Edwin Mante MBA (Hons)

Flat 16 Hathaway House Myrtle Street, London N1 6QE +44 07915213458• edwin1091@hotmail.com

PERSONAL PROFILE

 9 years’ project management experience gained in the IT, Local government and financial services industry
working in Waterfall, Prince 2 and Agile environments.
 A strong negotiator and effective communicator with strong presentations skills and experience interacting
with internal and external stakeholders.
 A confident and highly self-motivated individual with experience in leading teams and motivating others to
deliver projects and programmes.
 Very results oriented with a consistent record of meeting and exceeding targets.
 An outstanding team player equally adept working in an individual capacity with the ability to influence.
 Highly receptive to challenges and always eager to undertake opportunities for self-development.
 Able to support all aspects of programme governance, giving direct support to Project and Programme
Managers as well as proactively managing central RAID logs, facilitating meetings and status reporting.
 Organised and highly IT literate with very good skills in Microsoft Project, Word, Excel and PowerPoint.

SKILLS SUMMARY
 Microsoft Office Suite (MS Word MS Excel, Power-Point, Outlook, MS Project, Visio, SharePoint, Monday.com &
JIRA)
 Attention to detail, Time - Management & Problem Solving
 Creative thinking and Project Management Trainer (Almond Careers)
 Stakeholder Management
 Project Planning
 Prince 2 certified
 Able to work in Prince 2, Agile Scrum & Waterfall methodologies and environments.
 Risk Management
 Leadership and good organizing
 Ability to negotiate and influence
 Change Management
 RAID management

Employment History

QA Limited Prince 2 Trainer March October 21 – Present

Charged with the delivery of bespoke Prince 2, Agile and other Project management courses to clients worldwide.

Government Actuary’s Department Project Manager (Contract) March 21 – October 2022

Worked as a Project Manager delivering new Share Point Intranet for the department.

 Charged with gathering and managing project requirements

 Tasked with management of plan for project
 Management and tracking of project activities, milestones and dependencies
 Ensured project governance was adhered to by project team and project stakeholders
 Management of risks, issues, dependencies and assumptions
 Project reporting and chairing of meeting
 Producing weekly and monthly highlight reports
 Minute taking
 Management of stakeholders including suppliers

Ministry of Justice (MOJ) Project Manager (Contract) Oct 20 – Feb 21

Worked as a Project Manager delivering Video hearing tool into various courts within the country to enable virtual
hearings to take place.

 Responsible for managing project requirements.

 Tasked with management of training plan for project.
 Ensured project governance was adhered to by project team and project stakeholders
 Management and tracking of project activities, milestones and dependencies.
 Risks, Issues and dependencies management
 Tasked with chairing meetings and minute taking
 Charged with producing weekly and monthly highlight reports

Department of International (DIT) Project Manager (Contract) Sept 18 – Feb 20

Project Management and Engagement lead for the delivery Learning and Development tool and communication
tool for the International Trade Profession to enable delivery of DIT’s strategic objectives.

 Responsible for putting together the business case and gathering of requirements.
 Tasked with ensuring that requirements were developed and translated into project plan.
 Setting up of project governance and ensured it was adhered to by project team and project stakeholders.
 Charged with producing, managing and tracking plan against milestones.
 Tasked with tracking budget spend, producing weekly and monthly status reports for monthly project reviews
and chairing weekly project team meetings
 Collaborated with various stakeholders to ensure risks, issues and dependencies were recorded, escalated,
raised and managed accordingly.
 Ensured that invoices were raised in a timely manner.
 Raising change requests to the contract as required.
 Engaged with key stakeholders including 3rd parties / suppliers.

Independent Clinical Services (ICS) Project Manager (Contract) Jan 18 - Sept 18

Worked as a Project Manager managing a digital transformation project developing a new customised online
platform tool to help local councils administer step 2 and step 3 therapy treatments to patients suffering from
stress and anxiety related issues.

 Responsible for putting together the project business case and scoping of requirements.
 Charged with producing & management of project plan.
 Tasked with tracking budget spend and producing weekly and monthly status reports.
 Charged with chairing weekly project meetings to discuss progress of project and to alleviate any project risks
and issues
 Tasked with tracking and management of RAID log and project change requests
 Managed third party relationships with suppliers.
 Ensured Governance process was adhered to deliver project.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch Junior Project Manager/ PMO (Contract) Jan 17 - Jan 18
Worked as a Junior Project Manager/ PMO providing project support, supporting project managers on a new
Global Banking System, MIFID II and GDPR project.

 Responsible for managing project plans ensuring all tasks all tasks were adequately resourced.
 Management of all project dependencies, milestones and budgets
 Managed the RAID Logs ensuring all risks and issues we captured, tracked and mitigated.
 Assisted with producing presentation materials for end of month project boards.
 Provided support in updating governance processes as well as facilitating the booking of meetings and taking
of minutes.
 Ensured all change documentation for change requests were adhered to and correctly completed.
 Worked with various project teams and business representatives to support the Programme delivery, ensuring
that change activities were well planned and delivered.
 Charged with escalating projects risks and issues as well as managing all project communications within the
project team.

Certeco Management Consultancy (Digital Mobile Application Project/Data migration Azure) Nov 15 – Dec 16
Department of Education.

