David Harwood

Current

• Project Manager at IT Industry

Past

• Consultant at Curam Software
• Consultant at LogicaCMG

Education

• Sheffield Hallam University

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Industry

Computer Software

David Harwood’s Summary

A versatile and results oriented IT Project Manager with a good mix of technical, business and managerial expertise, operating at all levels of the business from board level to end user.

David has been a consultant in the IT industry since he graduated in 1995. He has worked on (and been responsible for) multi-million pound projects and bids often as part of large-scale enterprise IT architecture programmes in multi-supplier/multi-platform environments. His experience has been gained in a large blue chip Systems Integration company, a SME Software and Services organisation and an IT department in a large PLC. David has thrived in both environments and benefited from exposure to different best practice delivery and leadership models. His industry sector experience includes Government, Defence, Financial Services, Media and Utilities.

Recently David has held responsibility for key leadership roles including the management of a challenging, large-scale, on- and off-shore project which generated multi-million pound licence and service revenues. He has driven and contributed business and technical solutions to bids which have resulted in multi-million pound contracts.

David has gained in-depth and hands on experience across the Systems Delivery lifecycle in business and technical roles including Project Manager, Solution Architect, Business Analyst, Systems Designer, Analyst Programmer and Support Analyst. He has extensive knowledge of a range of modern IS and IT platforms and technologies using a variety of best in class implementation methodologies, tools and techniques.

David Harwood’s Specialties:

Technologies:
n-tier, database, web delivered solutions, mobile solutions

Methodologies:
Object Oriented Analysis, Object Oriented Design, UML, RUP, SSADM, Agile, PRINCE2, TOGAF.

David Harwood’s Experience

• Project Manager

  IT Industry

  (Information Technology and Services industry)

  April 2008 — Present (1 year 8 months)

  Project Manager responsible for a large ERP Work Management Solution to support the business

• Consultant

  Curam Software

  (Computer Software industry)

  November 2004 — April 2008 (3 years 6 months)

  Roles are project & client driven and have included:
  * Project / Product / Bid Manager
  * Proof of Concept Architect
  * Business Analyst

• Consultant

  LogicaCMG

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; LOG; Information Technology and Services industry)

  September 1995 — October 2004 (9 years 2 months)

  Roles included:
  * Project Manager
  * Solution Architect
  * Team Leader
  * UAT Manager
  * Business Analyst
  * Various Technical Roles

David Harwood’s Education

• Sheffield Hallam University

  BSc (Hons) , Information Technology , 1991 — 1995

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