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Peter Ferguson
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READING, United Kingdom
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I am passionate about both people & delivery, with excellent planning, organisational & execution skills. A friendly, jovial relationship builder and influencer, at all levels of an organisation. Experience in Finance, Banking, Internet, Telecoms, Mobile services, New media, Utilities, Construction & Agricultural sectors.
Comfortable resolving ambiguity, great problem solving skills and experience & ability to break things down into manageable chunks to expedite delivery. I am a turn around specialist; resilient, tenacious and good at identifying the consequences of an approach.
Adept at controlling managed service providers / 3rd parties and moulding disparate resources into a single cohesive team.
Quality driven, with great attention to detail & the instinctive understanding of the correct depth required to get the job done.
Sustainability is one of my core values which makes me very efficiency conscious, avoiding waste and seeking to deliver more for less.
Specialities: Program, Project & Release management; Process & methodology consultancy, Requirements Engineering; Planning; Global & local stakeholder management; Team building; Change management; Service Transition, Business intelligence all across a number of FTSE 100 organisations.
Comfortable resolving ambiguity, great problem solving skills and experience & ability to break things down into manageable chunks to expedite delivery. I am a turn around specialist; resilient, tenacious and good at identifying the consequences of an approach.
Adept at controlling managed service providers / 3rd parties and moulding disparate resources into a single cohesive team.
Quality driven, with great attention to detail & the instinctive understanding of the correct depth required to get the job done.
Sustainability is one of my core values which makes me very efficiency conscious, avoiding waste and seeking to deliver more for less.
Specialities: Program, Project & Release management; Process & methodology consultancy, Requirements Engineering; Planning; Global & local stakeholder management; Team building; Change management; Service Transition, Business intelligence all across a number of FTSE 100 organisations.
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United Kingdom
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Language
English
Fluently
Ready for
Larger project
Ongoing relation / part-time
Full time contractor
Available
My experience
2018 - 2019
freelance
Project Management Consultant (Contractor)
Thames Water, Reading.
● Operational Technology. Troubleshooting Electronic Security Systems. Ensuring progress against DEFRA mandated milestones to avoid punitive penalisation.
● ICA (SCADA) scheme. Resolving blockers, mitigating risk and mediating between & controlling solution integrators. Ensuring successful delivery of business benefit on time & to budget.
● Delivery Management consultancy. Designed, communicated & promoted process & artefacts to facilitate rapid delivery of small / low complexity / low risk projects. Delivered mechanism & toolkit to enable faster time to market.
● ICA (SCADA) scheme. Resolving blockers, mitigating risk and mediating between & controlling solution integrators. Ensuring successful delivery of business benefit on time & to budget.
● Delivery Management consultancy. Designed, communicated & promoted process & artefacts to facilitate rapid delivery of small / low complexity / low risk projects. Delivered mechanism & toolkit to enable faster time to market.
Project Management, Budget, Controlling, Management, Technology, Security, Delivery Management, SCADA, Management Consultant
2017 - 2018
freelance
Release Management Consultant
M & G Prudential.
(Contractor) M & G Prudential. Reading
● Release Management GAP analysis & consultancy. Crafted, communicated, championed & rolled out an automated process & artefacts for stabilisation, inc. ground work for more rapid delivery mechanisms; Enhancing information dissemination, increasing efficiency & due diligence & mitigating risk
● Release Management GAP analysis & consultancy. Crafted, communicated, championed & rolled out an automated process & artefacts for stabilisation, inc. ground work for more rapid delivery mechanisms; Enhancing information dissemination, increasing efficiency & due diligence & mitigating risk
Management, Due Diligence, Management Consultant
2015 - 2017
temp
Senior Project Manager
Delivering DR across New Market Systems.
Dec 15 - Oct 17: Senior Project Manager (contract) Thames Water. Reading - Open Water 2017
● Service Transition. Senior stakeholder management to garner confidence; Adroit management & negotiation between outgoing incumbent & new managed service providers.
● Driving new Managed service provider successfully Delivering DR across New Market Systems & planning for non-prod migration to Cloud (Azure)
● Successfully delivered NHH retail market compliance across Operational Systems, shaping & prioritising scope & Business requirements. Delicate negotiation with key stakeholders; Moulding a diverse cross organisational project team into a single cohesive unit. Met TW's obligations to OFWAT, DEFRA & MOSL to aggressive timescales in a very challenging environment.
