Russell Milner
Senior Project Manager at Jean Edwards Consulting- Claim this Profile
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French Professional working proficiency
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Arabic Limited working proficiency
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Spanish Limited working proficiency
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Bio
George Downe
It has been a great pleasure having Russell as my project manager at Netbuilder. Not only is he a fantastically hard working and dedicated project manager, but also great at keeping up team morale and making sure that everyone is well on an emotional level as well as a professional one. Like all great project managers, he drives good communication within a team makes sure that they can get on with their work without any external interference or hindrances and as a result, allow them to produce quality deliverables. I hope to have many project managers like Russell in the future and would happily recommend him for any management role.
Jonathan Mewett
The best project manager at getting the impossible delivered. Russ is the hardest working and most resourceful project manager I’ve ever worked with. He has the amazing ability to manage numerous difficult technical projects simultaneously whilst still maintaining control and governance. Whilst at NETbuilder Russ was responsible for delivering the most challenging programme of work within the organisation and he not only got it all delivered on time and to budget but to the satisfaction of a very fragmented stakeholder group.
George Downe
It has been a great pleasure having Russell as my project manager at Netbuilder. Not only is he a fantastically hard working and dedicated project manager, but also great at keeping up team morale and making sure that everyone is well on an emotional level as well as a professional one. Like all great project managers, he drives good communication within a team makes sure that they can get on with their work without any external interference or hindrances and as a result, allow them to produce quality deliverables. I hope to have many project managers like Russell in the future and would happily recommend him for any management role.
Jonathan Mewett
The best project manager at getting the impossible delivered. Russ is the hardest working and most resourceful project manager I’ve ever worked with. He has the amazing ability to manage numerous difficult technical projects simultaneously whilst still maintaining control and governance. Whilst at NETbuilder Russ was responsible for delivering the most challenging programme of work within the organisation and he not only got it all delivered on time and to budget but to the satisfaction of a very fragmented stakeholder group.
George Downe
It has been a great pleasure having Russell as my project manager at Netbuilder. Not only is he a fantastically hard working and dedicated project manager, but also great at keeping up team morale and making sure that everyone is well on an emotional level as well as a professional one. Like all great project managers, he drives good communication within a team makes sure that they can get on with their work without any external interference or hindrances and as a result, allow them to produce quality deliverables. I hope to have many project managers like Russell in the future and would happily recommend him for any management role.
Jonathan Mewett
The best project manager at getting the impossible delivered. Russ is the hardest working and most resourceful project manager I’ve ever worked with. He has the amazing ability to manage numerous difficult technical projects simultaneously whilst still maintaining control and governance. Whilst at NETbuilder Russ was responsible for delivering the most challenging programme of work within the organisation and he not only got it all delivered on time and to budget but to the satisfaction of a very fragmented stakeholder group.
George Downe
It has been a great pleasure having Russell as my project manager at Netbuilder. Not only is he a fantastically hard working and dedicated project manager, but also great at keeping up team morale and making sure that everyone is well on an emotional level as well as a professional one. Like all great project managers, he drives good communication within a team makes sure that they can get on with their work without any external interference or hindrances and as a result, allow them to produce quality deliverables. I hope to have many project managers like Russell in the future and would happily recommend him for any management role.
Jonathan Mewett
The best project manager at getting the impossible delivered. Russ is the hardest working and most resourceful project manager I’ve ever worked with. He has the amazing ability to manage numerous difficult technical projects simultaneously whilst still maintaining control and governance. Whilst at NETbuilder Russ was responsible for delivering the most challenging programme of work within the organisation and he not only got it all delivered on time and to budget but to the satisfaction of a very fragmented stakeholder group.
