David Petrus

Experience

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  House of Fraser

  Jul 1984 - Jun 1990

  Systems Analyst

  Initially employed as a systems analyst within the retail sector in the Warehousing and Distribution Department on systems from ordering/invoicing of suppliers through to despatch/invoicing of customers and stores then moved into the Merchandising Department on systems from centrally raised supplier ordering to stock transferring between stores• Actively involved in all areas of system design, development, implementation and maintenance, user training and project leading• Management of a team of 10 Analysts and programmers and in the absence of the departmental manager, the running of the department• Major projects have included the implementation of a Warehousing and Distribution system and the development of a computerised stock transfer system for the stores Show less

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  Courtaulds Films Polypropylene Ltd

  Jul 1990 - Jun 1996

  Analyst/Programmer

  Employed in the IT Department working on business systems ranging from manufacturing, sales ordering, supplier ordering, to financial applications• Responsibilities included all areas of system design, development, implementation and maintenance, including investigation, feasibility studies, requirement definitions, project management, testing, programming, and administration• Management of a team of 5 people responsible for the day to day operation of the IT Department in the absence of the manager• Liaised with and implemented systems at our French site, evaluated packages and dealt with third party suppliers• Managed access, security, VDU safety and systems disaster recovery• Successfully tested systems disaster recovery for the UK and French sites• Controlled data protection• Major architectural projects have included migration of the business systems from Pick to Unix and implementing an NT network Show less

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  Hoechst Trespaphan UK Ltd

  Jul 1996 - Jun 2000

  Senior SAP Analyst/Programmer

  Actively involved in a simultaneous European implementation of all major SAP modules across three sites in Germany, France and England• Worked one year in Germany with Coopers & Lybrand consultants• Presented version update changes to staff and consultants providing what needed to be done to facilitate it• Configured the financial module and cross application areas in sales and materials management• Transferring existing data from legacy systems• Finding solutions to business problems• Actively involved in the definition of policies and principles plus the writing of procedures and user manuals• Supporting and developing the system, and in my last year working within a team upgrading the system Show less

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  IBS CONSULTING SERVICES

  Jan 2000 - Jan 2003

  SAP Consultant

  Contracted to various SAP projects throughout the UK as a senior SAP programmer• Contracted to Mitsui Co, UK Ltd in London on their European implementation for sites in London, Amsterdam, Dusseldorf and Milan in preparation for a full European rollout. As the senior ABAP developer, responsible for the investigation, documentation, development and implementation of solutions for country specific requirements across sales, materials management and financial modules. Co-ordinating closely with the configuration consultants• Contracted to Sequoia Technology for the cleansing of master data and the development of reports and forms. Actively involved with first line managers to define, document and implement solutions across sales, materials management and financial modules• Contracted to Warner Brothers for the development of programs to produce batch input sessions for the Euro currency conversion Show less

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  Novasoft (UK) Ltd

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2004

  SAP Programming Team Leader

  Contracted to various SAP projects throughout the UK and Europe as a SAP Programming Team Leader managing teams of both internal and external programmersContracted to B&Q on their European SAP implementation as the SAP Distribution Centre Development Team Leader, managing a team of both internal and external programmers• Agreed development priorities with Development Manager ensuring delivery on time and to budget• Identified appropriate resources for system development task allocation• Managed development • Ensured system technical design including user security, archiving, batch processing and housekeeping• Ensured system integrated effectively with external systems• Estimated the impact of change requests• Controlling the development rework resulting from functional QA, testing & implementation• Ensured technical QA of system development • Ensured availability system development environments to project team• Ensured development standards• Participated in technical design reviews• Contributed to system development progress at development progress meetings• Identified system development issues and risks• Identified system development resource requirements and selecting candidates Show less

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  Bel Air Panwa Co., Ltd

  Jul 2005 - Jun 2011

  General Manager

  Managed the department throughout the project lifecycle of building a condominium• Presentations to directors and actively involved in director meetings for decision making• Production of IT systems to facilitate all aspects of the project from accounting to sales• Management and recruitment of all external contractors and consultants as well as internal staff• Produced budgets and forecasts, and ensured delivery of this major project on time and within budget• Negotiated and executed contracts• Ensuring delivery on time and within budget• Analysis of website traffic and marketing effectiveness• Management of direct email marketing• Sales lead generation and follow up on sales leads Show less

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  Watson Property Group

  Feb 2011 - now

  IT and Marketing Manager

  Managed the IT and Marketing departments and currently working remotely from Cambodia• Presentations to directors and actively involved in director meetings for decision making• Management of external contractors and consultants as well as internal staff• Sourcing and costing of personnel• Production of budgets and forecasts• Ensuring delivery on time and within budget• Negotiating and executing contracts• Providing customer service for end user support for all internal and external users on technical issues• Administration and maintenance of server and network• Analysing the market and competitors and reporting back to directors• Analysis of customer data for specific targeted marketing• Maintenance and update of website• Implementation and maintenance of a sales document production system• SEO analysis to increase website traffic• Analysis of website traffic and marketing effectiveness• Managing direct email marketing• Sales lead generation and follow up on sales leads• Ensuring all hard copy, soft copy and online media marketing materials up-to-date and in line with company branding• Implementation and maintenance of CRM systems Show less