sorcha duignan

project manager

About

I am a results driven Project and Programme management professional with extensive experience in the Higher Education sector, Telecoms & IT industries. I have a proven track record in recovering troubled projects and stakeholder relationships. Skilled at re-energising teams to deliver and at winning the support and buy-in of Senior Leadership teams by understanding strategic goals and constraints whilst managing and controlling operational and budgetary issues.

Country

united kingdom

City

guildford

Industry

higher education

Skill

telecommunications, pmp, 3g, gsm, service delivery, ip, management, umts, wireless, bss, managed services, process development, transmission, integration, project management, lte, mobile communications, mobile devices, project portfolio management, core network, pre sales, 2g, cross functional team leadership, project delivery, resource management, stakeholder management, project planning, vendor management, ran, change management, vas, leadership, network design, process simulation, sdh, rollout, pmo, open source software, gprs, system deployment, planning, people management, deployment, mobile, project implementation

Experience

senior project manager

silverbear

2016-11 - 2017-8 · 10 mos

Responsible for critical short-term business objective. Internal and external stakeholder management through transition to Live of strategic delivery project of Microsoft Dynamics CRM system as a Microsoft Gold Partner. Working as part of the leadership team to ensure that key deliverables were priorities, progressed and reported effectively.

senior project manager

ericsson

2013-2 - 2016-10 · 3 yrs 9 mos

Responsible for the transformation of the external customer processes & governance on a key strategic managed service deal, utilising workshops to perform gap analysis, efficiency reviews and determine objectives of key stakeholders.

customer project manager

ericsson

2006-8 - 2013-1 · 6 yrs 6 mos

Responsible for all aspects of Project Management including areas such as building and developing cross-competence and multi-functional teams, financial & resource forecasting for commercial offerings, ensuring business case realisation, key stakeholder management and overall project governance for core network, multimedia and professional services projects towards Irish mobile operators.

global resource manager

lm ericsson

2001-4 - 2006-8 · 5 yrs 5 mos

Responsible for maximising the utilisation of the department's resources. Identifying competence gaps and devising competence development plans to ensure the highest level of quality and performance was achieved for our end customer the local operators.