David Evans is a highly experienced SAP project manager with experience managing projects across various business sectors and geographies. He has extensive experience in project and delivery management, data management, and leading large, mixed teams on complex implementations. Recent projects include managing contractual obligations and stakeholder expectations for a large implementation at Linde Group across Germany, Austria, and India and leading data workstreams for implementations at Twinings, Renaissance Capital Bank, Xerox, and Birmingham City Council.

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David Evans
07730 671 481
evans.dme@gmail.com
Summary
A highly experienced SAP project manager with experience of working across all SAP modules within
large international projects.
Experience of a wide variety of business sectors, of managing stakeholders at all levels and comfortable
working across different geographies and cultures.
Ability to work across a variety of applications ranging from SAP and Oracle, through contact
management solutions such as Salesforce.com to bespoke client specific solutions.
Used to managing large mixed teams including employed resources, contractors, client resources and
offshore teams and has a strong track record of achieving delivery excellence using these resource
mixes
Skill Set
Project and Delivery Management
 Good commercial understanding and an ability to manage to contractual obligations including
programme control, budgeting, forecasting, reporting, and financial and resource planning
processes for a large, complex programmes
 Highly developed ability to manage project milestones, deliverables and workstream plans for
large and complex programmes
 Wide experience of managing stakeholders expectations with a proven ability to deliver
appropriate messages to all levels of project teams
 Outstanding leadership skills with an ability to manage large teams of consultants in a manner
that both motivates and develops them. Wide exposure to the offshore delivery model with
experience of management and motivation of offshore teams when on site in offshore delivery
centres and remotely
 Excellent communication skills both written and oral with a wide experience of working across
diverse languages and cultures
Data Management
 Proven experience in turning diverse business data into information capable of being consumed
by the business to support decision making
 Wide experience of integrated solutions and of bringing together data across multiple
applications
 Proven track record of managing the entire data migration process including initial scoping,
business requirements gathering, ETL and post go-live audits across a wide variety of
technologies including SAP and Salesforce.com
 Extensive experience of Master Data Management techniques using data governance and
compliance to deliver exceptional data quality; in depth knowledge of data tools with experience
of procurement of these tools to meet the ETL objectives

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Selected Project Experience:
Linde Group – Nov 2014 – present; Germany, Austria and India
 Managed contractual compliance and commercial positioning within a large and complex
commercial negotiation
 Led cutover worksteam throughout the entire project and delivered a highly successful cutover
 Led the Security & Authorisation workstream through requirements gathering, blueprint,
realisation and functional unit testing phases including resource planning and scope control
 Led regression testing workstream through test definition, execution and sign off phases
Twinings – Jan 2013 – Nov 2014; UK, China & Poland
 Led the data workstream through data identification, design extract transform and load;
managed client staff and contractors
 Assumed responsibility for a failing client-side data function. Managed stakeholder
expectations and put in controls to de-risk data and ultimately deliver excellent data for go-lives
 Developed post implementation data governance setup from design through the bid process to
implementation. Sold the concept to senior stakeholders
Renaissance Capital Bank – Feb 2012 – Jan 2013; Russia and UK
 Architected the overall data process where data was passed from front office trading systems
through the middle office to the back office trade accounting platform (SAP Bank Analyser)
 Provided data to allow for consolidated reporting across nearly 150 legal entities in 14 countries
 Addressed the data quality issues that were inherent within the data set in a pragmatic manner
delivering data that met the business requirements
Xerox – Aug 2011 – Feb 2012; France and UK
 Led the transformation of the information strategy within the programme which enabled the
enterprise to move from isolated data silos largely used to support operational needs to a
framework where information was available to efficiently drive strategic business decisions
 Architected the data governance function so that it was fit for the purpose of maintaining data
across multiple systems.
Birmingham City Council – Feb 2010 – Aug 2011; UK
 Led data migration workstream through entire lifecycle for a large scale payroll implementation
for over 40,000 employees with a wide variety of differing employment relationships
Thames Water – Aug 2008 – Feb 2010; UK
 Managed 3rd party supplier brought in to perform the data work to time and quality
 Developed the requirements the data retention strategy for 12 legacy systems
Informa Group PLC – Apr 1998 – Aug 2008, Australia, US, Asia, Europe, UK
 Established a data governance quality framework
 Led the data element of several successful bid teams tending for outsourcing contracts
Employment History:
Date Company Name Role
08/08 – present Axon Solutions Project Manager
2007 – 2008 Informa Group PLC Director of data quality
1998 – 2007 Informa Group PLC Director of database development