Pete Berryman

Experience

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  Dart Couriers

  Jun 1988 - Aug 1989

  Bicycle courier

  What could be better than cycling around in the sunshine... a fantastic job... I was in the Top 5 of the team of couriers, which wasn't bad for a 'Pom' in a new city!!

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  EDS

  Aug 1989 - Sept 1995

  Systems Engineer

  Systems engineer within the General Motors Pan-European teams.

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  Freelance

  Jun 1991 - Feb 2022

  Biscuit Designer

  Internationally acclaimer biscuit designer with a number of industry & national plaudits for outstanding contributions to developing the practical concepts of “small baked unleavened cakes”… enjoy your tea & biscuits :-)

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  BT Syntegra

  Sept 1995 - Feb 1997

  Project Manager

  Project manager in the logistics sector, Foreign Office (FCO) and MOD teams.

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  Netica

  Feb 1997 - Mar 1998

  Project Manager

  Introduced formal project management processes to a new company, focusing on the improvement of process management and project managing the delivery of core products.

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  Heavy Lunch Surf Team Limited

  Mar 1998 - Dec 2020

  Director

  The HLST continues to provide industry standard programme and project management advice and guidance to a number of sectors across financial services, telecomms and new media.

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  ICL

  Apr 1998 - Mar 2001

  Project Manager - Contract

  I provided project and bid management to a number of retail accounts (including WHSmith, Kingfisher and the Early Learning Centre) and delivered a variety of challenges (including a series of intranets, a kiosk pilot and a replacement PoS system) with project budgets exceeding £150k.

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  V-Ten Limited (Mercedes UK/DaimlerChrysler subsidary)

  Jun 2001 - Sept 2001

  Programme/Project Manager - Contract

  I provided consultancy to review their control and delivery of projects, providing a set of procedures, recommendations and templates that would work in response to the demands of the Daimler Chrysler business environment.

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  The Charity Commission

  Sept 2001 - Dec 2001

  Project Manager - Contract

  I was engaged to manage the implementation of the Government Secure Intranet (GSI) to deliver secure internet browsing and email access to all 600 of their staff across all locations.

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  V-Ten Limited (Mercedes UK/DaimlerChrysler subsidary)

  Jan 2002 - Oct 2003

  Programme/Project Manager - Contract

  I returned to V-Ten to manage the programme of integrating factory data feeds to the online dealership management system deployed at DaimlerChrysler and the refresh of the DCUK website to maximize the benefit to potential customers

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  Content Master Limited

  Nov 2003 - Feb 2004

  Project Manager - Contract

  Co-ordinated teams of content writers and editors (based remotely around the UK and the USA) to update the security documentation for Microsoft. I also reviewed and updated the project delivery practices at Content Master.

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  V-Ten Limited (Mercedes UK/DaimlerChrysler subsidary)

  Feb 2004 - Jun 2004

  Programme/Project Manager - Contract

  Managed team of 20+ web developers and database architects to enhance and support the majority of the Mercedes and Chrysler UK's online presence.Managed the migration of the websites from HTML-driven to database-driven services - which in turn allowed the development of more sophisticated online services for customers, such as a car configurator.

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  Orange PCS Limited

  Jun 2004 - May 2006

  Technical Project Manager - Contract

  Considerable involvement in the enhancement of the Orange online shop, including integration of backend services, management of off-shore suppliers, operational readiness, stakeholder management, etc.

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  Virgin Mobile Limited

  Jun 2006 - Jun 2007

  Senior Product Manager - Contract

  Delivered the Virgin Mobile "Mobile TV" solution.Managed a number of business enhancements, including the addition of new tariffs to meet significant business benefit.

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  Summer 2007

  Jul 2007 - Nov 2007

  Extended break for a good family holiday

  I started the break by taking my road race bicycle to the Western Pyrennees and bagging a number of the classic 'Tour De France' cols, including the Aubisque and the mighty Tormalet.The summer was a good family break and with the start of the new academic I committed to a number of activities at my son's Primary School in my role as parent governor, including a review and update of their statutory policies.I also started a cycling group in Malmesbury (that's still going strong)... well before a MAMIL* was a thing!*Middle Aged Man In Lycra Show less

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  PHH Arval

  Dec 2007 - Mar 2008

  Solution Delivery Manager - Contract

  I was engaged by Arval UK to deliver a new quotation system being developed and bespoked (for the UK market) by central French IT teams with analysts (technical and business) based in Swindon. This raised a number of interesting challenges with key roles being split across international borders.

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  Future Publishing

  Mar 2008 - Feb 2009

  Digital Programme Manager - Contract

  Engaged to develop two large publishing portals in the Digital/New Media sector, including the selection of a new strategic open-source CMS platform, a job board service and a bespoke system to link online sales (held in a corporate billing system) to the traffic volumes (held by Dart/Doubleclick).

