Stuart Riise

Experience

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  Unite Students

  Aug 2007 - Jul 2009

  Residential Controller

  General building management. Responsibilities included working in the reception area, organising welcome parties, social events, marshalling fire drills, creating shift rotas and responding to any emergency that may arise in the building. I was also responsible for responding to emergencies outside of normal office hours.

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  ERT

  Feb 2010 - May 2010

  Programmer

  - Programming, upgrading and maintenance of cardiovascular-monitoring machines.- Other responsibilities included minute-taking and stock-auditing.

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  Ministry of Justice UK

  May 2010 - Jul 2011

  Security - Operation Support

  - Reported directly to Head of Security on a £40M project. - Responsible for creating metrics detailing personnel, vehicles and material movements. - Created a metric for calculating environmental impact of the project.

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  Travelling the World!

  Jun 2011 - May 2012

  World Traveller

  Travelling extensively across five continents I met people from a wealth of different cultures and was able to learn about their views on work, life and the wider world. I learned to communicate through language barriers, negotiate and forge relationships with every sort of person imaginable. I found this experience to be invaluable in my personal and professional development.

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  Computacenter

  May 2012 - Apr 2015

  LAN REFRESH- Working with Technical Consultants to plan network upgrades (hardware, software & cabling).- Planning workloads, obtaining change approval and supporting implementation.IT USER AND HARDWARE RELOCATION- Project planning and coordination of multiple service providers. Managed complex SharePoint zone- Technical Discovery including VLAN scopes, DHCP and Statics.- Managing relocation of PCs, Unix and Printers in live production environments.Finances- Writing/reviewing Quotations and Statements of Work.- Project Finance Tracking, using SAP and other Reporting Tools for end of month reports.- Challenging cross-charges ready for project closure.Data Discovery and Validation- Supporting the customer from the audit phase through to the post-move database update. Show less

  • Scheduling Manager

    May 2014 - Apr 2015

  • Project Manager

    May 2013 - Apr 2014

  • Scheduling & Resource Manager

    May 2012 - Apr 2013
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  Abrdn

  May 2015 - Mar 2016

  Project Manager & Business Analyst - IT Security

  - Requirements gathering and change analysis role on global infrastructure projects.- Designed and implemented patching schedules for the global server estate.- Managed deployment team and progress updates to senior technical and business stakeholders.

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  Deutsche Bank

  Apr 2016 - Dec 2016

  Project Management Officer - Life & Pensions insurance

  - Creator/Developer of project management tools, used for automating numerous reports, including Central Resource Database, used for capacity management & portfolio planning.- Managed/supported multiple projects.- Created reports for the Executive Committee meetings- Secretary to multiple Working Groups and Project Meetings within major change portfolio

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  Mars

  Jan 2017 - Jun 2017

  Project Manager - HR Systems projects

  HR Projects:(1) Payroll software migration. Process mapping and Data reconciliation. Reporting on P&L(2) Designed and implemented custom solution in Excel. Used for calculating employee pension profiles, incorporating legacy databases.

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  Debenhams

  Jun 2017 - Mar 2020

  Project Management Officer - Logistics & Automation

  - Logistics automation implementation project for a global retailer- Part of Central Management Team, working in partnership with 3rd Party Logistics provider, Automation Specialists and Solution Design Consultants- Project Management, e.g. running Logistics Change Board, Planning, Reporting, RAID Log and SharePoint administration and Document management- Finance/Data Analyst for wider Supply Chain portfolio

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  Vattenfall

  Feb 2021 - now

  Currently working on Hollandse Kust Zuid 1-4 (HKZ) PMO for Offshore Wind and Green Hydrogen projects.

  • Senior Project Management Officer

    Jul 2023 - now

  • Project Management Officer - Offshore Wind

    Feb 2021 - now