email: george_gorman@consultant.com or georgeinoz@gmail.com
Hm: Sydney: 96902616
Mbl: 0415601674
linkedin url: http://www.linkedin.com/in/georgegorman
Summary
IT Professional, with 5 yrs management experience (3 at Snr Mgnt. and reporting to board level with a £1.75M Budget) within the Travel and Financial Industries, covering ecommerce, application build, infrastructure, database and web based projects. I have a background in system’s analysis, design, integration of financial, electronic and web based systems both domestically and internationally. I also have a unique mix of creative marketing skills (I have been a member of the CIM), commercial awareness, set with an understanding of technical requirements (I am a member of the BCS) and the ability to manage and communicate requirements to all levels of an organization.
Key skills:
- Project Mgnt of c#, ASP.net, J2EE, Java servlet, Javascript, XML, XSLT, Perl, ASP, Sql, HTML projects on .net, Tomcat/Apache/Linux/NT/VMS platforms. Advanced 5 yrs
- Functional/Strategic Mgnt Advanced 3 yrs
- MSProject Advanced 5 yrs
- SSADM Systems Analysis Intermediate 5yrs
- Business Analyst Intermediate 3yrs
- Prince2 Intermediate 2 yrs
- eCommerce Advanced 5 yrs
- Management consulting Intermediate 2 yrs
- Unix/linux Intermediate 2yrs
- Dev2000 Forms 4.5-5 Intermediate 2 yrs
- Quality version cntrl 5 yrs
- Basic DBA, SQLOracle7-9i Intermediate 4 yrs
- General .Net, c#,asp.net, sql server Intermediate 1yr
- Marketing Advanced 8 yrs
- SEO Pay per Click Mgnt Intermediate 3 yrs
- Insurance practices Intermediate 2 yrs
- Data protection officer 2 yrs
- HSE Certified First Aider
Employment:
Dec 14th 2006 emigrated to Australia on spouse visa (unrestricted working rights)
Operations Manager/ CTO Dataexplorers,
Edinburgh Aug2004-Present
Dataexplorers is a leading MIS company managing, processing, manipulating and presenting securities lending and Risk based data via web or paper based reports for large Securities Lending(SL) Investment Banks, Pension Companies around the world.
- In charge of Dataexplorers Technology and DXL’s Edinburgh office ($20M+ turnover), responsible for the budgetary ($5M+), strategic, functional, infrastructure, IT Dept (18 employee’s) management.
- Responsible for managing full scale change of DXL’s hardware infrastructure, migrating to a 3rd party hardware hosting provider moving from IIS5-6 and Windows server 2k-2k3, migrating the 300Gb Sqlserver 2k Db to a new expandable architecture.
- Project manager for 5 different application project streams developing in, c#,xml,vb.net, asp.net, sql on SQLServer, .net platforms. Managing 3 major ($1.5M+)year long projects from start to finish
- Managed their data processing service from a monthly service to a weekly then daily one.
- Setting Targets and expectations, allocating resources to each project manager, gaining reports from each, communicating results to the Board and upper management in London.
- Setting strategic Technology direction for group attending mthly Board meetings to contribute to Strategic goals of the group as a whole.
- Managing 3rd party Supplier relations
- Managing high level IT communications with Large SL clients.
- Responsible for creating Company handbook, formalizing procedures and policies within the organization as a whole.
- Increased productivity of the Edinburgh office drastically.
- Slashed contractor overheads in development, without affecting productivity.
- Designed new load balanced infrastructure and analyzed existing applications, manual processes and services to organize development around making them more efficient and expandable for the future.
- Managed contingency/security planning analysis and started process of designing infrastructure to be more robust and supportable.
- Introduced automated development unit testing, build scripting, formal testing, server health checks, 24/7 mobile phone server support processes.
IT Manager Lastminute.com all-hotels.com,
Edinburgh Feb2004-Aug2004
Lastminute bought OTC to strengthen its Travel arm in Feb04.
Before that I worked for…
Online Travel Corporation All-Hotels.com, Edinburgh Jan2003-Feb2004
OTC 4th Largest online European travel company bought All-hotels to strengthen its hotel arm.
- I was promoted to IT manager in charge of All-Hotels site management, dealing with the budgetary, strategic, functional, resource management of the site and employees.
- Project managing full life cycle on all 3 tiers of front end, application, infrastructure, database and network administration and development.
- Project managed complete server, database migration including upgrading Apache, Tomcat, Java and Oracle versions.
- Manage partner, supplier, fraud and security contact.
- Manage site SEO and PPC teams spending $125,000 mth.
- Support of company Qmail, servers, stats packages, desktop PC’s
Senior Systems Analyst/Project Manager All-Hotels.com,
Edinburgh May2000-Aug2004
Largest online hotel reservations company with over 100,000 hotels worldwide
- Deputise for IT Director when he is on holiday or out of office, over a department of 22.
- Acted as caretaker manager for development department of 22 people, for 4 months, before IT director recruited, managing all project resource allocation, project initiations, client contact requiring IT input and recruitment of resources. Wide ranging use of MSProject, Prince2 methodologies, RISK and Management cost benefit analysis.