I worked as a Project Manager delivering a £250,000 fitness digital mobile application for Manchester United and
Manchester City, Liverpool FC, Chelsea FC, Tottenham Hotspur FC and Leicester City FC as well as providing support
to Project Managers delivering Government Digital Services project. In my spare capacity during this project I was
also tasked with supporting the delivery of the migration of CRM applications into Microsoft azure as part of the
IT modernisation apps and hosting programme for the Department of Education as well a windows laptop
upgrade Project.

 In charge of full life cycle delivery of project from analysis, design, build, testing, implementation and hand
over to support (BAU)
 Responsible for managing and Co-ordinating cross-functional teams and activities to deliver projects.
 Managed 3rd party/offshore developers and stakeholders
 Prepared the project brief and produced and managed the business case documentation.
 Facilitated and managed requirement gathering and risk & issues workshops in order to define required
requirements for backlog.
 Produced and tracked project plans, reporting on budgets, resources, millstones and dependencies as well as
facilitating sprint planning work- shops.
 Managed all project change requests and change processes.
 Chaired meetings as well as managing stakeholders including vendors and suppliers.
 Developed and updated project artefacts/tools to help consultancy provide its services to clients
 Offered support testing mobile application and website version.
 Developed and updated the governance processes with consideration of stakeholders to ensure continued im-
provement
 Managed project progress proactively, resolving issues through initiating appropriate corrective actions.
 Established controlled project quality procedures and helped quality assurance team monitor quality.
Beumer Group PMO Support (Contract) Aug 15 – Nov 15
London Gatwick Project (Baggage Installation Project)

 Provided remote-site, multi-project support for a portfolio of work within the aviation industry working on
baggage handling projects Heathrow Airport and London Gatwick Airport
 Maintained and managed the RAID Logs as well as updating project plans.
 Management of 1000 project requirements ensuring they were tested, and QA approved before handover.
 Updated all test scripts and project related documentation
 Provided PMO support to the Project Management Team, taking minutes, helping with the collation of reports
as well help administer adhoc project administrative tasks.

Agylisys Canary Wharf, London (Windows 7 and 10 Desktop Upgrade Project) May 15 – Aug 15
Project Support Officer (Contract)
 Updated and maintained the risk and issues Register
 Updated all project documentation
 Scheduled of appointments for laptop deployment project
 Streamlining project procedures to make project more robust using MS Visio
 Updated all project plans

Camden Council (Junior Project Manager (Contract) Apr 14-Apr 15

London (Digital Mobile application and Website Project)

Charged with full project lifecycle delivery of multiple digital mobile app projects and website projects
 Responsible for managing RAID logs as well as analysing and advising on risk management process.
 Supported with the planning of project and tracking and proactively liaising with stakeholders on requirements
management, timeframes and issues.
 Managed and tracked dependencies and milestones as well as reporting on costs and progress.
 Managed change request process, logging changes through JIRA including mapping out processes and attend-
ing key project meetings and capturing minutes’ actions and decisions as well as escalating any relevant issues
to senior management.
 Also supported the testing team to test the websites and mobile application.

Adapt Project Support Officer (Contract) Dec 13– March 14

Bishops Gate (Data Centre Migration & Decommissioning Project)

Tasked with supporting the delivery of data migration project migrating data into Microsoft Azure cloud from data
centres.
 Tasked with helping to document and manage requirements
 Supporting the change and release management processes.
 Managed and tracked dependencies and Milestones
 Provided weekly project updates to customers, team leaders and other stakeholders.
 Updated RAG status of projects on system as well as issue log
 Provided project administration support to project managers and team leader.
 Charged with updating all project documentation as well as updating project plan.

Almond Media Project Support Officer (Contract) Jul 12 – Sept 13

London (Digital Mobile Application & Payment Gsteway Project)
Charged with delivery of multiple digital mobile app and website projects.
 Responsible for managing RAID logs as well as analysing and advising on risk management process
 Supported the planning of the project and progress tracking, proactively liaising with stakeholders on require-
ments management, timeframes and issues
 Charged with managing change request process and logging changes through JIRA including mapping out pro-
cesses and attending key project meetings and capturing minutes’ actions and decisions as well as escalating
any relevant issues to senior management
 Responsible for providing project progress reports and updates to stakeholders, team leader and senior project
managers and providing general project support
 Deputizing for senior project manager in their absence to chair meetings and workshops
 Also supported user testing travelling across the country to support the requirements and testing process

Deloitte Complaints Officer (Temp) May 12 – Jul 12

London

 Charged with investigating, resolving and reporting all customer related PPI complaints
 Maintaining and updating accurate records of all customer contact details on system
 Maintaining compliance with regulatory requirements relating to complaints handling

Bank of New York Mellon London Marketing Communications Assistant (Internship) Jun 10 12 – Nov 10

 Analysing, maintaining and altering website content to meet objectives of retaining and new client acquisition
 Formulating and implementing marketing plans to help company meet its objectives
 Organizing corporate hospitality events for clients

ACHIEVEMENTS
 Won various England football caps at U16 level and Charlton Athletic as youth team player for 3 seasons
 5th Highest top scorer in my school of all time with 69 goals scored from mostly playing in defence
 Received the Kevin Pearce award for best sports person at Secondary School
 Received the best student award at college
 Kent County Schools football cup winner from 1998 till 2002

EDUCATION
2017 Anglia Ruskin University MBA International Business
2014 Chartered Management Institute Member Achieved
2013 APM Project Management Training Completed
July 09 University of Greenwich B.A. (Hons) Global Marketing
July 06 Lewisham College Access to Business (Distinction)
Jul 02 St Paul’s Academy 7 A*- C GCSE