Engineered Systems Ltd

Programme and Project Management by Ed Johnston

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Landline +44(0)1727 8561112
Ed.Johnston@EngSyst.co.uk

About Engineered Systems Ltd.

Engineered Systems is a professional services company established in 1997, providing highest quality Programme Management and Project Management for a wide variety of industries, businesses and situations.

Profile of Ed Johnston

Ed combines experience, hard work and insightful analysis to find practical ways to fulfil business objectives.

His broad experience allows accurate judgement of what can be achieved and to work with business stakeholders and implementation teams to achieve it.

He is equally comfortable working with Executive Management, Customers, Suppliers and technologists to achieve the required outcomes.

Business environments include Financial Services, Gaming, Public Sector and Professional Services, ranging from Blue Chip to SME

Key Skills

  • Exceptional planning, organisation and leadership, delivering to quality, time and budget
  • Practical use and application of project management methodologies, from Agile to Prince 2
  • Effective communication with Executive Management, Business Communities and Technologists.
  • Full lifecycle delivery of projects from inception to completion from multiple small engagements through to multi-million programmes

Recent Accomplishments:

  • IT Cost Savings: Established and embedded a programme to save $40M from recurring costs
  • Oracle eBusiness Upgrade: Managed the planning and control of final testing and transition to production of a major R12 upgrade project.
  • Channels Programme: Managed the e-Commerce platform, improved Retail Supply Chain, Contact Centre System refresh
  • Transition Implementation: Migration of 50 systems and multiple business areas onto new Gaming, e-Commerce and Operations solutions
  • Enterprise Management Refresh: Design, source, build and implement new systems management infrastructure, then rolled out to 20,000 systems

Industries and Organisations:

  • Financial Services: Barclays Capital, Euler Group, Merrill Lynch, LIFFE, Lloyds/TSB, Hill Samuel Bank
  • Gaming and Retail: Camelot Group/National Lottery
  • Commercial/IT: Elsevier, Smart Human Logistics, Inova Technology, Engineering Surveys

Core Skills:

Programme Management

Project Management

Price II

Agile

Development PM

Infrastructure PM

Enterprise Mgt

ITIL

Portfolio Management

Business Proposals

Contract Negotiation

Procurement/Selection

e-Commerce

Mobile

Internet Solutions

Finance Systems

HR Solutions

Sales Support

Networking

Open Systems