Paul Burke has over 20 years of experience as a project manager, primarily within the financial services and IT sectors. He has successfully delivered a wide variety of projects for clients like Barclays, RSA, Friends Provident, JLR, Arcadia, and Bradford & Bingley. Burke is currently managing Barclays' branch transformation program, which includes over 150 refurbished branches. He has a proven track record of on-time and on-budget delivery of complex projects while maintaining quality and compliance.
Js cv updated by jws 26 07 18 version 21.0 latestJohn Silvester
Project Manager with 19+ years’ experience working for a large number of blue chip IT companies, with a track record in various commercial projects, delivering hardware, software, migration and relocation projects in both the private sector and government agencies. Extensive customer facing experiences gained during the pre and post sales project phases. Having full project management delivery responsibility including the financial accountability to deliver solutions to an agreed budget and timescale to achieve and sometimes exceed customer expectations.
Key Skills
• An excellent communicator written and verbal, capable of communication at any level within the customer’s organisation.
• Proven track record of Professional Services Project management consultancy for blue chip companies
• Excellent P&L project management skills, meeting and exceeding revenue and margin targets.
• Proven track record of project leadership, team coaching at all levels within a project team.
• Successfully delivered several complex implementation projects efficiently on time, targeted at improving customer savings and operational performance.
• Excellent track record of delivering projects through accurate forecasting budgeting and financial control.
• Prince2 Practitioner accreditation (2008)
• SC Clearance (2014 and 2016)
• Proven track record of Professional Services Project management consultancy for blue chip companies
• Prince 2 Foundation (2017) accreditation. Examination passed in 2018
Js cv updated by jws 26 07 18 version 21.0 latestJohn Silvester
Project Manager with 19+ years’ experience working for a large number of blue chip IT companies, with a track record in various commercial projects, delivering hardware, software, migration and relocation projects in both the private sector and government agencies. Extensive customer facing experiences gained during the pre and post sales project phases. Having full project management delivery responsibility including the financial accountability to deliver solutions to an agreed budget and timescale to achieve and sometimes exceed customer expectations.
Key Skills
• An excellent communicator written and verbal, capable of communication at any level within the customer’s organisation.
• Proven track record of Professional Services Project management consultancy for blue chip companies
• Excellent P&L project management skills, meeting and exceeding revenue and margin targets.
• Proven track record of project leadership, team coaching at all levels within a project team.
• Successfully delivered several complex implementation projects efficiently on time, targeted at improving customer savings and operational performance.
• Excellent track record of delivering projects through accurate forecasting budgeting and financial control.
• Prince2 Practitioner accreditation (2008)
• SC Clearance (2014 and 2016)
• Proven track record of Professional Services Project management consultancy for blue chip companies
• Prince 2 Foundation (2017) accreditation. Examination passed in 2018
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Professional Summary
An overall experience of around 14 years in various roles as Test Engineer, Test Lead,
Testing Manager with comprehensive experience on Agile Methodologies, Rally, Quality Centre, ALM, Testing Concepts & Testing Process.
Extensive knowledge in various domains like Telecom, Banking, Retail, Finance & Insurance.
Experienced Scrum Master with the experience of handling multiple scrum teams.
Experience Summary
Currently working at Harland Clarke Holdings Software India Pvt Ltd as an Associate QA Manager at, from Sep 2011 to August
Worked as Technical Lead in Wipro technologies, from May 2004 to August 2011
Worked as Test Engineer in Global Edge Software Pvt Ltd., Bangalore from April 2003 – May 2004
Worked as Test Engineer in Aseema Soft Net Pvt Ltd., Bangalore from August 2002 – March 2003
Skills
Technical Managerial
• HP Quality Center Strategic planning
• ALM - Smart Bear Requirements gathering
• SoapUI Risk mitigation and management
• QTP Agile methodologies
• Linux Change management
• Windows Business process improvement
• Rally
Onsite Experience
S. No Client Work Location Country Years/ Months
1 Nortel Networks Belleville Canada 1 Year 7 Months
2 Capital One Nottingham United Kingdom 1 Year 6 Months
3 UBS Singapore Singapore 2 Months
4 UBS Zurich Switzerland 1 Year
5 Harland Clarke Texas United States 1 Month
Professional Summary
An overall experience of around 14 years in various roles as Test Engineer, Test Lead,
Testing Manager with comprehensive experience on Agile Methodologies, Rally, Quality Centre, ALM, Testing Concepts & Testing Process.
