Stephen Burman

Biography

• Widely experienced Senior Program & Project Manager with 30+ years commercial computing experience with a strong consultancy background and regulatory/compliance expertise.
• High level of experience in the commercial implementation of technology, successfully combining Business, Management and Technical expertise to maximize strategic and tactical business value out of core IT solutions.
• Extensive experience on methodologies, including Project/Program Management methodologies (PMBOK, Prince 2 and Lean/Agile based), quality systems and software engineering practices, combined with a pragmatic emphasis on ‘real-world’ application of these.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certified and a certified Scrum Master (CSM), Passionate about best practice project delivery, with experience from traditional waterfall SDLC methodologies and Lean/Agile practice and techniques to maximize program/project effectiveness and ensure delivery of maximum business value.
• Successfully managed teams in excess of 50 people and multi-million dollar Core System programs/projects, including implementation of Core Banking, CRM and Billing systems.
• Experience in managing multiple large, complex Systems Integration Projects delivering mission-critical business systems to time, quality and budget constraints.
• Pragmatic Management and Business consulting at executive level, pre-sales, bid management and business development, through to management of the full project lifecycle with a strong focus on delivery of business value.