Credentials
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Advanced Scrum - Addressing Scrum Execution Challenges
Manpower UKMay, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
PRINCE2® Foundation Certificate in Project Management
AXELOS Global Best PracticeMar, 2016- Nov, 2024 -
Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
Scrum AllianceApr, 2020- Nov, 2024
Experience
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Jean Edwards Consulting
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United Kingdom
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Financial Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Project Manager
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Apr 2020 - Present
Very happy to be back in the world of reinsurance, working with a great team and top-draw clients, covering a range of projects and solutions spanning data migration through to AI. We inspire, and are inspired by, change. Since 2005, Jean Edwards Consulting has been providing the highest quality data and change management services to the finance industry and public sector. Our team of dedicated and highly motivated experts bring together a wealth of experience and skills. Together, we provide our clients with the best services and solutions to help them meet the challenges of today’s fast-changing world head on. We don’t just work with our clients to give them what they want – we lead by example to give them the most optimal, flexible, maintainable solutions possible. Show less
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Coherence Digital Agency
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Brighton
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Senior Client Services Manager
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Nov 2019 - Apr 2020
A digital agency focused on creating great looking, high performing Drupal websites that enable great customer experiences and fantastic marketing programs. At the heart of this is our belief that brilliant people deliver great results when enabled by best in class technology. We build powerful Drupal 8 websites to delight your customers and drive your business growth. Clients : Close Brothers, Ocean Independence, Winterflood Responsibilities Provided client services to engage and support clients, project management skills to manage and report upon the delivery of their goals and employed my people and team-building skills to motivate and empower the development team within a fast-paced, keenly-focused environment. Learned about client’s current solutions and designs, plans and solution proposals, then shared and agreed approach, scope, designs, costs and high-level delivery plans with the client. Documented design changes within Trello and JIRA tickets, recorded project-level documentation within Confluence pages. Worked with the team to estimate development effort, planned solution delivery and allocated suitable resource. Collaboratively drafted actionable tasks in order to achieve the greater goal(s), fielded the development team’s questions, facilitated the removal of barriers and acted as an ‘engine’ to keep communication flowing between client, project and senior management and the development team. Managed budget trackers and ad-hoc quotations. Key achievements * Drove the delivery of ‘BAU’ solutions across 5 client financial website projects, and assisted with 2 large, new and upgrade projects. These involved a large range of end-user-facing functionality, design, integration and performance issues. * Managed the deployment of a firewall solution to enable the client to enhance their website security and to better field their yacht charter and sales solutions, whilst also working with them to maximize their SEO performance and end-user satisfaction. Show less
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Netbuilder Digital Ltd
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Brighton
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Project Manager /Scrum Manager
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Nov 2017 - Nov 2019
A refreshing consulting and digital agency dedicated to delivering digital services (SaaS) excellence, individually tailored to each customer need. Client : UK’s largest telecoms company Responsibilities Controlled client-based projects, client liaison and set the development team up for successful delivery. Managed all project communication, removed blockers, facilitated team self-organisation and project meetings, tracked progress, velocity and produced reports. Single authoritative source of information regarding project scope, risks, assumptions, issues, dependencies, constraints, resourcing, quality, roles and responsibilities plus policies and procedures. Built project planning with all parties and translated into user stories. Led collaborative, dynamic planning process, prioritising sprint delivery against team capacity. Delivered solutions according to plan and budget. Developed enhanced delivery processes, referencing best practice. Increased delivery velocity by coordinating and leading staff, whilst maintaining a focus on quality. Ensured Scrum processes and ceremonies were followed and that Scrum team delivered iteratively. Worked with the development team to manage the product backlog to the benefit of the client. Key achievements Turned around a failing project by replacing disruptive resources with productive, permanent staff, built a trustworthy relationship with the client and removed blockers in order to deliver upon their requirements, on time and on budget. Controlled the delivery of 22 key 'BPG' projects with a budget of £520k, for a FTSE100 client, and achieved a profit of 18% through careful resource allocation, a drive to increase velocity and rigid scope management. I also assumed responsibility for the client's 'BAU' business, where I prioritised multiple (50+) requirements, at different levels of urgency, across multiple stakeholders, and delivered them simultaneously in regular sprints alongside my BPG project delivery commitments. Show less
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Self-employed IT contractor
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Brighton, United Kingdom
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IT Contractor (Project Manager)
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Apr 2017 - Jul 2017
