Providing Project Management for a team of consultants working on Business Objects universes, reports and ETL work with Data Integrator to provide information and metrics for the a major programme of work totalling £300K following Prince2 standards.

Major Achievements:
Scoped and managed the development of changes to business reporting across all departments in the access division and associated changes needed to database design and ETL routines to enable the required data.
Provided consultancy on project scope and technical design for a reporting portal to manage Business Objects and SAP BW reporting in a secure business portal.
Compiled and managed business requirements from multiple departments and agreed scope and conflicts with sponsors
Managed consultancy resource to agreed budget and time scale

Reporting to both the head of programme management and the Marketing Director in delivering a Business Intelligence solution for Customer Analytics and business metrics, across all three divisions of this ftse 100 company. Providing visibility to UK board level and managing team of 3 ETL developers, 4 application developers, a business analyst and a lead designer under Prince2 guidance to a value of £650K
Major Achievements:
Managed requirements workshop with senior managers and the analysis of this information to create an agreed set of requirements to deliver a prototype solution for a 360 view of customer information
Lead the analysis of source system discovery and data analysis, including the sourcing of external data to enrich customer information.
Developed framework for moving forward with customer value reporting
Completed the load and testing of data to schedule
Delivered a working prototype to drive forward analysis of customers
Provided prototype reports and executive dashboards

Reporting to the Business Systems Development Manager, responsibilities included managing a £4m technology update for key business processes. Held full budget responsibility and supervised a team of 10 direct reports and an additional 10 people supplied by third-party software suppliers and outsource partners.

Major Achievements:
Managed competing requirements for a suite of standard reports by reviewing the most common items and discussing key performance indicators with senior management.

Deployed a production data reporting solution to 450 senior users across multiple UK locations within the agreed but aggressive three-month timescale.

Rolled out a £1m mid-size data warehouse within budget whilst managing on-time delivery from a supplier who had not previously delivered a database dealing with this type of information.

Reduced training costs by £40k with a training strategy recommendation to use a specialist training company instead of the software supplier.

Recruited a team of 20 persons to ensure that all aspects of the project would be delivered despite a very aggressive implementation.

Facilitated production lifecycle visibility for every house build in the UK as well as valuable decision-making information by delivering a £3m critical business system to 26 regional businesses.

Deployed the solution successfully and was subsequently recognised as the keynote speaker at the software provider's national user forum attended by 400 people.

An international supplier of software and data warehousing to the pharmaceutical clinical trials industry with a customer base drawn from over 50 of the world's leading pharmaceutical, chemical and contract research organisations. Reporting to the Vice President for Global Solutions, responsibilities included transforming a major technology and functionality refresh of core product modules encompassing 18 component projects over a period of 21 months via 70 people at two locations in the UK, one in Belgium and one in the USA. Also facilitated a joint programme to provide a data warehouse solution to a world-leading pharmaceutical consisting of nine projects. Managed teams across multiple locations and time zones.

Major Achievements:

Improved project efficiency and transparency by deploying PRINCE2 project management practices within project teams in Europe and the USA and mentoring other project managers as needed.

Delivered nine global Safety Assessment Data Warehousing components including eight data marts for individual systems and a central data warehouse in conjunction with GlaxoSmithKline.

Negotiated the turnaround of a failing project at Eli Lilly by proposing a revised delivery schedule with key reportable milestones and an open communication policy encompassing project issues and testing progress.

Enabled the software to pass validation testing for 21 CRF part 11 after assembling a comprehensive testing plan and managing all reported defects.

Built a strong client base of large worldwide pharmaceutical companies by providing high levels of customer support and a reputation for quality deliverables.

An international consultancy specialising in high-performance networking equipment design and implementation with a variety of solutions to optimise performance and keep critical systems up and running. Reporting to the Projects Director, responsibilities included managing a portfolio of projects for the financial and telecoms industries. Led teams across multiple locations and ensure that projects met customer expectations, budgets and objectives.

Major Achievements:
Enabled Thus Telecom to provide network availability statistics for business customers after rolling out network monitoring and reporting software worth £200k for a user base of 40 people.

Linked numerous research institutions and education establishments into the JANET backbone by deploying a 2Gbit/s metropolitan area network whilst managing a team of five network engineers.

Delivered a 100Mbit internal network for Cheltenham and Gloucester Building Society after replacing all core switches.

Enabled more efficient future software deployments by rolling out a Windows 2000 desktop into Royal Liver Assurance's 200-user branch network and providing a corporate standard desktop

A software supplier to the retail and retail distribution sector. Reporting to the Customer Services Manager, responsibilities included delivering projects to meet customer expectations whilst ensuring that all billable project work was appropriately invoiced and that projects were completed to time and budget.

Major Achievements:
Deployed an EPOS system for WH Smiths Travel and World Duty Free at airport locations throughout the UK in the face of very short time windows due to the high volume of customers.

Provided a common sales platform for Unipart at 420 locations throughout the UK after replacing four existing legacy systems and implementing a retail distribution sales system.

Enabled sales statistics analysis and information to be fed into the stock control system after rolling out a retail distribution system including an EPOS system for Hi-Q Tyre Services.