SIMON IGBINEDION

38 Melrose Close, Lee London. SE12, 0AL

Tel: 07438325966, Email:

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PROFILE

I am a Project Management professional with extensive knowledge and experience in defining projects and its associated management requirement, managing multiple projects in a Prince 2 environment, StakeholderManagement,RAID Management and Full project life cycle experience. I also have broad knowledge and understanding of standard project management methodologies such as; PRINCE2 and APM. With my knowledge and experience, I was able to effectively manage data and communication processes for high profile and reputable organizations in such as Vodafone, Barclays Bank, AEGIS and NHS.

In addition, Ialso have vast knowledge and experience in the following areas;

  • Microsoft office packages
  • MS Project Server
  • Third line support skills (System Management skills, deployment, integration and maintenance.)
  • Business Change focused Project Management
  • Communications strategy and consultancy
  • Consumer insight and media research solutions
  • Managing project quality
  • Product/softwaredevelopment management
  • Offline and Online media planning and buying task management
  • Agile project management
  • Staff management
  • Risk management
  • Resource management
  • Change management
  • Development of data and communication processes for Banks, Hospitals, Retails, Media, and Schools.

EDUCATION

  • Biomedical Technology Bsc- 2009
  • Management Studies (Level 6)- 2010-2012

EXPERIENCE

NHS (Nbt Inc)- KENT

PROJECT MANAGER April 2012- Date

Accountable for managing the delivery of critical projects and providing managerial support for projects conducted by the company. Also responsible for providing monthly financial and technical updates of any known issues/risks to the Senior Manager.

  • Responsible for costing, estimating and planning projects.

  • Preparing project initiation documentation.

  • Responsible for ensuring best value is obtained for the project including, use of internal and external resources.

  • Maintaining and completing Project Key Performance Indicators.

  • Writing detailed and summarized project progress reports.
  • Identifying, costing and processing any contract variations.
  • Tracking activities against the detailed project plans.
  • Updating project plans to include agreed changes.
  • Producing accurate financial reports.
  • Manage large scale projects in technology development for life sciences products with complex interdependencies among multiple sub-systems.
  • Managevalidation and compliance projects which includedeveloping validation documentation for pharmaceutical equipment, facilities and computerized systems.
  • Ensure project deliverables which encompass validation plans, specifications, testing protocols and standard operation procedures.
  • Assist in the production and update of laboratory documentation, particularly relating to policies and standard operating procedures
  • Manage laboratory services (Gas, deionized water, cryogenics, resource management and storage of chemicals, waste management.
  • Design and implement new add-ons needed for experimental set-ups
  • Used Good Automated Manufacturing Practice (GAMP) guidelines to ensure standard required quality of products.
  • Use GXP quality guidelines such as Good Automated Laboratory Practice (GALP), Good Auditing Practice (GAP), Good Documentation Practice (GDP), Good Information System Practice (GISP) to ensure products are safe and meet required needs and specifications.
  • Monitoring actual expenditure figures against project budgets.
  • Organising and facilitating Project Steering / Operating Committees meetings.

AEGIS MEDIA- IRELAND (Nbt Inc.)

PROJECT MANAGER December 2010- March 2012

Responsible for client progress meetings on and off site, cost control, invoicing, variation claims, invoice payment resolution and conditions of contract. Worked closely with other Project Managers to promote overall company effectiveness.

• Managed the project team including subcontractor’s remote delivery teams.

• Ensured projects and programmes were executed using agreed standards &processes

• Performeddata analysis and evaluation.

• Designed and managed the development of customer communications planning.

• Prepared status reports for use in communication to stakeholders.

• Escalatedissues and areas of concern to Senior Managers.

• Ensured staff/sub-contractors timesheets were accurately completed

• Generated work packages and work instructions.

• Established the overall success criteria for a project, including; time, cost, technical and performance parameter.

Barclays Bank Plc. – London (Nbt Inc)

PROJECT DELIVERY MANAGER March 2010- December 2010

  • Managed Consultants and Delivery Services teams, including Infrastructure and software development teams, assignments of consultants/delivery teams, within a Matrix resourcing model.
  • Worked with customers at executive level, built relationships to promote and successfully deliver services in a credible manner.
  • Raised commercial awareness around the delivery of revenue generating solutions and services.
  • Ensured projects were delivered on time and within budget across technical and commercial teams, using a selection of the appropriate project management methodologies (Prince2, Agile, and Waterfall) and the application of delivery standards.
  • Ensured effective changes and continuous improvement in day to day delivery processes.
  • Demonstrated good understanding of key project management principles as well as key software development principles.
  • Built an effective, dedicated, happy and stable cross-functional team and reinforced trusted relationships between all team members.
  • Worked with the project team to manage resources effectively and balance budget and timescales in order to turn roadmaps into reliable executable delivery plans.
  • Served the team in creating and estimating tasks and in negotiatingscope and priorities against a trade off matrix throughout the project lifecycle.
  • Lead the team in ensuring that quality, performance and development standards were set and adopted.
  • Ran daily scrums with the development team ( in-house,onshore or offshore) to track progress and ensure that blocks todevelopment are raised and addressed.
  • Protected the team from undue external interference by identifying theroot cause of any issue and introducing appropriate corrective actions.
  • Monitored development team performance by establishing an acceptable and sustainable velocity and ensuring that the team meets set deadlines.
  • Worked with the QA team to ensure that the approach to functional and non-functional testing is sound and adequately resourced.
  • Worked with the Development teams to provide suitable hosted environments and to ensure that deployment requests are raised and acted upon.
  • Ensured that projects were closed based on product acceptance.
  • Initiated follow up actions and brief lessons report that could be of help in case of future project.

