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Project History (IT Bites)
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United Nations High Commissioner For Refugees |
Project Manager,
HR & GP Initiation |
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UK, Geneva, Switzerland |
Jun 2004 - Jul 2004 |
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The UNHCR
required a partner to manage and undertake the Initiation stage of a major
PeopleSoft HCM & Global Payroll implementation on which it is about to
embark. Activity centred around requirements gathering and establishing
project definition, culminating in creation of an RFP for selection of its
main integration partner. Project based in Geneva. |
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Spirit Group |
Project Manager,
PeopleSoft Global Payroll |
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Northampton, UK |
Feb 2004 - May 2004 |
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Appointed by Spirit to bring
real-life Global payroll deployment experience to the final cut over phase
of their project. This phase was experiencing significant delays and a lack
of confidence in the ability to go live. The role involved re-aligning the
project scope and plan for outstanding work, and co-ordinating the various
internal and external teams. In simplifying and re-structuring the project,
Steve enabled Spirit Group to more readily understand the position they had
reached within the project, and they came to the conclusion that project
objectives no longer mapped to business drivers, and the project was
cancelled. Steve was complimented on the clarity he had brought to this
difficult decision. |
| United Nations Development Programme |
Consultant |
| UK, New York, Copenhagen |
Oct 2003 - Dec 2003 |
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The UNDP are implementing PeopleSoft
8.8 Global Payroll and IT Bites were retained to assist in the creation of a
new Payroll Office in Copenhagen. |
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Global Payroll
End User Support Pack |
Consultant |
| Various UK assignments |
May 2003 - Present |
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Developed by IT Bites, the materials
are used to support User Acceptance Testing; Parallel Run and go-live.
The pack has been a huge success and to date has successfully been
implemented at Abbey National; Scottish & Newcastle Retail; Willis Group;
Towers Perrin; and Allen and Overy. |
| IT Bites Ltd |
Internal Business Development |
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Sept 2002 - March 2003 |
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During general downturn in the PeopleSoft market, the
opportunity was taken to develop IT Bites internal business. This included
development of
products in the form of PeopleSoft templates which could be used to
improve the Project and End User experience in implementing Global Payroll. |
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Unilever – UK Central Resources |
Project Manager - PeopleSoft Global Payroll |
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Walton on Thames |
July 2000 to May 2002 |
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In July 2000, Unilever decided to
centralise 40+ payrolls into a single service.
As Project Manager, responsible for
establishment of project team and management of the implementation through
the full life cycle in this £3m project (further details available). |
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Unilever – Unilever Superannuation Fund |
Implementation Manager - Profund Pensions |
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Blackfriars, London |
January 1999 to January 2000 |
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In January 1999, USF embarked on the implementation of a new Pensions
Administration System, Profund, to replace their legacy system. On the
recommendation of the National Finance Director from his previous project,
Steve was initially brought in to assist on the implementation of the
Payroll Module. He was then extended to participate in the full system
implementation and provided valuable, and innovative, help to the project
team, allowing them to go live despite the closeness of the Y2K milestone. |
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Unilever - UK National Management |
Project Manager - Y2K Compliance, Payroll |
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Blackfriars, London |
August 1998 to December 1998 |
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Working on behalf of the National Finance Director,
managed the testing of disparate payrolls across the UK for Y2K compliance.
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Employment History
| ICL CFM Ltd |
Development
Manager |
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Bishops Stortford, Herts |
June 1996 to May 1998 |
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Led a small development team
responsible for implementing a variety of applications in relation to Local
Government processes.
ICL had taken over the running of
East Herts District Council IT services and Steve was immediately appointed
to lead the transferring development team. He was also involved in the
running of new services for additional clients. |
| East Herts District Council |
Project Lead/Systems Analyst |
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Bishops Stortford, Herts |
Sept 1985 to May 1996 |
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Working in the IT Department, Steve
was promoted to Systems Analyst within 6 months of appointment as a Cobol
programmer. By the end of employment, Steve had led the Council through some
major implementations, including Community Charge and Council Tax, which
affected virtually every aspect of the Councils business. In addition,
numerous 3rd party and in-house implementations occurred.
His major achievement was to, single
handed, design and implement a replacement of the Councils ageing payroll
system, with an online, fully integrated system which successfully went live
in 1993. |
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Computanews |
Programmer |
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Bishops Stortford, Herts |
Sept 1983 to Sept 1985 |
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First role as a Cobol programmer. |
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