Flexmanager - Project Manager

Project Manager

Work Experience

Jun’01-present Director of Pumpherston Estates Ltd. Implementation of management structure.

Apr’01-May’01 Freelance Consultant at Newleaf Ltd. Business analysis and strategy.

May’00-Mar’01 Technology Officer for Internet Ventures at Bright Station Plc. Responsible for new technology evaluations for investment and links to academic and research organisations. (Bright Station, Dialog & MAID are the same company, now Smartlogik).

Nov’98-Apr’00 Head of Technology for the eCommerce and Special Projects division of The Dialog Corporation Plc. Project management and requirements analysis. Project budgets ranged from £50k to £2m. Projects involved 3 – 30 individuals.

Sep‘96-Oct’98 IT Projects Manager at MAID Plc. Programme and Project Management - 5 managers (40 employees) no direct control of budget.

Apr’95-Aug’96 Team Leader at MAID Plc. Database and data delivery development.

Oct’93-Apr’95 Senior Consultant at Information Dimensions Ltd, London. Text management consultancy, design and development.

Jul‘91-Sep’93 Sabbatical. 2 year round voyage from the UK, with my wife, on our own 38’ sailing yacht. Visited the Mediterranean, the Atlantic islands and the Caribbean.

Jun’87-Jun’91 Managing Director of Complete Systems Solutions Ltd, South Bank Technopark, London. Co-owner of a software-house, specialising in the design, development and maintenance of Text Information Management Systems – 5 employees and budget <£300,000.

Jun’84-May’87 Contract analyst / programmer – Langton Publishing, BP and BP Research.

May’81-Apr’84 Analyst / programmer at Western Geophysical Company of America Inc, Saudi Arabia. Non-seismic oil exploration application development.

Nov’79-Apr’81 Programmer at Wimpey Laboratories. Development of marine survey applications.

Education

2001-2002 10 1-week IT/Project Management and Software Engineering courses.
2001 Member of the Project Management Institute.
1984 PhD Marine Ecology - University of Strathclyde.
1976 MSc Oceanography - University of Southampton.
1975 BSc Hons 2.1 Chemistry - University of Southampton.

Skills

Senior IT and Project Manager in Information Management Systems. Reported directly to the CTO (board member). Strong technical background, having worked through the analyst/programmer ranks.

Projects managed include several database driven business information web sites (delivered on time and to budget). The largest project success was Y2K (2 yrs and >£1m).

Good business analysis, technical writing and interpersonal skills and experienced in team/departmental management.

Have run own small software house.

Languages

English - fluent spoken and written
French and German - very basic (UK O level in 1970)

Other

Project Management and Business/User Requirements Analysis.
Team and Departmental Management.
IT, Internet, E-Commerce and Business Information Systems.
RAPID Project Management methodology (2 years – recent experience as a user).
Basis (Opentext) text management system (10 years – recent, developer).
Vax / (Open)VMS, Fortran, C, DCL (15 years – recent, developer).
Smartlogik (formerly Muscat), Oracle, SQLServer, IIS, Netscape EnterpriseServer, Cisco Local Director (2 years – recent, non-technical).
MS Word, Excel, Visio and Project (5 years – recent, user).
VB, HTML, XML, FrontPage (dabbled – recent).
Solaris Unix, Vi, C shell (2 years – recent, user).
IBM MVS / TSO, VM, PL/1, Fortran, Clist, JCL (5 years – long time ago, developer).
FrameMaker and RoboHelp authoring tools (dabbled – fair time ago, user).

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