Stuart Oliver

Current

Interim Digital Projects Director at The Law Firm Group
Interim Manager at Condor Strategies

Past

Technology consultant and advisor at HotelConnexions
Consultant at Curious Group
Owner at Florida Havens

Interim Projects Director at Ricoh
Interim IT Manager at Large Accountancy Practice
Consultant Project Manager at Bourne Leisure
Interim Technology Director at Go Lower
Commercial Director at Winning By Sharing
Interim Manager at Scottish Enterprise
Interim Programme Manager at Dell
Collaborator at The Comedy Hub
Interim Manager (Intelligent Finance, IF) at HBOS
Operations Director / COO at Realise
Consultant Project Manager at DTZ
Consultant Project Manager at Standard Life Assurance
Member at TopLinkedIn.com Open Networkers MyLink500.com
Consultant Programme Manager at Schroders
Consultant Project Manager at Standard Life Investments
IT Manager at Commerzbank
Consultant Project Manager at ING
Consultant Project Manager at Securicor
Projects Manager at Text Systems Ltd
Consultant Project Manager at Investec
Consultant Project Manager at Transport for London
Development Team Leader at Sunbank
Antenna Designer (Radar & GPS) at Raytheon
Army Officer Training at RMA Sandhurst

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Education

Latymer
University of Liverpool

Recommended

5 people have recommended Stuart

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Stuart Oliver’s Summary

Feel free to connect with me info@stuart-oliver.com

Entrepreneur, Technology COO, Operations Director & Interim Manager

An experienced technology operations executive and interim programme manager who has successfully built start-ups in the media, publishing and real estate sectors.
He has a proven track record and extensive experience in shaping consultancy operations for the successful delivery of solutions on high-level strategic assignments. His clients have included major financial services businesses, retail organisations and City institutions.

Stuart’s leadership roles have typically encompassed building an all-important network of clients, partners and influencers.

Stuart has a passion for technology, risk and innovation and has demonstrated a capability for managing change in both start-up and mature environments. He has considerable expertise in developing and championing business technology benefits and has managed multi-million pound budgets and teams of up to sixty staff.

He is a member of the IEEE, Top Interim and is a member of Global Scot, an exclusive group comprising 900 influential senior business leaders. Stuart is an experienced keynote speaker, most recently presenting to over 120 businesses in Scotland at an event arranged by the Scottish Government.

Stuart has a passion for helping SME’s to grow sustainable businesses and his ‘get things done’ attitude is well known across his peers and in the industry.

Described as a ‘problem solver with passion’, Stuart excels at approaching situations with enthusiasm and having worked for global brands across the world though to start-up enterprises, Stuart takes adapting to different cultures and working environments in his stride.

Stuart can provide expert advice on a number of areas including starting and running a small business, IT interim management, technology for business, document management and business process automation.

Stuart Oliver’s Specialties:

I an a proponent of fractional working and the use of virtual teams. I have worked very successfully with others using this model that offers reduced client cost and far swifter reaction times to client demands.

Stuart Oliver’s Experience

Interim Digital Projects Director

The Law Firm Group

(Privately Held; Law Practice industry)

March 2009 — Present (5 months)

Engaged as part of a network of senior interim managers to deliver a social media campaign for the UKs oldest cereal brand, Mornflake.

We launched an innovative social media campaign inviting members of the public to create the company’s first ever video advert.
This campaign is only UK brand conducting the video competition on Facebook with a completely new way of spreading video art to your friends using an application called Uvizz

Direct engagement with the client, ownership of commercial arrangements and recruitment of staff to work in a distributed fractional team across 3 continents.
Interim Manager

Condor Strategies

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2002 — Present (7 years 7 months)
Technology consultant and advisor

HotelConnexions

(Information Technology and Services industry)

February 2009 — June 2009 (5 months)

Engaged as an interim consultant to conduct analysis of the entire technology infrastructure to identify areas of operational risk.
This business is entirely underpinned by internal technology, third party services & support and well as a third party provider of interfaces into travel global distribution systems (GDS).