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  Ocean Blue Software Limited

  May 2009 - Jul 2009

  Lead consultant

  I lead the preparation of grant and funding applications for a cutting-edge service to deliver clinical and care services into the home using familiar digital TV frameworks.

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  Vertu

  Jul 2009 - Jan 2011

  Online Delivery Manager

  Vertu is Nokia’s luxury phone division based on a purpose-made site in Hampshire, where all of the manufacturing, software development, sales & logistics takes place. Although the product divides opinion, it is the leading luxury mobile globally and is a real UK & manufacturing success story – I was immensely proud to have been part of this during the change to smartphone technology.My initial brief was to deploy Vertu’s first e-commerce service. Working with a Nokia colleague, Juha Nurminen, we scoped the e-commerce service end-to-end, integrated a third-party online store provider (which included enhancing their back-office capability), integrated incoming orders to the Nokia SAP and logistics systems, as well as developing sound reverse logistics processes. This was deployed to the UK and Germany in July 2010, after which we provided options for extending this service globally before handing over the operational control to another colleague.After a short piece of work evaluating issues with a programme of work deploying a new ePoS system, I got involved in the delivery of several workstreams providing customer-facing functions over the internet to Vertu’s new QWERTY phone. This entailed close collaboration with the software development teams, third-party providers, network engineers and the programme test teams, not to mention marketing and the senior stakeholders to board-level. Again, this was delivered successfully to plan. Show less

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  Arval - BNP Paribas Group

  Jan 2011 - Jan 2012

  Web and Reporting Senior Project Manager

  Managed the definition and early delivery of the workstreams supporting a new and significantly upgraded customer web interfacing to a new TSYS-based acquirer platform - which extends the supply Chip & Pin capability to the existing fuel-card offerings and 1.5M customers. The worstreams covered the web development, back-end integrations, customer reporting (and migration mapping) and operational reporting. The solution experienced unique challenges including the integration to a new data warehouse, Macro4 EDM solution, Business Objects reporting suite, plus a variety of legacy data and web sources. Show less

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  O2 UK (a Telefónica Company)

  Mar 2012 - now

  Programme Manager

  Helping Telefonica Group to develop and deploy TuGo, their VOIP service that allows mobile users to make and receive calls on any Wi-Fi connected device (including tablets and PCs) using their mobile numbers rather than a user ID. It has involved technical and business teams across the UK, Spain and Israel - and is starting to touch on global releases in other countries.Previously delivered several projects to build a self-service model based on Salesforce to support Business customers across a number of channels, including corporates. The role encompassed projects to deliver an SSO solution and to migrate customers & users from the legacy CRM system in readiness for decommission, and also involved integration to back-end services to automate the self-service journeys. All of the usual corporate challenges applied, in addition to the business constraints imposed by the changing economic climate. Show less

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  Mombee

  Nov 2015 - Aug 2020

  Founder

  Mombee Snowboards was a great initiative that pulled together a multitude of skillsets that played to the best of my abilities... innovation, creativity, woodwork, design, new materials, art, project management, strategy, etc, etc. Everything was aligning well and we were gearing up for some substantial investment.. then the UK voted for Brexit, and it was clear that this was going to devastate the ability for any company reliant on the EU market to trade competitively & effectively.We tried to hold on to a belief that building a new snowboard company in the UK could be worthy of investment, but unfortunately the risk has proved too great... forward fast to the present day and you'll witness the staggering issues that established companies are now facing that are driving them out of business.We hope that this absurd situation can be reversed and Mombee snowboards can rise again, but for now we'll just enoy the snow whenever we can.Just for the record:o The Mombee prototypes survived multiple trips to the Alps and a summer at Gloucester dry slope (freestyle sessions).o We imported materials from suppliers in Austria, America, China and Sweden.o We invested in local CNC suppliers for cutting bases and using large-scale digital printers.o We invested in a vacuum press and heat mats.o We had loads of interest from anyone who saw the boards in the flesh... even being flagged down on the slopes in France by instructors asking about them.www.facebook.com/mombeeUK/ Show less

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  Team Bath

  Mar 2018 - Jun 2018

  Student

  Joined the blended learning course over six weekends and home learning to attain my Level 2 Fitness Instructor and Level 3 Personal Trainer certificates.

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  Functional Fit UK

  Jul 2018 - now

  Level 3 Personal Trainer

  I am a qualified Level 3 Personal Trainer and Level 2 Fitness Instructor, having come through the amazing Team Bath facilities at Bath University. I am currently developing programmes around the concept of 'functional fitness', i.e. building exercise programmes for clients that support their day-to-day activities whilst developing their fitness levels to target other ambitions. Feel free to contact me with regards any personal training queries or needs.