Pete Bennett

Summary

Pete has a proven background of successfully delivering IT projects on time and within budget. His primary skills are:

• Managing Projects and personnel

• Implementing new technology

• Managing vendors and contracts

• Researching, developing and articulating IT Strategies

He is well travelled and enjoys working with international teams.

Recent assignments

• British Telecommunications PLC: Led the project which delivered Genie Internet's Web/WAP portal site www.genie.co.uk

• Waterford Wedgwood Group, Global WAN Strategy Study: Led a project to develop a strategy for upgrading their global Wide Area Network (WAN) using industry standard 'Prince2' methodology. Responsible for every aspect of the project from initial consultation with the business lines through to researching and costing options with vendors before developing and presenting proposals to senior management. http://www.waterfordwedgwood.com/

• London local authority, Internet for schools study: Provided technical input to project to provide primary and secondary schools with secure internet access. Designed to be used by pupils and administrative staff.

• Exxon Company International, Global Development & Rollout Project Management: Led development & subsequent international rollout of standard workstation load. A strategic project to provide Exxon with a standard environment for the next 3 to 5 years. Both the development and rollout projects were truly international involving staff from Europe, the Americas & Asia Pacific regions. Involved drawing up requirements specifications in conjunction with senior IT managers and business line staff, managing a geographically disbursed team of developers and running on-site training and QA workshops in each geographical region.

• Esso UK, Interactive Voice Messaging: Led a design & implementation team to upgrade Esso’s automatic telephone system. The resulting system, based on IBM PC technology coupled to an AS400 back-end provides unattended 24 hour service to Esso customers nation wide and takes millions of pounds worth of orders per hour. User interface design improvements introduced by Pete resulted in wide user acceptance and have drastically cut call lengths and hence costs.

Career History

• future implications limited - Managing Director

• TRS Consulting - Managing Consultant

• Exxon Computer Network Services - International Project Manager

• Exxon Computer Services Europe - Development Project Leader

• Esso Petroleum UK - Technology Strategist

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