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PERSONAL DETAILS 

Date of Birth:

9th March 1963

Nationality:

British

 SUMMARY

·         Run own online retail company

·         PRINCE2 Certified Programme/Project Manager with software development background

·         Experience of Internet/e-Commerce projects and technologies

·         MBA Qualified

·         Worked in complex multi-national environment  

EDUCATION AND QUALIFICATIONS 

1999

Parity Training - Certified PRINCE2 Practitioner

1995-99

Aston University - MBA

1982-85

Leicester University - BSC (Combined Sciences)

 EXPERIENCE AND ACHIEVEMENTS 

Jan 2003 to present

Company: [snip]    Job Title: Director

Setup and run online store selling ties and cufflinks both B2C and B2B 

·          Company formation

·          Identification of suppliers, product selection and procurement

·          Selection of shopping cart software

·          Design and development of web store. This included hands-on development using ASP.NET

·          Development of marketing and search engine optimisation strategy, including the use of natural search, PPC, shopping portals and directory listings

·          Day to day running of business including order fulfillment, customer service and finance 

 

Aug 2003 to Nov 2005

Company: [snip]    Job Title: Project Manager

Project Management (part time contract) of a project to procure and implement an Ordering and Production Management System 

·          Re-started project using PRINCE2 following failure of Gateway Review

·          Identified appropriate suppliers and ran procurement for Production Management module.

·          Managed the implementation of the chosen system, Optimus2020, by the supplier team, including customisations, migration from old system and integration with ordering module.

·          Managed development and implementation of In-house built on-line ordering module using ASP.NET.

  

1996

to Jan 2003

Company: [snip].   Job Title:  Project/Programme Manager

(Promoted July 2000 and Oct 1998)

IT management for a multi-national Air Express Logistics company at a regional (Europe/Africa) and global level. 

·          Management of functional groups covering Application Support, Deployment and Programme Management responsible for Customer Facing applications, i.e. Sales and Marketing, Customer Service, Internet, Intranet and Customer Shipping tools.

·          Line and budgetary responsibility for groups of up to 30 staff and £1.5M.

·          Stabilised and improved on-line service architecture supporting rollout of [snip] Connect, a customer shipping application used by c. 10,000 customers across Europe.

·          Developed regional deployment strategy from global development roadmaps.

·          Defined processes required to deploy and support centralised applications.

·          Worked in conjunction with European Data Centre to implement improved application reporting and monitoring which led to a 20% improvement in ticket resolution times

·          Project managed development of business CRM strategy  and wrote Feasibility Study for a new global customer service system for 10,000 agents

·          Project and Programme Management of large scale business critical projects with budgets ranging from £200,000 - £5M and direct team numbers ranging from 2-3 to 50

·          Introduction of a new Time Definite Delivery business product

·          Met demanding project deadlines

·          Pilot project for use of BEA WebLogic and UML modeling techniques

·                      Worked closely with other functional business areas – Marketing, Customer Service, Operations, Billing, Finance and [snip] country Organisations

·          Euro

·                      Defined and gained stakeholder agreement to IT solution covering all major functional areas – Customer Facing applications, Operations, Billing and Oracle Financials

·                      Programme Managed team of 50 to deliver in 9 months to business deadline

·          Integration of Road Express product with Deutsche Post and Partner organizations across Europe

·                      Managed complex integration across [snip] Regional IT groups, [snip] countries, Deutsche Post and multiple partner organizations as well as related business functional groups.

·          Other projects including:

·          [snip] Replacement Public Web Site ([snip] and internal Intranet projects

·          Centralised version of Siebel CRM system

·          Global billing changes

·          Shared Pricing system

 

 

1993-96

Company: [snip]   Job Title: Consultant

 

Worked on assignments covering the full software development lifecycle for clients in the Telecommunications, Healthcare and Public sectors.

·          Led system test team of 5 on customer service system development in project team of 25

·          Software development using Oracle RDBMS and Client Server technology

·          Use of rapid application development techniques.

  

1987-93

Company: [snip]   Job Title: Analyst/Programmer (HEO)

(Promoted 1991 and 1989)

 

1989-93

IT Dept - Software development and support for HQ Casework Case Management System using Oracle CASE, Application and Database tools and a modified SSADM approach.

1987-89

Guildford Branch - Management of the magistrates' support section

 

 
 
 
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