● Service Transition. Senior stakeholder management to garner confidence; Adroit management & negotiation between outgoing incumbent & new managed service providers.
● Driving new Managed service provider successfully Delivering DR across New Market Systems & planning for non-prod migration to Cloud (Azure)
● Successfully delivered NHH retail market compliance across Operational Systems, shaping & prioritising scope & Business requirements. Delicate negotiation with key stakeholders; Moulding a diverse cross organisational project team into a single cohesive unit. Met TW's obligations to OFWAT, DEFRA & MOSL to aggressive timescales in a very challenging environment.
Project Manager, Retail, Azure, Cloud, Stakeholder Management, Management, Service, Compliance, Service Transition, Manager
2013 - 2015
temp
Senior Release Manager
unknown.
(contract) Visa EU. Reading - Head hunted
● Release management of Mobile programme (project rescue), business critical programme (£20+M): increased fraud detection capability and service enhancement
● Release management of Mobile programme (project rescue), business critical programme (£20+M): increased fraud detection capability and service enhancement
Management, Service, Release manager, Manager
2012 - 2013
temp
Senior Project Manager (contract)
Visa EU. Reading.
● Management of Falcon Real Time Scoring & Case Manager DR, business critical programme (£5M): Disaster recovery across complex systems; Introduced system increasing resilience
● Delivered Falcon system upgrades (£3M+): Complex, multi system, fraud management upgrade, affecting 160+ member banks; Project rescue, enlisted collaboration, rapidly exerted control driving senior stakeholder confidence. Significant planning & management of lengthiest impacting deploy to date. Successfully re-aligned to support model, reducing risk & enabling strategic super league member bank on-boarding.
● Delivery of July release: Authorisations projects brought under control, rapidly; Delivering increased fraud detection, PCI DSS compliance & other enhancements, on time & under budget.
Jan 11 - Dec 11: Renovating property, London;
● Delivered Falcon system upgrades (£3M+): Complex, multi system, fraud management upgrade, affecting 160+ member banks; Project rescue, enlisted collaboration, rapidly exerted control driving senior stakeholder confidence. Significant planning & management of lengthiest impacting deploy to date. Successfully re-aligned to support model, reducing risk & enabling strategic super league member bank on-boarding.
● Delivery of July release: Authorisations projects brought under control, rapidly; Delivering increased fraud detection, PCI DSS compliance & other enhancements, on time & under budget.
Jan 11 - Dec 11: Renovating property, London;
Project Manager, Budget, Management, Compliance, Support, Manager
2010 - 2010
temp
Senior Project Manager (contract)
Vodafone LTD.
Newbury
● TV on Demand programme: Mobile Wi-Fi service. Requirements gap analysis to verify business objectives.
● MMS Subscriptions enhancements: Migration to new, improved global payment system. Improving critical issue resolution & key business objective of simplifying revenue stream.
Nov 09 - Jul 10: Renovating property, Italy
● TV on Demand programme: Mobile Wi-Fi service. Requirements gap analysis to verify business objectives.
● MMS Subscriptions enhancements: Migration to new, improved global payment system. Improving critical issue resolution & key business objective of simplifying revenue stream.
Nov 09 - Jul 10: Renovating property, Italy
Project Manager, Service, TV, Manager
2005 - 2005
temp
Delivery Manager
HUTCHISON 3G UK LTD.
Maidenhead
● Launched of new handsets, enabling key business objective of increased market share.
● Launched of new handsets, enabling key business objective of increased market share.
Manager
2000 - 2005
job
Snr Prod. Development Manager (perm)
unknown.
YELL, Reading.
● Delivered BI data warehousing program (project rescue to £500K) & other high-profile initiatives. Delivering CRM objectives & strategy to successfully grow advertisers and thus revenue.
● Delivered BI data warehousing program (project rescue to £500K) & other high-profile initiatives. Delivering CRM objectives & strategy to successfully grow advertisers and thus revenue.
CRM, Development, BEE, Manager
1996 - 1998
job
Release Mgr, S/w Engineer, Project Mgr
METAPATH S/W INTERNATIONAL.
1991 - 1995
job
Quantity Surveyor, Aberdeen
unknown.
Costings, contracts, valuations & payment negotiations to £300K.
Contracts, Contracts
My education
1995
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1996
Napier University
N/a, Software Engineering
N/a, Software Engineering
1989
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1993
Robert Gordon University
BSc, Surveying
BSc, Surveying
1987
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1989
George Watsons College
N/a, N/a
N/a, N/a
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