David Oakes

Experience

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  Blake Lapthorn Tarlo Lyons

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2008

  Project Manager

  · To take ownership and responsibility for project delivery within scope, budget and timescale, managing projects throughout entire lifecycle from initial investigation to implementation and post project review.· Assessing business requirements liasing with the team / dept members, ‘heads of team / dept’ and business analysts. Performing matrix analysis to ensure positive cost / benefit. Documenting technical specification and agreeing statement of works.· To assess the resource requirements including human and technical resource and defining time requirements and setting the budget.· To manage multiple concurrent projects, prioritise and cover all aspects of project management including budgeting, resource procurement and management, communication with stake holders, project sponsors and management board.· Liasing with 3rd party providers to set requirements and standards and ensure they are met.· Ensure projects are managed to a recognised but effective and pragmatic methodology and use relevant project management tools to track progress and give everyone involved regular and relevant communication and updates.· To act as a central figure for the project, to draw everything together and have an overall picture of progress and to allocate extra resource where necessary. To have responsibility for managing project issues and risks and to act as a point of escalation.· Ensure all relevant documentation is in place and kept up to date such as Project Plans, Terms of Reference and Project Initiation documents, and Work Package Definitions which allows projects to be taken over in the event of unplanned absence and forms a basis for most of the upward, downward and lateral communication. Show less

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  Oxford City Council

  Feb 2009 - Dec 2012

  ICT Manager

  · Formulate IT strategy, aims and goals. To demonstrate to the board the business benefits of the strategy in terms of financial savings, improving efficiency, promoting team working or improving the working environment.· System design, including desktop and server configuration and LAN and WAN design.· Setting the annual budget in conjunction with the IT strategy with the Finance Manager and being able to justify the budget to the board in terms of return on investment. To ensure the department stays within budget and individual projects remain within budget.· Set expectations for and drive new projects or development work.· To develop, implement and maintain Business Continuity Plans and ensure they are regularly tested.· All aspects of man-management including leading by example, enthusing and ensuring staff work to their best, concentrating on their strengths while working on any weaknesses. Carrying out annual appraisals and quarterly reviews. · Creating and developing processes and procedures to ensure that staff have clear guidelines on how duties should be carried out, resulting in a consistent and professional service.· Implementing best practice processes throughout the IT function, ensuring standard methodologies, are correctly followed.· Monitoring and reviewing support calls to ensure they are handled within the agreed SLA and ensuring the customer is updated regularly with progress reports and using support call monitoring to identify trends and / or patterns to allow proactive preventative measures to be implemented.· Liaising with 3rd party providers to ensure their work is carried in accordance with agreed requirements, standards and budget within their contractual SLA’s.· Acting as a point of escalation for any technical issues or customer complaints or feedback.· Ensuring that the Systems Support team members are supporting both internal and external customers in a courteous, professional and effective manner. Show less

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  Computacenter

  Jun 2013 - Dec 2013

  Project Manager

  1. Project delivery to time, budget and scope to agreed quality standards.2. Expert understanding of project lifecycles, delivery methods and control processes in an ICT environment.3. Running projects adopting best practices including Prince2 and ensuring team members all adhere to the same principles.4. Planning, monitoring and controlling stages of a project through the gateway approval process.5. Producing project plans, stage plans, highlight reports, risk logs, requests for change, success criteria and other project controls and documentation.6. Management of projects from pre-sales quotations and through the full project lifecycle to project completion including training and transition to BAU.7. Management of multiple concurrent projects and work streams from inception to delivery.8. Strict financial management of the project, including provision of quotes, budget planning, tracking expenditure against the budget and forecasting of costs to deliver the project to a high standard.9. Being responsible for time, quality, budget and tolerance setting in conjunction with the Project Sponsors.10. Assessing business requirements, liaising with the heads of department, team members and business analysts. Performing matrix analysis to ensure positive cost / benefit. Documenting the Business Case, technical specification and agreeing a Statement of Works.11. Work with Quality Assurance to define the quality expectations and SMART acceptance criteria and produce the Quality Management Strategy.12. Maintenance of the RAID Log. Identification, analysis, probability and impact assessment of risks against tolerance, mitigation and reporting to the appropriate level.13. Management of project interdependencies, including the resolution of resource and time conflicts, and the management of conflicting requirements and priorities. Show less

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  Computacenter

  Jun 2014 - Jun 2015

  Project Manager

  1. Project delivery to time, budget and scope to agreed quality standards.2. Expert understanding of project lifecycles, delivery methods and control processes in an ICT environment.3. Running projects adopting best practices including Prince2 and ensuring team members all adhere to the same principles.4. Planning, monitoring and controlling stages of a project through the gateway approval process.5. Producing project plans, stage plans, highlight reports, risk logs, requests for change, success criteria and other project controls and documentation.6. Management of projects from pre-sales quotations and through the full project lifecycle to project completion including training and transition to BAU.7. Management of multiple concurrent projects and work streams from inception to delivery.8. Strict financial management of the project, including provision of quotes, budget planning, tracking expenditure against the budget and forecasting of costs to deliver the project to a high standard.9. Being responsible for time, quality, budget and tolerance setting in conjunction with the Project Sponsors.10. Assessing business requirements, liaising with the heads of department, team members and business analysts. Performing matrix analysis to ensure positive cost / benefit. Documenting the Business Case, technical specification and agreeing a Statement of Works.11. Work with Quality Assurance to define the quality expectations and SMART acceptance criteria and produce the Quality Management Strategy.12. Monitoring and reporting on the overall profitability/ progress against the business case of the project.13. Providing an Impact assessment for all Request for Change including impact on the project deliverables, timescales and financial 14. Providing Assurance and keeping the Project or Programme Board informed through relevant reporting. Show less

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  BT Global Services

  Jul 2015 - Feb 2016

  Senior Project Manager