Wayne L Symons

Wayne L Symons

SAP Project Manager

United Kingdom

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Wayne L Symons’s Summary

Programme & Project Manager, Prince2 Practitioner, having delivered large scale, high profile and complex applications development solutions, to every stage on both internal and client facing capacities, across the Public Health, Pharmaceutical, Consumer, Financial Services and Manufacturing sectors, within a number of multi-cultural environments in the UK, Central Europe and the United States.

Has worked with disparate and disciplined teams which have included offshore and 3rd party suppliers. Performed stakeholder management duties both internally and externally whilst being the sole point of contact and responsibility up to CxO level.

Previously SC Cleared for Public Sector.

Wayne L Symons’s Specialties:

Release & Programme Management
Stakeholder Management
Business Improvement
Benefit Realisation

Project Delivery
Project Methodologies
Enterprise Architecture
Software Engineering

Wayne L Symons’s Experience

  • Project Manager

    Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products

    (Public Company; JNJ; Medical Devices industry)

    2008 — Present (2 years )

    Project Manager - Delivered the critical Regional IT/Business initiative across J&J EAME: to standardize business processes into a regional mindset, to engage with the business to drive ownership and to implement true regional governance, to evolutionize the way the delivery streams work with the business, and to then deliver leaner, shorter and more efficient rollouts of the core SAP solution across the region, via a standard template.

    Project Manager – Delivered, using the above template and regional governance process, the most complex business transformation and SAP implementation in J&J EMEA to date with the go live of the Iberia Spain and Portugal organizations, a business turning over more than 450M Euros. Alongside managing the business, change, build, test, process and functional teams, and other consulting partners, worked closely with direct opposites in Iberia, via a close, strongly communicative relationship, reporting into the key stakeholders, to a Regional VP level.

  • Owner

    blueMonkeySkunk

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    1992 — 2009 (17 years )

    Professional consulting & freelance services conduit:
    - Programme & Project Management
    - Business Change & Evolution Services
    - Professional Services Consultancy
    - Web Consultancy and Development

  • Project Manager

    BT Global Services

    (Public Company; BTA; Telecommunications industry)

    2005 — 2008 (3 years )

    BT London LSP - Release Manager for the implementation of the A&E Scanning Solution for the NPfIT NCRS deployment at Imperial College Healthcare Trust
    http://www.btplc.com/Health/NHSIT/LondonLSP/index.htm

    BT Spine Programme - Release Manager for the £5.1M live-like sandpit build & test environment to support all subsequent deployments of the NPfIT NCRS Spine Releases
    http://www.btplc.com/Health/NHSIT/TheSpine/index.htm

    BT London LSP - Headed up the Programme Defect Management Team from recruitment through strategy and process implementation, and into management of the team during the NPFIT NRCS deployments for several NHS Trusts including Queens Mary's Sidcup, Kingston Hospital, Barnet and Chase Hospitals and Royal Free Hampstead.
    http://www.btplc.com/Health/NHSIT/LondonLSP/index.htm

  • Project Manager

    Boehringer Ingelheim

    (Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

    2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

    Project Manager
    On the Healthcare Business interface between the Financial ERP A/P and the global Siebel CRM systems

  • Software Developer

    HFC Bank Ltd (HSBC)

    (Public Company; Banking industry)

    2004 — 2005 (1 year )

    Senior Software Developer
    Design, development and testing of a new European Credit Card application software system for a major European retailer.
    Consultancy role taken very locally during birth of our second child.

  • Project Manager

    Boehringer Ingelheim

    (Privately Held; Pharmaceuticals industry)

    2001 — 2004 (3 years )

    Senior Project Manager - Many and numerous Midrange, Web and PC projects delivered.
    Corporate Portal Evangelist & Lead Architect on (what was then) the Plumtree Portal rollout for the UK.
    Team Mentor to other members of the team from both a development and Project Management perspective.

  • Partner & CEO

    Clarity Designing Solutions Ltd

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    2000 — 2001 (1 year )

    Partner & CEO - Start up company working alongside two other partners to successfully establish and subsequently run a software solutions business. Integral in delivering an IT business project to two large key clients within the Telecoms sector. Very exciting times.

  • Project Manager (Pan-European)

    Dentsply International

    (Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Medical Devices industry)

    June 1998 — 2000 (2 years )

    Responsible, as Project Manager, for the delivery and implementation of three ERP business system implementation projects into a single shared service centre in Italy, Switzerland and the UK. Additionally supported the businesses during the same implementations in France and Germany.

  • Independent Travel

    Independent Travel

    (Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

    October 1997 — April 1998 (7 months)

    Independent travel:
    Bali
    Australia
    New Zealand
    USA

  • Technical Project Manager (Pan-European)

    DuPont Pharma

    (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DD; Chemicals industry)

    1994 — 1997 (3 years )

    Technical Project Manager on the delivery and implementation of five ERP business system implementation projects, throughout Europe in the UK, France, Belgium, Italy and Spain.

  • Lead Technical Consultant

    DuPont Merck / Pharma (USA)

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    1992 — 1994 (2 years )

    Technical Lead that successfully implemented a fully integrated ERP business solution for DuPont Merck. Designed, wrote and implemented technical specifications and software significantly adding value to the project. Also acted as team mentor to less experienced members of the project team, as well as the case tool Evangelist and knowledge coordinator.

  • Senior Technical Consultant

    Levi Strauss & Co.

    (Privately Held; Apparel & Fashion industry)

    1993 — 1993 (less than a year)

    Senior Technical Consultant and Case Lead Architect on Levi's ERP business solution - chiefly manufacturing fashion apparel.

  • Senior Analyst Programmer

    Pacific Associates

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    1992 — 1992 (less than a year)

    A senior ERP developer, closely aligned to and based at SSA GT HQ in Frimley, running small development teams, authoring specifications and delivering software for the SSA/Pacific ERP market.

  • Senior Software Developer

    Lear Seating Corporation

    (Automotive industry)

    1992 — 1992 (less than a year)

    ERP analyst/programmer deriving specifications and delivering software in a European automative seating manufacturer in central and east Germany.

  • Senior Software Developer

    CSI Limited

    (Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

    1990 — 1992 (2 years )

    Working as a senior developer and analyst at customer sites with COTS or bespoke midrange business systems across the north west of England.

  • Software Developer

    Lucas

    (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Automotive industry)

    1986 — 1990 (4 years )

    Developer in an automative manufacturing environment delivering structured mainframe PL/I and JCL, as well as IBM AS400 RPGIII/IV, applications to specification.

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