JMA's Resume

• British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society - Project Managing the tender, selection, design, development, training and implementation of a new website using a 3rd Party and a Content Management System.
• Achi Ezer Fund - Development of a website and assisting with fundraising.

Accessibility Assessments of all Legacy Applications and Websites to determine compliance with the Disability Discrimination Act (DDA). This was a diverse role covering areas such as:

• Project Management including all planning, budget, risks & issues, reporting via weekly dashboard
• Management of Project Team, multiple 3rd Parties and the LTSB Accessibility Test Team
• Gap Analysis of LTSB Group wide Legacy Applications & Websites
• Working closely with IT Accessibility Centre of Excellence to determine DDA Assessment Criteria
• Defining & delivering of DDA & Accessibility Training Days and delivering of Accessibility Awareness Training on High Performance Manager Programme
• Key Member of Accessibility Working Group and Reasonable Adjustment Process Team
• Member of team running high profile "Put Your Mouse Away Day"
• Advisor and Point of Reference on IT Accessibility Issues across the LTSB Group

Working as a Project Manager and IT Consultant for a number of Internet start-up's on an interim basis to ensure a robust IT strategy is put in place.

Porto Dobela Development Scheme was proposing the development of a Multi-Product Deep-Water Port located in the South of Mozambique. In addition, a separate development of a leisure area comprising of a game reserve, eco-friendly hotel and luxury residential area was being planned. This challenging project has given me the opportunity to use my project management skills in a new environment. My responsibilities included:

• Project managing this large scale tender and selection process
• Project planning and reporting progress to senior management, risks and issues management, Business and 3rd Party liaison, remotely managing a team of 5 to 7 people in various geographical locations and providing IT and Technical support for London based representatives of African group

• Understanding requirements of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Accessibility Guidelines
• Act as a Group Technology advisor to any DDA related projects within the Group which included attending their management meetings to ensure management buy-in
• Ensuring Royal National Institute for the Blind (RNIB) "See it Right" Guidelines were adhered to
• Setting up of a Disability Discrimination Act Lab and website DDA compliance review process
• Carried out reviews of major RBS Group websites for DDA compliance including NatWest Stockbrokers, Ulster Bank, Mint Card
• Facilitating technical and business training and demonstrations of JAWS screen reader

• Project Management following PRINCE 2 / Know The Ropes methodology
• Matrix-managing teams up to 16 people located across London, Edinburgh and across RBS business
• Regularly meeting with Business owners to review DDA requirements as well as to incorporate unrelated Business functionality change requests into the project
• Project planning, risk management and controlling budgets in excess of £670k
• Highly complex project requiring 5 separate implementations to achieve DDA compliance of online application forms within the imposed deadline. This project was delivered on time & within budget.

• Nelson Mandela Children's Fund - Consulted on the development of an online capacity and aptitude testing system for disadvantaged young adults in Third World Countries.
• The British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society - www.brps.org.uk - Member of the National Management Committee and Charity Technical Advisor. Designed, developed and maintain charity's website on voluntary basis.
• Speck Delicatessen Group - Project Manager for implementation of a group-wide EPOS System. Designed and developed the groups websites.
• The Rotisserie Restaurants & Delicatessen Group - Project managed website, database, customer relationship & loyalty scheme and market research system. Project facilitation for Delisserie deli launch.
• The Stellar Group - Provide ongoing project management and consultancy services for the group.
• IT & Website Project Management & Consulting - Ongoing project management, consulting and development for a number of clients.

• Project Management of website & backend database design, development, enhancements & implementation by offshore team of developers using Linux, Perl, Postgress, JavaScript & HTML
• Overseeing QA and Testing to ensure all development adheres to the highest levels of quality
• Research and implementation of Internet Marketing & Linking Strategies
• Overall responsibility for providing Management Information Reporting as well as designing of an automated customer enquiries and bookings tracking database to provide detailed MIS
• Product and Third Party Vendor selection for software, hardware and hosting solutions
• Writing of Automated Installation Software along with User guides and training material
• Management of travel agents based in over 30 countries worldwide

• " Matrix-managing teams of up to 25 people made up of RIS staff and multiple 3rd Party vendors
• Ongoing business requirements and enhancements to the system including credit card customers
• Risk management along with planning and controlling budgets in excess of £2.6 million
• Group Technology representative for the Senior Business Management Team
• Matrix-management of the Technical Architects Team
• Development of an eCommerce training strategy as part of team competencies development

Phase I of the migration project required both technical and operational pilots and was successfully launched to the public on the Internet within the agreed timescales and budget. The next phases of the migration and ongoing enhancements to NWOLB required a great deal of flexibility in planning and man management due to the constantly changing nature of the Internet and Business requirements

• All aspects of Project, Risk, Quality, Change and Implementation Management using PRINCE II incorporating NatWest's Project Lifecycle System Development Process (SDP) and PMW Planning
• Flexible Project Management following an iterative and enterprising approach to this development
• Matrix-managing and motivating a team of 25 people with a budget of in excess of £1.68 million
• IT representative for the key senior Business Management Team and Product Owners
• Ensuring that the exceptionally tight Government implementation deadlines were met

The ISA and +3 Products were delivered via three implementations, all three were on time and within the agreed budget. The project was nominated for and received a NatWest Achievers Award

MSS International - Project Manager - MSS specialises in system conversions, migrations & implementations. Involved in various projects including Migration strategies to share company information over Internet and Multiple projects reporting using MS Project, Visual Basic & Access

• Project Manager for Phase 1 - Proof of Concept to attempt to show migration from Amdahl mainframe to UNIX & Oracle was viable. The project followed full project life cycle using MS Project and was completed on time. Managed a team of 5 people including external consultants. Reviewed Hogan database, designed Oracle & Cobol replacement, ran batch simulation on Unix and wrote final Proof of Concept reports
• Technical Analyst for Phase 2 - migration from the Amdahl Mainframe to IBM Mainframe. Participated in the Data Redundancy Analysis, wrote a code generator using Unix, AWK and Cobol record layout copybooks to generate Selcopy for Hogan databases data redundancy analysis

• Project Manager which included customer liaison, team member management to ensure that the relevant skills where available when they were necessary, problem solving when the need arose, project planning, implementation and post implementation support for a warranty period

• Project Manager of a team of up to five people including external contractors. Responsible for customer liaison on progress and feasibility and reporting on the findings of the study

• Project Management for Nedcor at the 3rd Party outsourced software company's premises
• Internal and external business and IT liaison including business and system analysis and design
• Oracle Database design and creation
• Designed and wrote a Management Information System using Visual Basic, SQL and Unix Scripts to interrogate the Oracle Database
• Responsible for daily systems operational procedures & on-site training of 15 users
• A very successful implementation and launch

• Technical Team Leader - responsible for User Requests, technical specifications, delegating work or taking it through to completion, quality assurance, version control and implementation
• System Administrator - responsible for the performance and maintenance of all computer systems, user administration and operations procedures
• Successfully converted the entire NedFleet system from DEC VAX to DEC Alpha AXP included upgrading from VMS to Open-VMS and alignment of DBL to ANSI Standards. This project followed a full project life cycle. I received awards from Nedcor and Olivetti for the project success

• Nationale Pers Press Group - Developed Stationery Stock Control and Accounts Receivable Systems using IDEAL DATACOM on IBM
  
• Old Mutual Insurance Group - Developed New Business system to load and maintain client details