Ray Beardsley

About Ray Beardsley

A highly driven and successful Program Manager and PMP certified Project Manager who offers over 20 years of progressive advancement in some of the world’s most successful and largest companies. Extensive experience in delivering projects consistently within budget and agreed timescales, motivated by the desire to succeed, in addition to building and sustaining good client and team relationships. Strong commercial awareness and excellent stakeholder management are also key skills possessed. • 20+ years Extensive Team Leading / Building experience • 18+ years budgetary management ($200MM+) • Full Life Cycle Experience • Strong Microsoft BackOffice, Distributed Environments and Mid Tier skills as well as Mainframe experience. • Excellent balance of Hard and Soft Skills • Responsibility and Leadership are natural attributes. • Strong business acumen and negotiation\\issue resolution skills. • Commitment and drive to deliver projects to completion • PMP Certified • PRINCE2 Practitioner Specialties: Recovering Failing Projects, Delivery of Complex Technical Projects, Infrastructure Delivery.

Experience

1. Program Manager - Enterprise Production and Technology Services

   Wells Fargo

   Nov 2009 — Present

   Current focus is acting as Portfolio Lead within a Project Services Team responsible for Partnering with the Data Transmission Services organization, directing and mentoring a team of 5 PM’s whilst acting as a SME across the wider team with regards to project management in general. Roles within Wells Fargo include;Technology Management Services – Data Transmission Services March 12 - Present• Working with key senior stakeholders to identify initiatives, create associated supporting business cases and progress through the funding/approval cycle within the DTS area.• Managed large Enterprise wide upgrade of F5 Load balancer’s impacting 800+ applications across 6 LOB’sInternet Services Group – Wachovia Banking Platform Decommission Nov 09 – March 12• Defining the required processes to ensure successful delivery of a challenging Program of work decommissioning 52 applications broken down into 35 separate projects. • Working with senior leadership across multiple lines of business• Ensured business processes were fully impact assessed and all upstream and downstream dependencies identified to maintain business operations to expected levels• Provide guidance to other dependant initiatives to ensure ISG decommissioning objectives can be met• All aspects of Program governance and senior ISG Leadership engagement/escalation where required

Education

• Project Management Institute

  PMP, Project Management

  2008 — 2008

• SIANTI

  Prince 2 Practioner, Project Management

  2002 — 2002