Microsoft Project
Simon Young
Senior IT Project Manager
Woodend,VIC
Summary
Energetic and passionate IT Project Manager with 25 years’ experience leading clients and teams through technical change.
Confident in consulting across senior business and technical stakeholders, to deliver products and services tailored to specific needs and objectives, while helping them solution complex challenges.
Overview
25
25
years of professional experience
3
3
Certifications
Work History
Lead Consultant / Project Manager
Modis
Melbourne, VIC
09.2011 - 02.2023
- Consulting Project Manager and Technical Lead for engagement on multi-faceted IT solution delivery and transformation programs across established and new clients.
- Provided clients with comprehensive project management experience across software and technical project delivery.
- Utilised an impressive skillset with flexibility to work across a variety of client engagements and project types.
Senior IT Project Manager (Consultant)
Telstra
Melbourne, VIC
04.2018 - 09.2022
- Approached to lead the recovery of an at risk and highly visible business critical project
- Delivered successfully on all stages through replanning, development, testing and deployment to production.
- Demonstrated strong leadership skills by resolving complex and challenging issues.
- Implemented multiple streams of work, including a new web-based self service application built on GE Smallworld, updated infrastructure to support the application, new two factor user authentication, and regulatory governance to ensure fair use of the new functionality across all users.
- Provided management across multiple vendors, while introducing a successful Agile way of working across a global team
- Delivered project to within budget, timelines and exceeded required quality threshold.
- Further engaged to deliver two major enhancement releases, which were also delivered within cost and budget.
Senior Consultant
Welcom Software
Harrogate, UK
06.2006 - 08.2011
- Responsible for leading client engagements and delivering end to end solutions for their specific requirements.
- Demonstrated comprehensive knowledge of banking and finance legislation, a trusted source of truth for clients.
- Technical Lead on Welcom Software’s largest project – the implementation of a multi-million-pound integrated Dynamics CRM, AX and Credit Management solution for new client Buy As You View.
- Advocated enhanced architecture and design for a new multi-tiered solution integrating Welcom’s Financier Product, MS Dynamics CRM, MS Dynamics AX, together with other third-party systems and functionality.
IT Project Manager (Contractor)
Scarborough Building Society
Scarborough, UK
04.2007 - 09.2007
- Responsible for the project management of internal software development projects
Technical Consultant (Contractor)
Cattles PLC
Leeds, UK
01.2006 - 05.2006
- As an independent contractor, with in-depth knowledge of their credit management system and financial processes, engaged by the Finance Director to investigate, analyse and resolve issues related to quotations incorrectly stated by the company’s two loans administration systems.
- Successfully provided accurate data extracts detailing all refunds due to customers and incorrect financial postings, together with a financial impact analysis of each issue identified on a portfolio of over fifty thousand accounts.
Project Manager (Contractor)
Norwich Union
York, UK
09.2004 - 07.2005
- Mentored 10 work package managers on project management methodology, each responsible for off-shoring service or solution streams to one of two strategic partners in India.
- Instrumental in ensuring processes and governance of the overall programme were strictly adhered to by each stream lead.
Skills
On time/ budget project delivery
Project and team leadership
Waterfall and Agile
SDLC
Financial budget and tracking
Accomplishments
- Senior Project Manager for the successful delivery of a major $4M+ software project for Telstra, providing distributed users with a new self-service GIS web based application for automating reservations and the recording of work undertaken on Telstra’s physical underground infrastructure.
- Technical Lead for architecting and designing a new multi-tiered solution integrating Welcom Software's Financier Product, MS Dynamics CRM and MS Dynamics AX.
Software
Microsoft Office
Jira
SharePoint
Dynamics 365
Visual Studio [NET development]
SQL Server [Database Development]
Certification
PRINCE2 Practitioner
Interests
Fingerpicking Guitar
Bushwalking
Maintaining a smallholding
Timeline
Senior IT Project Manager (Consultant) - Telstra
04.2018 - 09.2022
Lead Consultant / Project Manager - Modis
09.2011 - 02.2023
Certified Solution Developer: Microsoft .NET
08-2008
Microsoft® Certified Technology Specialist: SQL Server
08-2008
IT Project Manager (Contractor) - Scarborough Building Society
04.2007 - 09.2007
Senior Consultant - Welcom Software
06.2006 - 08.2011
Technical Consultant (Contractor) - Cattles PLC
01.2006 - 05.2006
Project Manager (Contractor) - Norwich Union
09.2004 - 07.2005
PRINCE2 Practitioner
09-2002