Stuart Oliver

Past

VP Operations at Condor Strategies
Co-founder at The Comedy Hub
Operations Director / COO at Realise

VP Technology - Corporate Banking at Commerzbank
Projects Manager at Text Systems Ltd
Development Team Leader at Sunbank
Antenna Designer (Radar & GPS) at Raytheon
Army Officer Training at RMA Sandhurst

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Education

University of Liverpool
Latymer

Recommended

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Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

My Website

Stuart Oliver’s Summary

Innovative, Army Officer trained, visionary technology executive with experience of hands-on technology leadership within startups and fortune 500 companies.

Excellent communication skills and strong work ethic. 10 years of experience in information technology including support, development, architecture, management and leadership roles.

Experienced in successfully presenting complex technology proposals to sponsors, potential customers and decision makers to achieve buy-in. Possesses exceptional general management, problem solving and decision making skills.

Significant experience leading, directing and managing people of diverse cultures and business experience in the achievement of shared objectives within a dynamic and challenging environment.

A person of integrity, with demanding professional standards and a high work ethic who expects and inspires the same qualities in staff and colleagues. Able to earn the trust of employees, management and vendors.

Experienced in large private, public, and not for profit organizations with proven ability to successfully manage multi million dollar projects.

Superior organisation and leadership skills combined with visionary strategic planning, strong business management

Lead and developed both large and small organisations to improve the overall capability, effectiveness and value contribution of the technical or operations teams.

Works at CEO/Board level on broad-ranging business transformation projects & critical application development issues; proven record of delivery to Prince2 standards, to time and to budget

Calm under pressure: well versed in supporting senior executives & investors with highly challenging budgetary & time constraints; relaxed about dealing with scale/complexity issues & unexpected events

Stuart Oliver’s Specialties:

Programme and project management - Offshore operations & development - Business case development - Social media marketing & community design - Strategic Planning - Business Development - Start Ups & Financing - Negotiation - Supplier/Vendor evaluation and selection - Making a success of projects that have delivery or budget issues - Brand reputation and management

Stuart Oliver’s Experience

VP Operations

Condor Strategies

(Privately Held; Information Technology and Services industry)

September 2005 — July 2009 (3 years 11 months)

Successful IT consultancy providing support to a broad range of clients
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Service offering spans business consulting and process improvement with particular focus on operational risk management, information systems security, audit and regulatory compliance, application development, continuity planning & operational resumption

Enviable track record of 4 years’ successive assignments (and several extensions) is testament to quality of provision
Co-founder

The Comedy Hub

(Online Media industry)

May 2006 — August 2006 (4 months)

A startup joint venture...
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.
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
VP Technology - Corporate Banking

Commerzbank

(Public Company; 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
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.
Development Team Leader

Sunbank

(Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1998 — April 2000 (1 year 11 months)

Managed a VB/SQL/C++ development team focussed on deposit and mortgage products.

Led the technical development to support demutualisation
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

University of Liverpool

B. Eng (2:1 Hons) , Electronic & Electrical Engineering , 1993 — 1997

Specialised in opto-electronics, antennas & propagation
Latymer

1985 — 1989

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