M A R T I N G E R R A R D
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P R O F I L E
An I.T. professional with over a decade of PMO experience; honed over a variety of business sectors enabling translation of corporate strategies and business unit initiatives into supportive, everyday-practical processes and procedures; ensuring quality, value, analysis, and metrics.
C A R E E R H I S T O R Y
SHAW COMMUNICATIONS INC. 2015-2016
Business Analyst, Strategic Projects Office
Singularly delivering all SPO’s Business Analysis for a wide variety of key strategic and confidential initiatives via the creation and development of dashboard's and data management strategies for prioritizing and monitoring the status of Shaw’s live Strategic Project Portfolio Analyzing criteria and mitigation techniques for Rollout of Portfolio and Resource Capacity Management Enterprise wide / ERP tool (Innotas)
Creating and maintaining project intake prioritization process for Shaw's Strategic Project “funnel” Identified after successful delivery of above functions to develop and maintain processes and dashboards for Shaw's Facilities Directorship (Building Management) Office, and their governing body /Council
Active member, advising on Shaw's Project and Program Governance bodies Member and advisor on each and every Strategic Project’s Kick-Off/Assessment analysis session Advising on, and collating of; Financial and KPI data for Project monitoring (Shaw’s Finance Capital Council)
Additionally further requested, and Successfully led, new LEAN Six Sigma initiative/Project for Shaw's Supply Chain (Toronto)
SAVANNA ENERGY CORP. 2013-2014
Organizational Effectiveness Specialist
Identified and promoted after successful Project Management delivery on ‘Australian Preventative Maintenance Operations Project’ to work with Corporate Director via developing, monitoring, and reporting, on strategic planning throughout Savanna’s diversified companies. Providing technical leadership and execution in accessing highly confidential data for analyzing Savannas’ business, whilst creating dashboards (Tableau + SQL), Process Flows (Visio), and other tools, to assist operations in meeting agreed targets; based on the original data analysis, thereby enabling operational alignment with corporate strategic plan. Project Coordinator
Acted as both Business Analyst and interim Project Manager on various companywide initiatives
(ERP/GP-Dynamics business enhancement Projects) whilst supporting I.T. Portfolio M A R T I N G E R R A R D
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Management, by developing PMO-Methods and artefacts (template design and processes) and designing and managing Portfolio Project Site (SharePoint) for their control and maintenance. FUJITSU 2011-2013
Project Coordinator
Supported Delivery Management via Program and Project Coordination activities. Stand-in and Coach for junior Project Managers; specifically with regards project plans and collation of financial data (Earned Value) for monthly forecasting with Finance, whilst maintaining all project data (SharePoint).
Facilitated risk reviews with Program Managers and prepared potential project projections based on sell-rates, estimates, and agreed contracts.
Also held the role of Asset Manager for Calgary’s Business Unit. CENOVUS 2010-2010
Project Coordinator
Maintained, updated, and analyzed, vendor data (JDE extracts and Excel Pivot Tables) for migration to newly enhanced Supply Chain Management software (ISN-Networld) whilst generating Preferred Vendor List against agreed business criteria. Making recommendations for further software enhancements, and advising on resulting procedural changes.
BLJC 2009-2009
Project Coordinator
Working in close Liaison with CIBC Project Managers, Finance, and Directors, to facilitate new building construction, facility infrastructures, and renovations, by maintenance and control of project data (deliverables, drawings, contracts, financials, and project plans) LEDCOR 2007-2009
Project Coordinator
Responsible for all Business and Project Support activities for Ledcor Technical Solutions Ltd’s Business Unit. Including project, setup (project plans, estimates, and project-site/SharePoint- Administration), tracking, reporting, budgeting plus accruals and reconciliation, generating PO requests, and monitoring Accounts Receivable.
P R I O R / U K - C A R E E R H I S T O R Y
OPAL TELECOMS (DIXONS-CARPHONE PLC) 2005-2006
Project Manager
Coordinated across all Opals departments (Finance, Marketing, Business Development, Engineering, Billing, Operations, and various technical teams) in order to convert to new ‘Soft- Switch’ exchange infrastructure and networks including upgrades on ‘Intelligent Provisioning’ Software interface and associated process changes. LOGICA (CGI) 1997-2004
IT Consultant (Banking Sector)
M A R T I N G E R R A R D
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IT Consultant, (including BA and PM activities) primarily for international Banking Corporations and the UK’s Local and National Government bodies on large system upgrades (including Y2K, Euro, and UK City “Big-Bang” projects). Business Analysis and the writing and testing of software in 3GL’s; Visual Basic, Delphi, and SQL, for system integration and database migration projects
(whilst adhering to ISO 9000 standards and best practices). E D U C A T I O N & P R O F E S S I O N A L D E V E L O P M E N T B.Sc. (with honors) Information Technology, Manchester University UK T E C H N I C A L S K I L L S
GP/ MS Dynamics, JD Edwards, Oracle Financials, Innotas, ISN Networld SQL, Tableau,
MS Project, MS SharePoint, MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, Excel)