Vincent Jordan

Vincent Jordan

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  • About me

    Programme Manager at Waimakariri District Council

  • Education

    • Other Education

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      • 2011 Prince2 Practitioner • 2011 Prince2 Foundation• 1997 Method 1 for project managers• 1996 IBM Further Education / RPG Programming• 1991 Magnavox CATV Systems / Certificate of Achievement.• 1991 Sandwell College Certificate / AutoLisp programming

    • Charles Keen College of Further Education

      1985 - 1991
      Electrical Engineering
    • Lutterworth Grammar School

      1978 - 1980
      Public curriculum
    • Lutterworth High School

      1975 - 1978
      Public curriculum
  • Experience

    • LCL Cable Communications

      Jan 1990 - Jan 1995
      IT Manager

      - Management of the IT department- Manage Budgets and Capital expenditure- Solution Design and Development- Strategic Planning- Business Analysis- HR Recruitment & Management of IT staff- CATV Network design

    • Cable & Wireless

      Jun 1995 - Feb 1998
      Project Manager

      Two positions held during my time at Telewest - Senior Manager ICT Support - Project Manager (SMS Migration)- Business Analysis- Solution Design- Implementation- Data analysis- Technical Documentation- Technical Support- Customer Training- HR Recruitment & Management of IT staff

    • Convergys IMG Ltd

      Feb 1998 - Jul 1999
      Technical Delivery Manager

      - Providing commercial and product knowledge of the proprietary Subscriber Management and billing applications- Business Analysis- Solution Design- Implementation- Data analysis- Technical Documentation- Customer Training

    • Siemens Communications Ltd

      Jul 1999 - Dec 1999
      Project Manager

      - Managed 600 PABX switch upgrades- Providing regular project updates to the steering committee- Managing client relationships- HR Recruitment & ongoing management of staff

    • Telewest

      Jan 2000 - Jan 2003
      Technical Project Manager

      Delivered a number of projects and database migrationsDuties included:- Business Analysis- Solution Design- Implementation of IT solutions- Data analysis- Software development- Data reconciliation- Technical Documentation- Training

    • Natcoll Design Technology

      Jan 2004 - Jan 2009
      Project Manager and Manager of Natcoll's IT department

      - Manage the company’s IT department- Was a member of the Senior Management Team- Project Management - Manage company IT budgets- Business Development and Strategic Planning- Project Managed the company’s curriculum development initiatives - Managed submissions made to the New Zealand’s educational authorities (NZQA)- Upgraded the company’s network and telephone systems (VoiP) across the country - Manage all property leases- IT Recruitment & Management of IT staff Show less

    • Virgin Media

      Oct 2009 - Jul 2012
      Technical Delivery Project Manager

      Delivery of Virgin Media technology based projects such as:- Broad Band Traffic Management- UK VAT updates which were project managed throughout the entire company infrastructure - Customer Billing developments- Credit Collections developments

    • Meridian Energy

      Nov 2012 - Jan 2015
      Project Manager

      Project Managed and successfully delivered a variety of projects such as:- Differentiated Service- Buying Group migrations- No Meter Reads- installed Microsoft Dynamics CRM hosting and upgrade- Automated Pricing

    • University of Canterbury

      Feb 2015 - Dec 2020
      Senior Project Manager

      Project Managed and successfully delivered a variety of projects within Canterbury University:- File Storage deployment Isilon (DELL EMC)- File storage replacement (DELL EMC)- Compute storage replacement (VMware)- Windows 7 to Windows 10 upgrade (5500 Student and staff devices)- Student and staff mobile application deployment (UCGo) - Oracle PeopleSoft Payroll, HR and recruitment upgrade to PeopleSoft 9.2 - Facilities Management software upgrade- Replacement of UC’s legacy copper communications PABX platform to Skype for Business- Replaced UC Call Centre platforms - Deployed a new API Gateway platform- Rapid Covid 19 Contract Tracing application deployment - Replacement of UC’s Security and Canterbury Card software and hardware Show less

    • Lincoln University

      Dec 2020 - May 2022
      Project Manager
    • Waimakariri District Council

      Feb 2022 - now
      Programme Manager
  • Licenses & Certifications