Vodafone - London (Nbt inc)

EXCHANGE ADMINISTRATOR August 2009- February 2010

  • Managed & operated global messaging & unified communications tools and Microsoft Windows Active Directory management and Implementation
  • Demonstrated good knowledge of Microsoft cloud services (Office 365), Microsoft SharePoint admin and support experience, Microsoft Lynx or Office Communication Server (OCS) admin and support experience, Microsoft Exchange Server 2007/2010 experience, Blackberry Enterprise Server 4.x and/or 5.x experience, SMTP gateway solutions including 3rd party solutions,ActiveSync devices such as Windows Mobile and Apple I Phone, Microsoft Windows server 2008 and 2008r2, Active Directoryand Systems integrity including the ability to manage monitoring, backup/restore(net back up), clustering, attached storage and overall health maintenance experience .
  • Demonstrated good working knowledge of Installation, Configuration and maintenance of email Servers and applications
  • Administered and supported Active Directory, DNS & Microsoft Exchange
  • Ensured that the Messaging Systems were usable and available according to agreed service levels, taking action to restore mailbox.
  • Kept with business continuity and high availability and administered Exchange, Lync, Blackberry/Exchange and web platforms including SharePoint, Enterprise Vault and IIS
  • Provided support to resolve issues from other support teams and worked to improve stability and performance.
  • Maintained up-to-date accurate documentation, including processes and procedures
  • Accounted for efficient and effective execution according to established standards, procedures & processes
  • Prepared infrastructure and installed exchange server
  • Demonstrated good experience in mailbox server roles: database, mailboxes, public folders, addresses, folders, groups, contacts and resource mailboxes.
  • Demonstrated good experience in Client Access Server Role: Outlook, OWA, and exchange control panel ,POP & IMAP, ActiveSync and Outlook
  • Demonstrated good experience in Hub Transport Role: Message Transport, Connectors, Accepted Domains and remote Domains, Email Address Policies, Transport Rules, and Journal Rules
  • Demonstrated good experience in Edge Transport Roles: Installing and Configuring, Message Filtering and Anti-Spam
  • Demonstrated good understanding of Federated Sharing and implemented same
  • Demonstrated good experience in Roles-Based Access Control in Exchange Administration
  • Demonstrated good experience in Exchange Backup and Data Recovery
  • Demonstrated good experience in Exchange High Availability: Database Availability Group, Public Folders and Non-Mailbox Servers
  • Demonstrated good experience in Exchange Monitoring and Reporting
  • Demonstrated good experience in Exchange from the Outside World: Security, Certificates, Name Resolution, and Auto discovery
  • Demonstrated good experience in Migrating from previous Exchange Versions to Exchange 2010
  • Demonstrated good experience in Managing Exchange 2010 with Windows Power Shell

PROFESSIONAL BODY

  • Institute of Science Laboratory Technology
  • PRINCE 2- Certification, Association of Project Managers Group (APMG, Buckinghamshire, England)- International
  • ISPE membership (In view)

CONFERENCES/WORKSHOPS/TRAININGS ATTENDED

  • Windows 2000 workshop for support staff (1&2)
  • Certified Scrum Master® (CSM)
  • Prince2
  • Management Internship

SKILLS AND COMPETENCIES

Project Management attributes

  • Good track record of managing complex multifunctional projects in various environments.
  • Creating effective, informed and highly motivated teams focused on delivery.
  • Comprehensive understanding of project management methodologies.

  • Experience of working with sponsors, stakeholders, and solution providers.
  • Successful and demonstrable delivery of results from a client site.
  • Creating realistic and achievable project plans.
  • Producing and delivering project documentation, e.g. user manuals and support.
  • Evaluating risks and developing strategies to overcome project obstacles.
  • Managing and supporting the testing and implementation of business initiatives.
  • Good working knowledge of PM methodologies and tools such as Prince 2, Agile, Waterfall, Ms Project, Base camp.

Personal attributes

  • Possess a responsible attitude, tact, patience, and courtesy.

  • Comfortable working on numerous, smaller size pieces of work.
  • Ability to work under pressure and deliver to demanding deadlines.

  • Able to self start own improvement initiatives.
  • Good team player.
  • Capable of working with limited supervision.
  • Motivating Project or Programme teams to own and complete task assigned to them.
  • Conflict management and prioritisation skills.

Professional attributes

  • Knowledge in developing and administering resource plans and budgets.

  • Strong verbal and written communication skills.

  • Computer literate, with high level of competence in the use of the Microsoft Office suite of tools, including Microsoft Excel/PowerPoint/Visio/Project.
  • Full systems development lifecycle experience from requirements gathering through design, testing and deployment.

REFERENCES

***Referees are available on request

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