Extensive knowledge in various domains like Telecom, Banking, Retail, Finance & Insurance.
Experienced Scrum Master with the experience of handling multiple scrum teams.
Experience Summary
Currently working at Harland Clarke Holdings Software India Pvt Ltd as an Associate QA Manager at, from Sep 2011 to August
Worked as Technical Lead in Wipro technologies, from May 2004 to August 2011
Worked as Test Engineer in Global Edge Software Pvt Ltd., Bangalore from April 2003 – May 2004
Worked as Test Engineer in Aseema Soft Net Pvt Ltd., Bangalore from August 2002 – March 2003
Skills
Technical Managerial
• HP Quality Center Strategic planning
• ALM - Smart Bear Requirements gathering
• SoapUI Risk mitigation and management
• QTP Agile methodologies
• Linux Change management
• Windows Business process improvement
• Rally
Onsite Experience
S. No Client Work Location Country Years/ Months
1 Nortel Networks Belleville Canada 1 Year 7 Months
2 Capital One Nottingham United Kingdom 1 Year 6 Months
3 UBS Singapore Singapore 2 Months
4 UBS Zurich Switzerland 1 Year
5 Harland Clarke Texas United States 1 Month
1. CV
Paul Burke
Personal Details
36 Woodfield Avenue
Gee Cross
Hyde
Cheshire
SK14 5BB
Email: paulburke75@hotmail.co.uk
Mobile: +44 (0)7807 204887
Qualifications
CSCS Accreditation, ITIL V3 Foundation Certified,
WWPM Accreditation
IBM – In house Training: Leadership in a
Project Team Environment, Closing Projects Using
PCB and MSP, Defining and Planning Projects
Using MSP, Execution and Control Using PCB and
MSP
Interests
Climbing, Family, Caravanning
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Capability summary
I am an ambitious Project Manager,whose progressive
career spanning 20 years has been established
through success within leading Corporations. I have
extensive Information Systems, Infrastructure and
software experience, providing leadership and project
delivery in dynamic and challenging environments for
market leading private sector organisations.
Key Skills:
Financial Services - Banking
Turner & Townsend
Project Manager - Barclays Branch
Transformation Programme
July 2015 to Present
Manage the Data Cabler activities, engaging
with three third party Data Contractors, to
ensure full compliance for the delivery of the
Branch refit Programme
To date managed the activities for 150+
Branches
Engage with the Data Contractors for the
delivery of the IPTand Juniper Switch Migration
Projects
Manage all the port configurations across the
Programme, engaging with Vodafone for all
CISCO and/or Juniper switch port configuration
requirements
To date raised and managed 520+ requests
with Vodafone
Engage with Vodafone for the delivery of the
Primary and Backup circuit
installations/commissioning for new
acquisitions. Including the switch
installations, all fail over testing and sign off.
Responsible for an additional Project to
deliver IP connectivity to branches, to bring
online the BMS (Building Management
System) installed within
Engaging with a third party supplier, SMART
Buildings. SMART install the BMS Panel into
the Branches and connect the buildings
services to their controller. Services such as
the electrics, gas, sensors to monitor
temperature etc.
449 Branches currently in scope, of which I
have 282 currently connected and online,
with 73 currently going through UAT/WIP.
