management system. This resulted in a 25% reduction in debtors and much-improved dispute and quality management.
1993 - 1997   Ericsson Manufacturing
Managed an 18-month multi million pound project for Ericsson, to migrate their core systems to an ORACLE database and provide business continuity.

Project managed ERP implementation at the manufacturing division of Ericsson UK. Part of a program to replace numerous legacy systems with one core system and reduce IT costs by approx £1Million, and the same time improve business controls.
1992 - 1993   Various
ERP Implementation consultant and project manager
for companies such as Honeywell and Timex

Education

   BSc
   MBA

Certifications / Courses

Part qualified CIMA ()

Skills

Skill Experience Arrow down Level Last used
Project Management  5 years professional  5 of 5 2006
Programme Management  5 years professional  4 of 5 2006
Process Modelling  5 years professional  4 of 5 2006
Management Information Systems (MIS)  5 years professional  4 of 5 2006
Management  5 years professional  4 of 5 2006
ERP systems  5 years professional  5 of 5 2006
e-Commerce / e-Business  5 years professional  4 of 5 2006
Credit Management  5 years professional  4 of 5 2006
Consultancy - Requirements Specification  5 years professional  4 of 5 2006
Consultancy - Feasibility Study  5 years professional  4 of 5 2006
Consultancy - Business Analysis  5 years professional  4 of 5 2006
Change Management  5 years professional  5 of 5 2006
Business Change Management  5 years professional  5 of 5 2006
Business Analysis  5 years professional  4 of 5 2006
Accounting  5 years professional  4 of 5 2006
Works (Microsoft)  2 years professional  3 of 5 2006
Workflow  2 years professional  3 of 5 2006
WAP (development)  2 years professional  3 of 5 2006
Systems Analysis  2 years professional  3 of 5 2006
SAP R/3  2 years professional  3 of 5 2006
Project (Microsoft)  2 years professional  3 of 5 2006
Powerpoint (Microsoft)  2 years professional  3 of 5 2006
Organisational Change/Restructure  2 years professional  3 of 5 2006
IT-Procurement  2 years professional  3 of 5 2006
FMCG  2 years professional  3 of 5 2006
e-Procurement  2 years professional  3 of 5 2006
EDI  2 years professional  3 of 5 2006
Document Management (generic)  2 years professional  3 of 5 2006
Business Continuity  2 years professional  3 of 5 2006
Application Integration/EAI  2 years professional  3 of 5 2006
Wireless Technology  1 years professional  2 of 5 2006
SQL server (Microsoft)  1 years professional  2 of 5 2006
Oracle Financial Analyzer (OFA)  1 years professional  2 of 5 2006
Oracle Discoverer  1 years professional  2 of 5 2006
Olap  1 years professional  2 of 5 2006
MQ series  1 years professional  2 of 5 2006
Data Analysis/Data Modelling  1 years professional  2 of 5 2006
Crystal Reports  1 years professional  2 of 5 2006
Telecom implementation    1 of 5 2006
GSM    1 of 5 2006
1 = Lowest level, 5 = Highest level

Language Skills

Language Oral Written
English  5 of 5 5 of 5
French  4 of 5 4 of 5

Job Type wishes

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Checkmark Contract/Project/Freelance

Job Category wishes

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  • checked Implementation/Consultant
    • checked BizTalk
    • checked Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse
    • checked CMS Systems
    • checked CRM Systems
    • checked EDI (Electronic Data Interchange)
    • checked ERP In General
    • checked ESDH
    • checked GIS
    • checked IT audits
    • checked IT Strategy
    • checked ITIL / Service Management
    • checked Microsoft Dynamics AX / NAV (Axapta, Financials, etc.)
    • checked Microsoft Dynamics GP (Great Plains)
    • checked Network (LAN / WAN)
    • checked Oracle Forms, Oracle PL, Oracle Developer, etc.
    • checked SAP
    • checked SharePoint
    • checked Telephony / Voice Over IP
  • checked Project Management
    • checked Business Intelligence / Data Warehouse
    • checked ERP in General
    • checked Microsoft Dynamics AX / NAV (Axapta, Financials, etc.)
    • checked Other Project Management Positions
    • checked SAP
    • checked Software- & Web development
    • checked Test / QA
  • checked Senior Management
    • checked CEO
    • checked CTO
    • checked Other Top Management
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