Projects & Programmes

Robert has extensive experience in both projects and programme management, ranging across a number of industries and covering both private and public sectors.

Robert is currently programme managing a large Oracle Business Intelligence implementation for a tier 1 semi-state customer in Dublin city centre. Robert was also responsible for the successful bid management of this opportunity which lead to the client selecting Fujitsu as preferred implementation partner. Prior to this programme of work Robert  project managed a team of Oracle Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) architects and developers in the delivery of approximately 45 integrations of varying complexities across five critical business areas for a manufacturing customer

Previously Robert was the Infrastructure Projects Manager on a €30M 2-year Mobile Virtual Network Environment (MVNE) project for Fujitsu in the Telco sector, managing five sub-projects and teams comprising Infrastructure, Security, Systems Administration, Data Centre and Networks. Prior to that Robert project managed numerous application and data warehouse related projects (Call Trace Solution, Business Objects Reporting Solution etc.) and multiple content management related projects for clients in the private sector. Since joining Fujitsu Robert has project managed many different types of projects for a variety of clients in public and private sectors, comprising technical / infrastructure and applications development style projects.

Within Fujitsu (Ireland) Robert is acknowledged as their most experienced and successful strategic bid manager, with direct experience of managing bids ranging in size/value from under €5m to over €250m and comprising teams of between 5 and 50 people drawn from across the Irish , UK and European Fujitsu business as required.

Prior to joining Fujitsu Robert was responsible for the conception, setup and management of the Diageo Integrated Services Management function, a global rapid response project management and service management team designed to meet the needs of seed and venture companies within the Diageo worldwide operation. Robert acted as programme manager for all sub-projects and had a team of ITIL qualified service managers and Prince2 / PMI qualified project managers working on numerous business, infrastructure and application related projects around the globe (e.g. data centre builds in Tokyo and Florida, LAN and WAN networks in various African locations, Office builds Italy and Australia, Service Desk deployments and Change Management process implementations in the UK and USA etc.)

Prior to the establishment of the ISM function Robert was fulfilling a dual role within Guinness/Diageo. In Ireland Robert was the Technology Manager for a 180 person global SAP implementation team, based in Dublin, overseeing all technical projects within Ireland to support the SAP team as required. In the UK Robert held the role of Infrastructure Projects Manager for the global Diageo service delivery organisation, ensuring the management and delivery of all infrastructure related projects including, but not limited to, the global SAP implementation.

Throughout his career Robert has developed a reputation for getting the job done, for building successful teams and for empowering those team members to help ensure successful delivery, every time.

For more information on the projects and programmes which Robert has been involved with please refer to the Roles section of this website or alternatively please download Robert’s full resume.