The ability to actively monitor the branches
environment, and control them, has led to
huge savings for Barclays – currently
forecasted to be £6 Million per year
Phase 2 of the BMS Programme is due to be
released in 2017, adding 400 more branches
in scope.
Information Technology and
Infrastructure
IBM UK
2006 – 2015
IBM Project Manager
During this time I successfully delivered a wide variety
of challenging projects, for many different IBM
customers, mostly in customer facing roles
Applications Project Manager
RSA
Managed the applications packaging cycle
from XP into Win 8.0/8.1
√ Experienced IT systems, software and
Infrastructure PM
√ Sound understanding of network and telephony
√ Strong organisational and communication skills
√ Supplier Management and Engagement
√ Information Management & Reporting
√ Planning and Strategy Development
√ End to end delivery of cross-functional projects
√ Analytical and able to find solutions quickly
√ Articulate, decisive and assertive when necessary
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Created a full end to end presentation of the
process
Tested the applications for any Win 8.0 and
8.1 incompatibilities and resolved
Packaged as an MSI and handed over to my
team in Poland that supported the staging
servers
Upgraded the Lumension security software.
This required a testing environment upgrade,
with full testing and sign off, then upgraded
the live distribution server
Responsible for a folder redirection project
Boarding Project Manager
Working for a business unit in IBM called the “Build
Factory.”
Identified UK based clients that had Projects
on the go requiring server builds and
presented options to these clients
User Migration Project Manager
Friends Provident/Life
Built out infrastructure across two locations
to house the migration of 1500 users
Responsible for delivering and managing
activities for the two project plans
Technical Incident Manager (“TIM”)
The role of a TIM is to ensure that any Major Incidents
are fully resolved in an agreed timeframe
Instrumental in changing the way information
was captured and reported during MI
Infrastructure Project Manager
JLR
Installed networking, power requirements,
racking, switches, routers, ESX farm build etc
in an IBM DC to enable the move into IBM
support of their 700 physical/virtual server
estate
Managed seven business areas each with their
own pools of servers
Managed the delivery of the QA/DEV group
Delivered an urgent storage solution with two
XIV storage units one into an IBM DC and the
other into the customer’s DC with zero
business impact
Rolled out a worldwide image project
Procured distribution servers, installed,
configured and tested in Holland, UK, Austria
and China
Image uploaded to the four distribution
servers
Delivered an NSeries storage solution giving
ample storage for the entire estate
Server Build Project Manager
Arcadia
The RFS was worth $500,000 in revenue
First time in the UK iSeries server had been
delivered into IBM’s eBHS business
environment
Responsible for the procurement of an iSeries
and three XSeries servers for the development
of the customer’s in house software
Managed the complete Project from
procurement to full BAU support with no major
issues
Server Build Project Manager
Arcadia
A RFS Project to secure, install and configure
four IBM blade serversfor their in house CUOM
application.
Managedprocurement to full BAU support with
no issues
Repat Project Manager
Ten UK based accounts, currently being supported
from the IDC in Bangalore, back into the UK support
teams remits
Phase 1 to return six accounts
Phase 2 the remaining four
Resourced FTE’s in the UK to fully support
these ten accounts
Ensure compliance of all accounts
Senior UK and European management
stakeholders
Sourced a new TEC monitoring system
Managed to upgrade them from an unstable
V3 TEC console to a new V5 stable one.
Multi Project PM
Bradford & Bingley
Delivered six Projects, some running in
parallel/overlapping including:
o 64bit monitoring solution, and the 64bit
CITRIX monitoring solution, SNMP
monitoring solution
o Managed the installation and configuration
of the HP Load Runner utility into the dev
environment for application testing
o TSM server build, installation and
configuration for latest version of IBM’s
TSM client roll out to entire server and user
estate. Decommissioned old server.
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Other positions held included:
Decom Project Manager
IDC Project Manager
Mentor
GDF Dispatcher/Team Leader
Service Account Manager
IBM 3rd
Line Exchange Support
2nd
Line Support Technician