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Personal Information

 

Nationality             :       British

Desired location     :       Middle East, Europe, USA 

 

[snip] is a motivated, enthusiastic Project Manager.  His superb communication skills compliment his wide range of technical competencies and his natural leadership abilities to make him a valuable addition to any team.

Extensively experienced in industries as diverse as IT infrastructure, Tier 1 Telecommunications, and U.S. Military contracting.  [snip] has in-depth understanding of all the apposite factors relating to project delivery.

[snip] excels in providing high-quality documentation. 

Proven track record as both technical and project leads on a number of successful projects.

BUSINESS skills

 

n     Understanding of Project Management lifecycle from design to implementation, including resource planning, progress reporting and budgetary management.

n     Adept at applying appropriate technological solutions to business problems and processes

n     Current contract value: $260m/year 

TECHNICAL SKILLS

 

n     Microsoft Technologies, including Windows 2000, Exchange 2000.

n     UNIX – HP-UX and various flavours of linux

n     Network Management

n     Technical Documentationn      

CAREER history

 

 

2004 – date      [snip] Contractor

Deputy Project Manager
Working as a Deputy PM

n     Reporting directly to the Project Manager.

n     Taking responsibility for co-ordinating recruiting efforts on a project of 2000 staff.

n     Developing a retention plan with HR

n     Managing day-to-day project personnel status issues. 

2002 –  2004     [snip]

Consultant
Working as a freelance technical consultant.

n     Technical lead on a project for [snip].  This was a Netware-based mail system to Exchange 2000 migration of 5000 users UK-wide into an existing Windows 2000 Active Directory.  Supervising migration of data from Netware fileservers, and decommissioning of same.

n     Design and implementation of locked-down workstations for a small manufacturing firm, including recommendations of accounting and design software packages.

n     Project Managed the set-up of an Internet Café for a consortium of non-technical businessmen, from concept to opening.

2000 – 2002      [snip]

Member of Consulting Staff
[snip] is a world-wide manufacturer of telecommunications equipment and Consulting/Services organisation.

n     Technical lead on major upgrade of Network Management system

n     Member of Customer Relationship Management team, particularly when Lucent’s biggest world-wide customer went into Chapter 11 Bankruptcy.

n     European Technical Expert on Sub-Network Management System

n     Organised team-building event involving racing hovercrafts.

1998 – 2000      [snip]

Technical Trainer

BSG is a Systems Integrator in the City of London

n     Technical lead on cc:mail to Exchange migration of 5000 users in 6 countries.

n     Trained end users in mail-related applications such as Lotus Notes r4 and r5.

n     Project administrator

n     Designed and implemented Symantec Ghost as a method of preparing training classes.

1995 - 1998       [snip]

Transport Manager

SGR is an international transport and logistics firm.

n     Reviewed and costed fuel-bunkering arrangements, saving 15% on fuel costs.

n     Researching route-planning technologies to control costs and operational matters.

n     Drove articulated vehicles on European operations

 

 

 

 

Education

 

 

1994 - 1998       University of Exeter

n     Honours Degree in Sociology with Public Relations

1992 - 1994       Mayflower High School, Billericay

n     GCE A-level – Economics, Law and Sociology

1987 - 1992       St Peter’s High School, Burnham-on-Crouch

n     GCE O-level – 8 subjects at grade A, 1 at grade B 

 

training

 

 

n     PRINCE2 certified

n     PMI trained

n     Windows 2000 MCSE

n     Lotus Notes r5 Systems Administration

n     HP-UX Systems Administration

n     Teaching English as  Foreign Language 

n     Currently learning Italian by Michel Thomas’ distance learning method 

 

interests

 

 

n     Live Jazz: regular visitor to the San Francisco Jazz Festival

n     Reading Contemporary Fiction and Political Biographies

n     Motorcycle Touring: France and Italy being favourites

 

References

 

 

Available on request

 

     
 
 
 
 
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