Robert McNamara

Current

Programme Manager at Lloyds Pharmacy
Director at rmcIT Technology Consulting

Past

IT Director at Kaonix Solutions Limited
Programme/Project Manager at Jobs.co.uk
Producer at Codemasters

Senior Project Manager at Siemens metering
Project Leader at ICL - Fujitsu
Account Executive at Worldspan

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Robert McNamara’s Summary

IT Director /Programme/Project manager with strong vision, proven decisive leadership, persuasiveness and good communication and negotiation skills. A proven track record in the management of both large and small teams in all areas of software development, implementation and after sales support.

Recently working in the development of industry leading talent management solutions for such customers as Debenhams, BHS, Pets at Home and Pertemps.

Responsible for the creation of a new business division specialising in design, creation and website builds

Robert McNamara’s Specialties:

• Full project lifecycle experience
• Board level IT and business management
• Full budget control
• Project Management
• 3rd Party Supplier and customer management
• Risk analysis
• Disaster recovery programs
• IT Strategy

Background in software development in the travel and tourism, recruitment, retail, and recruitment industries

Robert McNamara’s Experience

Programme Manager

Lloyds Pharmacy

(Privately Held; Pharmaceuticals industry)

March 2009 — Present (5 months)
Director

rmcIT Technology Consulting

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2009 — Present (7 months)

rmcIT is an Independent Technology and Internet Consulting Company. We offer no-nonsense expert advice on how best to make use of new technologies. We are experts on Website Design, Online Marketing, Software Development and Project Management to name but a few.

Services include:-

Project Management
Website design
Online Marketing
Technology and Internet Advice
Social Media
Web 2.0
Software Development
See www.rmcit.co.uk for details
IT Director

Kaonix Solutions Limited

(Computer Software industry)

October 2002 — December 2008 (6 years 3 months)

Manage a development and infrastructure team in the development, implementation and ongoing running of software products. Responsibility for company and application infrastructure and hosting.

Full budget and project management control.

3rd Party supplier and customer management
Programme/Project Manager

Jobs.co.uk

(Internet industry)

2002 — 2005 (3 years)

At Jobs.co.uk (which is now part of Kaonix), I was responsible for the development of various projects including:-

JobsTV
A fully interactive Digital TV job board which allowed viewers to search and apply for advertised Vacancies.

Jobs.co.uk
Development of the jobs.co.uk career website which allowed jobseekers to search, view and apply for vacancies. Jobs.co.uk also integrates advance CV Parsing and matching software to provide a greater consumer experience.

Resource
The creation of a Industry sponsored (REC) candidate database which provided recruitment agencies with a specific talent pool or people.
Producer

Codemasters

(Privately Held; Computer Games industry)

April 2002 — October 2002 (7 months)

Computer game producer for a number of xbox and ps2 titles including Indy Car Racing and Project IGN.

Responsible for management of multiple teams throughout the Uk and Europe.
Senior Project Manager

Siemens metering

(Information Technology and Services industry)

November 2001 — April 2002 (6 months)

• Managed a number of large projects including the consolidation of 3 different billing systems. This included the migration of all data and customer account information. This project involved an internal team of 30 and with interface over a number of different internal departments including help desk, onsite engineers and sales.
• Management of an internal Internet system for over 13000 Siemens employees. This system was built on a propriety solution developed using a 3rd party supplier in India. Again project requirement management of internal and external development team, and other internal departments.
Project Leader

ICL - Fujitsu

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

July 1997 — November 2001 (4 years 5 months)

Project Leader working on the year 2000 project for the retail division.

Moved onto implementation projects for Vision Express, specsavers and WH Smith. Promoted to Project Leader in the Large Project division working on the Law courts upgrade project.

I had complete project control including:-
Planning
Resource
Budget
Risk
Timeline
Account Executive

Worldspan

(Privately Held; 5001-10,000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1995 — 1997 (2 years)

I was responsible for the complete customer relationship which included implementation, training, business development and contract negotiation.

My other responsibilities also included the development and introduction of new products into the UK market, large scale customer implementation and junior staff mentoring.