This engagement also encompassed a review of Payment Card Industry (PCI) compliance and implementation of a plan to ensure ongoing certification.
Consultant

Curious Group

(Privately Held; Marketing and Advertising industry)

June 2007 — April 2009 (1 year 11 months)

I work with the Curious group on various engagements as a consultant project manager for some of their larger client projects.
Owner

Florida Havens

(Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

June 2003 — April 2009 (5 years 11 months)

www.FloridaHavens.com

I own a number of luxury villas in the Orlando area. Each are next door to one another, ideal for large parties. They are in a private, gated, community and each has it's own pool.
The ideal holiday retreat, situated just outside of Orlando in a conservation area where you think that you're in the middle of nowhere whilst being only minutes from the theme parks and downtown Orlando.
Interim Projects Director

Ricoh

(Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2008 — February 2009 (5 months)

Working on behalf of the retained EMEA Digital Agency, managing A portfolio of projects to deliver a new web platform and partner portals

Owned deliverables across internal technical and creative teams, recruited and managed contract staff for specific skills, negotiated contracts, SLA’s and commercial details and worked in a supporting pre-sales capacity for the agency to successfully win new business across disparate areas of the UK business.
Interim IT Manager

Large Accountancy Practice

(Accounting industry)

October 2008 — November 2008 (2 months)

Presently engaged to conduct IT due diligence and technology strategy planning for this large accountancy practice.

Remit covers all aspects of technology, infrastructure and suppliers.

Delivering technology strategy implementation plan to support business growth targets.
Consultant Project Manager

Bourne Leisure

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Leisure, Travel & Tourism industry)

December 2007 — July 2008 (8 months)

Working as an interim project manager to deliver new web based solutions for clients.
Interim Technology Director

Go Lower

(Food Production industry)

December 2007 — July 2008 (8 months)

IT Due Diligence
Product evaluation and selection of both ERP and CRM platforms for hosted implementation.
Infrastruture and telephony implementation
Commercial Director

Winning By Sharing

(Publishing industry)

January 2005 — January 2008 (3 years 1 month)

Setup a publishing company to write, produce and distribute a book about the future of work, called Winning by Sharing authored by Leon Benjamin.

Media Week Magazine book review, says (Oct 2005).

"Flexibility and adaptability were once upon a time seen as weaknesses; trust wasn't even talked about. What this book correctly identifies is that as the pace of change quickens, the old ways of thinking about business success are becoming obsolete". See www.winningbysharing.net

Most recent reader comment:

..."as I have said in my feedback this was honestly the best thing I have read since Goldratts business novel 'The Goal'.

Thank you so much for weaving together some tremendous ideas with superior perception. Enjoyable and informative at the same time."
Senior Lecturer, University of Greenwich, Business School London UK
Interim Manager

Scottish Enterprise

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Information Services industry)

December 2006 — December 2007 (1 year 1 month)

Project Manager for the implementation of the new Business Gateway web servies for Scotland.
More detail shortly...
Interim Programme Manager

Dell

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Computer Hardware industry)

June 2007 — September 2007 (4 months)

Interim Manager for EMEA wide technology implementation.
Collaborator

The Comedy Hub

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Online Media industry)

May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)

A new venture with Leon Benjamin and Ian MacMillan (both on LinkedIn).
From a standing start in May 2006, zero marketing spend and minimal spend on production, The Comedy Hub World Cup Podcast;
- Produced 12 episodes intra world cup
- Reached #1 on itunes under "World Cup Comedy" ahead of Adidas, The Daily Mirror, The Times and The Telegraph
- Was featured in the first 4 podcast under "World Cup" alongside The Beautiful Game, "Baddiel & Skinner" and Sky Sports.
- In Week 4 it broke through the 100 barrier and was listed at number 85 across ALL itunes podcasts.
Interim Manager (Intelligent Finance, IF)

HBOS

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

August 2005 — July 2006 (1 year)

Finally, my first step into Self-Employment! It's taken long enough to take the plunge and this is the first one.

Consultant Project Manager working on delivery B2B initiatives to increase retail business and reduce cost of acquisition. These include the implementation of a mortgage trading exchange platform for professional advisors, and the provision of real time online documentation for mortgage applications.
Operations Director / COO

Realise

(Privately Held; 11-50 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2004 — August 2005 (1 year 8 months)

Designed client delivery processes, and line managed the structure of the organisation supporting it, including Studio, Technical, Project Management and Systems - 25 staff in total. Implemented financial, compliance and budget reporting processes, c£4m revenue.
In parallel, managed specific client project implementations and commercial relationships with HBoS, Standard Life, Schroders, DTZ, Scottish Executive, Investec, Sainsbury, T-Mobile.
Responsible for personnel management, contract management and staff utilisation targets.

