Sutton Lodge 20 Green St Great Gonerby NG31 8LD 0044(0)7967342817 [email protected]Richard Charles Brown My motto ‘Make a difference’ My Project Management story About me; Fit, Energetic, enthusiastic, tenacious and hard working individual, able to work under pressure, to tight time scales and budget. Over 25 years experience of the IT industry from Engineer, Technical Support, Service Management, Risk Management & last 15 yrs Project Management/Programme Management/Portfolio Management. Experience in both Waterfall & Agile methodologies. Includes direct staff, Customer and 3 rd Party Supplier management and Budget control. 2 days sickness in last 14 years Work Training/Achievements Wakebourne Group Service Engineer Service Manager (10 staff) SCC Service Manager (50 staff) SCC Operations Manager SCC Project/Programme Manager in a multiple number of Business area’s. SCC Portfolio Manager ISO 9000 Helpdesk ISO9000 compliant Prince II IT in place to support first Mini Six Sigma INFLUENCES; Adoption of FISH! Principles, Getting Things Done, Six Sigma Processes and the work of the Business guru Tom Peters. ITIL Risk FAST Software compliancy for whole Experian UK FAST Software compliancy Lead Six Sigma coaching Completed £2M Labour Party Canvassing Project Global roll out of PPM tool US, UK, France & Australia completed Dallas New York Nottingham London Nice Naples Munich Melbourne Places I have worked Things I do GYM Football Coach Windsurf Kite boarding DIY Travel Agile Training Golf Reading My skills
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About me; Fit, Energetic, enthusiastic, tenacious and hard working individual, able to work under pressure, to tight time scales and budget. Over 25 years experience of the IT industry from Engineer, Technical Support, Service Management,
Risk Management & last 15 yrs Project Management/Programme Management/Portfolio Management. Experience in both Waterfall & Agile methodologies. Includes direct staff, Customer and 3rd Party Supplier management and Budget control. 2 days sickness in last 14 years
Work
Training/Achievements
Wakebourne
Group
Service
Engineer Service Manager (10 staff)
SCC
Service Manager
(50 staff)
SCC
Operations
Manager
SCC
Project/Programme Manager in a
multiple number of Business area’s.
SCC
Portfolio Manager
ISO
9000
Helpdesk
ISO9000
compliant
Prince II
IT in place
to support
first Mini
Six
Sigma
INFLUENCES; Adoption of FISH! Principles, Getting Things Done, Six Sigma Processes and the work of the Business guru Tom Peters.
ITIL
Risk
FAST Software
compliancy for
whole Experian
UK
FAST
Software
compliancy
Lead Six Sigma
coaching
Completed £2M
Labour Party
Canvassing
Project
Global roll out of
PPM tool US,
UK, France &
Australia
completed
Dallas
New York Nottingham
London
Nice
Naples
Munich
Melbourne
Places I have worked
Things I do
GYM Football Coach Windsurf
Kite boarding DIY Travel
Agile Training Golf Reading
My skills
My Portfolio
Created Agile team development structure both on-shore and off-shore. Provided the customer earlier
visibility of the product by a MVP release approach.
Managed the TUPE process of over 25 staff from Opticians IT into Boots IT including consultation
processes.
Chair of the Extended IT leadership team. Sponsor of the Boots IT Induction process.
Part of the Agile Delivery IT Board and involved with recent No7 Hackathon.
Sept 2013 – present. IT Portfolio Manager for Opticians. Implementation of replacement
PMS with embedded enterprise Appointment Booking solution whilst supporting existing
legacy systems.
March 2013 – Sept 2013. Director – Global Changepoint PPM system.
Responsibility for the Strategy & Operation of the Global Project Portfolio tool
(Changepoint) across a 6000 Experian user base.
Main achievement - Lead PPM market place evaluation, Global roll out of Changepoint 2012 to
Marketing Services Product Development Team (NYC, Melbourne, France & UK ) & construction
of Global support team (Dallas).
Jan 2008 – March 2013. Programme Manager - EIM Multiple Project delivery
Responsibility for the delivery of Global Information reporting into MSGPD,
PMO best practice across the group, whilst delivering key Projects.
Main achievement - The Labour Party – data warehouse solution for canvassing. Value £2.5M. Client
sign off achieved Jan09. Secondments into; IT, Marketing, QAS & Data Analytics Business for
delivery of a number of key projects including; IE7 Global rollout, QAS Radar, POC Vodafone Data
Capture, Zurich Insurance, Skipton Building Society, National Express, Coors, POC Concept &
Changepoint.
Oct 2003 - Jan 2008. Corporate Shared Services Project Manager (Head of
Business Improvement). Responsible for delivery of multiple business projects.
Key Project - 2yr Project to obtain Legal Software Compliancy (mainframe & Wintel) across
Experian UK, £5M risk adverted & £500K cost savings achieved (IT CEO Sponsor). Other projects
included; Acquisition Migration, Cost Savings Opportunities Programme, Oracle purchasing system