Provision of project management solutions to clients. Client : Lumesse Learning, Hove April, 2017 - July, 2017 An insight-driven digital learning company, attracting FTSE 100 clients with its determination to push boundaries and exceed expectations. Customer : The world's largest producer of spirits and a key producer of beer. Key achievements Successfully managed an exciting, ground-breaking b2b/b2c digital project which set out to change the way that organisational learning is provided and consumed, powered by artificial intelligence. Organised and planned the work of multiple cross-functional workstreams across Europe, involving external and internal stakeholders, in order to achieve key milestones. Coordinated the delivery of a series of projects for a FTSE 100 client, which capitalised upon Lumesse’s collaborative and engaging wireframing process. This success led to an increased volume of work from the same client. Gained an understanding and appreciation of the organisation’s digital learning process, in order to deliver measurable benefits to clients and customers. Show less
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The Access Group
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United States
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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing
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1 - 100 Employee
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Product Owner
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Sep 2016 - Feb 2017
Working within an Agile(Scrum) environment as part of an established team focused, primarily, on delivering projects in the groups Health and Social Care division. Clients : Multiple UK Health & Social Care providers, small & large Key achievements Focused on roadmap customers to extend the product usage to non-core sectors, working alongside other departments to capitalise on cross-selling opportunities. Specialised in requirements gathering for a range of external customers and focused on application gap analysis to drive internal conversations as to how bespoke or 'roadmap' solutions could be developed and implemented. Established an internal mechanism for recording and prioritising prospective application features, sourced from on-boarding, training and support teams and their customer conversations. Managed and prioritised all incoming development requests and allocated them to the appropriate development resource. Developed an excellent working relationship with the application development team and stakeholders in order to maximise effective communication and collaborative effort. Contributed to agile activities such as scrums, bug reviews and the identification and resolution of impediments to progress. Show less
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CR Bard
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United States
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Medical Equipment Manufacturing
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700 & Above Employee
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Business Systems Analyst
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2008 - Jun 2016
Managing, designing and implementing people-focused, project-driven system solutions across Europe for a large, global medical devices company with annual sales approaching US$4bn. Key achievements Managed, designed and implemented a Europe-wide contract management project, from data transformations and manipulation through to reporting integrity. Led and implemented a Europe-wide system software upgrade project across multiple servers and managing associated 3rd party hardware and software upgrades. Produced technical documentation for European and Indian projects. Directed and engineered greater accountability from European directors and managers in completing regular SOX system audits. Chaired weekly project meetings as a liaison between the company's U.S. arm and 3rd party software suppliers. A passion for foreign languages has been a key asset in breaking down barriers and enabling constructive communication. Show less
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Unilever Foods UK Ltd
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Crawley, UK
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Business Systems Analyst/Developer
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2001 - 2008
Project execution for UK factory and depot supply chain assets, primarily focused upon interfacing design, data manipulation, storage and integrity and managing internal and external customer deliverables. Key achievements revolved around the use of communication in building and maintaining relationships between multiple UK site staff and 3rd party suppliers to achieve timely, appropriate business solutions. Results included the implementation of a UK-wide pallet-labelling solution across multiple factories and depots, integrating data and interfaces upon merging with a large competitor, training and empowering team members in a range of key applications in order to distribute knowledge, reduce risk and to develop the team. * Implemented a UK-wide pallet-labelling solution for 7 high-volume factories, 2 depots and for various stakeholders, producing 150,000 labelled pallets p.a. and generating £800m in product revenue. Negotiated the establishment of a standard application design, and mediated between in-house users, 3rd party software suppliers and resource and factory management for the UK-wide project. Enthusiastically provided pre and post implementation support across the range of supply chain factory shifts, wherever possible. Voluntarily participated in a business-critical 24hour/7day out of hours technical support capacity for 1 week in every month to support my colleagues at the disparate factories. * Developed and Migrated interface changes during a company takeover and when a new depot came on stream. This involved building strong, collaborative relationships with key staff at the new depot, and also within the newly migrated company in order to ensure that nothing was omitted in accommodating their process interface requirements into Unilever’s interface standard. Show less
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CNA Reinsurance Company
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Canary Wharf & City, London
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Analyst Programmer
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1999 - 2001
American-owned top 20 world reinsurance company with bases in London, Europe and the Far East. Parent company is a world top 10 insurance company. Earned net premiums of US$201m, and recoverable claims of US$104m. (2001) Developed applications and enhanced programs using technical (re)insurance knowledge gained from my 6 years experience as a Reinsurance Section Leader and Reinsurance Technician. User System Support Group Assistant (Europe), I.T. Dept. 1998 – 1999 Provided technical support to the wider I.T. dept. and technical insurance functions. Show less
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Education
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Professional development
Information Technology (AEM, MicroStrategy, Oracle), International Reinsurance Claims, Accountancy
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