Solutions delivered using Documentum, Vignette and Interwoven
Consultant Project Manager

DTZ

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Real Estate industry)

January 2005 — June 2005 (6 months)
Consultant Project Manager

Standard Life Assurance

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Financial Services industry)

January 2005 — June 2005 (6 months)
Member

TopLinkedIn.com Open Networkers MyLink500.com

(Information Technology and Services industry)

January 2005 — January 2005 (1 month)

Member of TopLinkedIn.com, with over 7100 connections, created by Marc Freedman of DallasBlue.com, MyLink500.com
Consultant Programme Manager

Schroders

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)

January 2004 — June 2004 (6 months)

Consultant Programme Manager
Consultant Project Manager

Standard Life Investments

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Financial Services industry)

January 2004 — April 2004 (4 months)
IT Manager

Commerzbank

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; CBK; Banking industry)

August 2001 — December 2003 (2 years 5 months)

Acted as an Account Manager for Business Units and as Projects Manager to ensure that the IT department’s resources - including the Multi £m budget and the team recruited - were deployed to maximum effect in proactively making a contribution to improved business performance

Monitored company & regulatory briefings & sector intelligence to identify opportunities improve operational performance,automate processes or provide monitoring/metrics; recommended initiatives in Corporate Banking, Risk Mgt & Compliance and built ROI-based business case to gain funding, then took responsibility for project delivery

Created a complex, company-wide, intranet-based strategic Document Management & workflow solution automate the corporate lending process. Delivered significant savings, measured efficiencies and improved audit ratings.

Case study implementation here:
www.documentum.co.uk/customer_success/success/commerzbank.htm
Consultant Project Manager

ING

(Public Company; 5001-10,000 employees; Banking industry)

January 2000 — December 2001 (2 years)

Consultant project manager on back office doucment management and confirmations processing system
Consultant Project Manager

Securicor

(Public Company; 501-1000 employees; Government Administration industry)

January 2001 — December 2001 (1 year)
Projects Manager

Text Systems Ltd

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2000 — August 2001 (1 year 4 months)

Worked as a consultant project manager in a number of London city banks including, ING, Commerzbank, Investec, European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD).

• All aspects of project management throughout the full project lifecycle.
• Managing and co-ordinating project delivery from consultants, client resources and contractors.
• Working with the Sales department in the preparation of bid proposals to clients.
• Liaison with business and IT management and user groups ensuring effective communication and expectation management.
Consultant Project Manager

Investec

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Financial Services industry)

May 2001 — August 2001 (4 months)
Consultant Project Manager

Transport for London

(Government Agency; 1001-5000 employees; Transportation/Trucking/Railroad industry)

January 2001 — June 2001 (6 months)
Development Team Leader

Sunbank

(Privately Held; 51-200 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1998 — April 2000 (1 year 11 months)
Antenna Designer (Radar & GPS)

Raytheon

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Defense & Space industry)

June 1997 — June 1998 (1 year 1 month)
Army Officer Training

RMA Sandhurst

(Military industry)

January 1992 — December 1992 (1 year)

Stuart Oliver’s Education

Latymer

1985 — 1989
University of Liverpool

B. Eng (Hons) , Electronic & Electrical Engineering

Sep 1993 - June 1997
Specialised in opto-electronics, antennas & propogation

Additional Information

Stuart Oliver’s Websites:

Stuart Oliver’s Interests:

Connect with me directly using info@stuart-oliver.com I am working on creating the next opportunities. I am keen to connect with people who are interested in new ventures and making the commitment to success. My role, is delivery - making a success, making things happen. If you have ideas then lets talk.

Stuart Oliver’s Groups:

Top Interim, TopInterim

GlobalScot, an international business network of over 900 senior influential business leaders who are committed to generating opportunities for Scotland.

IEEE
IT Directors Forum
We Entrepreneurs
Connect Scotland
Ecademy
Xing / OpenBC
SoFlow, WCP, Connection with John