Stephen King

Experience

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  Bluewave , London

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2000

  Project Manager

  A funky web design company living the dream. A fantastic company to work for doing leading edge online portals.1. Successfully launched 3 world Internet Portals for RACAL who were re-branding at the time. I was brought in to put the project back on track. 2. Managed teams in London, New York and Singapore.Other Stuff.Supported and mentored staff who were often straight out of university.

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  PwC

  Jan 2000 - Nov 2000

  Program Manager

  Contract Project Manager to deliver:1. International E-Portal. (ECademy) which became the learning portal for the company, which included all the usual Project Management tasks: Planning Tracking, Risk Management, Resource Management etc.Managed all aspects of this significant international project that was aimed at driving down the training costs across the organisation.

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  Parity

  Nov 2000 - Jan 2003

  Project Manager

  Managed an initiative to empower staff who were not assigned on specific projects to develop their skills in IBM, Microsoft and Oracle technologies.Offered project Consultancy services to external clientsWas contracted large organisations as a Project Manager.

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  Pearson plc

  Jan 2003 - Jul 2014

  Senior Program Manager

  Worked closely with key stakeholders and Government Departments to deliver a diverse range of projects:1. Implementation of financial outsourcing2. Delivering key qualifications to the DfE2. Re-branding key areas of the Pearson.3. Producing and launching a range of exciting new international qualifications and working with NGO's to deliver services to Yemen.4. Using Social Media Marketing to promote key projects.What I did:1. Motivate and mentor staff - both formally and informally.2. Focus on what needs to be done to get results.3. Push the boundaries where possible - take calculated decisions and use intuition.4. Generate and run with new ideas to drive business.Knowledge gained:1. How to manage projects. I am qualified in PRINCE2 and up to speed with Agile2. How the "Matrix" of Social media marketing works!3. How to program and create web sites.4. How to set up sites in Wordpress.5. Sector knowledge in Finance, Education, IT, and Media Show less

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  UCA. Farnham

  Mar 2015 - Apr 2019

  Senior Project Manager

  End to end project management of complex business and technology projects.

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  University for the Creative Arts

  May 2017 - Apr 2018

  Head of Business Change

  Interim Head of Business change managing the project pipeline and resource for the organisation.Managing stakeholder expectations and delivering mission critical projects.This has included the relocation of x2 Data centres and implementation of O365 as well as a cross business identity management project. In addition a cross business BCDR programme was implemented.