- Represented company's development and IT areas in weekly executive meetings and strategy meetings.
- Project managed J2EE, Java servlet, Javascript, XML, XSLT, Perl, ASP, Sql, HTML development projects on Tomcat/Apache/Linux/NT/VMS environments.
- Carried out extensive analysis and system redesign of internal processes automating many previously manual tasks, within day to day site operations and company operations.
- Managed complete database analysis, reorganisation of database security, tuning and set the standards required for their use.
- Managed oracle development team of 1 DBA, 2 sql/forms developers and Foremost IT our contracted Oracle support consultants.
- Manage company R&D, infrastructure and information processes, such as use of MIS like CRM, accounting software (Navision), internal billing applications, sales processing etc. As well as analysing potential technologies and applications for use within the company such as 3rd party MIS systems, WAP and PDA technologies.
- Managed java, sql development of companies customised on-line booking engine, customer profiling and subscriptions pages.
- Developed companies project management standards and methods for change within the company, customising Prince2 methodologies to meet company needs.
- Senior Systems Analyst, First Aid and Data Protection officer for company.
IT Consultant/Programmer/Systems Analyst Sherwood International,
London, Glasgow, Poland Sept 1998-Mar2000
International insurance applications provider and consultancy
- Project managed a team of eight in the development of the internal company marketing & CRM database over a period of three months, upon a Unix platform, using SQL 7, Developer 2000.
- Led the team of four that built and then upgraded the demonstration system for Sherwood’s premium multi-million pound tools application inside a three month timescale, using NT, Unix platforms and SQL 7 & 8, Developer 2000 4.5 & 5.
- Trainee systems analyst role using SSADM and in house techniques, working on demonstration applications.
- As part of the Demonstration system project specification, I was also graded as one of the Consultants qualified to carry out installations of the company software and demonstrations of the tools to potential new multi-million pound clients and upgrading existing clients, which took me to several European destinations.
- Provided consultancy services and aided in application development of a RDBMS involving system testing, bug fixing, general build and upgrades, all based upon Unix platforms with SQL and Developer 2000 and a web front end with object orientated tools for the UK’s largest Insurance companies and Poland’s largest Life and General Pensions Insurance company.
- Solution modelling and design using SSADM for both internal and external Information system applications, including the companies own RDBMS build tools.
MSc(Dip) Information Systems Management
Stirling University Sept1997-Sept1998
Marketing Executive (1 yr contract) Absec Ltd & Copyguard Electronics,
Belfast, Spokane WA USA Sept1996-Sept1997
Smart card electronics company Europe and USA
- Created a new product network of dealers within the US over a 6 mth period.
- Researched the US market for vending and PoS control devices delivering a market analysis and opportunities report for the management board.
- Demonstrated products to large US vending and food service providers such as Compass, Service America, ARAMARK and Crane whilst also organizing mailshot’s and a database of potential dealers to be targeted for several products.
- Provided dealer services support for existing dealers advising them on the best products and sales approach for enquiring clients.
Education:
MSc(Dip) Information Systems Management
Stirling University Sept1997-Sept1998
- Systems Analysis
- Info. Systems Mgnt
- Corporate Finance
- Change Mgnt
- JAVA - ORACLE SQL
- Total Quality Mgnt
- Project Evaluation & Mgnt
BA (hons) Marketing(2:2)
Stirling University Sept1992-June1996
- Market Research
- Statistics
- Logistics
- Project Management
- Psychology
- Management Science
Ryerson University,
Toronto – Semester Exchange as part of BA(Hon’s)
- Consulting to Mgnt
- Marketing communications
- International Marketing and Business
- Professional Selling
- Canadian politics
BTEC Business & Finance (6 Distinctions)
Castlereagh College Sept1990-Sept1992
Training:
Sherwood International Training
- Management Consulting
- Procedural Standards for Quality Control
- Unix
- Basic SQL & advanced SQL Oracle 7-8i
- Business Process Capture
- Developer2000 Forms 4.5-5
- Wholesale Insurance
- Life & General Pensions Insurance Practices
Absec Training
- NVQ4 (Management Level) In Marketing
Membership of Chartered Institute of Marketing 1996-2000
Member of the British Computer Society (applying for chartered status) 2006
Personal Information:
Age 33 (date of birth 13/10/73)
Nationality: British
The job I am interested in revolves more around the people, the challenges, personal development and opportunities available to me rather than the area, remuneration or industry, however saying that I do have interests in the travel and tourism, financial, telecommunications, electronics industries as a whole, especially where they are related to eCommerce. I enjoy my work and therefore seek a challenging, organisation which encourages my participation and rewards my achievements.
I enjoy keeping up with the ever changing technologies, marketing and development of eCommerce on the Web. I also like travelling extensively, scuba diving, reading, history, problem solving, strategy games, rugby and golf (purely socially), and like most other Irish I enjoy socializing and meeting new people.
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