Wayne L Symons

Current

Project Manager at Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products

Past

Owner at blueMonkeySkunk
Project Manager at BT Global Services
Project Manager at Boehringer Ingelheim

Software Developer at HFC Bank Ltd (HSBC)
Project Manager at Boehringer Ingelheim
Partner & CEO at Clarity Designing Solutions Ltd
Project Manager (Pan-European) at Dentsply International
Independent Travel at Independent Travel
Technical Project Manager (Pan-European) at DuPont Pharma
Lead Technical Consultant at DuPont Merck / Pharma (USA)
Senior Technical Consultant at Levi Strauss & Co.
Senior Analyst Programmer at Pacific Associates
Senior Software Developer at Lear Seating Corporation
Senior Software Developer at CSI Limited
Software Developer at Lucas

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Wayne L Symons’s Summary

Project Manager, who is both SC cleared and a Prince2 Practitioner, having delivered large scale, high profile and complex applications development solutions, to every stage on both internal and client facing capacities, across the Public Health, Pharmaceutical, Consumer, Financial Services and Manufacturing sectors, within a number of multi-cultural environments in the UK, Central Europe and the United States.

Has worked with disparate and disciplined teams which have included offshore and 3rd party suppliers. Performed stakeholder management duties both internally and externally whilst being the sole point of contact and responsibility up to CxO level.

Wayne L Symons’s Specialties:

Release & Programme Management
Stakeholder Management
Business Improvement
Benefit Realisation

Project Delivery
Project Methodologies
Enterprise Architecture
Software Engineering

Wayne L Symons’s Experience

Project Manager

Johnson & Johnson Consumer Products

(Public Company; JNJ; Pharmaceuticals industry)

2008 — Present (1 year )

Project Manager - accountable for the J&J Consumer SAP implementation across the Iberia region, the Spanish and Portugese businesses, with a combined turnover in excess of 450M Euros.

Project Manager - on the key regional IT/Business initiative across EAME: to standardize business processes into a regional mindset, to engage with the business to implement true regional governance, to evolutionize the way the delivery streams work with the business, and to then deliver leaner, shorter and more efficient rollouts of the core SAP solution across the region.
Owner

blueMonkeySkunk

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1992 — 2009 (17 years )

Professional consulting & freelance services conduit:
- Programme & Project Management
- Business Change & Evolution Services
- Professional Services Consultancy
- Web Consultancy and Development
Project Manager

BT Global Services

(Public Company; BTA; Telecommunications industry)

2005 — 2008 (3 years )

BT London LSP - Release Managing the implementation of the A&E Scanning Solution for the NPfIT NCRS deployment at Imperial College Healthcare Trust
http://www.btplc.com/Health/NHSIT/LondonLSP/index.htm

BT Spine Programme - Project Manager for the new £5.1M livelike sandpit environment to support all subsequent deployments of the NCRS Spine Releases
http://www.btplc.com/Health/NHSIT/TheSpine/index.htm

BT London LSP - Headed up the Programme Defect Management Team from recruitment through strategy and process implementation, and into management of the team during the NPFIT NRCS deployments for several NHS Trusts including Queens Mary's Sidcup, Kingston Hospital, Barnet and Chase Hospitals and Royal Free Hampstead.
http://www.btplc.com/Health/NHSIT/LondonLSP/index.htm
Project Manager

Boehringer Ingelheim

(Privately Held; 10,001 or more employees; Pharmaceuticals industry)

2005 — 2005 (less than a year)

Project Manager
On the Healthcare Business interface between the Financial ERP A/P and the global Siebel CRM systems
Software Developer

HFC Bank Ltd (HSBC)

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

2004 — 2005 (1 year )

Senior Software Developer
Design, development and testing of a new European Credit Card application software system for a major European retailer
Project Manager

Boehringer Ingelheim

(Privately Held; Pharmaceuticals industry)

2001 — 2004 (3 years )

Senior Project Manager - Many and numerous Midrange, Web and PC projects delivered.
Corporate Portal Evangelist & Lead Architect on (what was then) the Plumtree Portal rollout for the UK.
Team Mentor to other members of the team from both a development and Project Management perspective.
Partner & CEO

Clarity Designing Solutions Ltd

(Information Technology and Services industry)

2000 — 2001 (1 year )

Partner & CEO - Start up company working alongside two other partners to successfully establish and subsequently run a software solutions business. Integral in delivering an IT business project to two large key clients within the Telecoms sector. Very exciting times.
Project Manager (Pan-European)

Dentsply International

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

June 1998 — 2000 (2 years )

Responsible, as Project Manager, for the delivery and implementation of three ERP business system implementation projects into a single shared service centre in Italy, Switzerland and the UK. Additionally supported the businesses during the same implementations in France and Germany.
Independent Travel

Independent Travel

(Health, Wellness and Fitness industry)

October 1997 — April 1998 (7 months)

Independent travel:
Bali
Australia
New Zealand
USA
Technical Project Manager (Pan-European)

DuPont Pharma

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; DD; Chemicals industry)

1994 — 1997 (3 years )

Technical Project Manager on the delivery and implementation of five ERP business system implementation projects, throughout Europe in the UK, France, Belgium, Italy and Spain.
Lead Technical Consultant

DuPont Merck / Pharma (USA)

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1992 — 1994 (2 years )

Technical Lead that successfully implemented a fully integrated ERP business solution for DuPont Merck. Designed, wrote and implemented technical specifications and software significantly adding value to the project. Also acted as team mentor to less experienced members of the project team, as well as the case tool Evangelist and knowledge coordinator.
Senior Technical Consultant

Levi Strauss & Co.

(Privately Held; Apparel & Fashion industry)

1993 — 1993 (less than a year)

Senior Technical Consultant and Case Lead Architect on Levi's ERP business solution - chiefly manufacturing fashion apparel.
Senior Analyst Programmer

Pacific Associates

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1992 — 1992 (less than a year)

A senior ERP developer, closely aligned to and based at SSA GT HQ in Frimley, running small development teams, authoring specifications and delivering software for the SSA/Pacific ERP market.
Senior Software Developer

Lear Seating Corporation

(Automotive industry)

1992 — 1992 (less than a year)

ERP analyst/programmer deriving specifications and delivering software in a European automative seating manufacturer in central and east Germany.
Senior Software Developer

CSI Limited

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Information Technology and Services industry)

1990 — 1992 (2 years )

Working as a senior developer and analyst at customer sites with COTS or bespoke midrange business systems across the north west of England.
Software Developer

Lucas

(Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Automotive industry)

1986 — 1990 (4 years )

Developer in an automative manufacturing environment delivering structured mainframe PL/I and JCL, as well as IBM AS400 RPGIII/IV, applications to specification.