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ProjectManager

Liam Burke

Project Manager
Binley, Coventry,Coventry

Summary

Dedicated and hardworking project manager seeking a new and challenging role. Qualified PRINCE2 Practitioner with 9 Years' experience in change and project management. 13 Years' of experience within Financial Services and Contact Centres in an outsourced environment.

Worked with an extensive list of established and industry leading clients using project methodologies such as Agile and Waterfall.

My passion is delivering projects which make a real difference. Taking pride in the delivery of projects and ensuring benefits are realised post implementation.

Varied project deliveries accomplished ranging from recruitment, training, process improvement, software development, data migrations, IVR, Telephony and more. Ensures full end to end technical solution (design, build, test, migration into live) is fully defined and underwritten by all internal and external 3rd parties for all components of the solution, supported by detailed costs and project plans.

Ensures all existing/new IT support models and SLAs are in place and all technical governance complied with and evidenced.

Designs, conducts and manages the Operational Readiness assessments supporting design and build of target operating models Excellent knowledge of Contact Centres. Very much a hands-On approach, comfortable dealing with ambiguity and being left to ‘Get On With It!'

Worked with and versed in FCA, TCF, OFCOM, PRINCE2, Waterfall and Agile delivery

Focused project planner with experience in MSP to develop detailed plans

Positive leader with ability to build solid teams and lead to success.

Overview

12
12
years of professional experience
7
7
years of post-secondary education

Work History

Project Manager

TSYS Managed Services
Coventry / Milton Keynes
04.2013 - Current
  • Responsible for overseeing and coordinating the day to day running of projects
  • Delivering a wide range of projects from initiation right through to closing
  • Leading programs of work and managing work streams ranging from training, recruitment, IT, Operations, Risk and Control, Incident and change management
  • Identifying, analysing, prioritising and mitigating any project risks
  • Arranging and facilitating workshops and meeting for internal and external clients
  • Day to day tracking of milestones and reporting updates to the project and program board
  • Impact assessing project change requests to manage scope, quality and budget
  • Providing updates and progress reports to Exec teams
  • Maintaining and managing key stakeholders and client relationships
  • Manage and identify scope creep
  • Creating highlight reports and RAID logs
  • Updated operational methods and oversaw accounting procedures for improved efficiency.
  • Developed and initiated projects, managed costs and monitored performance.
  • Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety.
  • Maintained relationships with vendors to lower costs and diversify capabilities.
  • Provided detailed technical and operational direction in project challenges, consistently meeting deliverables according to deadlines.
  • Identified plans and resources required to meet project goals and objectives.
  • Facilitated communication between internal personnel, contractors and vendors for project cohesion.
  • Maintained compliance with regulatory parameters in complex projects with overlapping policies.
  • Orchestrated projects within strict timeframes and budget constraints by solving complex problems and working closely with senior leaders.
  • Drove team success through shared vision and recognition of quality performance.
  • Met project deadlines without sacrificing build quality or workplace safety

Change Manager

TSYS Managed Services
Coventry / Milton Keynes
04.2012 - 04.2013
  • Responsible for implementing changes into the business and ensuring they are implemented as seamlessly as possible
  • Analysing areas of the business which require improvements or call for different ways of functioning
  • Establishing the need for improvement in order to help move the business forward
  • Fulfilling client change requests and ensuring the change is positive not only for the client but in the best interest of the business
  • Arranging communications and training plans to help assist with the acceptance of change
  • Interacting with the business organization representatives including executive management to understand the business process and needs of the business
  • Gather the business requirements from project stakeholders identifying potential solutions to the problems posed by the business needs
  • Delivering medium sized change projects right from initiation and planning right through to deliver and implementation
  • Reducing the impact of change on the business
  • Increasing operational efficiency
  • Providing updates and progress reports to senior managers
  • Managing stakeholder relationships
  • Providing high levels of interpersonal team management to project staff
  • Managing scope of projects using project change request methodologies and documenting accordingly
  • Estimated expected changes in business operations and made proactive adjustments to employee schedules and inventory levels to address needs.

