SUMMARY:

• Experienced and passionate Project & Program Manager with a strong track record in Mobile, Web and Digital technologies.
• My technical and managerial background coupled with my passion for travelling and desire to experience new cultures, working methods and know­hows have always led me to seek managerial positions across the world.
• Over the years I have gained experience in the telecommunication and digital industries through a complementary range of responsibilities and key roles.
• I understand the technicalities and challenges associated with IT projects. My various experiences as a Project Manager have deepened my understanding of the business and strengthened my ability to manage cross functional teams in order to successfully deliver quality products on time, within budget and scope.
• Focused on Project and Program Management using Agile and/or Waterfall methodologies, I have experience working with blue chip clients on large and complex projects (> $25m). I have led development teams, managers and cross - functional teams (often distributed) on projects involving dozens of people and multiple third party companies.
• Deliveries have ranged from applications and websites for iOS, Android, PC, MAC, Set Top Box, connected TV and consoles to fully fledged platforms of high-performance back-end services and CMSs.
• I take pride in being client and product oriented and am a dedicated, confident and flexible person.
• Combined with my interpersonal and communication skills, I am the perfect candidate to be easily integrated into any project team.

MAIN SKILLS, COMPETENCES AND TOOLS:

Competency areas Project management skills: Project environments Methodologies Personal skills Project & issue mgt. tools Operating systems Programming languages Fluently written and spoken roject & program management, technical project management, Scrum mastering, technical and managerial recruitment, mobile & Web development full project life cycle scoping, scheduling, issue tracking, risk and change mgt., quality and performance control, client, stakeholder and team mgt., reporting, resource allocation, recruiting, time and budget keeping internal to multi-organizational projects, low to very high budgets, small to very large and distributed teams

Agile software development: (Scrum, Kanban, RAD, TDD, FDD, XP), Waterfall, PRINCE2 manage by example, define expectations, positive attitude, considerate, direct, creative, persistent Microsoft Project & Office suite, Confluence Wiki, JIRA as well as various bug trackers and collaborative tools Android, iOS, Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Confidential OS (Series 40), Symbian OS (Series 60), Confidential 4 Java (J2ME, J2SE) + Ant, C/C++, C#, Qt, HTML, Javascript, PHP

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

Project Manager

Confidential

Responsibilities:

• Manage the whole project from the initial conceptual design stage to the depths of system testing, and each stage in between.
• Work closely with the commercial and product teams in order to understand and implement the business requirements while developing effective working relationships and processes.
• Maintain regular contact with the customers and provide the right level of customer service whilst ensuring all agreed project delivery milestones are met in a timely and quality manner.
• Estimate and plan projects from start to finish, with built in contingencies. Define the deliverables and, in conjunction with the operations team, manage the resource allocation, development, testing and deployment stages of the projects.
• Own and drive project planning and risk analysis while handling commercial issues related to customer management.
• Produce the required documentation for the projects, both to enable architecture and development to proceed and to fulfil the reporting needs of the clients.
• Manage technical interdependencies and assign resources in order to ensure that project priorities are executed seamlessly.
• Ensure that the projects are delivered within the financial requirements and that they meet industry leading quality standards.
• Conduct project presentations and compile reports.
• Develop documentation standards and company processes.
• Help drive the company's Agile strategy and lead the full setup and administration of “JIRA” and “Confluence”
• Conduct interviews for the recruitment of Project Managers, Client Service Managers and Customer Service Managers

Confidential

Technical Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Planned, managed and evaluated project deliveries (core components and SDK) of the Platform Engagement Program
• Coordinated and tracked issue resolution and associated reporting with the contributing member companies.
• Supported the ASC with the organisation and co-ordination of the specification and compliance focused task forces.
• Helped driving the evolution of the Platform Specification and Compliance Programs through new proposals and policies.
• Conducted face to face and ad-hoc ASC meetings and assisted in compiling presentations relevant to each council.
• Worked with globally distributed development teams across multiple companies.