CV for Barry John WOODS

SYNOPSIS
A highly motivated individual recently retired as a Senior Project Manager with British Telecom. Wide experience of delivering multimedia projects to time, cost and quality and across a range of disciplines covering requirements, feasibility, design, development, test, process definition, training and in-life Call Centre operations. Especially skilled at managing projects across multi-disciplinary teams and diverse geographic locations.
CAREER HISTORY
Dec 05 - Present	Managing Director of ITGEN Research Services Ltd - a company set-up to provide Genealogy research services (part time).
Nov 99 - Nov 05	Delivery Manager for a Broadband Order Management System in support of the launch of ADSL. Managing a multidisciplinary team covering design, multiple development teams, test and Customer Service. In addition to people management skills, involved a high level of technical understanding of the product and the systems (Remedy & Oracle) developments. Project budget Ł2M per annum.
Jun 99 - Oct 99	Programme Manager for the trouble ticketing system in use by all BT's multi-media technical Customer Service helpdesks. A short trouble-shooting project to recover the systems, operations, development pipeline and infrastructure. Project successfully completed and returned to stable state.
Sep 96 - May 99	Engineering Programme Manager for the launch of the Home Highway and Business Highway (ISDN) product from feasibility through to launch and in-life management. This was a world-first product and involved championing new ways of working with our external suppliers. Co-ordination of a wide variety of activities including business case development, process definition, war-gaming and trials, software changes to a large number of legacy systems including major telephone exchange software upgrades. Liaison with unions on introduction of a completely new product, Oftel and associated logistics. Project budget was Ł15M and out-turned at Ł14.7M.
Jun 96 - Aug 99	Brief intra-project break. Accreditation as ISO9001 and TickIT auditor and championing professional project management techniques within the business unit.
Jan 94 - May 96	Delivery Manager for Multimedia Applications Development in support of the BT Interactive TV trial - e.g. video-on-demand, games, home shopping, banking, advertising, TV-on-demand - another world first which received world-wide acclaim. Liaising with development and test teams within BT and third party supplier (Oracle). Delivered to very tight time-scales and involved considerable commuting between home, San Francisco and Washington, DC with team management across time zones. Also developed a radically new system for Content Management which had not been perceived at the inception.
Jun 93 - Dec 94	Project Manager for another world first - ALIS (Airline Information System) - first ever airborne multimedia system delivered on time providing interactive services to seat back video screens.
Jan 91 - May 93	Technical Group Leader for a team of up to 18 people working on a number of different IT related projects. Major contribution to the development of Enhanced Facsimile Services (fax broadcast, fax-on-demand, homefax) - development of prototypes and giving a large number of presentations both internally and to third parties - plus support at several high profile conferences and trade shows. Concurrently, served on ISO Working Group developing the standard ISO 8613 - Office Document Architecture for which I was also the Editor. Significant proportion of time spent on people development, appraisements, counselling etc.
QUALIFICATIONS
British Computer Society Part II British Computer Society Part I HNC with Endorsements in Computing, Statistics and Numerical Analysis Diploma in Mathematics (Technology) ONC in Organic and Inorganic Chemistry GCE 'A' Level - Pure Maths, Applied Maths and Physics GCE 'O' Level - Pure Maths, Additional Pure Maths, Applied Maths, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, English Language, Geography, French
RELATED PROFESSIONAL ACHIEVEMENTS
Ferranti Prize Winner (1974) for top paper in British Computer Society Part II Published several papers in professional journals on subjects that have included graphical display systems, integrated circuit computer aided design and facsimile systems and presentation of papers at International conferences. Guest Editor (1994) of the BT Technology Journal - Special Edition on Enhanced Facsimile Services. UK and US registered patent held on techniques for combining video and computer digital imagery. Extensive PC experience on all MS Office products, web site development, email and Internet. Established Home Based worker using email, intranet and conference calling for project management.
INTERESTS AND GENERAL INFORMATION
Served 35 years in Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve from Warrant Officer to Flight Lieutenant. Retired 1999 as OC 1287 (Wattisham) Squadron, Air Training Corps. Extensive experience of developing and training 13-18 year olds. Awarded Cadet Force Medal (1987) and Lord Lieutenant's Certificate (1993). Numerous training courses including Air Navigation and Sea/Desert/Jungle/Arctic Survival. 20 years implementation of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme 5 years with Woodbridge Rotary Club serving 2 years as Chairman of Community Service 5 years with Martlesham Community Council - various roles to raise funds for a new Community Centre Student Pilot's License 22 years experience of genealogical research developing an extensive family tree (www.itgen.co.uk/woods) WebMaster for Felixstowe Family History Society (www.itgen.co.uk/ffhs) and Occold Village (www.itgen.co.uk/occold) web sites Qualified narrowboat Skipper and extensive experience of Midlands canal network

PERSONAL DETAILS
Name	Barry John Woods	Address	Rose Cottage
Date of birth	18^th June 1944		The Street
Email	woodsbj@itgen.co.uk		Occold
Homepage	http://www.itgen.co.uk/woods		IP23 7PW
Passport	Current	Telephone	01 379 678 844
Driving license	Full and clean, Member of the Institute of Advanced Motorists since 1974
Marital status	Married (2 children, 2 step-children)