Sales and Service Team Manager

TSYS Managed Services
Coventry
09.2010 - 04.2012
  • Managing a team of Sales through Service Advisers delivering first class, professional service to Nationwide Building Society credit card customers
  • Keeping the staff well motivated to reach sales targets and other KPI's all underpinned with excellent call quality
  • Support Operations manager in the development and implementation of technology and systems
  • Working towards targets such as AHT, Quality, Sale Conversions and Revenue per hour
  • Tasked with reviewing strategies to try and improve dialler performance with the dialler manager
  • Setting performance management targets
  • 121's and objective setting
  • Development of call scripts and quality dictionaries to achieve high quality scores
  • Process improvement
  • Administered monthly and annual reviews to direct reports and set clear and measurable goals, action plans and follow-up procedures.
  • Resolved customer service issues by finding immediate solutions, increasing customer confidence and decreasing escalations to executive office.
  • Managed security of team members and sporting events to protect players and families.
  • Met with clients to maintain communication to enhance teams' execution on new products.

Education

PRINCE 2 Practitioner - Project Management

PRINCE 2
12.2018 - 12.2018

ILM Level 3 Certificate in Leadership & Management -

ILM
01.2016 - 01.2016

Electrical wiring systems - undefined

Warwickshire College
01.2002 - 01.2004

GCSE - undefined

Cardinal Wiseman RC School
01.1997 - 01.2002

Skills

    Advanced problem solving

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Accomplishments

  • Project managed migration of new client into existing Contact Centre to manage Fraud, Disputes & Chargebacks and Section 75 operations
  • Part of the team awarded Customer Service at the Card Payment awards 2022
  • Project managed new challenger bank credit card migration into TSYS Managed Services.
  • 80 FTE recruited and trained alongside full IT setup including WAN/LAN (voice & Data) and build with accompanying processes to manage the service end to end
  • Successful implementation of the Magnetic North Dialler across two departments (Collections & Sales)
  • Enhancing efficiencies and proving OFCOM compliance
  • VDI Rollout across a Call Centre for 100FTE – ensuring Role Based Access Control (RBAC) to achieve PCI accreditation and provide a robust Joiners/Leaver/Movers Process
  • Implementing IVR solutions for various clients to increase self-service rate and reduce call volumes in Contact Centre– Bank of Ireland, Virgin Money, Nationwide Building Society, and Sainsbury's Bank
  • Deploying case management systems to manage Complaints, Disputes & Chargebacks, Fraud and Correspondence – Virgin Money, Lloyds Banking group, Nationwide Building Society and Metro Bank
  • Driving greater efficiencies, reducing errors and providing robust MI for Operations teams and finance
  • Effective implementation and transformation of a Technology Refresh project to upgrade infrastructure within Contact Centre from Cisco to Avaya along with many other IT components
  • Helping drive business readiness to ensure Operations impact minimized and ready for implementation
  • Successful implementation of Service Tracker (Customer Feedback Surveys) to improve customer service
  • This helped TSYS Managed Services and our client Nationwide Building Society achieve “Best Achievement in Customer Service Award” at the Card and Payments Awards 2013

Interests

Music - Watching Gigs and Playing Guitar

Family - Spending time with my wife and 2 children

Sports - Football, Rugby, Cricket (any sport on TV to be honest)

Timeline

PRINCE 2 Practitioner - Project Management

PRINCE 2
12.2018 - 12.2018

ILM Level 3 Certificate in Leadership & Management -

ILM
01.2016 - 01.2016

Project Manager

TSYS Managed Services
04.2013 - Current

Change Manager

TSYS Managed Services
04.2012 - 04.2013

Sales and Service Team Manager

TSYS Managed Services
09.2010 - 04.2012

Electrical wiring systems - undefined

Warwickshire College
01.2002 - 01.2004

GCSE - undefined

Cardinal Wiseman RC School
01.1997 - 01.2002
Liam BurkeProject Manager