Michael King (michael.king@sharktech.ie)

Current

Contract Project Manager at Hewlett-Packard

Past

Contract Project Manager at O2 Ireland
Contract Project Manager at Bank of Scotland Ireland
Contract Project Manager at Hewlett-Packard

Contract Project Manager at Sony BMG
Technical Delivery & Project Manager at FINEOS
Computer Engineer at CSS

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Education

Ard Scoil Ris
Dublin City University

Recommended

23 people have recommended Michael

Connections

500+ connections

Industry

Information Technology and Services

Websites

Michael King (michael.king@sharktech.ie)’s Summary

I am an experienced Project Manager with a proven track record of success in a variety of commercial market sectors. Financially and commercially astute with experience of managing budgets up to €15 Million.

Experienced in managing the full project lifecycle of consecutive and concurrent projects, business requirements, risk avoidance, vendor management, service integration, strategic review, change management, strategic planning, efficiency, productivity, cost control and quality initiatives.

A strong pro-active leader, empowering staff to take ownership, providing coaching, training and mentoring to build cohesive teams to achieve individual targets and company objectives. Results oriented and customer focused, with excellent relationship management skills.

Michael King (michael.king@sharktech.ie)’s Specialties:

Project Management, Project Manager, Contracting

Michael King (michael.king@sharktech.ie)’s Experience

Contract Project Manager

Hewlett-Packard

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

October 2008 — Present (1 year 3 months)

Contract Project manager
Contract Project Manager

O2 Ireland

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Telecommunications industry)

May 2008 — October 2008 (6 months)

Projects -:
• Implementation of Streaming Video to the O2 network
• Upgrade of mission critical middleware platform
• Retail (O2 Stores) application EPOS upgrade and rollout
Contract Project Manager

Bank of Scotland Ireland

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HBOS; Banking industry)

June 2007 — May 2008 (1 year )

Projects -:
• Replacement of Bank of Scotland Ireland’s loan Origination system
• DMS (Document management system)
• Broker technologies (electronic application automation)
Contract Project Manager

Hewlett-Packard

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; HPQ; Information Technology and Services industry)

May 2004 — June 2007 (3 years 2 months)

Project -:
- Portfolio project delivery - 5-6 concurrent medium sized projects
- Business Unit Transformation, a 3-year programme to implement centralisation of core infrastructure services in conjunction with Servers and Desktops hardware / application refresh
Contract Project Manager

Sony BMG

(Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Music industry)

August 2003 — May 2004 (10 months)

Project - Managed a large web based implementation allowing SONYBMG trade customers to preview and order Music / DVD titles through their website.
Technical Delivery & Project Manager

FINEOS

(Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

June 1997 — June 2003 (6 years 1 month)

Delivery of FINEOS solutions to -:
Allianz (Holland)
Fortis bank (USA)
EBS (Ireland)
Canada Life (UK)
Eagle Star (Ireland)
Friends First (Ireland)
Northern Rock (UK)
Britannia (UK)
Principal (USA)
Computer Engineer

CSS

(Information Technology and Services industry)

1995 — 1997 (2 years )