Wayne L Symons

Wayne L Symons

SAP Project Manager

United Kingdom

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Wayne L Symons’s Summary

Prince2 certified SAP Project Manager

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.

I am
- Excellent at delivering projects on time and on budget
- Successful at building and managing strong multicultural and management relationships
- Well respected both by my superiors and my direct teams
- Structured and organized, with excellent communication skills
- Firm and fair with the people with whom I work
- Good at making decisions and taking responsibility for them

I have
- A proven history of successful SAP implementations in two countries concurrently
- Strong structure when planning, delivering and reporting on projects
- Always delivered projects punctually and on budget
- Managed 3rd parties, including offshore, as well as internal resources
- Reported up to VP and CxO level
- Worked in the UK, central Europe and the United States
- Worked extensively across the Public Health, Consumer, Pharma, Financial and Manufacturing sectors
- Strong leadership skills

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

  • SAP Project Manager

    Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products

    (Public Company; JNJ; Pharmaceuticals industry)

    2008 — Present (2 years )

    *** SAP Project Manager for the Zug Trade (Switzerland) and Middle East businesses - a significant portion of the emerging markets business where considerable growth is expected, and with a combined turnover of over $580M

    *** Managed and delivered one of the most complex SAP implementation and business transformation change to date within J&J EMEA, to 2 European countries concurrently, businesses with a combined turnover of over $600M:

    • Managed the change, QA, build, test, process and functional teams, in addition to all 3rd parties
    • Worked closely with my Spanish and Portuguese business project directors, via a close, strongly communicative relationship
    • Reported up to key stakeholders, up to a Regional VP level
    • Managed SAP Hypercare phase locally in Spain and Portugal

    Key Results:
    • Successfully delivered the SAP implementations across Spain and Portugal concurrently and on time
    • Transitioned the businesses from existing legacy systems onto SAP

    *** Project Managed the engagment with the business to drive strong ownership core Finance and Supply Chain processes, via the implementation of a regional governance model, around an SAP blueprint across the EMEA region:

    Key Results:
    • Defined a standardized set of regional business processes – gained approval for these processes to the Regional VP level
    • Defined a single SAP blueprint template alongside the above
    • Delivered methodology improvements and a single SAP blueprint template (complemented by a core set of preferred third party solutions) to be used in all future SAP implementations
    • As a consequence, radically improved the way the functional process and technical delivery streams worked with the business, and the way SAP is delivered, through leaner, shorter and more efficient rollouts

  • Owner

    blueMonkeySkunk

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    1992 — 2010 (18 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)

    2006 — 2008 (2 years )

    • Project Manager for the implementation of the core Acute A&E Scanning Solution for the programme
    • Headed up the Programme Defect Management Team, reporting into the BT Health Programme Director, from recruitment through strategy and process implementation, and into management of the team during the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) NRCS deployments for several NHS Trusts including Queens Mary's Sidcup, Kingston Hospital, Barnet and Chase Hospitals and Royal Free Hampstead
    • As programme defect manager, worked directly with the Service Management team to resolve live service incidents and problems that could have adversely affected the NHS Trust service
    • Held responsibility for supplier management with regard to scheduled software releases

    Key Results:
    • Implemented an Acute A&E scanning solution for the NPfIT NCRS deployment at Imperial College Healthcare Trust in London
    • Defined, recruited for and executed the Programme Defect Management function realizing a 30% cost reduction for the London LSP programme

  • Project Manager

    BT Global Services

    (Public Company; BTA; Telecommunications industry)

    2005 — 2006 (1 year )

    • Implemented an additional systems environment to support all subsequent deployments of the National Programme for IT (NPfIT) NCRS Spine Releases
    • Managed a team of multi-disciplined infrastructure and environment specialists, and seven BT & Sun software engineers whilst running a benchmark project to cut programme costs
    • Directly reported into the BT Health Programme Director
    • Headed up client meetings with NPfIT.
    • Worked with the Spine programme Bid team on the development of proposals and costing calculations for a new pre-Production environment (sandpit)

    Key Results:
    • Delivered a fully functional £5.1M production-like sandpit build & test environment in time for the 2006 NHS NCRS release
    • Managed and implemented a £180k benchmark project designed to support long term improvements to programme infrastructure costs through virtualization

  • Project Manager

    Boehringer Ingelheim

    (Privately Held; Pharmaceuticals industry)

    2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

  • Project Manager

    HFC Bank Ltd (HSBC)

    (Public Company; Banking industry)

    2004 — 2005 (1 year )

  • Project Manager

    Boehringer Ingelheim

    (Privately Held; Pharmaceuticals industry)

    2001 — 2004 (3 years )

  • Partner & CEO

    Clarity Designing Solutions Ltd

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    2000 — 2001 (1 year )

  • Project Manager (Pan-European)

    Dentsply International

    (Public Company; XRAY; Medical Devices industry)

    June 1998 — 2000 (2 years )

    Italy, UK, Germany, Switzerland

  • Traveller

    Independent Travel

    (Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

    October 1997 — April 1998 (7 months)

  • Technical Project Manager (Pan-European)

    DuPont Pharma

    (Privately Held; Chemicals industry)

    1994 — 1997 (3 years )

    UK, France, Belgium, Germany, Spain

  • Lead Technical Consultant

    DuPont Merck / Pharma (USA)

    (Privately Held; Chemicals industry)

    1992 — 1994 (2 years )

    USA

  • Senior Technical Consultant

    Levi Strauss & Co.

    (Privately Held; Apparel & Fashion industry)

    1993 — 1993 (less than a year)

    Belgium

  • Senior Analyst Programmer

    Pacific Associates

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    1992 — 1992 (less than a year)

  • Senior Software Developer

    Lear Seating Corporation

    (Automotive industry)

    1992 — 1992 (less than a year)

    Germany

  • Senior Software Developer

    CSI Limited

    (Information Technology and Services industry)

    1990 — 1992 (2 years )

  • Software Developer

    Lucas

    (Privately Held; Staffing and Recruiting industry)

    1986 — 1990 (4 years )

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