Experience

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  Insite Energy

  • London

  • IT Project Manager

    • Jun 2015 - Sep 2016
    • London

    Delivering Gentrack - Billing CRM SystemData Migration, System InterfacingInterrim IT Management & Recruiting

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  Career Break

  • Travelling, Property Managing.

    • Dec 2012 - May 2015

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  Self Employed Independent

  • Surrey, Essex

  • Project Manager

    • Dec 2008 - Dec 2010
    • Surrey, Essex

    Building Refurb, Tendering, Negotiating Contracts, Managing Suppliers, Planning Works, Managing Budget,Quality Control, Change Management.

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  Network Rail

  • Project Manager

    • Nov 2004 - Jul 2008

    Project ManagerManaged a Technical Pilot prior to rolling out Wireless Network Infrastructure across the whole of NR.Managed a project to upgrade the Middleware Security Infrastructure for the Corporate Portal and external access via NRs External Services Gateway, (DMZ), Budget £1.8m.Managed a project to implemented a DR solution for Active Directory for the whole of NR (30,000 users).Managed a Messaging Hub Integration Programme Budget £2.2m. Including developing a real time Public Performance Measure System in WAS available to 30,000 users.Managed a programme of 3 Strategic Projects. Delivered a corporate portal infrastructure upgrade, including ORACLE portal and Web/Portal Security infrastructure, reverse proxies, load balancing, Oracle Internet Directory. Managed an ETL Data Warehouse Implementation, put in place standards and guidelines for Data Warehousing development, setup a Competency Centre for Messaging Hub integration development with a mixed team from IBM and NR. Programme budget £3m.

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  Cap Gemini Ernst & Young

  • Consultant (Projects)

    • Nov 1997 - Jan 2002

    Project Planner / Change Control ManagerWorked on a SAP project MERPS for a Major Pharmaceutical Company - Glaxo Smithkline.Project PlannerCreated the detailed plan for design phase of a SAP project to develop a Parts Pricing System for General Motors. Programme Planner / Data Migration Stream LeaderPlanned and lead stream interfacing the SAP, BPCS and Supply Chain Commercial systems together in 6 European Countries to conduct the Operational Merger of Zeneca Agrochemicals and Novartis Crop Protection to form Syngenta.Project Management ConsultantCo-ordinating IS Separation and IS Integration Activities between AstraZeneca and Zeneca Agrochemicals. Planned programme, designed and implemented processes for information gathering, status reporting, for the IT Separation Programme.Project Manager for Zeneca Agrochemicals, managing 3 concurrent projects with tight time-scales. The projects (500k over 6 months) consisted of implementation of a Global Packaging Specification System, an amendment to an existing European Decision Support System, and implementation of a production line Check Weighing System. Project Manager leading a team of 5 responsible for all key activities critical to the success of the first Cut-Over of a Finance Improvement Programme’s System Integration Interfaces within a multi-national pharmaceutical company – Glaxo Wellcome. Management of customer and 3rd party relationships, delivery to Glaxo IQMS Internal Quality Management System standards, issue management and resolution, and setting up an Application Support team.Build Team Manager for a 17-man build team via three team leaders creating data interfaces to an Integration Framework for a Finance Improvement Programme within a multi-national pharmaceutical company – Glaxo Wellcome. Planning Consultant responsible for Programme milestone planning and resource co-ordination in a Year 2000 Programme Office – Zeneca Agrochemicals.

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  Gresham Bell (City Systems)

  • Project Manager

    • 1994 - 1997

    Project Manager for a Data Warehouse support team for Glaxo Wellcome.Project managed to Good Manufacturing Procedure (GMP) and to Glaxo Internal Quality Management Standards (IQMS).Project Manager for a Data Warehousing project to transfer information on drug production line test results to an Oracle Data Warehouse System.Programme Manager for an Oracle Data Warehouse Programme for Glaxo Wellcome, handling four projects, with an annual budget £1m. Delivered to Glaxo IQMS and GMP.Management Team Member carried out Management and policy decision-making, Salary and Performance Reviews, and Recruiting.Project Manager of a Project to develop a Manufacturing Demand Forecasting System for Glaxo Wellcome. Developed to Glaxo IQMS standards.Technical Auditor co-ordinating the review of Technical Approach for an internal IT department for the Charities Commission (using Microsoft Products).Team Leader leading a highly successful strategic development to produce an Intelligence Information System in Microsoft Access, implemented in sixteen countries to gather data to enable the decisions to be made prior to the merger of Glaxo and Wellcome. RAD development 6 weeks from design to delivery. The users were the Glaxo Executive Board and Boston Consulting.

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  PI (UK) Ltd

  • London

  • Team Leader

    • Apr 1988 - Jul 1994
    • London

    Project Manager/Team LeaderManaging an 18-month project to develop a New Price Monitoring Product for a Data Bureau Company.Testing Consultant.Designed and carried out user acceptance testing as an external consultant.Analyst Programmer Responsibilities included: database design, project timescale management, resource determination and recruitment, design and implementation of test plans.