Project Manager Management

Robert L. Duncan - American Citizen, UK Highly Skilled Work Visa

Email: abgym7@r.postjobfree.com Phone: +1-517-***-****

Senior director with fourteen years of total experience, eight of which was

based in both the United Kingdom and Hong Kong. Seeking position in the

Southwest USA.

EDUCATION

Masters of Business Administration (Cranfield School of Management, UK)

#1 Business School in the UK, The Economist, 2010 Rankings

Dissertation: Credit Derivatives: 'Tail Risk being ignored?'

LLB Law (English Bar Qualifying Law Degree, University of London, UK)

Upper Second Class Honors

Dissertation: European Union / 1998 UK (Compliance) Data Protection

Law: Impact of FTSE 100 firms

(Postgraduate) Executive Information Technology Management (Columbia

University, USA)

Career Experience

Curian Capital, A Prudential plc Company, Denver, Colorado (March 2011 -

current)

. Strategic Planning, New Product Development (Transfer from London ->

Denver)

Prudential plc, PGDS, London, United Kingdom (January 2005- February 2011)

. Head of Risk and Governance (2007-2011) (promotion, Direct report to

COO)

Senior director responsible for the global enterprise risk management

program. This included managing the COSO compliance program, division

level SOX sign-off, and ensuring risk registers where properly aligned

with the group risk framework. Further responsibilities included

designing and implementing KRI's and Operational Risk MI and ensuring

consistency in the US and UK operations, and representing the division

at monthly and quarterly group risk board meetings as well as chairing

the division's risk boards in the US and UK. Other general risk areas

also fell within the risk management mandate, including data

protection law (EU and UK derived legislation), health and safety, and

preparation of divisional fillings for plc board level sign off by the

executive team.

In 2010, additional responsibility for group level risk reviews in a

number of Prudential Asia operations over a nearly five month period,

with reports and presentations provided to each CEO of local Asian

businesses as well as head office in London. (Japan, Thailand,

Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore, Malaysia, and Hong Kong on-site

reviews)

. Head of Operational Performance (2006-2007) (promotion, Direct report

to PGDS CEO)

Responsible for oversight and review of operational efficiencies,

metrics, and growth targets for the division. Additional mandate

included early-stage risk management and framework design /

development for the division during the 'start-up' phase, as the

division grew from 5 employees to over 700 globally. Key senior

management team member focused on the delivery of over 50,000,000 USD

in annual technology savings over a two year period by in-sourcing

technology contracts to USA operations, contract rationalization, and

the implementation of operational metrics. These group-wide targets

were all delivered on time and on budget, while improving SLA

performance as well. Positioned involved monthly travel between USA

and UK based operations over a two year period.

. Strategy Manager (2005-2006), Finance / Strategic Sourcing

Responsible for the confidential strategy development behind an

outsourcing option the move 50% of the UK Finance Department to

Mumbai. This included calculating run rate savings, numerous on and

off site meetings with 3rd party outsourcing suppliers around the UK,

contract reviews, and RFI and RFP development. Worked closely with

our in-house Mumbai captive operation and the Managing Director to

build an internal option as well. Presented the findings to the UK

CFO, which were implemented as suggested, resulting in a 5,000,000 USD

annual savings.

Cranfield School of Management, Full-Time MBA (Sep 2003-Sept 2004)

. Internship - Westchester Associates (London based Technology M&A

Firm)

Strategic Analysis of 17 technology firms with turnover of between

10,000,000- 50,000,000. Performed analysis across diversified

technology firms to determine divesture / merger opportunities

Maersk Data (now IBM Consulting) (Jan 2000 - July 2003)

. Technical Project manager / Lead Developer for a $1,000,000 supply

chain enhancement. Technical product release manager (C++, Lotus

Notes API, MS SQL) for a real-time container tracking / supply chain

project (budget: $10,000,000+). Reduced container tracking worldwide

from 20 minute processing times to 15 seconds. Managed release

timelines, guided Chinese outsourced development team, partnered with

the global project manager, and aligned business objectives with IT

implementation.

Previous Technology Experience - 1996 - 2000

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