Norton Bavant Solutions Ltd

About David Houghton

A Senior Project Manager who is passionate about delivering solutions with excellent experience in both financial services and telecommunications sectors. I have delivered solutions using both Agile and Waterfall methods.

 

I have managed global projects remotely using Skype, JIRA , MS Office, MS Project , Confluence and Share Point. I enjoy leading delivery teams and enabling stakeholder buy in to delivery.

Professional

A senior project manager with expertise in regulatory change for wealth asset management, payments systems delivery to corporate banking sector, product delivery to telecommunications sector plus technical infrastructure for both financial services and telecommunications sectors.

APM (Project Manager Practitioner) & PRINCE 2 qualified.

Business Sectors

Sucessfully delivered projects for the following sectors:

  • Payments – Corporate Banking – 5 Years Experience
  • Transaction Digital Banking – 1 Years Experience
  • Asset Wealth Management – 18 Months Experience
  • Telecommunications – 4 Years Experience
  • Consultancy (Logica) – 11 Years Experience

Project Delivery

  • Correspondent Bank structure for establishing payments in different currencies
  • Regulatory Reporting for Asset Wealth Management
  • Digital Target Operating Model for Transaction Banking Client
  • Data Remediation in accordance with AMLD4.
  • Payments Software (SEPA  Compliance) South Africa High Value Payments, South Africa Direct Debits , Indirect Participants, SEDA

Features

What I Do Best

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PROJECT PLANNING

An effective end to end project plan must have the buy in of the business stakeholders, delivery team, the end users and the operational team who will support the software once live in production

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PEOPLE MANAGEMENT

DH philosophy is to get to know the team and the stakeholders, understand their drivers, have empathy for clients expectations. Really understand what is required by active listening. Inter personal skills are a pe requisite for successful project management.

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REMOTE PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Managed offshore delivery teams based in Bangalore, New Jersey, Prague, Milan, Warsaw using Skype, Ms Office Tools, JIRA, e mail and video conferencing, enabling clear communication with delivery teams and reporting clear status to business stakeholders.

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Risk Management

Identify risk, categorise risk, create mitigating action, agree risk owners, ensure actions are captured in both RAIDS and project schedule with delivery dates to mitigate.

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AGILE

Planned and run fortnightly SPRINTs, managed daily stand ups, used KANBAN for dependency management, managed test case delivery via burndown statistics, utilised JIRA for defect fix management, Confluence for work task activity and central document control.

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WATERFALL

Managed end to end waterfall projects from Business Requirements Definition through to go live in production over a weekend managing such with technical teams using a run book.